El Reno Public Schools has begun vaccinating educators and support staff, but the district must still follow the parameters set forth by the state of Oklahoma.

Pat Liticker, who has headed up the district’s COVID-19 response, said 10 educators signed up to get the Moderna vaccine on Jan. 30.

“We had a clinic for those ages 65 and older that had not gotten the chance to get vaccinated somewhere else,” said Liticker.

A commercial developer from Dallas, Texas, with ties to Yukon, has proposed an office park and apartments for the downtown area.

The development surrounds two historic buildings, Yukon’s Best Flour Mill and the MFC Farmers Co-Op Building along historic State Highway 66.

A sitting Canadian County Fair Board member is being challenged in his re-election bid.

Kelly Beck and Richard W.J. “Rick” Cacini, both from Yukon, filed last week for the District 1 seat on the nine-member county fair board.

Beck is the fair board’s chairman and Cacini is a Yukon City Council member.

The contested election will be decided at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13 at the Canadian County Fairgrounds Education Building, 220 N. Country Club Road.

The winner will be elected to serve the next three-year term.

Approximately 80 percent of all people who die by suicide are of working age, making the workplace the most cross-cutting system for suicide prevention, intervention and crisis response, and more and more workplaces understand that they have a part to play in helping to address this issue.