Funeral services for Don Schmidt are pending with Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Don died July 5, 2020, at his home in El Reno. 

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Department of Commerce said Phase 2 of the Oklahoma Business Relief Program (OBRP) will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 14. Just days until the second round opens, many participating financial institutions are continuing to work with businesses interested in applying to gather the required information in advance.

The upcoming end of the 2020 fiscal year brought with it a stack of bills to pay and contracts to renew for Canadian County officials. The county’s three commissioners spent most of their 75-minute meeting last week signing new contracts and paying the last of the fiscal year bills. The fiscal year ended Wednesday.

In all, the commissioners agenda included 57 items for consideration, and was by far, the largest agenda this year.

“American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan,” claims the New York Times.

More controversially, the authors write that U.S. President Donald Trump was briefed on the assessment (he denies it) and the piece’s tag line says that his administration “has been deliberating for months” on how to respond (he says the U.S. intelligence community didn't find the claims credible).