BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center’s 2024 Agriscience Symposium will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 18 in the Austin Family Conference Center at Redlands Community College, 1300 S. Country Club Road.
BlueSTEM students representing five school districts will display their agriscience research project posters.
Calumet High School: Aspen Burns, Kylista Burton and Mikah Mayo.
El Reno Fire Department Capt. David Baker (left) and firefighter Parker Crosby stand next to the trash can that was fished out of the Legion Park pond using the hook and pole Wednesday afternoon.
According to El Reno Police Department Capt. David Beaty, someone set the trash can on fire and a bystander tossed the can into the pond to put out the flames.
Under existing state law, Oklahoma public schools can treat children with special needs differently than other children whenever a family seeks an open transfer into another district.
Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said the discrimination against those children, who have an individualized education program (IEP), is likely illegal and sets up the state for legal problems.
“I know for a fact that IEP transfers are not treated with the same respect that students who do not have some special needs are,” Treat said.
The U.S. Senate easily passed a resolution to repeal a Biden administration rule allowing for beef to be imported from Paraguay.
The measure, introduced by Democrat Jon Tester of Montana and Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota, passed on a bipartisan 70-25 vote.
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Yolaunda Michelle Warren, Mustang, expired tag, $165.
Bill Hamilton, El Reno, possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to appear warrant, $545.
Stephanie Lynn Woods, El Reno, petit larceny and failure to appear warrant, $840.
Avelino Primero Blanco, Oklahoma City, expired tag, $165.
Jordan Michael Welch, Thomas, no insurance verification and failure to appear warrant, $540.
Edith Marie Crow, El Reno, dog at large, $145.
A livestock show celebrating students with special needs is believed to be a first for Canadian County, but most likely not the last.
More than 75 special needs students from around the county took part in the event last week.
Held at the Canadian County Expo Center, the event also attracted 40 students who serve as PALs for their special needs classmates, as well as 45 members of the various FFA chapters in the county.
Rep. Rhonda Baker, R-Yukon, said she will not seek re-election to the Oklahoma House of Representatives this year.
“It has been an extraordinary honor to serve the people of House District 60 for the past eight years,” Baker said.
From a farm in Oklahoma to growing wheat in Moldova, Kelsey Walters is now looking to her past to secure her future.
Walters grew up on her family’s sixth-generation farm in western Oklahoma. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in agriculture economics, and was placed in Moldova as a Peace Corps volunteer where she met her husband, Iurie, and began a wheat farming operation.
But now their livelihood and that of wheat growers across Oklahoma is threatened by the war in Ukraine.
An El Reno teacher has received a $6,000 scholarship.
Shelly Hudson, who teaches first grade at Rose Witcher, received the Founders Scholarship from The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, an honor society for women educators that promotes excellence in education and personal and professional growth of women educators.
The organization emphasizes leadership development for its more than 50,000 members in 17 countries by providing graduate scholarships to members.
As many people are aware, the State Treasurer was tasked with returning unclaimed property to the people of Oklahoma in 2000. More than half of my office is specifically tasked with this job. As rewarding of a job as this is for my office and staff, there are always bad actors to beware of. A few tips to avoid them are:
- Beware of calls with unclaimed property refund promises.
- Do not accept any protection offers in any form, for any cost, over the phone.
