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Anyone interested in fishing, hunting and the great outdoors will have the opportunity to celebrate those activities this weekend, as the Oklahoma Tackle, Hunting & Boat Show takes center stage at Canadian County Expo and Event Center.

The show is set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will offer a wealth of products and information, said Vance Montgomery with Montgomery Productions/Vanmar Outdoors.

Offerings include:

► Seminars by professional guides and other professionals

► New sportsman’s products

► Bulk discount tackle

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said he reached common ground with President Biden on energy issues during the governor’s visit to the White House. 

Governors from across the country gathered for the 115th winter meetings of the National Governors Association, held Feb. 9-11 in Washington, D.C. Stitt was one of four chosen to ask a question of President Joe Biden when the governors met with him at the White House.

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All three incumbents filed Jan. 23 – the first day of a weeklong filing period – to retain their seats on the Canadian County Fair Board.

When the filing period closed Jan. 27, these three men were the only candidates to file at the Canadian County Clerk’s Office:

► District 1 - Phil Carson of Yukon

► District 2 - Brent Hunt of El Reno

► District 3 - Michael Beard of Calumet

The Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine will be dedicated Feb. 17.

The shrine, while located in Oklahoma City, is a part of the heart and soul of Okarche, the birthplace of Stanley Rother, the Catholic priest who gave his life while serving in Guatemala, and is said to be on the path to sainthood.

The dedication will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 17 at the new shrine, 700 S.E. 89th Street (between Shields Boulevard and Interstate 35).

A 10-member team of inventors who are all enrolled at Canadian Valley Technology Center spend Mondays after school inside the school’s Makerspace classroom.

This innovative space on the north side of CV Tech’s El Reno Campus inspires thought and fosters creativity and imagination among students.

Currently, the CV Tech Inventor Team is developing a working prototype of a first-of-its-kind backpack alarm intended to alert students when important items are missing.

American Indian students in Oklahoma public schools could not be prohibited from wearing tribal regalia under legislation that has won committee approval in the Oklahoma Senate.

“I was shocked that this was even an issue,” said state Sen. Casey Murdock, R-Felt.

Senate Bill 429 would allow students to “wear tribal regalia on school property or at any school function, whether it is held at a public or private location.”

Legislation making it illegal to perform sex-change surgeries on Oklahoma children or inject them with cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers has won easy approval in an Oklahoma Senate Committee.

Lawmakers also voted to bar state funds from paying for those procedures.

Both measures were advanced just days after Gov. Kevin Stitt called for their enactment in his State of the State address.

WASHINGTON – Oklahoma’s mental health department rejected claims of inadequate mental health services despite an ongoing federal investigation ignited last fall by an Oklahoma law firm that claims data proves the system is failing.

Brian Wilkerson, director of litigation at the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, said that over half ― 67 percent ― of 1,100 booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center six or more times in the past three years had sought services from the state mental health department. 

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