A group of women descended on The Lord’s Harvest last week and they came bearing gifts in the form of more than $17,000 to be used by the food-based ministry to help support the El Reno community. The Power of 100 Canadian County presented founder and director Nikki Pruitt with the oversized check.
The Lord’s Harvest was the most recent Canadian County organization to benefit from the generosity of The Power of 100 Canadian County.
Lt. Mike Grimes has seen what a bulletproof vest means during his roughly 50-year career in law enforcement.
“I’ve seen them save lives,” Grimes said.
That’s why Grimes is again helping to put together a grant application to bring protective vests to the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office.
On Monday, county commissioners threw their support behind the grant application. If funded, Grimes said the office should expect a rebate of about “30 to 50 percent” of the costs of the vests.
Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell, along with state Sen. Lonnie Paxton (R-Tuttle), and State Rep. Rhonda Baker (R-Yukon), helped kick off A Small Town Weekend in El Reno when they drove the original 1926-1932 alignment of Route 66 through El Reno neighborhoods.
The state officials would end the cruise in the home of Karen Nance, director of El Reno’s Chamber of Commerce.
Nance and her husband, Larry, live on Hoff Avenue, one of the streets that was the original Route 66 highway.
Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed Redlands Community College alumna Kass Newell to a seven-year term on the college’s Board of Regents, succeeding Yukon businessman Jim Kitch.
Newell earned an associate degree from Redlands in 2012 and was a member of the college’s National Champion Livestock Judging Team.
“I am so honored to be asked to serve the college that was such an important step in my life,” Newell said.
In a letter sent to Oklahoma’s two U.S. senators, the secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board warned that an election bill promoted by congressional Democrats “guarantees chaos in our elections.”
The June 2 letter from Oklahoma State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax focused on the provisions of S.1, titled by its authors as the “For the People Act of 2021.”
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The Canadian County Health Department is seeking a federal grant to help local health-care personnel fight the spread of COVID-19 and improve public health.
Canadian County officials will apply for the Community Health Workers for COVID-19 Response and Resilient Communities Grant.
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is offering funding to county health departments through the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act of 2020.
People are ready to get together.
That was the indication as thousands turned out for the 23rd Annual A Small Town Weekend.
The crowds enjoyed mild weather and plenty of classic car enthusiasm as the three-day event created by the El Reno Cruisers Car Club paid tribute to Route 66 and life in small-town America.
Population gains in Canadian County will mean the creation of a new Senate seat and El Reno could be on the verge of gaining more of a voice in House races.
Sen. Lonnie Paxton said Senate District 18, currently in Wagoner County in eastern Oklahoma, will be moved to the Yukon and Bethany area.
The new seat will give Canadian County an extra voice at the Senate table, Paxton said.
Paxton, R-Tuttle, served as chairman of the Senate Redistricting Committee. After a vote of 46-1 to adopt the redistricting recommendations, Paxton said he is pleased.
Canadian County commissioners purchased property near the new Expo Center to build a sewage lagoon.
The move comes a month before the new $15 million fairgrounds is set to open and after the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) informed the county hauling sewage from the site would not be permitted.
The commissioners, acting as the Public Facilities Authority, voted 3-0 Thursday afternoon to exercise their option to purchase 6.25 acres from the Jensen family of El Reno.
