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YUKON PROGRESS • Home of Denise Daniels Moore • USPS 406-100 Yukon’s Best Choice for Community News & Sports $1 DOLLAR Volume: 120 | Issue: 011 Saturday, January 30, 2021 3 Sections | 24 Pages YPS board to appoint new member Brian Coulson wins the incumbent, withdrew, and County Election Board Secre- Hawthorne withdrew on newcomer Brian Coulson will tary Wanda Armold. Dec. 11, so her name will not race a er Michele automatically be elected. The YPS School Board is be on ballots for the April Hawthorne withdraws Two other incumbents, expected to vote on approv- election. She had fi led for the Board President Suzanne Can- ing Coulson’s appointment seat before deciding to with- From Staff Reports non and Board Member Don at a meeting Monday, Feb. 1. draw. Hawthorne had been A new school board mem- Rowe face opponents in the He could be sworn in as an appointed to the school board ber will be appointed to attend April election. appointed board member on seat in February 2020 to fi ll a upcoming meetings after fi ling Since Hawthorne has with- Monday. vacancy. for the Offi ce 4 position and drawn her candidacy, there Then in April, he will be the According to a statement Brian Coulson attends a Jan- expecting a race for the seat in will not be a race and Coulson newly elected Offi ce 4 board from a YPS spokeswoman, uary Yukon Public Schools an April 6 election. will automatically be elected member, a district spokes- Board of Education meeting. But Michele Hawthorne, to the seat, said Canadian woman reports See Coulson, Page 3A (Photo by Robert Medley) Oklahoma City Council contenders share views Canadian County residents seek OKC Ward 3 seat By Conrad Dudderar Senior Staff Writer Four eastern Canadian County resi- dents running for a seat on the Okla- homa City Council participated in a re- cent public forum to share their views on issues ranging from infrastructure needs and controlled growth to capital improvement projects and COVID-19. The Oklahoma City Ward 3 coun- cil candidate forum was sponsored by Northwest Oklahoma City Chamber, WesTen District and Windsor District. See Forum, Page 4A Mandy Clark, mother, and daughters, Madison, 14, Paizlee, 11, are pictured with Lynnlee, 2. Lynnlee is battling leukemia. (Photo provided) Lynnlee’s battle a fever that was off and on, her Yukon toddler diagnosed with leukemia, mother, Mandy Clark said. Mandy getting set to undergo lengthy treatment Clark, 37, is a single, and also raising her daughters Madison, Trey Bishop, who grew up in the Yu- By Robert Medley her friends and family members 14, and Paizlee, 11, in Yukon. The kon area and works in his family’s real Managing Editor laugh. family is living currently with estate business, speaks at the Okla- ynnlee Clark is known But at the end of last year, Mandy Clark’s parents in Yukon. homa City Ward 3 council candidate forum. Bishop addressed concerns as a happy, go-lucky Lynnlee’s behavior changed, and On Jan. 4, Mandy Clark took about sprawling westward Oklahoma toddler, who is often she didn’t have as much energy Lynnlee to a doctor’s offi ce. All City development by suggesting de- bubbly and outgoing. as her mom notice she had a low annexation of outlying areas in Cana- L dian County. (Photo provided) She is known to frequently make fever. Lynnlee continued running See Lynnlee, Page 3A Site Teachers of the Year announced by YPS From Staff Reports Yukon Public Schools offi cials Here are reports on these school Editor’s Note: This is part two of have announced the 2020-2021 site site teachers selected. a report on the Yukon Public Schools Teachers of the Year. The teachers site Teachers of the Year. There are for each school are listed in these MYERS ELEMENTARY: 12 teachers honored. Here are sto- bios from Yukon Public Schools. In MINDY POWELL ries about six of the teachers. Part April, the district offi cials will an- Mindy Powell has been awarded one of the series ran in The Yukon nounce an overall district Teacher Progress on Wednesday, Jan. 27. of the Year. See Teachers, Page 6A 2A www.YUKONPROGRESS.com Saturday, January 30, 2021 Obituary States Air Force chael Blair, and Samuel Blair, Daniel faith, generosity of spirit ing at 2:00 p.m., at Fort Blair during the Viet- his sister, San- Blair, Amanda Hurt, with a loving heart. Sill National Cemetery, The Angels in Heaven nam War. dra Allen. Ron Tony Blair, Cory Blair He will be sorely Elgin. welcomed Ronald Dean Ron was pre- is also survived and Trystan Blair. missed by friends and Online condolences Blair on January 28, ceded in death by his wife of Ron had 20 grandchil- family. may be signed at www. 2021, surrounded by his by his parents, 45 years, Jim- dren and 15 great-grand- Celebration of Life yandafuneral.com. loving family. Rupert and Dor- Ronald Blair mie T. Blair, and children. services will be at 10 Arrangements are un- Ron was born in Deca- othy Blair, and his 10 children: Ron was a Foster Dad a.m., Thursday, Febru- der the direction Yanda tur, Illinois on Septem- his brothers, Leon and Theresa Rubin, Kim- to 49 children in Canadi- ary 4, 2021 at Yanda & & Son Funeral Home ber 26, 1946. He served Steve Blair. He is sur- berly Speyrer, Michelle an County over 14 years. Son Chapel, Yukon, OK, and Cremation Services, as a medic in the United vived by his brother, Mi- Bello, Ronald Blair II, He was a man of great with interment follow- Yukon, OK. an aircraft me- Tommy’s stud- til their deaths. Besides He also loved to “tinker” att Kifer, Carson Kifer, Green chanic. During ies. Moving his church activities, Tom on cars and engines. Brady Kifer, and Hud- Tommy Raymond his service, two family to Beth- and Thelma loved spend- Tommy was preceded son Lingle. Also surviv- Green, 89, was welcomed daughters were any, Tommy ing time with children, in death by his beloved ing are Tommy’s sisters, into Jesus’s waiting arms born at Smoky began a 28-year grandchildren, and their wife of 62 years, Thelma Jewel Dean Marsh and in heaven on January Hill Air Force career at what great grandchildren. Redwine Green; son, Helen Jones, as well as 26th 2021. Tommy was Base Hospital, Tommy Green was then Aero They loved their sec- Steven Lewis Green; many nieces and neph- born to Colonel Goliath Karen Elaine Commander, ond home and acreage in grandsons: Steven An- ews. and Lula Tarpley Green Green Robinson and later known as Gulf- Wilburton. dreatta and David Ki- Love You Dad, Karen on December 19, 1931 Linda Kay Green Kifer. stream and then General There they socialized fer; his parents C.G. and and Linda, in Wister. He married his After his honorable dis- Dynamics, working on with Thelma’s sisters Lula Green, and brother, Funeral services were most beloved wife Thel- charge, Tommy, Thelma, advanced experimental and brothers. Other ac- Benny. held Friday, January 29, ma Kathryn Redwing in and daughters moved to aircraft. Thelma retired tivities were boating, Survivors include 2021 at Yukon Church, Van Buren, Arkansas on Wilburton, (Thelma’s shortly after his retire- fishing, bird watching,daughters, Karen and 11715 NW 10th St., Yu- January 19, 1952. Af- Birthplace) to attend ment. During his work- and traveling. They at- husband Randy Robin- kon, 73099, with inter- ter working at various Eastern State Collage on ing years the family tended their kids and son, and Linda and hus- ment following at the auto mechanic jobs, he the G.I. Bill. Upon grad- moved to Yukon. In the grandkids baseball, foot- band Wes Kifer; daugh- Yukon Cemetery. enlisted in the United uation, the family moved summer of 1965, all three ball, basketball and soc- ter-in-law, Paula Green; Online condolences States Air Force in 1953 to Durant, Oklahoma so children graduated from cer games. grandchildren, April may be signed at www. during the Korean War. Tommy could continue Yukon High School. Thelma loved to shop (Andreatta) and hus- yandafuneral.com. Ar- Tommy was stationed his education where he Tommy and Thelma at garage sales and es- band Scott Lingle, and rangements are under at Smoky Hill Air Force earned a BS Degree in were founding members tate sales and Tommy Matthew and wife Lisa the direction of Yanda & Base in Salina, Kansas Sociology. of the Yukon Church / loved being her driver. Kifer; great-grandsons: Son Funeral Home and and was deployed to Son Steven Lewis Southern Baptist. They He would take her wher- Ayden Kifer, Mason Ki- Cremation Services, Yu- the United Kingdom as Green was born during were loyal members un- ever she wanted to go! fer, Luke Lingle, Wy- kon, OK. to Bethany the Betty Warden morning. all 5 children – Vickey flowers, please make a Warden latter part of her was known to Betty’s greatest joy was Whiteley, and her hus- donation in Betty’s name Betty Jean Warden, age sophomore year all as someone spending time with her band Brian; Brenda War- to Pets & People, P. O. 80, went to be with her where she mar- who would open family, friends, and fur ba- den; Lori Raby and her Box 850587, Yukon, OK Lord and Savior on Mon- ried Howard on her heart and bies – their five children, husband John; Sheri An- 73085, or at www.pet- day, January 25, 2021. March 14, 1957. home to anyone 14 grandchildren and 16 duss and her husband sandpeople.com.