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Some school zonesare now active
Yukon police are reminding drivers that some school zones are now active, and all will be active beginning Monday.
The school zones near St. John Nepomuk Catholic School have been active for about a week.
Those at South-west Covenant will become active Thursday when school begins.
Yukon’s will be active Monday when classes begin, even though most students will attend classes virtually.
School zone times:For pre-k through
third grade, the school zones will be active from 7 to 8 a.m. and 1:20 to 3 p.m.
This includes Centennial, Ranch-wood, Shedeck, Myers and Parkland Elementary.
At Lakeview and Independence inter-mediate schools, the school zones will be from 7:10 to 8:10 a.m. and 2:10 to 3:10 p.m.
At the middle school, school zones are 7:15 to 8:55 a.m. and 2:55 to 3:55 p.m.
The school zones at Yukon High School will be active from 7:20 to 8:20 a.m., 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. and 2:37 to 3:37 p.m.
At St. John Nepomuk, they are active from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. and 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
At Southwest Covenant, where lights are not in place, school zones will be 7:24 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Plan outlines Yukon’s possible futureYukon officials have
gotten a glimpse of what the future could hold for the city as part of a comprehensive plan that was recently unveiled to the plan-
ning commission.The 2040 Compre-
hensive Plan took more than a year to develop and is seen as a blue-print for Yukon’s future.
The plan was devel-oped by Johnson and Associates with the
assistance of the Triad Design Group and ADG.
The plan was pre-sented to the planning commission in a study session in July and approved by the board last week.
It will be given to the
city council in October following a public meet-ing planned within the next few weeks, said Mitchell Hort, director of development ser-vices.
He said the plan does not offer many surpris-es.
“The comp plan is a vision of what we see in the next 20 years, or so,” said Hort.
The plan focuses on housing availability, infrastructure and the
By TERRY [email protected]
For Rachel Goble, it’s a dream come true. The Red Bird Coffee House, 812 W. Main St., is open for business. And after a soft opening that’s lasted a couple weeks, business is booming.
“It’s incredibly encouraging and excit-ing, and overwhelming in the sense that I’m having to learn quick-ly, and I’m trying to do my best to put our best foot forward,” Goble said. “Pretty quickly, we were full speed ahead, and I was not predicting that.”
Red Bird is more than just a local busi-ness, though.
Goble wants its mis-sion to be twofold: to be a place for the commu-nity to come together, and for it to be a place that teens who are aging out of DHS care can gain valuable work experience.
In the past, Goble accomplished the latter with a food truck, and a physical location was the next logical step.
“My personal pas-sion, and my goal, is for this to be a place of employment and a launching pad for youth coming out of DHS custody,” Goble said.
Before Red Bird, Goble was employed by the Department of Human Service and she saw the struggles teens faced when it came to leaving state custody and entering adult-hood.
“I worked with a lot of teens – that was the area that I enjoyed the most,” Goble said. “They are challenging, and they’ve experi-enced a lot in life. I con-tinued to see that there aren’t a lot of options for them after turning 18, or as they’re approaching turning 18.”
Many teens approaching adulthood are hesitant to utilize the state agencies that exist to help them gain employment experi-ence, Goble said.
“What I saw was an overall mindset of youth who didn’t want anything to do with ‘the system,’” she said. “I saw a large gap in service for them, ulti-mately. When you don’t have any previous work experience, and when your examples haven’t been positive ones, you haven’t been taught those things (related to employ-ment).”
And that’s where Red
Living the DreamBusinesswoman opens coffeehouse to help DHS kidsBy LARISSA [email protected]
Above, Holly Johnson, left, and Sierra Steele make coffee for customers of the Red Bird Coffeehouse. The shop, located on Main Street, is in the former home of Mabel C. Fry, a former librarian and school teacher. At right, Greg Banaken, the shop’s assistant manager, pre-pares drinks. The coffee shop is owned by Rachel Goble, who is a former DHS employee. She said her dream is to help teen-agers who are aging out of the DHS system. Photos / Terry Groover and Larissa Copeland
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See DREAM, Page 5A
Thousands of laptops and tablets are being distributed to Yukon students this week as
the school district pre-pares to go back to class next week, virtu-ally.
Officials with the school district said the electronic equipment is
being provided to all 8,800 students in the district to ensure they have a way to attend
A mom and daughter look over the new Chromebook computer being provided to stu-dents this year at Surrey Hills Elementary School. The Yukon School District is provid-ing Chromebooks and tablets to students to help with its continuous learning program. In all, the district spent almost $1 million to purchase the equipment. Photo / Provided
District begins distributing computersBy TERRY GROOVER
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Real ID coming to Yukon
Yukon will become the latest community to have Real ID available as equipment is deliv-ered to three tag agencies in the community this week.
Sarah Stewart, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, said the three agencies are scheduled to receive their Real ID equipment between Wednesday and Friday.
Stewart said Oklahoma Tag of Yukon and Yukon’s Best Tag agencies are scheduled to receive their equipment on Wednesday and should be operational by Friday.
Yukon Tag is slated to receive its equipment for the program by Friday, and should be able to process Real ID applications by Monday.
Stewart said DPS is in the sixth week of its rollout of the program. It will take 18 weeks to complete the process.
A tag agency in Mustang was among those receiving equipment during the first week of the rollout because it is considered to be part of South Oklahoma City.
Other communities that already have received equipment include Edmond, Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Norman, Claremore and Muskogee.
Equipment also is being installed at Hinton
By TERRY [email protected]
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