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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2018 • THEYUKONREVIEW.COM • VOLUME 60 NUMBER 97 50 CENTS
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Good place to work
Canadian County employers
among state’s top workplaces
By TERRY GROOVER
tgroover@theyukonreview.com
Three Canadian
County employers are
among the state’s top
workplaces.
The list, which is
developed by The
Oklahoman, was
released Sunday.
Among the top work-
places are Yukon and
Mustang school dis-
tricts along with the
city of Mustang. Superintendent Dr. said. “The teachers are sional development.
This is the third con- Jason Simeroth said he supported by the That helps draw the
secutive year that the was pleased to see administration and the best teachers to the dis-
Yukon School District Yukon’s improved rank- administration is sup- trict.
has been included in ing. ported by the teachers. “It is flattering to the
the list. “It is such a unique It is a very collegial set- city of Yukon that peo-
This year, Yukon is school to be a 6A dis- ting that people want to ple want to be here.
ranked sixth among trict. It’s the seventh be in Yukon.” People move here
because of the
large companies. The largest high school, but Simeroth said one of schools,” he said.
district employs 965 it doesn’t feel like it. … the things that makes Yukon jumped five
people. We are very tied to the the school district spots in this year’s sur-
Last year, Yukon community and we are among the best places vey. Simeroth said the
schools were ranked linked as a staff. to work is the emphasis district hopes to contin-
11th. Everyone feels support- the district places on
Yukon ed by each other,” he teamwork and profes- Continued to COUNTY, Page 5A
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ue moving up in next
year’s survey.
“We are going to keep
doing what we do. We
have invested a lot of
time and effort in pro-
fessional development.
We will continue to be
successful if we contin-
ue to do that. We will
continue to honor, cele-
brate and recognize
teachers for the work
they are doing,” he
said.
Mustang Public
Schools also joined the
list. They are ranked at
No. 12 in the large divi-
sion.
Last year, Mustang
was ranked 17th.
Mustang has 1,534
employees.
This is the second
consecutive year
Mustang has been
included in the rank-
ings.
Mustang’s newly
appointed superinten-
dent, Charles Bradley,
mentioned the rank-
ings during Monday’s
school board meeting.
Bradley asked Chris
Tobler, the district’s
human resources direc-
tor, to discuss the
honor.
“We have great peo-
ple, and this is reflec-
tion of that,” Tobler
said.
He noted that the dis-
trict faced difficulties
over the past year,
including a teachers’
walkout and adapting
to its growing student
population.
“Our school family
remained positive,
which is a reflection on
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our amazing culture,”
Tobler said.
“We will continue to
recruit amazing people
to continue our trend
in the right direction.”
Also on the list was
the city of Mustang.
With 191 employees, the
city of Mustang ranks
at No. 11 in the mid-size
category, just below
Great Plains National
Bank and ahead of Bob
Mills Furniture.
Not included in the
list this year was
Canadian Valley
Technology Center. It is
the first time in six
years the school was
not included on the list.
Adam Wilmoth, the
business editor for The
Oklahoman, which
worked with a
third-party company to
develop the list, said
more than 200 nomina-
tions were received.
The largest number
was in the small busi-
ness division.
This year’s list
includes 19 companies
that have been on the
list since its inception
six years ago. There
were 19 companies that
had never been on the
list prior to this year.
Among those were
four large companies,
six mid-size companies
and nine small compa-
nies.
Wilmoth said the big-
gest surprise was the
number of educa-
tion-related organiza-
tions.
This year’s top work-
places were EPIC
Charter Schools in the
large category,
Meridian Technology
Center in mid-size and
The First State Bank in
the small business cate-
gory.