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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 91

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VI THE OKLAHOMAN NEWSOK.COM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005 5 Heartland Flyer to make trek to Guthrie for music festival YUKON Evacuees moving to shelter land Stadium. Thirteen high school bands will compete. The top 12 will be in the 6 p.m. finals. The UCO marching band will perform at 9 p.m., followed by an awards ceremony.

Tickets are $5 for the preliminary competition, $7 for the finals or $10 for the whole event. Heartland Flyer Rates for one-way trips: Guthrie to Fort Worth, Texas $30 Oklahoma City to Guthrie $10 Guthrie to Norman $11 Guthrie to Ardmore $19 Oklahoma City to Fort Worth $24 Heartland Flyer tickets can be reserved by going to The Newton hub would let Oklaho-mans connect to trains heading to the east and west coasts, he said. The train will arrive in Guthrie about 11 p.m. Sept. 29 and leave the next morning at 7:15 a.m.

with one-way tickets selling for various prices according to where passengers' final destinations end up, according to Amtrak. The late arrival time and lack of lodging space in the city is worrisome, Neff said. All that will be taken care of, and city staff are working with nearby cities to find transportation and rooms, City Manager Glenn Hayes said. If train service continues and rooms continue to sell out, there's a good chance Guthrie could experience an economic boom, he said. Greg Elwell: 475-4092, gelwelloklahoman.com By Greg Elwell, Staff Writer GUTHRIE When the Heartland Flyer pulls into Guthrie's Old Santa Fe Depot on Sept.

29, it will be the first Amtrak arrival in the city since 1979, but hopefully not the last, city officials said. The train will be traveling to Guthrie from Fort Worth as part of the Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival and running daily until it leaves the city Oct. 2. Stationmaster Gordon Neff said the station and the city have been working for three years to get train service to Guthrie. "For years, everybody in the community has been asking why we don't have trains," he said.

"Now that it's coming, we just need to get as many people riding as possible." Packing the cars could mean train At least 50 Hurricane Ka-trina evacuees will move into a Yukon shelter Saturday, a Yukon pastor said Wednesday. Terry Jones, pastor of Resurrection Life Church, said arrangements to bring the evacuees from Dallas to Yukon were made through the Dallas Ministerial Alliance. Jones said his congregation has been ready for a couple of weeks to house evacuees. A deal made last week with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials to bring in elderly or disabled evacuees fell through, he said. "The whole government thing just collapsed," Jones said.

Now, the Dallas Ministerial Alliance will handle transporting evacuees to Yukon. Jones said evacuees will stay at the former nursing home on Walnut Avenue. service for other city festivals and maybe more, he said. "Eventually, we'd like to get trains going north to Newton, Kansas," he said. OKLAHOMA CITY Cross-dresser steals man's Jeep Oklahoma City police are searching for a cross-dressing car thief who stole a Del City man's Jeep.

Stephen Duane Hays, 54, was sitting inside his 1986 Jeep Cherokee on Sunday in the 300 block of Grand Boulevard when a man dressed as a woman approached and asked if he wanted a date, according to a police report. The suspect is described as a thin black male, 25 to 35 years old, with long black hair. Walk, carnival to raise funds A Walk 'N' Roll Reunion for families of children with special health care needs is set for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Center for Healthy Living, 1000 Lincoln Blvd. The Walk 'N' Roll Reunion will feature a 1-mile walk and a carnival.

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