Wet weather for the 36th Annual El Reno Burger Day Festival did not keep the world’s largest onion-fried burger from hitting the grill to the delight of thousands of hungry visitors.
See Saturday’s edition for more coverage.
Each year, Janice Cox dreams of setting a record for the National Letter Carriers Association Food Drive in El Reno.
And each year she comes up a bit short.
But this Saturday, May 11, is a new drive and maybe, just maybe, that elusive 10,000-pound goal the veteran letter carrier has set in her mind will be achieved.
Cox has been coordinating the Letter Carriers Food Drive in El Reno for the past 18 years. She would love to hit the 10,000-pound mark for donated food items.
Two new windows have been installed at the Historic Fort Reno Visitors Center.
Debra Kauffman, president of Historic Fort Reno Inc. and full-time volunteer, said 23 windows in the building need to be replaced.
“So far, this is only the beginning,” she said.
Levi Davidson holds up his daughter, Poppy J as she blows bubbles from a machine purchased from a vendor at the 36th Annual El Reno Burger Day Festival over the weekend in downtown El Reno.
Dozens of vendors and organizations were on hand to sell various items and promote their businesses or causes.
An eight-member committee has been appointed to help oversee the next phase of Canadian County’s new courthouse construction project.
An inmate at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution was found unresponsive Saturday night and later was pronounced deceased.
Correctional officers found Irvin Cooper, 45, unresponsive and summoned emergency medical services personnel, while beginning lifesaving efforts.
Cooper was subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified.
No employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured and at no time was the public in danger, the emailed statement said.
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Landowners Bill of Rights, or HB 3159, was signed into law.
The bill gives landowners the right of first refusal if the land is ever sold by the state or anyone who received the land through the use of eminent domain authority.
Rep. Eric Roberts, R-Oklahoma City, and Rep. Annie Menz, D-Norman, were the bill’s House authors.
The clock is ticking for a signature collection effort to put State Question 832 on the ballot and ask Oklahomans to raise the minimum wage for the first time since 2008. Organizers have 90 days to collect the necessary signatures after the state Supreme Court gave the petition a green light.
