February 2020

For the first six minutes of the game, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, ranked 13th in the state, looked as if they were on the path to the biggest upset of the season in Class 5A.

Two first-half scoring slumps yielded a deficit El Reno High School’s girls basketball team could not fight its way back from as the Indians suffered a 47-41 loss to Class 5A’s 12th-ranked Del City inside Jenks Simmons Field House.

Calumet High School’s boys basketball team was unseated as the champion in the Washita Valley Conference over the weekend as sixthranked Hydro-Eakley beat the Chieftains for the second time in eight days.

Three Canadian County schools will be represented this weekend at the 2020 Organization of Rural Elementary Schools State Basketball Championships being held in Shawnee and surrounding areas.

Midland Funding LLC vs. Kim Watters for $4,688.86 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

A traffic stop along Interstate 40 in Yukon last week led to the seizure of 129 pounds of illegal drugs worth more than $1 million, and law officers have made three arrests.

Come on out to Ume Japanese Restaurant for lots of great deals (their fried chicken is to die for). Fill up with sushi, hibachi and lots of other choices.

It’s love time. Or at least date time. VFW Post 382 has a Valentine’s bash planned for Friday at 7 p.m., complete with live country music by Coyette & the Haywire Band. There will be a

Ardyth Shan (Leeper) Guth was born in Oklahoma City on March 11, 1929. Her parents were Ruth (Hoffman) Leeper and Milo Francis Leeper. Ardyth died Feb. 8, 2020, at her home in El Reno.

She attended kindergarten and grades 1 and 2 in Hawthorn School in Oklahoma City. She attended grades 3 through 6 in El Reno at Central School. She attended eighth and ninth grades in Odessa, Texas, and 11th and 12th grades in Tahoka, Texas.

If you don’t have good soil, it doesn’t matter how good your seeds are.