April 2020

A newborn Thoroughbred mare is fighting to stay alive after its mother took her sibling, but rejected her. Denise Cope said the twin mare was born early Wednesday. Cope and Tammy Garcia were busy trying to feed the rejected foal from a bottle, while also trying to get the newborn to stand up.

While they might not fit the common mold as a frontline fighter in the battle to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the work being done by the El Reno Public Schools food service team is nothing short of heroic.

Seamstresses are being called during the COVID-19 pandemic to use their skills and talent for a new trend in modern-day fashion … facial masks.

Residents at Saint Katharine Drexel Retirement Center were treated last week to a drive-thru circus, compliments of Physicians Choice Hospice. The parade of cars pulled through a parking lot at the center, led by an El Reno police cruiser. Clowns and plenty of balloons and bubbles filled the air.

El Reno police are looking for a white four-door car in connection with the shooting of a man Sunday evening. Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said officers were called to the Elms Apartments, 1200 West Elm, just before 6 p.m. after a man called saying he had been shot.

An 18-year-old El Reno woman found by police lying in the road Saturday night died later in an Oklahoma City hospital.

With the panic over Covid-19 and the news predicting a cure will take possibly a year or more to discover, perhaps it is time to revisit the past. Until the advent of chemical antibiotics, nature provided all the ingredients to ensure survival and health for the inhabitants of the planet.

Going through some online news the other day, I came to a couple of realizations. Obvious ones that we seem to forget as we’re going about our lives. If you spend any time at all on the Internet, you’ll realize what a cesspool some of it can become.

The Cresap Family Foundation has offered a $100,000 matching challenge to kick-start a relief fund managed by the Oklahoma Restaurant Association’s Hospitality Foundation.

A worker with Oklahoma Environmental Management Authority uses a crane to lift a boat into a dumpster next to the Denny-Crump Rodeo Arena over the weekend. The city is allowing free dumping into containers at the site for residents through May 2. Dumping is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.