July 2020

A Yukon man was arrested last week after a family member told authorities he had been having sex with her child for more than a year. The alleged assaults took place at a home in El Reno. Michael Arthur Brooks, 25, was arrested on allegations of sodomy and lewd acts with a child under 16.

With five of the six high schools in Canadian County releasing their plans to return to in-house classes next month, the dependent school districts have also been drafting back-to-school plans.

The National Fire Protection Association and State Farm agent Layne Conaway are teaming up with the El Reno Fire Department to support Fire Prevention Week, an annual public awareness campaign that promotes home fire safety.

Either on the 660-foot shortened course or the full 1,000-foot tracks, the 2020 Smoke on the Water Drag Boat Races produced some of the fastest speeds on Lake El Reno since the event moved here seven years ago.

While band and volleyball began preseason work last week, El Reno High School’s softball program remains closed due to complications with COVID-19. “Softball will be shut down until Monday (July 27) because we had a second player test positive.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team kicked off preseason workouts last week at the Jenks Simmons Field House Annex. Head coach Kristen Koehler said her varsity players self-quarantined for two weeks prior to starting drills to ensure they were not exposed to the COVID-19 virus.

LAWSUITS Leon and Kimberly Taylor vs. State Farm Insurance Company Inc. for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged actual and punitive damages.

Martha Jane Mulanax passed away July 13, 2020, in El Reno at the age of 94. Martha was born in Chickasha on April 29, 1926, to Floyd and Grace (Smith) Mulanax. As a teenager, her family moved to El Reno where she attended and then graduated from El Reno High School in 1944.

Louis “Lou” John Ernest Holtorff left his home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Lou was born Feb. 18, 1936, in Elmhurst, Ill., to Ernest Louis Holtorff and Lydia Wilhelmina Brockmann Holtorff.

Graveside services for Clarence Marvin Webster Jr. were held Friday in the Concho Cemetery with Rev. Waylan Upchego officiating. Services were under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Mr. Webster died July 19, 2020, at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.