December 2020

Canadian County commissioners have social media on their minds.

On Monday, commissioners discussed potentially working with a company called Zencity, a firm that helps track social media information. Recently, the firm offered its services to the commissioners as well as the sheriff’s office.

According to its website, Zencity has an AI-driven platform that helps local governments learn what their city and county populations really want. The company is based in Israel.

The Canadian County Bar Association and Court Clerk’s Office held a coat and toy drive for the annual Red Andrews Christmas Dinner held in Oklahoma City.

Since 1947, the Christmas Day tradition provides warm meals and toys to approximately 7,000 people each year at the Cox Convention Center.

The Canadian County Bar Association and its members, who are judges and lawyers that practice law in the county, contributed $1,665 toward the event.

Due to COVID-19 and concerns for the safety of the community, there will be no inside dining this year.

The Knights of Columbus Sacred Heart Council 767 of El Reno host fundraisers throughout the year, often cooking and selling fried catfish, bratwurst, fried onion burgers and smoked ribs for the community to enjoy and to help with local causes.

Because of COVID, the Knights did their cooking fundraisers this past year outdoors with curb-side food to go.

Last week, the Knights donated to El Reno Blessing Baskets to help support the approximately 1,000 children involved in the Christmas Gift Basket Program.

El Reno teachers have been greeting students with colorful signs and fist bumps as the students and faculty grapple with the roller coaster of in-school, out-of-school created by the pandemic.

The Crimson Creek Golf Course clubhouse stands out in the snow that blanketed the area last week.

The Lake El Reno dam was a popular place to go sliding after El Reno received over 7 inches of snow combined from two storm systems just days apart.

Bob and Sharon Daughety of Calumet will be honored on their 60th wedding anniversary with a private celebration on Saturday at their home with their children and spouses.

The luncheon will include a white single cake with silver drizzle and diamonds along the bottom to represent their diamond anniversary and a cake topper made out of silver glitter with their names on it.

First Christian Church and Wesley United Methodist Church will hold their third annual Blue Christmas services by Zoom on Saturday, Dec. 19 beginning at 5 p.m.

“Blue Christmas services recognize that this is not ‘the most wonderful time of the year’ for everyone,” said Pastor Colton Lott.

“The year 2020 has been hard for everyone. Then add on folks who are grieving the loss of loved ones, who are estranged from their families, who are weary from the cold or frazzled by trying to keep up with the Joneses.”

In the present year of COVID-19, tyrannical governors shut down religious services, a First Amendment right, as fast as they could.

During the summer months, Antifa defaced and with ropes tore down statues of our past national heroes including those who made America free, as for example, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and they even threatened to destroy statues of Christ.

They also set afire churches, one, St. John’s Episcopal, located near the White House. In these states there is definitely developing hostility against the Constitution and liberty.

Joe Biden says he will name radical abortion activist Xavier Becerra as his Health and Human Services secretary. Becerra is more than just an ardent supporter of abortion — he is actively trying to put David Daldein and Sandra Merritt in prison for exposing the Planned Parenthood abortion businesses sale of body parts from aborted babies.

Though Becerra, like Biden, claims to be Catholic, his record involving the lives of unborn babies and those who work to protect them is terrible.