January 2021

Union City High School’s boys basketball team defeated Prue, Sasakwa and Mason to win the 2021 Paden Pirates Invitational over the weekend.

LAWSUITS

The Independent Savings Plan Company vs. Pamela Morrison and Craig Morrison for $8,132.88 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

The Independent Savings Plan Company vs. Dusti Herrera and Jose Herrera for $7,897.22 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Tinker Federal Credit Union vs. Angela C. Huckabee and Jason Oldman for $6,299.19 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Chandra Crawford for $2,549.98 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

In the battle against childhood obesity, Oklahoma State University Extension is helping students in the Westville Public School District develop safer walking and biking routes to school.

Jessie Garcia, Oklahoma State University Extension educator, High Obesity Program, spearheaded the Safe Routes to School project in Adair County. She said the Oklahoma State Department of Health’s Wellness Profile indicates the childhood obesity rate in the county is 51.3 percent, significantly higher than the state’s average of 36.5 percent.

When I was 16 years old, I was invited to speak at a little country church in rural Denver, Ky., not far from Paintsville. 

The church had all but closed its doors, but one man, Harold Rice and his family, wanted to see the church stay open and do well. 

A church with few to almost no people typically does not attract too many interested ministers. I had spoken in my home church a few times and was a guest speaker in a few others.

Margaret Ann (Oldfield) Zweiacher, 92, lifelong El Reno resident, went to be with her Heavenly Father, Jan. 23, 2021, in Oklahoma City. Margaret was born Jan. 8, 1929, in El Reno to E.W. and Bertha (Kirby) Oldfield.

Margaret graduated from El Reno High School in May of 1947. On March 14, 1948, she married the love of her life, Raymond Delford Zweiacher, and from this union came three children, Ed, Tom and Ramona. A number of years after Raymond’s early death, she married his brother, Edward Enos Zweiacher.

Graveside services for Vincent Edward Scott were held Tuesday at the Concho Cemetery with Rev. Gerald Panana officiating. Services were under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Ed passed away Jan. 20, 2021, at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was born May 16, 1968, in Oklahoma City where he was raised.

He resided in Kingfisher for 23 years.   

The family of David Airington has established a scholarship in his memory in a move that will help El Reno High School graduates for years to come.

Airington, proud of the fact he was the second child born at then Parkview Hospital when it opened in 1954, died Dec. 23.

Dana Gibson with the El Reno Public Schools Foundation said the scholarship will be endowed and would be for any student who graduates from EHS. She called the memorial a “wonderful and a fitting tribute to a man who genuinely loved El Reno.”

More walking trails, playground equipment, gathering spaces and improved maintenance were some of the responses the city of El Reno received from residents who took part in a survey focusing on improving the parks system.

City Planner Dustin Downey told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board the survey attracted responses from 470 community members.

In all, more than 800 responses were received when just individual parks were taken into account.

A state senator will sponsor legislation known as Ida’s Law when the Oklahoma Legislature convenes in February.

Sen. Paul Rosino, R-OKC, has signed on to sponsor the legislation.

For LaRenda Morgan, it’s another step in the journey to help end the nightmare Native American families live with when their loved ones go missing or fall victim to homicide.

Named for Ida Beard, the 29-year-old El Reno woman who hasn’t been seen since the summer of 2015, Ida’s Law would create an Office of Liaison of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Medical Reserve Corps (OKMRC) is seeking medical and non-medical volunteers to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts at more than 50 points of vaccine dispensing locations statewide.

“This is a huge, unprecedented effort to vaccinate the majority of our population of nearly 4 million Oklahomans. We need as much help as we can get from our community to make it possible,” said Lezlie Carter, state coordinator for the Oklahoma Medical Reserve Corps.