UNION CITY – Playing the first home game since the death of head coach Robert Duvall, Union City High School’s boys basketball team posted a wire-to-wire win over Gracemont.
The victory lifted the Tigers to 2-5 on the season and 1-2 in the Washita Valley Conference standings. It was the first game of 2021 for Union City due to COVID-19 concerns.
Pictured are Maple School’s November Citizenship Award winners, front row from left, Legend Gatz, pre-kindergarten, Taylor Dill, kindergarten, and Bryson Brandley, first grade; back row, Audrey Eisenhour, third grade, Pierson Brandley, sixth grade, Davin Shamblin, eighth grade, Quinn Charmasson, fourth grade, and Ethan Brooks, fifth grade. Not pictured: Caroline Phillips, second grade, and Lidy Novak, seventh grade. (Courtesy photo)
UNION CITY – In a much-anticipated return to the court, Union City High School’s girls basketball team overwhelmed Gracemont last week to earn its first Washita Valley Conference victory.
The Tigers improved to 3-4 on the season and 1-2 in the WVC standings with a 49-22 win over the Lions.
Gracemont, which had only five players, kept it close in the first period despite a 3-pointer and eight total from Union City guard Taytim Woods. The Tigers led 10-8 going into the second period.
Redlands Community College recently announced students named to the college’s honor rolls for the fall 2020 semester.
Students listed on the President’s Honor Roll have completed 12 or more credit hours and have earned a GPA of not less than 3.8, with no grade less than a B – excluding 0-level courses.
The Vice President’s Honor Roll recognizes students who have completed 12 or more hours of coursework and have earned a GPA of 3.5 to 3.79, with no grade less than a C – excluding 0-level courses.
Matt Grooms and Grace Nesseth admit to being a spontaneous couple, so neither were shocked when Matt came up with the idea of leaving their home in California and never looking back.
“It was around January of last year I was reading the book ‘To Shake the Sleeping Self’ by Jedidiah Jenkins and how he cycled from Oregon to South America. In the book he talked about his parents being one of the first to chronicle their walk across America and I thought that was pretty cool,” said Matt.
He posed the idea of walking across the United States to Grace.
El Reno city officials took a tour of the new SSM St. Anthony’s Health Center being built here. City Manager Matt Sandidge said the project is coming along and is expected to be open by the summer.
“Even though the finishings aren’t in and the building isn't dried in yet, you can tell this will be a beautiful facility when it is complete,” Sandidge said. He and Mayor Matt White and Assistant City Manager Kent Lagaly visited the site last week.
“This will be an asset that we all can use and will depend on as our city continues to grow,” Sandidge said.
While the economic outlook for El Reno over the next couple of years would appear sluggish, the firm charged with auditing the municipal government said city leaders have, in the past, “made good decisions, with good information” which could help lessen the impact.
The Canadian County Children’s Justice Center's $9.3 million annual budget is only slightly up over last year, and the center still has about $6.2 million in reserves as county sales tax revenue declines.
Canadian County commissioners approved the fiscal year 2021 budget for the justice center at 7905 E. State Highway 66.
The FY21 budget totals $9,297,721.66 in projected revenues and expenditures, representing a modest 2.1 percent increase over the the FY20 budget of $9,103,069.42.
The Lincoln fourth-grade Bucket Band performed last week at the El Reno School Board meeting. The performance was held as part of the Public School Board Appreciation Month. Board members were also treated to a multitude of individual snacks, pastries and posters made by students from throughout the district. Members of the Bucket Band include Jacob Oakes, Jayleen Reyes, Gracie Colson, Josephine Davenport, Tyler Norton, Jentri Denwalt, Jaybie Simon, Olivia March, Desiree Estrada, Jaida Richardson, Kalli Whitney, Rylie Jeanson, Justin Vaughan, Asher Steffen and Kyndall Couch.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma’s Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) announces that communities and schools now can apply for grants from the TSET Healthy Incentive Program. The application period closes at 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5.
The TSET Healthy Incentive Program offers grants to cities, towns, schools and school districts that adopt policies supporting tobacco-free environments, improved nutrition, increased physical activity and employee wellness.
