January 2021

Oklahoma, Canadian and McClain counties will receive $338,884 through the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board to supplement emergency food and shelter programs.

The Canadian County Extension Service will conduct a home landscaping design workshop on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at the Canadian County Fairgrounds, 220 N. Country Club Drive, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The seminar, with a $10 registration fee, is open to home gardeners, landscape professionals and amateur...

DIVORCES GRANTED Tia Rena Goode vs. Glen D. Arnett. Terry Scott Copelin vs. Vivien Vogel Copelin. Melissa Marie Wilkerson vs. Michael Tak Wilkerson. Evens Prophete vs. Angela Prophete. Connie Rae Palmatary vs. Kevin H. Palmatary. Gena Dale Davis vs. Kimberly Kaye Wellman.

Graveside service for Joyce Ann Morrison of Augusta, Kan., formerly of El Reno, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Union City. Funeral Mass was held Friday at St. James Catholic Church in Augusta. Joyce passed away Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.

Ursula Elfriede Zais was born Aug. 6, 1938, to Dr. and Mrs. Ernst Zais in Stuttgart, Germany, and was welcomed into the arms of her loving Lord and Savior on Jan. 8, 2021, in Oklahoma City at the age of 82, with her family and pastor by her side.

Surviving a horrendous opening five minutes, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team found its scoring groove over the final 26 minutes to snap a three-game losing streak against Del City in Suburban Conference action.

For more than 14 minutes, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team went toe-to-toe with Del City last week as the Indians exchanged baskets with the Class 6A powerhouse in a key Suburban Conference matchup. Unfortunately, the effort seemed to wake up the sleeping giant.

Doubling up their opponent in scoring in the championship game, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team won its second tournament of the season with a 84-42 blowout of Stratford.

For a sixth straight year, Okarche High School’s girls basketball team asserted itself as one of the top teams in the Three Rivers Conference, defending its tournament title with a 52-29 win over Fairview.

El Reno’s First Baptist Church will be the site for COVID-19 vaccinations beginning Jan. 18. The Canadian County Health Department is moving the vaccination site from Redlands Community College after the Friday, Jan. 15 distribution in an effort to deliver shots on a daily basis.