Nerves may have played a part in the outcome for El Reno High School’s two entries in the 2021 Class 5A Girls State Golf Championship.
Junior Shayne Castrop and sophomore Berkley Smith were making their first-ever appearance at state, playing the Chickasaw Point Golf Club Course in Kingston. Neither golfer was able to break into the top 45 of the individual medalist chase.
Nancy Karol Davison was born in El Reno on Dec. 20, 1935, and was the third child to Leona “Mimi” and W.S. “Bill” Brown. She grew up in El Reno and graduated from El Reno High School in 1954 where she met James “Jim” Davison. Jim was a bad boy of sorts who was five years older, rode a motorcycle and served in the Air Force.
Funeral services for Ross “Cappy” Burchfield of Calumet, former Minco resident, were held Tuesday at the Hazel Dell Baptist Church, with burial following in the Hazel Dell Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home in Minco.
Funeral services for Jewel Dean Apple were held Monday at First Baptist Church with her son, Ray Apple officiating. Services were under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Jewel died May 5, 2021, at her home in El Reno. She was born April 4, 1938, in El Reno, daughter of Ulysses S. and Etta (Leathers) Sands. She was the plant operator for the El Reno Water Plant and the only woman to retire from the Public Works Department of the city of El Reno. Jewel was a member of Southern Heights Baptist Church.
El Reno has been named the first city in Oklahoma to achieve Film Friendly Community Certification, according to the Oklahoma Film and Music Office.
El Reno’s proposed city budget for the coming fiscal year will be in a word, flat.
City Manager Matt Sandidge will present the proposed Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget to the city council during a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
“The future is bright for El Reno with new infrastructure, parks improvements, housing and businesses. However, before we discuss the future, we need to review this past fiscal year,” Sandidge wrote in a letter to members of the city council.
He said the past year has “contained uncertainties, challenges and natural disasters.”
It wasn’t your typical Burger Day, but it was outdoors, it had some cornhole and it was fun.
That was the thinking after El Reno celebrated the famous fried onion hamburger after a year hiatus.
Main Street Director Shana Ford said the day went off well with the inaugural cornhole tournament attracting 47 two-person teams. The winning team featured a 14-year-old cornhole whiz in Isabelle Surprenant of Enid and her partner, Mark Bitner.
The blanket of a Cheyenne chief among those killed at the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre will be displayed at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Headquarters in Concho.
C&A Gov. Reggie Wassana said the viewing of the blanket of Chief White Antelope will be a somber occasion.
The blanket will be displayed in a ceremony set for 11 a.m. May 11. The initial viewing will coincide with the Sand Creek Massacre Monument Dedication the same day.
The blanket was taken from the body of Chief White Antelope at the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864.
A group of Canadian County women working to protect the stability of families is being recognized.
Ten Canadian County members of Oklahoma Home and Community Education (OHCE) attended last week’s Canadian County commissioners meeting to accept a proclamation declaring May 2-8 as “OHCE Week.”
El Reno Elks Lodge #743 recently inducted officers.
Those named to leadership positions include Brien Detamore, Exalted Ruler; Kendall Len Brown, Leading Knight; Brenda Detamore, Loyal Knight; Gary Lassiter, Esquire; Casey White, chaplain; Peggy Felton, treasurer; Tanya Lewis, secretary; and Chuck Titterington, five-year trustee. Not pictured: Joe Mogg, Rita Hill, Dennis Costin and Sonny Massey, trustees, and Yolanda Costin, QB clerk.
