June 2021

Crews from Anadarko Dozier are digging up the south side of Legion Park in a move designed to create more storage for water during heavy rains.

City Manager Matt Sandidge said the process should be complete in about 45 days and will include new sod being laid.

The city council approved the work as a way to improve drainage through the creek area that feeds into the pond at Legion Park.

A second drainage project will begin soon when Community Development Block Grant money is used to construct a lined drainage canal to the north of the Legion Park pond.

In a few short months, El Reno Regional Airport has gone from having no flight school onsite to now boasting a pair of businesses teaching people how to become certified pilots.

Oklahoma Aeronautics Academy opened its doors earlier this month. Ken Larcher built the business literally with his own hands and with the knowledge acquired from a lifetime of aviation experience.

While teams they have faced during summer league action may have been fine-tuning their lineups for the upcoming 2021-22 basketball season, El Reno High School coach Rodney Haydon has been evaluating a new crop of players.

“It’s a completely new team for us and we have been trying to get as much court time to start evaluating the kids and see who plays well together and see who plays well in what positions,” said Haydon.

After scoring just two runs in the first two games earlier this summer with Heritage Hall, El Reno High School’s baseball team put up 10 runs against the Chargers but lost 9-4 and tied 6-all.

Catcher Gabe Compton reaches up to snag a throw to the plate as a runner slides in.

(Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)

El Reno had 56 campers attend the three-day EHS Basketball Camp. It was one of several youth clinics restarted this summer after the ease of COVID-19 restrictions.

See upcoming editions for photos from baseball and volleyball camps.

On June 18, Frank and Teresa Whenry celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.

The couple was married June 18, 1951, at Sacred Heart by Father Emil Depretier. They were married in a school classroom because the church was under construction.

The couple has made their lifelong home in El Reno where Frank was employed with the Federal Correctional Institution. He retired from the FCI after 27 years.

Teresa worked at a variety of jobs outside the home and together they had one son, Mike.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) joined in sending a letter led by Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-08) to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland and Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Marvin Richardson urging the Department of Justice to withdraw proposed guidance on stabilizing braces.

It’s never too late to change direction. Regardless of past mistakes, you can decide today to take a different path. Here are some suggestions to help you.

The first step is to understand why you are where you are and what went wrong. You can’t turn your life around until you take responsibility for your actions. If you blame other people or circumstances, you inhibit your ability to make changes.

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Nettie Lou Eaton passed away peacefully June 19, 2021, at her home surrounded by her family, after a long battle with ALS. She was born Jan. 10, 1936, in El Reno to James and Ella Moody.

Nettie was a graduate of El Reno High School. After graduation, she married Chester Eaton on Sept. 6, 1953. Aside from some time away on Chester’s military assignment, she lived the remainder of her life around their family farm west of El Reno. She was a member of First Christian Church of Calumet.