June 2021

LAWSUITS Midland Credit Management vs. Bradley Joseph for $2,914.40 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. Midland Credit Management vs. Amber Leach for $982.84 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Chris McReynolds, left, and Keri Conley congratulate their daughter, Ella McReynolds, center, an Academic All-Stater from El Reno during the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Academic Awards Ceremony, held recently in Tulsa.

A Garden Party Tour will be held in El Reno on June 27. The tour, put on by the El Reno Chamber of Commerce, is supported by Ross Seed, Ace Hardware, Tractor Supply, Voodoo Hydro-El Reno and Walmart.

Approximately 711 students from Southwestern Oklahoma State University at Weatherford and Sayre completed requirements for associate, bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees after the 2021 spring semester.

Okarche junior high and high school awards assembly: Apron Annies HCE Scholarship – Nick Baustert. Community National Bank Scholarship – Madison Owens.

Funeral services for Doris Jean McBee, 89-year-old Oklahoma City resident, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in the Resthaven Funeral Home Chapel, with burial to follow in Resthaven Cemetery, Oklahoma City.

Funeral services for Dr. Col. Virgil Jerry Shepherd will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 19 at Bethany Assembly of God. Dr. Shepherd died June 11, 2021, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was born Dec. 2, 1931, in Seminole County.

As part of its “diversity, equity and inclusion” focus, one University of Oklahoma college recently vowed to teach white students “cultural humility,” and OU President Joseph Harroz said legislation that prohibited requiring students to take any orientation “that presents any form of race or sex...

Following six straight road games to kick off the season, El Reno High School’s summer baseball team jumped back into Red Dirt League action last week, splitting home games with Putnam City West and tying Destiny Christian.

El Reno High School graduate Ryan Island, seated center, signed a national letter of intent recently to play basketball for Haskell Indian Nations University located in Lawrence, Kan. He is the second player off El Reno’s program to sign with a college team in the sport.