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.

Midland Credit Management vs. Lisa Adams for $2,137.03 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management vs. Gabrielle Daugherty for $2,392.08 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.

McReynolds, a 2021 graduate of El Reno High School, was among 100 outstanding seniors from Oklahoma public schools who were honored by the foundation as Academic All-Staters.

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.

The tour will be from 2 to 5 p.m. and will include garden viewing at 220 N. Country Club Road, 2106 S. Evans Road, 1108 SE Heritage Drive, 515 S. Hoff, 520 S. Hoff and 616 SW 26th St.

Wristbands for the tour cost $15 and are available at Ross Seed and the El Reno Chamber of Commerce. There will be drawings for prizes.

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.

Lions Club Junior Lion and Lioness 2020 - Joseph Schaefer, Michael Smoot, Nick Baustert, Bryce Reese and Tyler Schwarz. 2021 – Evan Endres, Lexi Wilson, Trenton Neiderer, McKenzie Stewart, Payton Kerby, MacKenzie Schneiter, Tyler Schwarz, Madison Owens, Bryce Reese, Chloe Wanger, Joseph Schaefer, Osbaldo Barcenas, Abigail McIlvain, Hayley Coffey, Nick Bausert, Hannah Shepherd, Trey Gilles and Karsyn Vallerand.

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.

Visitation for family and friends will be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 20, and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, June 21 at Huber-Benson Funeral Home, El Reno. Also, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 22 at Resthaven Funeral Home. Services are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home of Enid.

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.

Jerry graduated from Norman High School and from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He continued his education at OU School of Medicine in the field of opthalmology.

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 stereotyping or a bias on the basis of race or sex” is “contrary to the goals we have laid out for ourselves as part of our Strategic Plan.”

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.

The Indians are now 5-5 overall and 3-5 in the RDL Wooden Bat Division after beating the Patriots 6-1 in the series opener before dropping the nightcap 13-12. El Reno tied Destiny Christian 2-2 before losing the second game by a 12-4 score.

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.