November 2021

El Reno’s Christmas holiday season got under way over the weekend as the Lights in Legion Park were flipped on for a 12th straight year, while a large cross-section of the community took part in the two-hour festivities. “We estimated the total number to be between 450 and 550 people.

It’s a Wonderful Life is coming back to El Reno. For the second consecutive year, students in the El Reno High School drama and speech program will present the Christmas classic in a live radio play.

Last year’s October ice storm, coupled with the sub-arctic temperatures that arrived in February, proved too much for the tree in Petree Plaza that served for 30 years as El Reno’s Community Christmas Tree.

Health Career students from Canadian Valley Technology Center’s Cowan campus volunteered last week to prepare boxes of food for the Blessing Baskets Christmas distribution to families.  Blessing Baskets is preparing to help more than 500 families, which includes approximately 1,000 children.

High school juniors and seniors can earn up to 27 credit hours tuition-free through Redlands Community College’s concurrent enrollment program. Both eight-week and 16-week courses are offered online or via Zoom, as well as on high school campuses or on the El Reno campus.

Two Canadian County attorneys and a Canadian County judge received recognition at the Nov. 11 Annual Meeting of the Family Law Division of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Attorney David Halley received the Guardian Ad Litem of the Year Award.

El Reno High School’s girls basketball team will debut one of the best 1-2 guard punches in Class 5A Friday night when the Indians host Shawnee for the 2021-22 season opener.

The public safety crisis created by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma can be summed up by one anecdote included in recent court briefs.

LAWSUITS Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Mark Long for $1,000 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Lacey Wilkerson for $2,497.44 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

To the Editor: Thank you to the band and crew of Uncle Zep. You guys brought some normalcy back to El Reno. We’re actually getting there after all this. It was so good to see people Saturday evening that we had not seen in so long.