November 2021

CALUMET – It took nearly six minutes for Calumet High School’s boys basketball team to shift its high-powered offense into gear against an upset-minded Hammon squad.

Yet, when the Chieftains hit their stride, it quickly became a runaway 66-44 victory for Calumet.

With its second straight win, Calumet improved to 5-1 overall.

The Chieftains remained at 2-1 in the Washita Valley Conference standings with the non-conference victory over the Warriors.

CALUMET – In what looked to be a battle of freshman post players, it was a guard who ended up coming up with the clutch shot of the game as Hammon defeated Calumet High Schoolvs girls basketball team 40-39.

Warriors guard Maley Chaney made the first of two free-throw attempts with 2.3 seconds left to give Hammon the one-point advantage.

Chaney missed the second attempt, which was collected by Calumet post player Lilly Thomas, who took two dribbles before launching a last-ditch 3-point shot at the buzzer that hit off the front of the rim.

While dropping two of its first five games of the 2021-22 season, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team remains among the early leaders in the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference standings.

That’s because one of the Cougars three wins was a 67-55 decision over Northern Oklahoma College of Enid in the OCAC opener. Redlands is 3-2 overall with wins over Frank Phillips College (61-49) out of Texas and Southwestern Christian College’s junior varsity (72-55).

In one of its biggest victories in recent seasons, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team opened up Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a 63-53 win over Northern Oklahoma College of Enid.

The win lifted the Cougars to 5-3 on the season following victories over OnPoint Hoops Academy (80-77), Next Level Prep (110-57), Southwestern Christian Academy (67-57) and Nation Wide Academy (113-63).

Emerging from a 26-minute executive session, the El Reno Public Schools Board of Education voted last week to promote Matt Goucher to the position of superintendent.

“Thank you, we are going to do great things and I appreciate this,” said Goucher during a standing ovation from the board following the vote.

Goucher will take over for the retiring Craig McVay at the end of his current contract, which expires June 30, 2022.

Javier and Rosalia Pecina have been doing business in El Reno for seven years.

The couple, along with more than a dozen employees, operate Pecina’s Mexican Restaurant at 316 S. Choctaw.

To say the Pecinas are thankful to be here and doing business might be an understatement considering what they are preparing to do for the community.

For the second consecutive year, Pecina’s will offer for free, a traditional Thanksgiving meal to anyone who pulls up to their restaurant on Thanksgiving Day.

The VFW Post 382 Auxiliary was the latest recipient of the generosity produced by the Power of 100 Canadian County.

The Auxiliary in El Reno received a donation of $18,000 from the Power of 100 Canadian County in a ceremony held on Veterans Day.

The Power of 100 Canadian County is an organization made up of women in the county who pitch in $100 quarterly and select a county nonprofit as the recipient. The organization has grown to about 180 women. The goal is to have 200 members to allow for two gifts to be made quarterly, each for $10,000.

A six-week investigation led to the arrest of 10 El Reno residents at four different locations, with those taken into custody facing various drug-related complaints.

El Reno police, the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security investigators were involved in the operation, according to information provided by Major Kirk Dickerson, El Reno assistant police chief.

As tradition, the El Reno Tribune asked area students how they would cook the traditional Thanksgiving Day turkey:
 

Sacred Heart Catholic School’s Pre-3 class:

You wash it first then you put mustard on it. You put it on the grill for 3 minutes. You take the turkey off and put it on a plate and give it to Jackson. - Brenlee Beverly

Put the turkey in the oven, cook it for 2 hours. - Cain Chavez

The Day of the Dead is a holiday that commemorates those who have passed away. It is celebrated in several Latin American countries.

Spanish students at El Reno High School learned about the holiday, and in addition to writing eulogies, students created sugar skulls and paper mâché masks to decorate a Day of the Dead altar.