November 2021

Pictured are Calumet October Students of the Month, Ashtyn Heinley, Bella Dean, Wyatt Cox and Jace Chambless.

Glenn Allen Barnes Jr. passed away Nov. 3, 2021, at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was born Dec. 23, 1985, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Glenn Allen Barnes Sr. and Carrie E. White, who passed away in 2019.

Glenn was a 2004 graduate of El Reno High School.

Memorial services will be held Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m. in the Huber-Benson Chapel.

Funeral services for Barbara Jean Chadwick of Union City were held Friday at First Baptist Church in Union City with Rev. Eric Stock officiating. 

Barbara died Nov. 6, 2021, at Integris Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon.

She was born Oct. 7, 1953, in El Reno. She was an engineer with Seagate Computer and a member of First Baptist Church.

Barbara is survived by her daughter, Sarah Kirkhart of Union City; her mother, Mary Ozella Chadwick of El Reno; brother, Kendall Chadwick of El Reno; and two grandchildren.

LAWSUITS

Axiom Acquisition Ventures LLC vs. Travis Johnson for $3,277.94 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Safe Haven Security Inc. vs. Tiffany Williams for $1,567.19 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Kenneth A. Capitol for $8,282.18 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Stephen Tiger for $6,123.90 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

A third-place finish in the league title chase was good enough to net four El Reno High School players spots on one of the three 2021 All-Suburban Conference Volleyball Teams.

Outside hitter and setter Bailey Denwalt led the quartet with a first-team selection, followed by defensive specialist Ariana Ortega on the second team. Emma Patswald and Avery Peffer picked up honorable mention status.

It was the third straight year for Denwalt to earn first-team All-Suburban honors, while the other three are first-time selections.

MUSTANG – What was trending toward a forgettable Super Bowl Saturday for the El Reno Optimist Club ended up golden as its 10-year-old team won a fifth straight Central Oklahoma Football League title.

The Indians defeated the Mustang Broncos Black Squad 42-0 in a game that was called after three periods on the COFL 40-point rule. The win capped off a perfect 12-0 season.

It was the lone title for El Reno, which lost championship games in flag football as well as 6- and 7-year-old tackle divisions.

El Reno High School's football team closed out the regular season last week with a 42-7 win over Altus in a game which bolstered the Indians season stats.

El Reno was slated to play Friday night at Carl Albert in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs.

Calumet High School’s boys basketball team reigns as king of the west side of Canadian County among small schools after posting a 69-63 win over Okarche last week.

The win, on the heels of a 40-point victory over Union City two days earlier, lifted the Chieftains to 3-0 on the season. The Warriors, meanwhile, slipped to 0-2 on the year.

The OSSAA board of directors followed the recommendation of Executive Director David Jackson and the OSSAA staff today to approve the Lloyd Noble Center at the University of Oklahoma as the main site for the OSSAA’s Class 6A-5A Basketball State Tournaments for 2022, 2023 and 2024.

The tournament had been held at the Mabee Center on the campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa for the last 12 years.

Cheyenne and Arapaho Gov. Reggie Wassana and Lt. Gov. Gib Miles won the Nov. 2 general election by a landslide, the first time the tribes have re-elected their governor.

The Wassana and Miles team received about 72 percent of the vote, while their opponents, Wilma Blackbear and Roberta Hamilton, received 28 percent of the 1,887 votes cast.