Funeral services for Victoria Florence Dyer will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Concho Emergency Response Center with Rev. Gerald Panana officiating. Burial will follow in the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Vicky died Feb. 9, 2022, at Lakewood, Colo.
She was born July 28, 1956, in Los Angeles, Calif. For more than 40 years she lived in Denver, Colo., where she was a nurse assistant and member of the Praise Center.
The El Reno Fire Department responded to a trailer fire Saturday at the El Reno Village Mobile Home Park, 1501 S. Rock Island Avenue.
Chief Jason Duff said the blaze was reported at 5:55 p.m. His department responded with two engines and its mobile command unit and had the blaze under control within 30 minutes. Thick black smoke from the fire could be seen for miles.
Firefighters used thermal imagery to detect hot spots inside the trailer which was fully engulfed upon arrival.
How does a university professor from South Carolina become infatuated with the history and romance of Route 66?
Apparently like a lot of people.
“I saw the movie Cars,” said Nolan Stolz, Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina Upstate. The school is located in Spartanburg, S.C.
Stolz, who holds a doctorate in music, actually has a much deeper history with the Mother Road than the colorful movie that hit the silver screen in 2006.
An El Reno man accused of stabbing two others – and killing one of them – in 2020 is to face a jury in early March.
Christopher Gene Nelson, 23, faces two felony counts – first-degree manslaughter and assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
Nelson is accused of stabbing two other El Reno residents, Miguel Jones and Lonnie Monaco. According to documents filed with the court, Jones was stabbed in the heart with a CRKT knife (Columbia River Knife and Tool), killing him. Monaco suffered a slash to the kidney.
El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Craig McVay said the district is looking into a complaint filed against one of its teachers by the parent of a special needs child.
“It was a complaint by a parent and we are looking into it. It’s a personnel issue so we cannot say which teacher it was, which school or if they have been suspended.
“It’s a serious allegation that is being investigated and we will have more as soon as we can,” said McVay.
Raffle tickets are still available for Thursday night’s annual El Reno FFA Calf Fry.
Supporters will have a chance to win a Green Mountain Tailgator Grill by purchasing a ticket for $25 each.
The event will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 at the Jenks Simmons Field House Annex.
Contact Mr. Pearson, Mr. McPeak, Ms. Sherman or an FFA member to purchase tickets.
First responders and emergency personnel from across the region will converge in central Canadian County for a three-day training event.
The annual Southwest Emergency Management Workshop will be Wednesday through Friday, Feb. 23-25 at the Canadian County Expo and Event Center, 3001 Jensen Road East.
Canadian County Emergency Management will host the upcoming training workshop.
El Reno High School’s girls basketball team was doubled up in the scoring department through the middle periods of a key showdown with Carl Albert for the outright lead in the Suburban Conference title chase.
The Titans outscored El Reno by a combined 37-16 margin in the second and third periods en route to a 62-54 win over El Reno. Carl Albert (18-2), the West’s top-ranked team, moved to 5-0 in the league standings.
In a possible preview of the upcoming regional playoff championships, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team outscored second-ranked Carl Albert 5-0 in the final 1:33 to upset the Titans 49-47.
The win was the eighth of the season for El Reno over a ranked team and the second against a school in the top three of its respective polls. The Indians, ranked seventh on the West side, improved to 11-9 on the year and 6-2 in the Suburban Conference title chase – second behind Del City.
El Reno High School’s girls powerlifting team placed three out of the 10 lifters participating in the recent Catoosa Invitational.
Maria Espinoza placed third in her weight class with a total of 645 pounds.
She had a 300-pound deadlift, followed by a 235-pound squat and a 110-pound bench press.
Claudia Garcia was third in her division with a 605-pound total after clearing a 275-pound deadlift, a 230-pound squat and a 100-pound bench. Raley Hartley was third with a team-high 690-pound total, including a 290-pound deadlift, a 280-pound squat and a 120-pound bench.
