March 2022

An open house last week was held to celebrate the new Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes El Reno Indian Health Center. The 16,000-square-foot medical clinic on Parkview Drive is a partnership between the C&A and Indian Health Services.

Mayor Matt White didn’t announce his candidacy for the District 3 county commission seat at last week’s El Reno Now gathering. But he did say he is looking at possibly throwing his name into the mix. The filing period opens April 13 and ends on Friday, April 15.

Luke Cooper is a strong advocate for foster care. Without it, he said, he would probably be “either dead or in jail.” Cooper, 38, made the comment at last week’s El Reno Now gathering.

El Reno water customers will be getting a notice in the mail concerning an issue that occurred in May of last year at the water treatment plant. City Manager Matt Sandidge said the city is required by the Department of Environmental Quality to notify the community of the incident.

Statewide election activity officially begins at 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 13 when the filing period opens, Wanda Armold, secretary of the Canadian County Election Board said. Candidates for state offices file with the secretary of the state election board.

An inmate at the Canadian County Jail could face charges after allegedly setting a mattress on fire. Sheriff Chris West said the inmate “somehow” was able to set the mattress in his cell on fire Sunday evening.

A plan to spend some $150,000 to replace the roof on the historic Canadian County Jail moved a step closer to reality.

When the New York Post broke its “Hunter Biden Laptop” stories in October 2020, mainstream media tried to ignore it. On the social media side, Twitter banned linking to them and Facebook used its algorithm to minimize discussion of them pending “fact checks” that apparently never happened.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Mark Vancuren, R-Owasso, secured passage of a bill that would make an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available for school employees, mirroring what is currently available to all state employees.

Early in the morning on March 24, 2022, Patsy Ruth Creed of El Reno entered her new life in heaven. She is surrounded by her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, her brothers, Jack and Mark, sister, Mary, her mother, Ruby Mae, and her beloved grandmother, Mrs. W.B. Woolard.