March 2022

The Underwood Oklahoma Home and Community Education Association of Canadian County met recently in the home of Vicki Duncan, with Natalia Valenzuela serving as hostess. Bernita Davis read minutes of the previous meeting, with Ann Ricketts giving the treasury report.

To prune or not to prune, that is the question. When Oklahoma experiences warmer weather in the winter months, homeowners may want to take advantage of the milder temperatures and get a head start pruning trees and shrubs in the landscape.

In the Yukon and El Reno public school districts alone, some 200 children have been identified as being homeless. This number does not include children or family members who are too frightened to speak up about their homeless situations. These children and families may be finding shelter anywhere.

Oceanna Schranz logged seven strikeouts as Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team opened up the 2022 season with an 8-0 shutout of the Dover Longhorns. The right-hander threw five complete innings, allowing three base hits and three walks.

On the morning of February 12, 2022, Eugene R. Slaughter, 81, was taken home to our Lord, ending his 10-year battle to cancer. He was born June 1, 1940, in El Reno, where he graduated from El Reno High School and went on to finish his master’s degree at Oklahoma University.

Both Redlands Community College basketball teams advanced into the NJCAA Region 2 Championship after splitting recent regular-season finales against Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.

Funeral services for Lynn Elizabeth Lensgraf of Plano, Texas, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 5, 2022, at Wilson Funeral Home with Rev. Colton Lott officiating. Burial will follow in the El Reno Cemetery. Lynn passed away Feb. 27, 2022, after a long battle with lung disease.

Following in the footsteps of her mom, Haley Mitchell’s Okarche High School girls basketball team punched its ticket to the Class A State Championships with a 59-48 win over No.17 Ripley.

Funeral services for Lance Warren Dyer were held Friday at the Concho Emergency Resource Center with Rev. Alvin Deer officiating. Burial followed in the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Lance died Feb. 28, 2022, at Integris Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Jay Steagall, R-Yukon, and Sen. J.J. Dossett, D-Owasso, House and Senate Chairs of the Oklahoma Legislative Veterans Caucus, said they applauded the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs (ODVA), as well as numerous veteran service organizations, who worked to make Oklahoma...