April 2022

Two Okarche High School seniors are among this year’s recipients of the State Superintendent’s Award for Arts Excellence.

Given each year to high school juniors and seniors who have achieved artistic and academic excellence in the fields of music, drama, dance and visual media, students selected are chosen by a panel of university arts educators based on their applications and letters of recommendation.

Emily Neuenschwander and McKenzie Stewart are two of the 23 student-artists chosen in the field of theater.

Union City High School’s baseball team climbed over the .500 mark for the season after snapping a two-game losing streak with a trio of road wins.

The Tigers moved to 7-6 on the spring with victories over Lomega (15-7), Alex (8-0) and Cement (13-6).

Union City hit 20-of-60 (.333) for the three-game win streak with seven doubles and triples from Aiden Ellington and Dalton Stout. Ellington added a home run to lead all Tigers hitters with a 5-of-8 (.625) effort with six runs batted in and three more scored.

The Canadian County Association for Oklahoma Home and Community Education is awarding two $500 scholarships to students planning to attend a two- or four-year college or university.

Scholarships are available to any 2022 graduating senior or new G.E.D. certificate holder who resides in Canadian County, is registering for further education for the first time and will be attending an institution of higher education full-time. Recipients will be selected on the basis of financial need, academic record and character recommendations.

Redlands Community College’s golf team, ranked ninth in the latest NJCAA national poll, is the best junior college squad in Oklahoma and has the scores to prove it.

The Cougars won the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship last week by 128 strokes and took the top four spots in the individual medalist field.

Playing at Firelake Golf Course in Shawnee, Redlands carded a 36-hole total of 642 (324/318) for the runaway win. Seminole State College was second with a 750 tally and Murray State College was third at 836.

Canadian Valley Art Guild will host award-winning impressionistic landscape plein air artist Polly Sharp during a demonstration set for April 12 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Yukon.

Several of her pieces of work have won awards at the Canterbury Arts Festival, Edmond Art Association, Oklahoma Watercolor, Oklahoma Art Guild, Bartlesville Art Association, Grove Brush & Palette, Art on Main in Jenks and Oklahoma Artists Invitational.

The event is open to the public.

Splitting both its home and road doubleheaders against National Park allowed Redlands Community College’s baseball team to snap an 11-game losing streak.

The Cougars remain in last place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings at 4-12 after beating National Park 2-0 and 4-2 in the opening games of both twinbills.

Redlands dropped the second game of each set by scores of 8-0 and 3-0 to take a 15-23 overall record into a four-game set with South Arkansas College.

The latest collaboration between El Reno Public Schools and Redlands Community College brought together the cross country programs for both as hosts for the inaugural Twister Trek 5K.

Sixty-seven runners signed up for the race, which was switched from a traditional cross country-style course to a road race around Lake El Reno and through parts of Adams Park.

Power of 100 Canadian County, a local charity that is focused on purposeful giving in the county, will hold its next event at 6 p.m. Monday, April 11 at the Palace Event Center.

The gathering is expected to boost Power of 100 Canadian County’s charitable contributions to exceed the amount of $100,000, since it originated in 2020.

Tammy McKee, one of the founding members and current president, said the organization expects to top the 200-member mark.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is facilitating cities and counties along historic Route 66 to offer them a new way to spruce up their section of the historic highway ahead of the Mother Road’s 2026 centennial.

ODOT’s Traffic Division recently released pavement marking guidelines to local governments that have sections of Route 66 on state or federal highways within their jurisdiction.

Redlands Community College is preparing for fall classes early with a pair of April events designed to make the transition to classes easier.

Concurrent Enrollment

Parents interested in learning how their high school students can benefit from and register for concurrent enrollment courses are invited to attend an information session at Redlands Community College on April 6 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.