May 2022

El Reno and the majority of Canadian County was hit with several inches of rain and hailstones ranging from pea size up to golf-ball size from two different storms last week.

The annual Letter Carrier Food Drive is returning to El Reno after taking a two-year hiatus because of the COVID pandemic.

Janice Cox, a postal employee who coordinates the Letter Carrier Food Drive in El Reno, said the collection will take place May 14.

“It’s always the second Saturday in May,” Cox said.

Begun in 1993 by the National Letter Carriers Association, the food drive is especially important to The Lord’s Harvest food ministry in El Reno.

Gerardo Troncoso has been named Great Plains Bank El Reno branch president.

In a statement, the bank said Troncoso’s promotion comes after the recent Great Plains Bank branch opening in Yukon, where previous branch president Chase Tippens has been promoted to Yukon market president.

Troncoso has been in the banking industry for 10 years, with the last two years spent at Great Plains Bank as a senior vice president, commercial lender in El Reno.

Canadian County lawyers William Flanagan and Jack Dawson were honored by fellow attorneys and judges last week for 50 years as members of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

Both lawyers made speeches and introduced family members in attendance before refreshments were served.

The annual Holy Trinity Catholic School Track Meet attracted more than 350 participants from Holy Trinity, Sacred Heart, El Reno, St. Charles in Oklahoma City and St. John Nepomuk in Yukon.

Evelyn Watson Parker Elliott, loving mother, wife, Bami and aunt, passed away May 2, 2022. She was born in El Dorado, Ark., on Dec. 5, 1934, to parents, John A Watson and Frances Armintha Fletcher. She graduated from Norphlet High School in 1952.

After graduating high school, Evelyn married Sherald Parker and moved to Oklahoma City. Together they had two children, Tajuana in 1953 and Marc in 1956.

In 1969, Evelyn married Bill Elliott and became stepmother to his four children, Danny, Joyce, Charles and Pat. Together they had another son, Joshua in 1995.

Calumet April Students of the Month, from left, Hunter Arnold, Cadence Huggins, Angeline DeLaCruz and Connor Goff.

Maple April Citizenship Award winners, front row from left, Caleb Blanco, kindergarten; Blayke Steinbruck, second grade; Andrew Eisenhour, third grade; Ella Ratliff, first grade; and Aniyah Chaffin, pre-kindergarten; back row, Ayvah Fudge, fourth grade; Jackson Arnold, sixth grade; Devlon Galyon, eighth grade; Pierson Brandley, seventh grade; and Quinn Charmasson, fifth grade.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center recently conducted Faculty Senate Awards, recognizing Dr. Ken Randall as recipient of the David L. Boren Professorship Award.

This is one of the University of Oklahoma’s highest honors, recognizing faculty who have made truly exceptional contributions to the mission of a public research university.

To qualify for the Professorship, a faculty member must have consistently demonstrated outstanding teaching, research and creative activity and leadership in professional and public service.

Canadian Valley Art Guild will host award-winning artist Dorothy Woolbright during a demonstration set for Thursday, May 12 beginning at 7 p.m. at Yukon’s First United Methodist Church.

Woolbright will be conducting an alla prima demonstration in oil.

She has been featured in several issues of Southwest Art Magazine and currently her oil paintings are represented at Howell Gallery of Fine Art in Oklahoma City.