May 2022

What started out as a promising battle with Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa turned sour over the final three games as Redlands Community College’s baseball team lost the series to the Mavericks 3-1.

Clara Bushyhead died in early January after battling cancer. She would have turned 58 in July. On Saturday, her life will be remembered and honored as the Main Stage at El Reno’s Burger Day Festival is dedicated in her memory.

BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center recently held its annual Agriscience Symposium at Redlands Community College. Established in 2015, BlueSTEM students have for the past several years displayed posters explaining their agriscience projects at the symposium and this year was no different.

Being able to help people “on their worst day” is why Misti McClellan said it means so much to her to be part of the American Red Cross. A 1989 graduate of El Reno High School, McClellan serves as the Red Cross executive director for Central and Southwest Oklahoma. Her territory covers 17 counties.

El Reno High School held its 2022 Junior-Senior Prom last week at The Festivities in downtown El Reno. Students and their dates were treated to a red carpet experience during the Grand March. See Saturday’s edition for more prom photos.

One of three ranked teams in the Class A, Region 5 Championships, Calumet High School’s baseball team reached the title round before dropping an 18-2 decision to fifth-ranked Dewar.

PIEDMONT - El Reno High School’s track team took a small mix of freshmen and upperclassmen runners to compete in the 2022 Suburban Conference Track and Field Championships. Madeline Taylor and Jasmin Caso were the lone varsity runners for the girls.

On Jan. 7, 2021, Barbara Spencer-Powell, age 81, died peacefully at the Orange Blossom Villa Assisted Living Facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. During her long battle with heart disease and dementia, she was sustained by her faith.

Graveside services for Laverna M. Herbert were held Tuesday at Pleasant View Cemetery in Union City with Rev. Dick Kurtz officiating. Services were under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Laverna died April 29, 2022, at her home in El Reno. She was born Sept. 3, 1924, in El Reno.

Funeral services for Howard E. Miller, 84, of El Reno were held Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in the Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Shane Carrington, minister of the Southside Church of Christ in Sulphur Springs, Texas, officiating. Burial followed in the El Reno Cemetery.