October 2022

AIM conference

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FCCLA Take AIM Leadership Conference was held recently at Moore Norman Career Tech.

FCCLA chapters from all around Oklahoma participated.

Okarche students Brianna Mollohan, Jordyn Darst, Ella Reherman and Macki Suanny attended with their adviser, Jacqueline Radford.

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Lamplighters gather at local church

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Lamplighters OHCE of Canadian County met recently at a local church. Carol Stine opened the meeting with a devotional titled “God’s Picket Fence.”

Patricia Morrison read minutes from the last meeting and gave the treasury report.

Membership forms were filled out and dues collected for 2023. 

Janice Taylor presented the lesson on “Health Warning Signs,” reviewing symptoms of heart disease, heart attack, stroke and diabetes.

Others present were Jan Maddox and Ann Niemann.

First Christian to hold Aging Fair

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First Christian Church will be hosting a Healthy Aging Fair for all ages on Sunday, Oct. 23 from 2 to 5 p.m.

There will be a mix of booths and workshops for participants to attend on topics such as wills, funeral planning, planned giving, medical documentation and more.

This is open to the public and is being funded by a grant received from the Oklahoma Disciples Foundation.

Experts in these fields will help participants navigate difficult topics that if planned, will help individuals and their families.

Public Records - 10/15/2022

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LAWSUITS

Integris Rural Health Inc. vs. Jerri Lynn Montanez for $23,640.55 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

American Express National Bank vs. Kevin Leinwar for $10,611.82 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Steven W. House for $12,708.52 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

St. Bernards collar El Reno with playoff loss

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Unforced errors in three critical areas came back to haunt El Reno High School’s volleyball team in a 3-0 loss to No.16 Santa Fe South in the semifinals of the Class 5A Region 1 Championships.

The 25-21/25-12/25-11 loss to the St. Bernards ended El Reno’s season with an 11-17 record and extended the school’s longest hiatus away from the state tournament in any sport.

El Reno had made the regional finals the past two seasons but the Indians have not qualified for state since their lone appearance in 1993.

Bailey Denwalt lunges out to pick up a serve

Timely hitting escapes Calumet in state games

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EDMOND – The strong hitting that carried Calumet High School to the 2022 Class B Fall State Baseball Championships left the Chieftains when it was needed the most.

Calumet defeated fifth-ranked Boswell 5-4 in the state quarterfinals, but fell in the semifinals to eventual state champion Fort Cobb/Broxton by a 12-2 margin.

It was Calumet’s second trip to state in school history, the first coming in 1975. The loss to the Mustangs, the 13th-ranked foe faced in the final 17 games of the fall campaign, ended the Chieftains season with a 26-5 record.

Kyler Thiessen leaps into the air as a pickoff throw glances off his glove

Back on the road

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The 1-5 Indians were back on the road Friday night at Ardmore in a key District 5A-1 battle for playoff aspirations.

With four games left in the regular season, El Reno is 1-2 in district games and tied with Duncan and Noble for fourth place, while Ardmore is tied for fifth.

Malachi Nicholson is team’s leading rusher with close to 700 yards

Turn out the lights

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El Reno’s junior high football teams played their final home games of the 2022 season last week against Noble in Suburban Conference action.

The seventh-grade team improved to 2-4 on the season with a 36-0 shutout of the Bears after getting a pair of 30-yard touchdown runs from Leo Willis in the first period
and a 4-yard touchdown from Brent Parker before half.

Brent Parker runs behind blocker Kaleb Dennis

Redlands golf team closes fall slate

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Playing through 41-degree temperatures and wind speeds in double digits, Redlands Community College’s golf team wrapped up its fall slate with a fourth-place finish at the 2022 NJCAA Women’s National Preview.

Playing the Buffalo Dunes Golf Course in Garden City, Kan., the Cougars posted a 36-hole total of 616 (303/313) to beat Iowa Western (637) and Coffeyville (875) community colleges.

Redlands was eight strokes out of third but well off the winning pace of 586 by Odessa College, Texas.

Redlands Community College’s golf team

Cougars gain momentum over run

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Redlands Community College’s soccer team ended a tough four-match stretch over seven days with a 3-0 loss to undefeated and league-leading Seminole State College, ranked third in the nation.

The loss gave SSC the season sweep over the Cougars but the match was scoreless at half and showed marked improvement for Redlands – which lost to the Trojans 9-0 less than a month earlier.

It was just the sixth time in 13 matches for SSC to be held to under five goals.