October 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY - Rep. Ty Burns, R-Pawnee, looked into the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) during an interim study before the House Common Education Committee Burns, a former public schoolteacher and coach, requested the study to examine discrepancies in policies related to...

An all-night wake for Calvin Coolidge Sankey Jr. will be held beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday, with funeral services at 2 p.m. Monday. Both services will be at the Concho Emergency Response Center with Rev. Waylan Upchego officiating.

Banner School students learned fire safety tips from the El Reno Fire Department last week. October is Fire Safety Month. The ERFD has a specially designed Fire Safety House that allows firefighters to show students tips to prevent household fires as well as how to safely escape a fire.

Tulsa Public Schools will be closed on Election Day in November, potentially creating financial strain for many low-income families in the district and delaying classroom instruction at a time when Tulsa students remain far behind their peers in academic outcomes.

Graveside services for Velma Jean (Womack) Bensmiller of Chickasha will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Friendship Cemetery southwest of Minco. Services are under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home. Jean died Oct. 12, 2022, in Chickasha.

LAWSUITS Tinker Federal Credit Union vs. Raychel L. Warren and Sean M. Warren for $5,061.44 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. MidFirst Bank vs. Diana Jenkins for $3,162.78 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

If there is a silver lining to last week’s 3-0 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa, it’s the fact that Redlands Community College’s soccer team is becoming competitive with the region’s upper echelon teams.

El Reno High School’s season stats took a jump last week in the Indians 20-15 win over Ardmore.

Both Redlands Community College teams were the lone two-year squads entered in the 2022 Oklahoma Baptist University’s Cross Country Invitational and ran away with a pair of fifth-place finishes.

The city of El Reno is seeking a $1.5 million loan from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to enhance the well fields that provide water for the city. And once the work is completed, as much as 25 percent of the debt could be written off. City council approved the action last week.