January 2023

Okarche High School seniors Kylie Bailey and Jacob Hendrickson were named as December Lioness and Lion honorees. OHS December Students of the Month were Madi Vogt and Jalie Rother.

Funeral services for Judy Beth Jones of Union City will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13 in the Benson Memorial Chapel in El Reno, with burial following at the Union City Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home, Minco. Judy died Jan. 9, 2023, at her home.

LAWSUITS Discover Bank vs. Dustin M. Houston for $2,817.36 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. Discover Bank vs. Shaun John for $6,776.41 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bouncing back from a loss in its second tournament finale appearance of the season, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team went on the road to defeat Class 5A’s 17th-ranked Del City 51-39.

Scoring in double digits for all four periods, Calumet High School’s girls basketball team uncorked its second highest point total of the season en route to a 65-18 home win over Gracemont. The win snapped a two-game losing streak as the Chieftains improved to 10-6 on the season.

Since joining the Suburban Conference four seasons ago the Del City Eagles have been the thorn in the side of El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, a trend which continued last week.

More than a dozen former grapplers were stunned last week as El Reno High School’s top-ranked wrestling team gave up 40 straight points to Class 3A’s sixth-ranked Comanche en route to a 43-34 loss on Alumni Night.

Calumet High School’s boys basketball team cranked up its offensive game plan last week as the Chieftains downed Gracemont 82-33 in a return to Washita Valley Conference action. Jacob Mayfield’s team cracked the 70-point barrier for the 13th time this season in the 49-point blowout.

“Cheyenne people and Arapaho people always find their way home, either in life or in death … they always come home.”

The El Reno Public Schools Foundation has another scholarship to award after the Matt and Elisha White Scholarship was created.