February 2023

El Reno VFW Post 382 and Auxiliary will host a free breakfast for all veterans and their families. The event will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 4 at the VFW. VFW State Service Officer James Dockemeyer will be the speaker.

El Reno police were told to be on the lookout for a white vehicle driven by a white female with a black male passenger after the pair had allegedly robbed a convenince store west of El Reno. The hold-up, police said, took place at mile marker 108 on I-40 at about 11:35 p.m. Feb. 19.

A 27-year-old El Reno man remains in the Canadian County Jail while a first-degree murder case filed against him is in limbo, pending a March 20 hearing. Kyler Wayne Barber is accused in the fatal stabbing of Adam Lee Frogge, 35, of Oklahoma City.

Wayman LeRoy Smith, 80, passed away Feb. 8, 2023, at his home in Moore, surrounded by family. LeRoy was preceded in death by his infant son; brother, Lonny Ray; father, Grady Wayman; and mother, Florence Estella Slate Smith.

SAN DIEGO - Petty Officer 2nd Class Cameron Wahweah, a native of El Reno, serves aboard the U.S. Navy warship, USS Boxer, home-ported in San Diego, Calif. Wahweah, a 2018 El Reno High School graduate, joined the Navy two years ago. “I joined the Navy to travel,” said Wahweah.

Canadian County CASA will hold a banquet, awards ceremony and auction on Thursday, March 30 beginning at 6 p.m. The event will be held at the Dale Robertson Center, 1200 Lakeshore Drive, Yukon. Tickets are $30 per person or $15 for CASA volunteers.

During practices leading up to the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team spent extra time drilling long vertical passes to highlight its transition game. The work paid off in the title game.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Reps. Mark McBride, R-Moore, and Rhonda Baker, R-Yukon, called on State Superintendent Ryan Walters to hire a chief financial officer for the Oklahoma State Department of Education immediately to take care of the needs of state public school students.

A day removed from shooting under 40 percent, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team hit 56 percent of its shots from the 3-point arc en route to a 75-53 win over Mount St. Mary to win the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships. “We take things game by game and play to our strengths.

When reviewing the more than 100 individuals inducted into the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame since 1985, Ruth Genevieve Hudson stands out — because Hudson, inducted in 1994, is one of the very few career classroom teachers to make the cut.