July 2023

The 130 descendants of Elmo and Agnes Finnigan held their annual reunion recently at Roman Nose State Park.

LAWSUITS Discover Bank vs. Robert Velia for $10,421.10 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

When El Reno Public Schools Athletic Director Rodney Haydon began looking for the district’s new wrestling coach, he wanted to find the person who could keep the program’s momentum going with little to no fallout. He didn’t have to look far.

In what will likely be the final prep match for three alumni, El Reno High School ended a 13-year absence from the Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State Wrestling Matches.

El Reno High School’s softball team will kick off the 2023 preseason on Tuesday with a trip to Chickasha. The Indians will play Chaney Valley (10 a.m.), Berryhill (11:05 a.m.) and Bridge Creek (1:15 p.m.) with games being played at the town’s sports complex.

NORTHEAST Birch: July 23. Elevation is 1 ft. below normal (stable). Water temperature 85°F and stained. Crappie fair on minnows around brush structure. Blue and channel catfish fair on cut bait and shad around channels and points.

Actors and a filming crew from Boiling Point Media, based out of Oklahoma City, were back in El Reno last week to shoot scenes for the third installment of the Jurassic Pet series. The movie, according to Boiling Point’s Chris Hoyt, is titled The Adventures of Jurassic Pet 3: Return to the Wild.

Truth matters. The story of what really happened on Nov. 29, 1864, at the Sand Creek Massacre site in Eads, Colo., is being told through an exhibition titled “The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever.”

In a booming eastern Canadian County, families are a driving force of development. Families move in for the schools, for the houses and for the communities, said Carol Hefner, the spokeswoman for a development that has landed a future amphitheater that will bring family entertainment to the area.

Students from Yukon’s St. John Nepomuk Catholic School helped out at The Lord’s Harvest last week in what founder and director Nikki Pruitt called a “wonderful blessing.” The Lord’s Harvest is an El Reno food ministry founded and operated by Pruitt, her family members and community volunteers.