The Oklahoma Home and Community Education Underwood Group met recently with Ann Ricketts serving as hostess. She led the flag salute and gave the devotional titled “Build Up One Another” based on I Thess 5:11.
Natalia Valenzuela called the roll with the question, “What do you do to keep a positive mindset?”
Bernita Davis read minutes from the September meeting, while Janan Fletcher gave the treasurer’s report.
Despite winning two of the final four matches to close the regular season, El Reno High School’s volleyball team had a short stay in the Class 5A playoffs.
Traveling east to eighth-ranked Sapulpa for the Region 8 Championships, El Reno dropped a 3-0 match to the host in the semifinals by scores of 25-14/25-6/25-20.
The loss left El Reno with a 5-16 overall record and extended the school’s longest hiatus away from the state tournament in any sport, having not qualified for the Elite Eight since its lone appearance in 1993.
El Reno football, now 3-3 on the year and 2-1 in the District 5A-1 standings, was slated to host Ardmore Friday night.
The team is close to passing 3,000 total yards after last week’s win over Midwest City.
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Letting a golden opportunity to play spoiler slip its grasp, Redlands Community College women’s soccer team dropped a 1-0 match recently at Murray State College.
The Aggies, second in the NJCAA Region 2 standings and ranked 19th nationally, scored a goal with no time showing to end the first half. It was the lone shot that slipped past RCC goalie Haley Inglehart, who posted a season-high 21 saves.
Redlands logged six shots total, two of those from Amya Lindsay and one each by McKenzie Simon, Avery Turner, Gaby Figueroa and Kyla Thompson.
Redlands Community College women’s golf team rebounded from one of its worst rounds to place 15th overall at the 2023 Grace Shin Invitational played at the Golf Club of Edmond.
The Cougars shot an opening round of 337, the highest of the tourney, but rallied for a 316 over the final 18 holes to close with a 653 to edge out Southeastern Oklahoma State University by two shots.
El Reno’s Blessing Baskets helped some 300 families through the spring and summer with its Families with Children Grocery Distribution program.
The organization will now turn its attention to the Fall Break Grocery Distribution as well as its annual Christmas program.
The first Fall Break Grocery Distribution is set for Oct. 17 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the El Reno Learning Center, 1100 S. Pine.
All families that participated in the grocery program over the summer are invited to participate in the fall program.
The United States Cavalry Association, which has its headquarters at historic Fort Reno, recently completed its 2023 National Competition at the fort.
Competitors, both active military and civilians, took part in a series of events highlighting skills used by mounted soldiers in the past such as sabers, pistols and horse jumping.
This year’s event brought several competitors from the United Kingdom for the first time.
Domestic violence is not confined to any group, but crosses all economic, racial, gender, educational, religious and social barriers.
“Relationships are often counted as life’s greatest treasures, and tragically, many are tarnished by one person’s power and control over the other – resulting in violence and fear,” Canadian County Commissioner Dave Anderson said.
Anderson was reading from a proclamation recognizing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Canadian County.
For the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, Canadian County’s Expo and Event Center hosted 15 events that attracted more than 30,000 visitors from across the state and country. These events generated nearly $85,000 in rental revenue – exceeding projections.
“We have had an incredibly busy summer,” said Mandy Davis, director of the Canadian County Expo and Event Center at 3001 Jensen Road East.
“And we are going to have an even busier fall.”
She was addressing county commissioners.
