January 2024

El Reno cagers snag Warriors golden loot

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ANADARKO - A steal and a coast-to-coast layup by Nazhoni Sleeper sent El Reno High School’s girls basketball team on the path to a wire-to-wire win over the host team in the championship game of the 2024 Anadarko Warriors Classic.

El Reno’s 40-23 victory over the Warriors, ranked second in the state in Class 4A, moved the Indians to 10-0 on the season.

Jennifer Douglas’ team reached the finals with wins over Capitol Hill (69-11) and Cache (67-29).

Pauline Black-Harmon reaches out to try and snag a fastbreak pass

Agnes Siegrist

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Services for Agnes Estella “Aggie” Siegrist of Yukon will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 at First Presbyterian Church in El Reno with Rev. Jan Burns-Hintze officiating. Viewing and visitation will be held at Wilson Funeral Home on Tuesday, Jan. 9 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., with family present from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Burial will be in the Kingfisher Memorial Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home.

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Early 3-pointers spark Indians win over Anadarko in championship game

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ANADARKO – Scoring from both in the paint and from the 3-point line, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team used a 16-12 break in the first period to kick-start its defense of the championship from the 2024 Anadarko Warriors Classic.

El Reno defeated Anadarko, ranked sixth in Class 4A, 60-38 for its fourth straight win.

The Indians improved to 8-2 on the season and secured the Warriors Classic title for a second straight year.

Phoenix Whiteshirt outjumps a Cache player for a rebound

El Reno drops close match to Bluejays

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In its fourth dual of the season against a ranked opponent, El Reno High School’s wrestling team dropped a series of matches early and late in a close 41-36 loss to Class 5A’s 12th-ranked Guthrie.

The loss dropped the Indians, ranked ninth in the same poll, to 3-3 on the year.

“Lost some matches we shouldn’t,” said El Reno head coach Anthony McDonald.

El Reno started out in a 14-0 bind as Terry Guzman (113) and Cash Reyes (120) dropped matches by a combined score of 23-5. The Indians got their first win from Foxx Kurtz (126) via a 2:43 fall over Colten Stevens.

Foxx Kurtz had one of the EHS wins against Guthrie

Edward McDaniel

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Funeral services for Edward Ray McDaniel of Fort Worth, Texas, will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 4300 Ramona Avenue, Dallas, Texas, with burial at 11:15 a.m. at DFW National Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Golden Gate Funeral Home.

Mr. McDaniel passed away Dec. 29, 2023. He was born Feb. 7, 1949, in El Reno to his parents, Donald Ray McDaniel and Maxine Handy McDaniel. He attended Booker T. Washington High School and received an associate degree from Redlands Community College.

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Deputy injured on I-40

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A Canadian County Sheriff’s deputy standing outside his patrol pickup was struck by a vehicle early Friday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

About 7:30 a.m. Jan. 5, the deputy – whose name was not immediately released – made a traffic stop in the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 near Garth Brooks Boulevard.

Another driver of a pickup hit the deputy’s patrol truck and hit the deputy, causing him multiple injuries.

The deputy was taken from the scene by ambulance to a local hospital.

Jail fate topic of webinar

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The effort to preserve the old Canadian County Jail will be highlighted in a webinar hosted by the State Historic Preservation Office on Wednesday, Jan. 10, starting at noon. The featured speaker is Amy Neathery with Preservation El Reno.

The jail was finished in 1907, a few months before Oklahoma became the 46th state. It cost $18,000 to build. The jail served the county for 78 years.

The presentation will focus on the jail’s history, including several design features that made it unique when it opened in 1907 and are still unique today.

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Leadership change, events, partnerships top third quarter news

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Editor’s Note: A new president at Redlands Community College, an offer to partner the C&A with the USDA, a big boost for STEM education and heavy rains that filled Lake El Reno just in time for Smoke on the Water were some of the stories that drew attention as the community moved from summer into the fall.

July

A record-high annual budget totaling nearly $10.3 million was approved for Canadian County’s juvenile center.

El Reno hosted its annual Community Day and Fly-In at the airport

Yukon man faces obstruction charge following encounter in sheriff lobby

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A Yukon man who claimed in a viral YouTube video that he was wrongfully arrested in September in the lobby of the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office now faces a misdemeanor charge related to the incident.

Charles Edward “Trey” Bishop III, 48, was arrested in El Reno at the sheriff’s office lobby on Sept. 15, 2023, on a complaint of obstruction as he witnessed an arrest of a woman who was also in the lobby. Bishop said he was arrested when he told a deputy to be nice while making the arrest of the woman.

Bishop’s arrest was caught on video and has been released on YouTube.

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Building at old fairgrounds under new management

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The Education Building at the old Canadian County Fairgrounds is under new management.

County commissioners made it official when they voted unanimously last week to assign the administration of the Education Building to Canadian County’s OSU Extension Service.

The Canadian County Expo Center has been managing the Education Building at the old fairgrounds, 220 N. Country Club Road.