Roger Dean Rinehart passed from this life peacefully on April 6, 2024, surrounded by family. He was born June 17, 1931, in El Reno.
He married the love of his life, Ruby Jane Ogle in Tulsa during law school in 1955 and they returned to El Reno in 1956.
To the Editor:
Help me understand how we have let the public school system wage a war against the taxpayers and parents who either have had kids in school or currently do? Why do we have board and bond elections at times when very few are paying attention?
Not to mention the expense of having an election for just two candidates this April 2, 2024.
I’m sure this same event happened in many other school districts.
LAWSUITS
The Credit Union Loan Source LLC vs. Luis Castilleja for $73,652.98 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
Stephen and Darla Upchurch and Lacie Upchurch, individually and as mother of C.S. and H.S., minor children, vs. the City of Mustang and Wright Water Corporation for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged compensatory and punitive damages.
Spurred by three sub-50 scores on the front nine, the Indians golf team took ninth place out of 16 teams at the 2024 El Reno High School Girls Invitational.
Played at Crimson Creek Golf Course, El Reno carded its first sub-400 team score of the season, shooting a 395 to edge out Yukon by nine strokes. Edmond Memorial won the event with a 344, followed by Marlow (348) and Heritage Hall (369).
The top nine teams all broke 400.
It was a mixed bag of results over a 24-hour period for El Reno High School’s boys golf team last week, driven mostly by a shift in playing conditions.
In near perfect playing conditions, the Indians carded a 337 team score to place third in the 2023 Weatherford Boys Invitational.
El Reno was 24 strokes off the winning pace set by Woodward, but only 16 back of Elk City for second.
El Reno beat out Clinton (340), Thomas/Fay-Custer (341) and Weatherford (349) to round out the top six.
Following a big rally for a run-ruled pool victory over Weatherford, El Reno High School’s baseball team dropped a close 6-5 game to Class A’s 14th-ranked Laverne in cross-bracket play in the 2024 Kingfisher Invitational.
El Reno served as one of the two host sites for the event, posting a 2-2 record to exit the event with a 13-5 overall record. The Indians rallied from a six-run deficit with a 21-run blitz over three innings to defeat Weatherford 21-9 and logged an 11-1 win over Clinton.
The other loss was a close 4-3 game against Putnam City West.
In the only scheduled home action of the season, El Reno High School’s tennis teams were competitive but dropped a varsity/junior varsity outing to Harding Charter by an 11-1 score at the Legion Park courts.
The El Reno girls lost by a 6-0 margin but won 24 games and had one match go to a third-set tiebreaker. Bri Barksdale and Jayna Graham lost 7-5/4-6/8-10 to the team of Lemus and Oubre at No.1 doubles.
El Reno’s Carnegie Library got a boost in helping to digitize historic records with a grant from the Oklahoma Historical Society.
The El Reno library received $15,155 for a project that will help fund the digitization of items focusing on urban development, local government and local events during territorial and early statehood. Items will be digitized and placed on The Gateway to Oklahoma History, an online repository of Oklahoma history. The funds are part of the Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program.
This Canada goose seems to be walking off the distance for a birdie putt for Redlands Community College sophomore Clara Peake (background) on the 18th green at Crimson Creek Golf Course last week.
The waterfowl walked around the green and watched golfers come and go through the hole for more than an hour.
See related coverage on the Women’s Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships here.
A Canadian Valley Technology Center board member withstood a challenge to retain his Board of Education post. Incumbent Dean Riddell of Yukon on Tuesday won CV Tech’s Zone 1 board election by a 62.67 percent majority.
Some 4,983 votes were cast in 102 precincts across the multi-county Canadian Valley school district, with Riddell besting challenger Cotton Ruzicka of Yukon by a 3,123-1,860 vote.
