May 2024

BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center recently held its 2024 Agriscience Symposium. The event showcased advanced experiential research projects conducted by students from El Reno, Calumet, Yukon, Mustang and Epic Charter high schools, all part of the BlueSTEM program.

The 2024 Mary K. Ashbrook Kids Fishing Derby, hosted by the El Reno Sportmans Club, drew over 300 youth anglers to Lake El Reno. The kids were bidding for trophies in different age groups as well as prizes such as lifetime fishing licenses.

“Blue Hawaii” was the theme of the Canadian County child advocacy center’s annual recognition event. The Child Abuse Response Team (C.A.R.T.) honored its supporters and contributors at the Champions for Children Gala at the Mathena Events Center in Yukon.

The Canadian County Health Department expects to move this June into its new home. A $3.6 million remodeling project is nearing completion on a 32,000-square-foot, two-story building at 6100 E. Highway 66. “It’s beautiful,” health department administrator Jennifer Boyle said.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s rewrite of federal Title IX rules that adds “gender identity” to the law, effectively meaning a law intended to protect women’s rights will now instead protect the rights of men to enter women’s...

We spend our middle adult years protecting our children. Indeed, parenting represents the most expensive and difficult responsibility of our lives. We baby-proof our houses. We warn them about the dangers of living in the 21st century. We educate them to be productive members of society.

Loula Theresa (Callais) McKeithe earned her wings on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at St. Katharine Drexel Retirement Center in El Reno. Terri, as she was known, was born Oct. 15, 1943, in Cut Off, La., to Theophile and Victoria (Vizier) Callais.

MUNICIPAL COURT Ryan Alexander Redbird, Clinton, trespassing on private property, $295. Mary Margaret Castro, Oklahoma City, speeding, $195. Charlee Jo Bushyhead, El Reno, transporting open container of beer, $350.

Larry Dean Kosarek of El Reno passed away May 6, 2024. He was born July 21, 1958, in Roswell, N.M. He was in the business of making stained glass for over 40 years.

Redlands Community College will be headed back to the Sunshine State next week for the 2024 NJCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championships after earning an at-large bid for a second straight season.