LAWSUITS
Bode Mankin and Chayna Mankin, individually and as parents of Hutch Mankin, a minor child, vs. Erik Christensen and Jennifer Christensen for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged injuries and damages.
Carrington Mortgage Services LLC vs. David Ribble for $179,917.13 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 3, Block 8, Skyline Trails Addition Section 4, Oklahoma City.
Joann Laverne Nitzel was born July 15, 1940, to Theodore “Ted” Adam and Doreen LaVerne (Penwright) Nitzel. She passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2024, at the Arbor House of Mustang at the age of 84.
Joann graduated from Calumet High School and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha. Joann taught school for many years in Burkburnett, Texas.
After retiring, she moved back to the Calumet area. She was actively involved in the El Reno Carnegie Library and the Canadian County Genealogical Society.
It goes without question that Matt Miller knows how to drive into the winner’s circle on the Southern Drag Boat Association racing circuit.
The El Reno native has put his “Miller Time” boat into the first-place spot in the Top Eliminator Class six times since the end of the 2022 circuit and did something no other driver has done in the association’s history, which turns 51 this season.
“Last year we went 5-0 and took the Top Eliminator crown and we were the first to do that in the 50-year history of the championship,” said Miller.
A memorial service for Sammy Lee Knott will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 23 at the El Reno Cemetery Pavilion with Rev. Grant Findley officiating.
The service is under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Sammy died July 17, 2024, at St. Anthony Healthplex in El Reno. He was born Oct. 20, 1961, in El Reno and graduated from El Reno High School.
He was a landscaper at El Reno Sod Farm and a member of Red Rock United Methodist Church.
There was no harm done to the buildings in downtown El Reno from the filming of the new Twisters movie.
Yet after the jaw-dropping climax to the sequel, released nationwide on Friday, viewers might think otherwise.
“It was surreal because what we saw on the screen after they added the special effects is completely different from what we saw when they were filming.
With the release of the new Twisters movie, downtown business owners are hopeful it will attract new customers after closing their shops to allow film crews to use their spaces.
Scenes filmed in the downtown area in the summer of 2023 forced the closure of several businesses. And while they were reimbursed for their lost business, there are still some mixed emotions.
On the bright side, businesses are hopeful the newfound exposure created by the movie will draw more people to the downtown area.
For years, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have worked to have property south of I-40 and just east of Country Club Road made part of Tribal Trust Land.
That work paid off as the just more than 93 acres have been officially designated C&A Trust property. The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) placed the land, known as the Denny property, into trust for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes during a ceremony last week.
Wesley United Methodist Church and El Reno Carnegie Library partnered in 2023 to bring Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to El Reno.
This month, a milestone was hit as the 10,000th book will arrive in an El Reno mailbox.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is an international program that provides free books to children from birth to age 5.
Registered children receive an age-appropriate book each month, delivered straight to their home.
There is no cost or other requirement to receive the books.
How do you wear out a compact disc of the 1996 blockbuster movie Twister? It’s a one-word answer for Jessica and Tim Stegner.
“Research,” said Jessica.
The Guthrie couple are owners of one of two remaining trucks used in the original movie.
“I don’t know how many times for sure we watched the movie but we wore out the first DVD. I tried to play it a few months ago and it would not work,” said Tim.
The 1984 Jeep J10 Honcho was in El Reno for the special screening of Twisters, the long-awaited sequel to the original action flick.
From the Universal Studios website:
The epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous - and destructive - forces.
From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister.
