April 2025

Stepping up a classification for just the second time this season, El Reno High School’s baseball team dropped a 10-2 road game last week to Class 6A’s Norman North.

The loss moves El Reno to 1-1 against the state’s largest classification and 14-9-2 on the season.

The Indians scored two runs in the first inning off a pair of base hits by Davin Shamblin (double) and Dawson Davidson. El Reno went 5-of-22 from the plate (.227) and left six runners stranded on base – four in scoring position.

Hernan Blanco went 2-for-3 to lead all El Reno batters.

The Burger Day Festival is a tribute to the fried onion hamburger, cooked daily in El Reno since the early 1900s. It’s the burger that has helped make the community a destination for food lovers and those trekking along historic Route 66. 

It’s not uncommon to hear languages such as French or German being spoken in El Reno’s three main burger joints, Johnnie’s, Robert’s or Sid’s. 

In “Hamburgers & Fries: An American Story,” author John T. Edge describes the history of El Reno’s fried onion hamburger. 

10:30 a.m.
Story Time with El Reno Carnegie Library

11:00 a.m.
Jeremiah Goodblanket

11:30-12:30
Mad Scientist

12:45 p.m.
Guerreros De La Pista Dance Group

1:00-2:30 p.m.
Extreme Animals

2:30 p.m.
Canadian River Howlers

3 p.m.
Arts Council Talent Show

The Smokin’ Oaks is a four-piece band from Yukon, started in early 2023.

Beginning at a young age, relatives of Grady Cross (Cross Canadian Ragweed), Slaid Cross (lead guitar and harmony vocals) and Colton Blake (vocals and rhythm guitar) joined together with Noah Morris (drums and percussion) and Conner Pattison (bass guitar), and have been dreaming big and working hard to build the foundation of something great.

Memorial service for Haydon Shrum of Wakita will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3 at the El Reno Cemetery with Taylor Shrum officiating.

Haydon passed away Feb. 28, 2025. He was born June 2, 1963, in Siloam Springs, Ark.

Following are letters from second-graders at Rose Witcher Learning Center on How to Cook the Big Burger:

In my opinion the best way to cook the most humongous Burger Day burger is buy 50,000 pounds of meat. That’s how I think the burger is made. - Kashton

In my opinion the best way to cook the most enormous Burger Day burger is by using three planes to carry the meat, then 473 people prepare the food. Finally they cut the giant burger. That’s how I think the burger is made. - Jaxon

El Reno was one of the communities targeted for expansion by WEOKIE Federal Credit Union, said Jeff Carpenter, president and CEO of the Oklahoma financial institution.

That plan came to fruition March 31, when El Reno RIL Credit Union officially joined the WEOKIE Federal Credit Union. Carpenter called the acquisition “perfect timing.”

He said discussions between WEOKIE and Rock Island Credit Union President Bob McCray and the Rock Island board of directors about similar mission and values led to the opportunity for consolidation.