Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and what one owner calls “Hollywood greed,” El Reno’s Reno Cinema 8 may have shown its last movie.
Closed since March due to the coronavirus, Curtis Blanc said the six-screen theater is going on the market.
Blanc is one of three partners in El Reno Cinema LLC, which owns Reno Cinema 8. B&B Theaters and Ruthy Mittelstaedt are the other partners in the company.
The City of El Reno and the Airpark Authority are producing a video to help promote the upcoming Fly El Reno event. The community event will highlight improvements made at El Reno Regional Airport and plans for a new $1.3 million terminal.
The video will be promoted on social media before the Aug. 22 El Reno Fly-In. The day will feature a Warbird Flyover, food trucks, classic cars and tours of the A-26 Lady Liberty.
Redlands Community College classes will start Aug. 17, and beginning this week all individuals on campus will be required to wear a face covering.
“We have established guidelines for the use of face coverings for the health and safety of everyone on campus,” said Redlands President Jack Bryant.
“These are very challenging times, and we are implementing these procedures so we can provide services and on-site classes as safely as possible in this situation.”
Acceptable coverings include reusable cloth masks, disposable paper masks and face shields.
El Reno’s Children of Hope Community Outreach held a STEM camp recently as part of its Young Gardeners Summer Camp. Youth learned about building self-esteem
and confidence through a series of speakers and groups.
Officials with the Canadian County Health Department say they are gearing up to test hundreds of people each week for the coronavirus.
Heather Ward, an educator with the health department, said the agency is expanding its curbside testing for the COVID-19 virus.
The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted last week 4-3 to recommend school districts follow a new COVID-19 alert system, but stopped short of making it mandatory.
It was a move which left El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Craig McVay puzzled about the state's leadership considering the constant rise in Oklahoma’s coronavirus cases over the past two months.
“I have always been a proponent for local control but I felt like there are school districts that are put in incredibly bad situations that needed the guidance from the State Board of Education.
The agency overseeing the state’s virtual schools joined the legal battle to pry free some of Epic Charter School's financial records.
With a 4-0 vote, the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board recently approved filing an amicus brief to side with the State Auditor and Inspector in its case against Epic’s management company, Epic Youth Services.
An amicus brief is a legal document from a third party that provides information relevant to the case.
The Oklahoma Education Association’s national parent, the National Education Association, is known for bizarre actions like working to give boys access to girls bathrooms and endorsing Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. Recently the OEA added to the bizarre by trying to give the impression that public schools are receiving only half of Oklahoma’s education-related federal COVID funding. Any suggestion to that effect is patently false.
Texoma:
Lake level normal. Water temperature 80 degrees.
Striped bass good on Alabama rig, hair jigs, live shad, sassy shad, top water.
Catfish fair on chicken liver, punch bait, shad.
Crappie fair on hair jigs, minnows.
Fishing is good early mornings and anglers should use top water lures when surface feeding is present and transfer to slabs and down rigging umbrella rigs as the morning
progresses. Top water action has been good on the Denison Dam. Channel cat are being caught on baited holes in shallow water.
El Reno native Cameron Hill made his Major League Baseball debut Sunday afternoon, retiring the side in the top of the ninth inning to preserve the Cleveland Indians 9-2 win over Kansas City.
In the process, Hill recorded his first MLB strikeout to end the game, getting Royals left-hander Erick Mejia to chase an 83-mph slider in the top of the zone. Hill threw 10 pitches in the debut, six of those strikes.
“Game doesn’t change, only the person playing it,” said Hill after the game.
