July 2020

Funeral services for Jimmie Jack Smith were held Saturday, July 25, 2020, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Okarche with Rev. Cory Stanley officiating. Burial was in the Geary Cemetery. Services were entrusted to Turner Funeral Home, Hinton.

Mr. Smith passed away Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at his home east of Geary at the age of 67. He was born Jan. 16, 1953, to Jack Wade and Jimmie Miller Smith in Watonga.

Jimmie Jack graduated from Deer Creek High School.

Clifford Wayne Hall was born Feb. 20, 1940, to Guy and Pearl (Ingram) Hall in Lookeba, and went to be with the Lord on July 23, 2020, in Oklahoma City.

Wayne graduated from Galena Park High School in 1958. On March 20, 1959, he married the love of his life, Martha McMichael, and together they had two children.

He worked 34 years for Anchor Glass as a machine operator.

Wayne loved the Lord and enjoyed attending church at Highland Baptist Church. He loved his church family very much and was blessed to have them in his life.

The El Reno Regional Airport is about to get a major makeover and throw a party to celebrate what’s coming up.

Members of the city council signed off last week on a plan to build a new $1.3 million control tower at the airport.

The unanimous 4-0 vote sets in motion a plan that has been in the making for a number of years.

New airport manager Adam Fox showed engineered drawings of what the terminal will look like and explained the research that has gone into the project.

This feathered water fowl took to the air to get a better view of the Smoke on the Water Drag Boat Races held recently at Lake El Reno.

Through all the craziness of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of El Reno has something positive to cheer about when it comes to professional sports.

Cameron Hill, a native and graduate of both El Reno High and Redlands Community College, was named to the final 30-man roster for the Cleveland Indians.

“I’m on cloud nine. I’m extremely proud of Cameron knowing everything that he has been through and to stick with it and fight back and prove himself again.

An internal White House report about states in the so-called red zone for COVID-19 includes Oklahoma and recommends mandating masks and closing bars and gyms in localized areas where infections are spreading rapidly.