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Two weeks before bedlam each year, Sacred Heart Catholic School starts selling orange and red footballs for a Bedlam Blessing Baskets Battle.

Footballs start at 25 cents each and can be purchased for any amount.

Proceeds from this battle benefit El Reno’s Blessing Baskets Christmas Basket Program. This program includes gifts for children at Christmas and special food for the families as well. 

Sacred Heart raised $2,152.25 for Blessing Baskets. This year’s winner was OSU with $1,448.75 and OU with $703.50. The real winner was Blessing Baskets.

Selected as Okarche High School’s October Lion and Lioness are seniors Wyatt Pinkerton and Jade Jackson.

OHS October Students of the Month are Arron Osborn, left, and Hunter Mueggenborg.

Maple October Students of the Month, front row from left, Hayes Ferguson, kindergarten; Tyler Williams, first grade; Rhyatt Higgins, pre-kindergarten; Liam Langley, second grade; and Kennedy Prince, third grade; back row, Halle Hunt, sixth grade; John Prince, fifth grade; Everleigh Sears, eighth grade; Lexi Richardson, seventh grade; and Michael Cullen, fourth grade.

Riverside October Citizens of the Month, front row from left, Steele Wooten, Mayonna Ross, Jenna Manuele, Avry Royse, Westley Wilkerson, Malachi Lockler, Natalie Ramos, Bailey Ashley, Maggie Calzada, Alexi Evans and JoshuaDave WhiteHorse; back row, Memoree Lover, Colt Monceret, Hawke Wooten, Katheryn Trujillo, Parker Turner, Legend Hatton, Cooper Turner, Jolene Marquez and Willow Baker.

For two consecutive years, the Okarche High School yearbook staff has been awarded the gold level of the National Yearbook Program of Excellence. The yearbook program placed at the gold level in 2020 and 2022, and placed at the bronze level in 2021.

Yearbook staff recently learned that they placed at the gold level for the second consecutive year with their 2023 yearbook.

The El Reno Senior Citizens Center hosted a fun Halloween party last week.

Maple first nine weeks A Honor Roll, front row from left, Madison Basler, Riley McKee, Elizabeth Wilkerson, Ryker Penwright, Ella Ratliff, Abigail Bass, Douglas Bland, Sophie Tredway, Elizabeth Eisenhour, Blaklyn Barton and Abel Overholser; second row, Kennedy Prince, Bryson Brandley, Cale Wedman, Marlowe Menz, Kinsley Bonilla, Halle Hunt, Charlee Charmasson, Drake Rosholt, Blayke Steinbruck, Case Elliott, Paylynn Smith, Braelyn Hutchings, Fritz Hoffman and Timber Westervelt; third row, Kuttler Bow, Rhett Davis, Lainey Rowell, Emily Thompson, Raina Crawford, Kaelyn Racca, Zoey Pawnee, Stone