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Some El Reno schoolchildren helped brighten the day for some COVID front-line health-care workers by sending them colorful cards and drawings.

Raven Bramlett teaches fifth-grade math and science at Roblyer Learning Center. Her former neighbor and El Reno resident, Melissa Knight, is an RN at Integris Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City. She works in the ICU with the primary task of caring for COVID patients.

Bramlett said she talked with her two classes, 42 students in all, about what the health-care workers were going through, working in “these crazy conditions.”

Three days into dispensing the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine, the eight counties which make up District 2 had used close to half of the initial allotment from the state of Oklahoma.

“I think it was amazing the number of hospital staffs that were willing to get the vaccine and that’s significant. Everyone has been positive and we are thankful they are willing to take this next step,” said Maggie Jackson, public information officer for District 2. Canadian County is one of the eight in District 2 along with Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Logan and Major.

As one drives onto the lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Concho, they are met with a picturesque view of the tribes bison herd grazing freely in the pastures blanketed in thick native grasses.

The sight is breathtaking and would explain the recent award presented to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Bison Program.

The Towering Spirit Award was presented to the tribes by the Keep Oklahoma Beautiful (KOB) organization.

About 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, El Reno police attempted to pull over a vehicle near Admire and Foreman.

An officer in an unmarked patrol car reported the driver of the vehicle, later identified as Joshua Wagner, 30, of El Reno, allegedly began to drive in a manner that allowed him to elude the officer.

A second uniformed El Reno officer in a marked patrol car located Wagner driving in the area of Jensen and Radio Road. The officer reported the vehicle appeared to be damaged with lights not working properly. 

Many El Reno homes were decorated for Christmas with festive lights and displays such as this nativity in the front yard of a home on South Ellison.

LAWSUITS

Gerald Fortney vs. Thomas Mauchahty-Ware III for an amount in excess of $10,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident.

Thomas Berkeley and Ellen Berkeley vs. Roger Lowell Edwards for an amount in excess of $75,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident.

Discover Bank vs. Sharon L. Clary-Kubiak for $10,485.27 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Dear Santa,
I want a toy turtle, toy car octopus, toy car elephant, toy car dinosaur, choo choo train, a swimming car shark and a swimming alligator car. I would also like a Rattlesnake
Jake game.
Love, Keaton, 4

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Letters to Santa from Lindy Harper’s prekindergarten class at Hillcrest Learning Center:

I want a mermaid tail costume and makeup. Merry Christmas!
Haley Andrade

I want a doll house. Merry Christmas Santa!
Violet Bigfoot

With little momentum in its perimeter shooting, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team went old school in the fourth quarter in a rivalry game with Piedmont.

The Indians took only two shots outside of the paint over the final eight minutes, resulting in a 19-8 run, as El Reno broke a 37-all tie to open the frame and rolled to a 56-45 win over the unranked Wildcats.

“We thought we were bigger and more athletic than they were in the paint, so that was the plan for the ball. We just had to get it to the middle of the court,” said El Reno senior post player Kolton Hunt.