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El Reno Main Street will present the Christmas Experience on Saturday, Dec. 5 in downtown El Reno.

The event will feature the annual Christmas Parade followed by shopping at local stores. Some 20 vendors are scheduled to be on hand as part of the Junk Hippie Tour and live window displays will be presented by Power Dance Company.

Young dancers from Dance Etiquette are scheduled to perform and the Joytones from First Baptist Church are also planned to perform.

El Reno police are asking the public’s help in finding a suspect wanted in connection with the theft of city of El Reno property.

A 2008 Ford F250 truck along with a 2020 Lamar 16-foot dump trailer were taken from the construction site of the SSM St. Anthony Healthplex being built along U.S. 81, just north of I-40. Police said the theft happened Nov. 11.

For 21 years, El Reno’s Blessing Baskets has orchestrated, with the help of the community, a Christmas Basket program that has helped brighten the season for many in the area.

And organizers say the ongoing pandemic known as COVID-19 is not going to stop the effort this year.

Blessing Baskets is planning to help more than 700 local families that will include more than 1,000 children with the Christmas Basket 2020 Program.

Candidates for the Board of Education in 11 Canadian County school districts will file their Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 7, and continuing Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 8 and 9, according to Canadian County Election Board Secretary Wanda Armold.

Armold said the official filing period ends at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9.

All candidate filings will occur at the Canadian County Election Board, 200 S. Bickford Ave.

The Craft Brewers Association of Oklahoma (CBAO), in partnership with Equity Brewing, is announcing the inaugural Oklahoma Pint Days Nov. 28-29 to celebrate Shop Small Saturday and Small Brewery Sunday.

Craft beer fans can get their limited-edition collector’s glassware exclusively at 28 breweries across the state, including Expedinture Brewery in Okarche.

Each glass is $10 and comes with one free beer of the brewery’s choice. The glass is yours to keep and collect.

LAWSUITS

Bank of America N.A. vs. James M. Kinuthia for $5,385.17 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Christy Mackey for $8,740.41 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Jefferson Capital Systems LLC vs. Sylvia Wilcox for $9,843.91 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Tinker Federal Credit Union vs. Sandra L. Watz and James L. Smith for $6,696.73 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Note: The El Reno Tribune asked area schoolchildren their recipes for cooking the holiday bird.

Following are How to Cook a Turkey recipes from Tanya Ramsey’s pre-3 class at Sacred Heart Catholic School:

You put meat on the turkey and you cook it on top of the stove. You cook it for 4 minutes. You take it out of the pan carefully and put it on a plate, then you eat it. - Amelia

Put pepperoni on it and put it in the oven. You cook it for 5 minutes. You take it out and I eat it with my old friend Abby. - Scout

How to Get Started

▶ Planning a really good menu is the stealth approach to being a really good cook. What leaves an impression is not only the dishes you can make, but also how they taste, look and feel.

▶ Avoid repeating ingredients. If you are serving pecan pie for dessert, don’t put out spiced pecans as an hors d’oeuvre. Both may be fabulously delicious, but the pie just won’t be as appealing by the time dessert rolls around.