Alternating weeks of warm and cold weather are typical this time of year in the Southern Plains, but the recent cold snap across much of Oklahoma still seemed significant.
In some ways, that proved to be true: Freezing rain that hit Oklahoma at the end of October caused widespread power outages still being addressed in certain communities and regions.
Roblyer Learning Center collected over 800 pairs of socks to be donated to Socks of Love. Pictured is Raven Bramlett’s fifth-grade class which won the class competition
for donating the most socks.
MUSTANG – Three of the six age group championships awarded during the Central Oklahoma Football League's Super Bowl Saturday made their way back to El Reno.
El Reno’s 6-and-under, 9-and-under and 11-and-under football teams all defeated squads from Mustang. The city’s Little League program had the most titles by one over Mustang.
“I think that’s the first time we have won three titles,” said El Reno’s Mark Vincent.
A surge in the number of students placed into quarantine from a small pool of positive tests for the coronovirus has forced El Reno Public Schools to close both its high school and junior high campuses to in-person learning.
Superintendent Craig McVay said Etta Dale Junior High and El Reno High School will be shuttered through November 29. The closures were effective at the end of the school day Thursday, Nov. 12.
The current plan is for students to return to in-person classes on Nov. 30.
El Reno High School continued its tradition of remembering Veterans Day with a virtual ceremony last week due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2020 Gifts to the Yanks drive is now under way. Donations are being accepted by El Reno students in grades 9-12 to purchase gifts for veterans at the VA Hospital in Oklahoma City.
Classes are also selling shirts and other items ahead of the Dec. 10 virtual assembly where gifts will be displayed and then taken to Oklahoma City. For more information or
to make a donation, call the school at 405-262-3249.
Craig McVay has a long-range plan for El Reno Public Schools, but the events over the first 10 months of 2020 have pushed the superintendent toward revamping those ideas.
“What we have talked about ahead of reviewing our long-range plan was to find out what the community expects, what our teachers expect and what our students expect,” said McVay.
McVay said guiding the district’s educational needs through the global COVID-19 pandemic as well as the rising awareness of racial inequalities was the driving force behind looking at the plan again.
El Reno Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts canvassed neighborhoods last Saturday at part of the annual Scouting for Food Drive.
Nikki Pruitt, founder and director of The Lord’s Harvest which benefits from the effort, said more than 2,765 pounds of non-perishable food items had been rounded up by the Scouts. Pruitt said by the end of the week she expected that total to climb even higher.
