El Reno Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts will be canvassing neighborhoods on Saturday hoping to collect canned and non-perishable food items as part of the annual Scouting for Food campaign.
The food will go to The Lord’s Harvest, a local food bank ministry that has been involved in helping the community for about three decades.
After months of planning, a new veterans medical clinic in Canadian County is nearly ready to begin seeing patients.
The clinic will be located in Yukon, a few blocks south of Integris Canadian Valley Hospital. The goal is for the clinic to be open before the beginning of 2021. The clinic is one of two that soon will open in central Oklahoma to provide health-care services to area veterans.
The other center will be in Norman.
With last week’s shutout of Southeast, El Reno High School’s football team clinched the District 5A-1 title outright, the Indians first league title since 2009.
However, that’s not good enough for El Reno head coach Chuck Atchison.
“There is no doubt we are district champions, but we don’t want to go out there and slip up and lose to Altus. We want to finish this thing up right and see who we play next in the playoffs,” said Atchison.
El Reno will host Altus Friday, with kickoff set for 7 p.m.
With three time and location changes and no real practices leading up to its game with Southeast last week due to a freak October ice storm, El Reno High School’s football team was missing its usual spark.
And it showed on Halloween day as the Indians looked sluggish early before powering through three turnovers en route to a 46-0 victory of the Spartans.
El Reno improved to 6-2 on the season and 5-0 in the District 5A-1 standings with the shutout.
El Reno residents were told they could haul limbs to a site at Lake El Reno after last week’s ice storm tore trees apart and left much of the town without power and water.
El Reno Mayor Matt White said residents could begin hauling limbs to the area near Reformatory Road, on the west side of Lake El Reno. He said the location would be open every day for the cleanup that will be necessary following the storm.
“The damage is terrible,” White said.
The limb drop site will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily.
On Tuesday, El Reno voters will select a city council representative for Ward 1. The Tribune posed questions to the two candidates, Steve Jensen and Jacqueline Stevenson Smith.
The questions were:
▶ What is your vision for El Reno and what steps should be taken to make it a reality?
▶ In your opinion, what are the two greatest issues facing the community? And how should they be addressed?
Their responses are provided here as they were received.
By Thursday morning, El Reno firefighters had responded to 111 emergency calls, one of them a house fire in Williamstown.
The ice storm that arrived Monday and knocked out power for most of the area led to a child using a candle to hunt for an item in a closet, fire department reports show. The candle apparently caught some items in the closet on fire. No one was injured in the Wednesday blaze, but damage to the house was estimated at $15,000.
Halloween doesn't mix with downed power lines and broken tree limbs, so for those reasons, the city of El Reno is telling residents to trick-or-treat only with family and friends.
Mayor Matt White said Thursday residents are strongly advised not to allow children to go door-to-door Saturday night. White made the comments during the weekly El Reno Live program that runs on Facebook.
White said the annual Spooktacular has been canceled. Main Street, which organizes the colorful event, called it off after El Reno was hit hard by last week’s ice storm.
