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El Reno’s Children of Hope Community Outreach held a STEM camp recently as part of its Young Gardeners Summer Camp. Youth learned about building self-esteem
and confidence through a series of speakers and groups.

Officials with the Canadian County Health Department say they are gearing up to test hundreds of people each week for the coronavirus.

Heather Ward, an educator with the health department, said the agency is expanding its curbside testing for the COVID-19 virus.

Currently, testing is available by appointment at the two health centers in Yukon and El Reno. However, Ward said beginning this week, they will provide “point of distancing” services that allow people to drive up to the facility and be tested without an appointment.

The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted last week 4-3 to recommend school districts follow a new COVID-19 alert system, but stopped short of making it mandatory.

It was a move which left El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Craig McVay puzzled about the state's leadership considering the constant rise in Oklahoma’s coronavirus cases over the past two months.

“I have always been a proponent for local control but I felt like there are school districts that are put in incredibly bad situations that needed the guidance from the State Board of Education.

The agency overseeing the state’s virtual schools joined the legal battle to pry free some of Epic Charter School's financial records.

With a 4-0 vote, the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board recently approved filing an amicus brief to side with the State Auditor and Inspector in its case against Epic’s management company, Epic Youth Services.

An amicus brief is a legal document from a third party that provides information relevant to the case.

Texoma:
Lake level normal. Water temperature 80 degrees.

Striped bass good on Alabama rig, hair jigs, live shad, sassy shad, top water.
Catfish fair on chicken liver, punch bait, shad.
Crappie fair on hair jigs, minnows.

Fishing is good early mornings and anglers should use top water lures when surface feeding is present and transfer to slabs and down rigging umbrella rigs as the morning
progresses. Top water action has been good on the Denison Dam. Channel cat are being caught on baited holes in shallow water.

El Reno native Cameron Hill made his Major League Baseball debut Sunday afternoon, retiring the side in the top of the ninth inning to preserve the Cleveland Indians 9-2 win over Kansas City.

In the process, Hill recorded his first MLB strikeout to end the game, getting Royals left-hander Erick Mejia to chase an 83-mph slider in the top of the zone. Hill threw 10 pitches in the debut, six of those strikes.

“Game doesn’t change, only the person playing it,” said Hill after the game.

LAWSUITS

Carla Dickensen, individually and as mother of Jimmie D. Dickenson III, a minor vs. Cecil R. Hodge and Bobbi J. Taylor for $71,848.88 as compromise settlement.

Tinker Federal Credit Union vs. Shane D. Adams and Tamara R. Adams for $16,569.64 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Cornerstone Bankvs. Ronnie G. Mills II for $15,664.26 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Tinker Federal Credit Union vs. Jason David Garrett for $13,294.75 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

The El Reno Regional Airport is about to get a major makeover and throw a party to celebrate what’s coming up.

Members of the city council signed off last week on a plan to build a new $1.3 million control tower at the airport.

The unanimous 4-0 vote sets in motion a plan that has been in the making for a number of years.

New airport manager Adam Fox showed engineered drawings of what the terminal will look like and explained the research that has gone into the project.