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For the first time in its history, the Oklahoma Coaches Association heads into May not knowing for sure if the annual All-State Games will be played come July due to the coronavirus.

However, until a final decision has been made, coaches across the state have been meeting to choose members of the elite teams.

Basketball released its four lineups last week as well as the All-Star by Class list, the pool in which alternates will be chosen from.

A newborn Thoroughbred mare is fighting to stay alive after its mother took her sibling, but rejected her.

Denise Cope said the twin mare was born early Wednesday. Cope and Tammy Garcia were busy trying to feed the rejected foal from a bottle, while also trying to get the newborn to stand up.

Cope is hoping someone with a mare who has recently given birth will contact her and offer to let their horse nurse the newborn.

“She's fighting to stay alive,” said Cope. “Twins are very rare. I guess the mother thought one was all she could handle.”

While they might not fit the common mold as a frontline fighter in the battle to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the work being done by the El Reno Public Schools food service team is nothing short of heroic.

Friday is School Lunch Hero Day across the nation, but for the 18 people making up the El Reno team, it’s another day to serve a greater need.

Seamstresses are being called during the COVID-19 pandemic to use their skills and talent for a new trend in modern-day fashion … facial masks.

The moment COVID-19 became widespread and caused a shortage in medical supplies worldwide, many seamstresses and first-time sewers found themselves in a position not only to help but also share their sewing experience with others.

Residents at Saint Katharine Drexel Retirement Center were treated last week to a drive-thru circus, compliments of Physicians Choice Hospice. The parade of cars pulled through a parking lot at the center, led by an El Reno police cruiser. Clowns and plenty of balloons and bubbles filled the air. Saint Katharine’s, like other long-term care homes, is locked down because of COVID-19.

El Reno police are looking for a white four-door car in connection with the shooting of a man Sunday evening.

Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said officers were called to the Elms Apartments, 1200 West Elm, just before 6 p.m. after a man called saying he had been shot. Officers found Terrance E. Rednose, 36, of El Reno at the scene. He was treated there for a gunshot wound and later was taken to an area hospital for further treatment.

Officers said the shooting actually took place in the 800 block of South Frances.

An 18-year-old El Reno woman found by police lying in the road Saturday night died later in an Oklahoma City hospital.

Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said the woman, Maria P. Estrada, was found in the 1500 block of West Elm, shortly after 9 p.m. Police had received a report of a woman falling from a moving vehicle.

When officers arrived they found Estrada. She appeared to have “various injuries.”

With the panic over Covid-19 and the news predicting a cure will take possibly a year or more to discover, perhaps it is time to revisit the past.

Until the advent of chemical antibiotics, nature provided all the ingredients to ensure survival and health for the inhabitants of the planet.

Here in North America, our own Native Americans survived severely harsh conditions with an intricate knowledge of healthful foods. The Plains Indians ate as they nomadically traveled and the Apache alone had over 200 items in their yearly diet.