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The Cresap Family Foundation has offered a $100,000 matching challenge to kick-start a relief fund managed by the Oklahoma Restaurant Association’s Hospitality Foundation.

Funds will be dispersed as $500 grants directly to restaurant and beverage workers to spend on their immediate needs whether that is food, rent, gas, medical expenses, etc. 

Applications will be taken until Wednesday, April 29 at 5 p.m. 

Updates will be given once the application process is live. Applicants must live in Oklahoma, Canadian or Cleveland counties.

A worker with Oklahoma Environmental Management Authority uses a crane to lift a boat into a dumpster next to the Denny-Crump Rodeo Arena over the weekend. The city is allowing free dumping into containers at the site for residents through May 2. Dumping is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.

In the wake of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s decision to start reopening Oklahoma’s economy, Oklahoma Watch reached out for reactions from top medical groups and checked the remarks from Oklahoma City and Tulsa mayors. Here’s what we gleaned:

Oklahoma State Medical Association

Dr. George Monks, president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, stuck by his initial assertion that the governor’s May 1 date for the first phase of reopening was hasty. But he said Stitt had to take into account more than just medical advice.

DIVORCES GRANTED

Allistair Kirk vs. Melissa J. Mullin Kirk.

Mike C. Davis vs. Jonna P. Davis.

Don Light Sr. vs. Amy Light.

Leann High vs. John Robert High.

Minnie Elizabeth Schiebert vs. Richard Schiebert Jr.

Trentin Duke Jones vs. Brittany Anne Jones.

Isaac Holder vs. Allicia Holder.

Kylie Nicole Allen vs. Bryan James Allen.

Billy Gene Raynor Jr. vs. Kelli D. Raynor.

Amelia A. Moore-Rizzo vs. Robert Rizzo.

Juan Cabrera Salgado vs. Paige Sharon Kay Benn.

While they have different personalities, brothers Brayden and Mason Fulton share similar passions like hunting, fishing and riding motorcycles.

While the siblings have been able to take part in some of these passions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s shelter in place order has taken away one of their favorite pastimes – playing baseball.

“Not playing baseball and that stuff is hard. I talk with my friends on the phone but not getting to see them is something I kind of miss,” said Mason, a sixth-grader at Roblyer Learning Center and a year-round baseball player.

A pandemic can’t put a stop to everything. It may delay many events, and some of them may indeed be canceled. But when there’s a will there’s a way, and El Reno students are a perfect example.

They want to have fun. They want to dance. And they’re not giving up.

High school juniors and seniors have been working on their own prom. They’re calling it MORP 2020. Spelling prom backwards is a way to denote the event as an alternative to the usual tradition.

It’s by the students and for the students, and they’re getting help from a few parents.

Robert L. Allen is considered the pioneer of public television in Oklahoma. It’s doubtful you would be watching many of the programs on OETA if he hadn’t been the captain of the ship during the early years.

Allen is another shining example of the kind of person El Reno has produced. The town has a knack for cultivating a “can-do spirit.”

Growing up in El Reno, Bobby Lee Allen was all about El Reno. He was involved in every school activity including serving as chief photographer for the school district as well as covering sports for the El Reno Daily Tribune.

Cayden Buckner pulled this big snake out of the pond at Legion Park last week. It was one of several the youth tried to snag.