Before Mother Nature played havoc with sports schedules across Oklahoma, two area basketball teams garnered mixed results over a four-game span.
Okarche High School’s girls basketball team split a pair of games to move to 8-7 on the season. The Warriors defeated Thomas/Fay-Custer (47-33) before dropping a 34-30 decision to Class A’s eighth-ranked Oklahoma Bible Academy.
After getting a 12-point wake up-call victory over Arapaho-Butler three days earlier, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team kicked off the famed West Central Tournament with a lopsided 102-30 blowout of Corn Bible Academy.
The 72-point victory lifted Calumet, ranked No.1 in Class B, to 18-0 on the season. The Chieftains have now won 38 regular-season games dating back to last season and the winning margin over the Crusaders was the largest of the season for CHS.
Redlands Community College women’s basketball team finds itself tied for fourth place in the NJCAA Region 2 standings after splitting the first two games of league action.
The Cougars squandered a 16-1 lead over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M but used a 30-27 scoring edge over the final two periods to secure a 57-50 win.
Redlands slipped to 11-4 on the season and 1-1 in Region 2 with a 72-63 setback to Eastern Oklahoma State College.
The Cougars are tied in the standings with Seminole State College and NEO.
Ijai Johnson led a quintet of players in double digits as Redlands Community College men’s basketball team picked up its first NJCAA Region 2 win of the season with a 96-93 decision over Eastern Oklahoma State College.
The victory came on the heels of a loss to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (93-67), with the split leaving Redlands with a 9-7 overall mark.
The Cougars are tied with Northern Oklahoma of Tonkawa for fifth.
The city of El Reno threw support to a plan proposed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes to build Fitness Courts, possibly in several areas of the community. The plan is aimed at creating spaces for people to gather for outdoor fitness activities.
The city council unanimously approved a resolution supporting the efforts at last week’s meeting.
The C&A proposal is in the study phase. The tribes are looking at locations in El Reno, Clinton and Geary for possible construction of the Fitness Courts.
Wesley United Methodist Church placed scarves on poles in downtown El Reno as a way to help anyone who might be in need of some extra clothing as temperatures plunged this week.
Amy Neathery said the idea is to “reach out” to those neighbors in need by leaving scarves on poles in downtown.
The church collected the scarf donations over the last month and put them out just before the expected arctic air.
After about 3 1/2 years, Canadian County’s Family Justice Center will be moving to a new home.
Cardinal Point will occupy what is now the Canadian County Health Department (CCHD) building at 1023 E. Vandament in Yukon. The CCHD’s Yukon and El Reno offices are scheduled to move this spring to a newly remodeled, 33,000-square-foot site at 6100 E. Highway 66 just west of Evans Road. A $3.6 million renovation began last fall at the former El Reno Halliburton plant.
Voters interested in voting by absentee ballot during the 2024 election year can request absentee ballots now using the OK Voter Portal at oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp.
Requests can be accessed by downloading and printing an application from the Oklahoma State Election Board website at oklahoma.gov/elections.
Applications are also available at the Canadian County Election Board and can be mailed, emailed or faxed to the county election board.
