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Actors and a filming crew from Boiling Point Media, based out of Oklahoma City, were back in El Reno last week to shoot scenes for the third installment of the Jurassic Pet series.

The movie, according to Boiling Point’s Chris Hoyt, is titled The Adventures of Jurassic Pet 3: Return to the Wild. It’s the second time parts of the city have been used as backdrops for the series.

Filming will return to locations in El Reno in early August.

Hoyt said the crew and actors are non-union and not affected by the current strikes in Hollywood by actors and screenwriters.

Truth matters.

The story of what really happened on Nov. 29, 1864, at the Sand Creek Massacre site in Eads, Colo., is being told through an exhibition titled “The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever.”

The exhibition first opened in November 2022 at the History Colorado Center in Denver, Colo., telling the history of the Sand Creek Massacre from the perspectives of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people, drawn from oral histories that have been passed down for generations.

In a booming eastern Canadian County, families are a driving force of development.

Families move in for the schools, for the houses and for the communities, said Carol Hefner, the spokeswoman for a development that has landed a future amphitheater that will bring family entertainment to the area.

Students from Yukon’s St. John Nepomuk Catholic School helped out at The Lord’s Harvest last week in what founder and director Nikki Pruitt called a “wonderful blessing.”

The Lord’s Harvest is an El Reno food ministry founded and operated by Pruitt, her family members and community volunteers.

The St. John’s students helped stock shelves, unload trucks and scrubbed pallets used to stack food items.

Organizers asked that only the first name and initial be used to identify the students.

Canadian County commissioners heard suggestions about how to proceed with a possible rehabilitation of the historic county jail.

Constructed more than 100 years ago, the county-owned building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The old jail is at the corner of Rogers and Evans next to the renovated stables near the Canadian County Courthouse and Administration Offices.

The long-vacant building sorely needs a new roof and windows.

Canadian County commissioners agreed to distribute funds from a newly-awarded federal grant to the county’s family justice center.

Cardinal Point, which serves Canadian County’s domestic violence survivors, will receive $50,000 from the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund.

“This is a two-year grant for funding from the federal government to the county,” Commissioner Dave Anderson said. “It’s up to us to determine where we want to invest those dollars.”

WASHINGTON – Despite heated comments and opposition from minority Democrats, the House Appropriations Committee has adopted a Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Bill for the 2024 fiscal year.

Subcommittee chairman Tom Cole (R, Moore) said Oklahoma will be in line for a significant amount of funding under the legislation.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Gentner Drummond has joined a coalition of nine attorneys general urging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to reverse course on its proposed rule to impose a special assessment on banking organizations.

The would-be rule is an effort to recover the costs of bailing out elite depositors like venture capitalists and foreign nationals at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank.