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El Reno High School’s football team will be facing a few new wrinkles brought on by this week’s District 5A-1 home game against Midwest City – first starting with the day. The game is Thursday at Memorial Stadium with kickoff at 7 p.m.

While Thursday games are nothing new to El Reno, the situation which brought it on is.

The game does not fall over EHS’ fall break or against an opponent which shares a stadium.

“This year every team was supposed to schedule a Thursday game due to the shortage of officials and it’s going to stay that way.

While the play took only a few seconds to unfold, it seemed like a lifetime to El Reno High School linebacker Diante Palmer.

“It was going in slow motion. I could see the ball coming into the end zone,” said Palmer.

The senior broke up a two-point conversion pass from Noble quarterback Colin Fisher to help preserve a wild 41-40 win for El Reno on homecoming night.

“I saw them drop down for a pass and the only thing that went through my head was go for the ball. I was going for the interception but I also really wanted to just break up the pass,” said Palmer.

It’s taken over four decades but Calumet High School’s baseball team has found its way back to the state baseball tourney after winning the Class B, Region 3 Championships.

Calumet, ranked third in the state, defeated Big Pasture (11-4) and Moss (13-1) to punch its state ticket with a 24-4 overall record.

The Chieftains open up the Class B State Championships Thursday at Edmond Memorial. Calumet has made state in the fall just one time before, losing 16-0 to Asher in 1975 – a gap of 45 years.

On the field it was not a memorable night for El Reno High School’s three seniors as the Indians fast-pitch softball team dropped an 11-1 game to the Oklahoma City Broncos to close out the 2022 regular season.

El Reno is now 12-16 on the season and will play in the Class 5A, Region 1 Championships at Carl Albert. The Indians face Ardmore in the first round Wednesday at 2 p.m.

MUNICIPAL COURT

Dustin Lee Howell, Yukon, speeding, $165.

Danna A. Frazier, Oklahoma City, failure to appear warrant, $245.

James Donald Waggoner, El Reno, improper turn, $175.

Mackenzie Rachel Klein, El Reno, speeding and driving under restriction, $390.

Suzanne Pearl Grimes, Yukon, speeding, $165.

Elizabeth Ontiveros, El Reno, speeding, $175.

Levi Cassidy Trimble, Oklahoma City, speeding, $165.

Ofelia Lorena Torres, Yukon, speeding, $165.

Michael Lynn Taylor, El Reno, speeding, $165.

Nolan laughs loudly as he plays catch with his therapist inside the colorful surroundings of the Oklahoma Pediatric Therapy Center.

The 14-year-old visits the center regularly with his grandmother, Loretta Cotton, who calls the OPTC a “true blessing.”

The OPTC opened its third location in El Reno earlier this year. Its founders describe it as a “faith-based” company that provides speech, occupational and physical therapy for children up to 18 years of age.

“Our mission is to serve Christ by providing pediatric therapy,” is the company motto.

The Great American Relay, which covers 3,446 miles, recently rolled through Canadian County. The 36-day, 668-stage event makes its way through 17 states and the District of Columbia.

It started in Santa Monica, Calif., and will end Oct. 16 at the World Trade Center in New York City.

El Reno’s Elks Lodge handed out 50 winter coats to children enrolled in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Head Start program earlier in September and planned to do the same this past week for 50 Head Start children attending Hillcrest Learning Center.

Joe Mogg of the Elks said the coats were purchased through a grant funded by the Elks Grand Lodge. Elks member Debbie Harrison wrote the successful grant.

The coat giveaway started in 2019 and was planned to be an annual event, but was interrupted by the COVID pandemic. The lodge resumed the program this year.