Smash Week raises money through $20 student passes to different events and donations from the community and area businesses. Money raised this year will be donated to Tishomingo High School, which lost six students earlier this year in a car accident.
El Reno and the majority of Canadian County was hit with several inches of rain and hailstones ranging from pea size up to golf-ball size from two different storms last week.
The annual Letter Carrier Food Drive is returning to El Reno after taking a two-year hiatus because of the COVID pandemic.
Janice Cox, a postal employee who coordinates the Letter Carrier Food Drive in El Reno, said the collection will take place May 14.
“It’s always the second Saturday in May,” Cox said.
Begun in 1993 by the National Letter Carriers Association, the food drive is especially important to The Lord’s Harvest food ministry in El Reno.
Gerardo Troncoso has been named Great Plains Bank El Reno branch president.
In a statement, the bank said Troncoso’s promotion comes after the recent Great Plains Bank branch opening in Yukon, where previous branch president Chase Tippens has been promoted to Yukon market president.
Troncoso has been in the banking industry for 10 years, with the last two years spent at Great Plains Bank as a senior vice president, commercial lender in El Reno.
Canadian County lawyers William Flanagan and Jack Dawson were honored by fellow attorneys and judges last week for 50 years as members of the Oklahoma Bar Association.
Both lawyers made speeches and introduced family members in attendance before refreshments were served.
The annual Holy Trinity Catholic School Track Meet attracted more than 350 participants from Holy Trinity, Sacred Heart, El Reno, St. Charles in Oklahoma City and St. John Nepomuk in Yukon.
Calumet April Students of the Month, from left, Hunter Arnold, Cadence Huggins, Angeline DeLaCruz and Connor Goff.
Maple April Citizenship Award winners, front row from left, Caleb Blanco, kindergarten; Blayke Steinbruck, second grade; Andrew Eisenhour, third grade; Ella Ratliff, first grade; and Aniyah Chaffin, pre-kindergarten; back row, Ayvah Fudge, fourth grade; Jackson Arnold, sixth grade; Devlon Galyon, eighth grade; Pierson Brandley, seventh grade; and Quinn Charmasson, fifth grade.
