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Lamplighters OHCE of Canadian County met recently at a local church.

Joan Herr called the meeting to order and offered opening prayer.

Carol Stine led the flag salute and presented a devotional titled “Floating in Grace.”

Maxine Little read minutes from the last meeting, with Patricia Morrison giving the treasury report.

A thank-you card was read from the sheriff’s department for cookies the members recently furnished.

Herr presented the leader lesson on “Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden.”

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City Indian Clinic is providing health and wellness services to American Indians in central Oklahoma and wants to educate patients about risk factors and prevention methods for colorectal cancer.

El Reno High School baseball player Kolt Glenn wraps up tight in a blanket while watching Wednesday’s District 5A-1 game against Guthrie at the Hub Reed Complex. School athletic trainer Alex Bray sits bundled up as well as a stiff north wind dropped game-time temperatures into the high 30s.

The outcome of El Reno High School girls basketball team’s season seems to uphold Aristotle’s famous teachings that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

However, those parts that made up a 24-5 squad and carried the Indians to their second state championship game in four years were pretty darn good and were recently honored with eight spots on the 2022 All-Suburban Conference Team.

For a team with one senior returning starter and slotted to finish in the middle of the conference race in the preseason, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team turned a lot of heads during the 2021-22 season.

El Reno exited the playoffs in the area round but closed the year with a 14-12 record.

The Indians were ranked 12th in the state, seventh on the West side, but played to a 5-1 record in league play and a second-place finish to eventual state runner-up Del City.

A dropped fly ball off the bat of Brayden Fulton allowed Davin Shamblin to score from third as El Reno High School’s baseball team blanked Guthrie last week 10-0 in five innings for its first on-field victory in District 5A-1 play.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Indians, who improved to 6-3 on the season.

El Reno moved to 3-0 in the 5A-1 standings after two recent losses to Bishop McGuinness were converted into forfeit wins.

El Reno head coach Keith Hill said the Irish used an ineligible player and had to forfeit the first five games.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been detected in backyard chicken flocks, commercial chicken operations or wild bird flocks in at least 12 states.

The virus primarily infects birds and requires rapid response. Oklahoma has not had a positive case of HPAI detected at this time.

El Reno High School senior Molly Carson signed a national letter of intent last week to become a member of the Oklahoma City University’s stunt team.

She is the second EHS cheerleader in recent years to sign with the Stars.