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El Reno Tribune launches social media videos

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Your El Reno Tribune, as a way to say thank you to the local businesses that have chosen to consistently advertise in the newspaper, as well as keep readers better informed, created social media news videos.

The videos provided information about stories that would be published in the upcoming issue, as well as a salute to the businesses that help support local journalism.

The Tribune’s Lyndsay Bayne worked with co-publisher Sean Dyer to produce the videos. Businesses were included in the video free of charge.

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Beating the heat

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Smoke on the Water race fans, two- and four-legged, found the coolest way to beat weekend temperatures that reached into the mid-90s by jumping into the lake between events.

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Redlands site of Central Oklahoma Turf Conference

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The Canadian County OSU Cooperative Extension Center will host the Central Oklahoma Turf Conference Aug. 12 at the Redlands Community College Conference Center.

This turf conference will focus on commercial licensed professional turf applicators needs for Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Category 3A and 6 licenses.

Speakers will present the latest in turf and herbicide research, with ODAFF Category 3A and 6 CEU credits provided with each session.

Getting ahead of the harvest

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The 2021 wheat harvest yields top the charts in many fields throughout Oklahoma. Farmers experienced an extremely late hard freeze in late April that dinged the yield potential for many fields in lower elevations throughout central Oklahoma, said Kyle Worthington, OSU Extension Service educator.

To prepare for next year’s harvest, Canadian County OSU Cooperative Extension Center will host an Early Season Wheat Management Conference set for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10.

Public Records - July 28

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LAWSUITS

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Brandon Marshall for $947.06 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Jack Manley for $1,926.20 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Melissa Green for $825.02 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Tammy Goff for $964.69 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Alex Givens for $957.29 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

COVID-19 shuts down ERCT show

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Twenty-one positive COVID-19 cases among the cast and orchestra has forced the temporary shutdown of El Reno Community Theatre’s production of Beauty and the Beast.

ERCT Director Kristin Richardson said the Centre Theatre, which is owned by the city of El Reno but leased to the group, has also been closed until it can be sanitized.

“We have not sanitized the theater yet so it will be shut down until we can get that done. We have ordered the products and are waiting for them to arrive,” said Richardson.

The Centre Theatre has been closed due to an outbreak of COVID-19

Pandemic bonuses OK’d

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Educating through the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was an 18-month ordeal calling for El Reno Public Schools employees to step up in ways never imagined.

Now the district is saying thank you.

On the recommendation of Superintendent Craig McVay, the El Reno School Board voted 4-0 last week to give every district employee a $1,000 bonus. Board member Brad Baker was absent.

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Fun in the water

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After being closed last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the El Reno municipal swimming pool inside Legion Park has been a popular afternoon playground for young and old.

El Reno Public Schools will offer a free swim day on Tuesday for anyone under the age of 18.

It will be held at the El Reno municipal swimming pool inside Legion Park. The swim session will run from 1 to 5 p.m.

Prior to that, the district will provide a free lunch to anyone under the age of 18. Meal times will be from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Gage Baeriswyl wears a pair of goggles as he splashes into the water