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Several El Reno bowlers won scholarship money recently by placing in the 2021 Oklahoma Youth State Championships, held at Heritage Lanes in Oklahoma City.

Zak Billings, Collin Vickers, Mallory Watkins and Brianna Vickers joined forces to win the Mixed B Handicap title. The team had a combined score of 2,790.

Gena Studley and Kyston Haines bowled a score of 1,395 to take first place in the Mixed Doubles B Handicap.

Billings and Watkins placed third in the same division with a score of 1,337.

Calumet High School’s baseball team opened up the spring season by winning two games in its own festival.

The Chieftains, 2-1, were slated to be one of the five host teams for the 2021 Union City Spring Break Festival, which was set to get under way Thursday.

Calumet defeated Laverne (7-2) and Shattuck (9-3) in the festival but dropped a 5-2 game to Seiling. The Chieftains hit .288 for the series, logging 18 runs off 19 hits.

Following a 1-3 start, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team has found a recent groove by winning six of its last nine games to improve to 7-6 on the season.

Two of the wins came during a three-game stint in the Ringwood Festival. The Tigers, ranked 20th in Class 2A, beat 6A’s 16th-ranked Enid (9-8) and Hennessey (15-5) but lost 14-2 to Morrison, ranked second in Class 3A.

DIVORCES GRANTED

Tonja Truitt vs. Woodley Oren Truitt III.

Steven Ronald Fleming vs. Angela Keeton Fleming.

Charles Creighton Cornelison vs. Alyssa Michelle Cornelison.

Jennifer Lynn Egelhoff vs. Brian Roy Egelhoff.

Larry Herring II vs. Rhonda Herring.

Shane Kopepasah vs. Kristina Kopepasah.

Sloane Markwardt vs. Darren Markwardt.

LAWSUITS

Federal Mechanical Inc. vs. Riverside School District for $36,135 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Tyler Willoughby followed the crowd after graduating high school.

He enrolled in college, figuring that’s the next logical step. Slightly more than half of high school graduates start college, according to information supplied by colleges statewide. Census Bureau data shows one in four Oklahomans complete a bachelor’s degree or higher by age 25.

Willoughby, a Union City High School graduate, was relegated to a statistic when he dropped out of college. He said college was just not the right fit for him.

Canadian County’s domestic violence center is up and running – and a grant is again being sought to help fund operations.

Cardinal Point, a Family Justice Center for domestic violence victims, now occupies a 5,000-square-foot space inside the Canadian County Children’s Justice Center at 7905 E. Highway 66.

Cardinal Point Director Kristie Chandler and her staff work with resource partners offering programs to serve Canadian County residents.

In 2018, state lawmakers approved some of the largest tax increases in Oklahoma history, arguing a larger tax burden was required to increase teacher salaries, which politicians claimed were necessary to reduce teacher shortages. Lawmakers approved an average teacher pay raise of $6,100 in 2018 and added another $1,200 in 2019.

Indian Health Service, Clinton Service Unit (CSU) has moved into the third phase of the vaccination program for COVID-19. Clinton, El Reno and Watonga Indian Health Centers has extended COVID-19 vaccination priority to American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) and local non-Native community members 16 years of age and older.

The service unit, in partnership with Indian Health Service, is working to ensure the vaccine reaches Indian country as quickly and equitably as possible. As of March 12, 2021, CSU has vaccinated over 4,600 individuals.