LAWSUITS
Silver Moon Energy Services LLC vs. Buoy and Co Pressure Washing LLC for $11,593.13 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
Silver Moon Energy Services LLC vs. Duran Enterprises LLC for $10,306.70 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
Ariahna Ruiz, on behalf of I.R., a minor child, vs. City of Mustang and Vera Rivera for an amount in excess of $10,000 for alleged actual and compensatory damages.
Amy Neathery had her work cut out for her.
As Ward 1 city council representative, some of her constituents were in a panic. Hollywood wanted to shut down a part of the downtown to film scenes for the new Twisters movie.
Probably the biggest movie coup El Reno has had since the 1980s when parts of Rain Man were filmed here.
Talk was, the Twisters filming could take as long as six weeks.
The independently-owned small businesses could not survive if this were allowed to happen. For some, June and July are some of their best months.
Organizers said last week’s El Reno Blessing Baskets Festival of the Trees, Christmas in July was “the best ever.”
The eighth year for the event helped raise more than $60,000 for the local organization, said Donna Dyer, Blessing Baskets Director of Community Relations.
“Our community is awesome, we raised over $60,000, everyone had fun for an awesome cause,” said Dyer.
The evening boasted approximately 80 silent auction items. Former El Reno Mayor Matt White provided auctioneer services, helping to move more than 40 live auction items.
The Oklahoma Indian Nation Pow-Wow will run Aug. 4-6 at Concho and organizer David Bearshield said the state’s oldest pow-wow is expected to draw thousands of participants and spectators.
This will be the 33rd year for the Indian Nation pow-wow.
The event will open Friday at 8 a.m. with a Language Day Camp at the RESPECT Gym at Concho.
ARCADIA — Singer-songwriters Rachel Lynch and Griffin Wade will present an Elm Tree concert at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6 at the Arcadia Round Barn.
The couple were married in March and live in Oklahoma City. She is from El Reno and he hails from San Marcos, Texas.
The Elm Tree Concert Series presents professional musicians performing beneath the shade of the giant elm tree on the north side of the Round Barn.
One more hurdle in the process was cleared when Canadian County commissioners approved a resolution for “intersection modifications” at Banner Road and State Highway 66.
The project agreement is between Canadian County District 1 and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
The estimated $400,000 project is on ODOT’s September bid letting schedule.
The resolution outlines ODOT’s engineering, land acquisition and construction responsibilities.
The intersection will become a permanent four-way stop, District 1 Commissioner Tom Manske said.
LAWSUITS
Discover Bank vs. Robert Velia for $10,421.10 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
Freedom Mortgage Corporation vs. Jeffery Everett for $199,314.71 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 4, Block 7, Westport West Addition, Yukon.
U.S. Bank N.A. vs. Christopher Ulery for $112,303.71 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 6, Block 1, Canadian Estates Addition, Mustang.
Actors and a filming crew from Boiling Point Media, based out of Oklahoma City, were back in El Reno last week to shoot scenes for the third installment of the Jurassic Pet series.
The movie, according to Boiling Point’s Chris Hoyt, is titled The Adventures of Jurassic Pet 3: Return to the Wild. It’s the second time parts of the city have been used as backdrops for the series.
Filming will return to locations in El Reno in early August.
Hoyt said the crew and actors are non-union and not affected by the current strikes in Hollywood by actors and screenwriters.
Truth matters.
The story of what really happened on Nov. 29, 1864, at the Sand Creek Massacre site in Eads, Colo., is being told through an exhibition titled “The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever.”
In a booming eastern Canadian County, families are a driving force of development.
Families move in for the schools, for the houses and for the communities, said Carol Hefner, the spokeswoman for a development that has landed a future amphitheater that will bring family entertainment to the area.
