Archie Miller, 22 months, uses a stick of blue chalk to add his touch to sidewalk flowers drawn during the Art in the Park event over the weekend at Gadberry Park.
The event is sponsored by the El Reno Arts Council.
The final event of the summer will be Aug. 4 at Legion Park from 1 to 3 p.m. It will feature chalk art and balloon-making fun.
The Canadian County OSU Extension Office will host the Central Oklahoma Wheat Conference on Thursday, Aug. 8.
There will be three ODAFF CEU credits for private pesticide applicators and research and demonstration credits pending.
The seminar will be held at the Education Building, 220 N. Country Club Road, and will begin at 8 a.m., with the first speaker at 8:30.
Kyle Worthington, Canadian County Extension director, said the wheat conference was planned around critical management decisions that Oklahoma wheat farmers are faced with annually.
WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party has just weeks before its delegates are scheduled to vote for a presidential candidate during a virtual roll call in early August, a process that got much more complex Sunday when President Joe Biden withdrew as the presumptive nominee.
The timeline, which was set in motion months ago, provides a small window for Democratic delegates throughout the 50 states to unify around any one candidate, an uphill battle, even with Biden endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Bode Mankin and Chayna Mankin, individually and as parents of Hutch Mankin, a minor child, vs. Erik Christensen and Jennifer Christensen for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged injuries and damages.
Carrington Mortgage Services LLC vs. David Ribble for $179,917.13 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 3, Block 8, Skyline Trails Addition Section 4, Oklahoma City.
There was no harm done to the buildings in downtown El Reno from the filming of the new Twisters movie.
Yet after the jaw-dropping climax to the sequel, released nationwide on Friday, viewers might think otherwise.
“It was surreal because what we saw on the screen after they added the special effects is completely different from what we saw when they were filming.
With the release of the new Twisters movie, downtown business owners are hopeful it will attract new customers after closing their shops to allow film crews to use their spaces.
Scenes filmed in the downtown area in the summer of 2023 forced the closure of several businesses. And while they were reimbursed for their lost business, there are still some mixed emotions.
On the bright side, businesses are hopeful the newfound exposure created by the movie will draw more people to the downtown area.
For years, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have worked to have property south of I-40 and just east of Country Club Road made part of Tribal Trust Land.
That work paid off as the just more than 93 acres have been officially designated C&A Trust property. The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) placed the land, known as the Denny property, into trust for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes during a ceremony last week.
How do you wear out a compact disc of the 1996 blockbuster movie Twister? It’s a one-word answer for Jessica and Tim Stegner.
“Research,” said Jessica.
The Guthrie couple are owners of one of two remaining trucks used in the original movie.
“I don’t know how many times for sure we watched the movie but we wore out the first DVD. I tried to play it a few months ago and it would not work,” said Tim.
The 1984 Jeep J10 Honcho was in El Reno for the special screening of Twisters, the long-awaited sequel to the original action flick.
From the Universal Studios website:
The epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous - and destructive - forces.
From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, has been named Senate Pro Tem designee after the Senate Republican Caucus voted on his nomination this week. Much of El Reno is included in Paxton’s Senate district.
