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LAWSUITS

Freedom Mortgage Corporation vs. Isabel Garcia and Mario Garcia for $174,073.40 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lots 9 and 10, Block 3, Jensen’s Addition, El Reno.

Arvest Bank vs. Dakotah Henderson for $34,843.25 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

U.S. Bank N.A. vs. Delvon Colbert for $10,369.73 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. David Jackson for $10,551.80 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

A long abandoned and now dilapidated motel on Sunset Drive appears to be coming down after El Reno City Council voted to level the property.

The unanimous vote to bring the property at 2408 Sunset Drive down was applauded by a representative from the nearby El Reno Bowl.

The new owner of the bowling alley, David Dunn, had said when he purchased the business last year he almost passed on the investment because of the dilapidated and vacant motel.

The stories are all different, unique in their own way.

But there’s no mistaking the common denominator that brings all of them together for one special night - love.

The Sixth Annual Night to Shine Prom held last week drew dozens of happy, dancing participants and even more happy and dancing volunteers, escorts and buddies.

Night to Shine has been hosted in El Reno by First Baptist Church along with El Reno Public Schools.

An array of community volunteers join in to create a very special evening for very special people.

Rose Witcher Learning Center resumed classes Feb. 13 at the school after being displaced for a week by a natural gas leak.

The leak was discovered Jan. 30 when maintenance crews entered the boiler room to repair a water leak. That leak came from a pipe on one of the school’s drinking fountains.

What they found was a leaking natural gas pipe, as well.

El Reno was blanketed with another round of winter weather last week with snow forcing the cancellation of school throughout the county on Feb. 12.

The wet snow was good for packing as snowmen, like this family of three on Choctaw Avenue, popped up all around the city.

However, temperatures rebounded a day later under the bright sun which caused the snowmen to melt and drop all their accessories like this snowman’s carrot nose (foreground).

Some 2,800 farmers and ranchers across Canadian County will be celebrated for their work putting food on people’s tables. County commissioners proclaimed Feb. 19-23 as Farm Bureau Week in Canadian County.

Longtime Canadian County farmer and rancher David VonTungeln, who accepted the proclamation, said this annual observance helps promote rural life and agriculture across Oklahoma.

“The Farm Bureau is the largest farm organization in Oklahoma, representing about 80,000 members,” said VonTungeln, secretary of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s board of directors.

El Reno cleaned up at the recent American Quarter Horse Association Awards with two longtime residents winning top honors for their dedication to the industry.

Floyd E. “Butch” Wise was named for the third time as winner of the Gordon Crone Special Achievement Award, while Robin Glenn was named for the first time as the winner of the Mildred N. Vessels Special Achievement Award.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, highlighted the January report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released last week showing food prices rose nearly 4 percent over the last year.

LAWSUITS

Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs. Hunter Ross for $99,152.82 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 13, Block 2, Belisle Addition, Yukon.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation vs. Brett Jones and Dyrinda Tyson-Jones for $56,109.14 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 11, Block 163, Westbury Addition, Oklahoma City.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Brian Twyman for $18,506.49 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

If the weather cooperates, crews working to replace the bridge on Watts just west of Reno should be finishing up in April.

Amy Smith, streets superintendent for the city of El Reno, said the work began in early January, but several days were lost to rain.

“We were off to a slow start due to the rainy January weather we had, but it seems to be running smoothly now,” Smith said.

The contract calls for EMC Services to have the bridge replaced within 90 work days.