Matt White is leaving City Hall, but last week he said he wants to go back to school … to serve on the El Reno School Board.
White announced he plans to run for the vacant school board seat created when Dallas Curtis had to resign from the board after moving outside of the district. He made the announcement at the El Reno Now gathering, an event he and former school superintendent Craig McVay created in 2017.
Following long-standing tradition, El Reno High School held its Veterans Day Salute on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
The student-driven event recognized all veterans attending and their service branches, as well as a special tribute to the EHS Veterans of the Year.
For more than 50 years, Helen Miner taught El Reno students to sing.
She was an El Reno Public Schools institution.
For that, she is being honored with only the second Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the El Reno Public Schools Foundation. She is scheduled to receive the honor at the Nov. 29 Distinguished Alumni Banquet.
Miner will join World War II hero, Charles Clark “Sonny” Kegelman, attorney Mark Henricksen, architect and businessman Darin Miller and educator/administrator Matt Goucher at the banquet honoring them as Distinguished Alumni.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Kacie Deyo, 30, formerly of Yukon, pleaded guilty last week to accepting bribes while serving as a correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution, said U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
Deyo was charged with one count of accepting a bribe by a public official.
Deyo worked at the FCI from November 2016 through January 2022.
Similarly to how people recall where they were when 9/11 occurred or perhaps where they were when Elvis died, everybody has a relational story of the emotions aroused when they first learned of the potential impact COVID-19 was going to have on our lives.
Kinber Roberts recalls the frustration she felt after COVID led to a nationwide shutdown of many businesses, social activities and even schools in March 2020.
Roberts, 34, of El Reno, had been placed on a waiting list for enrollment into the Practical Nursing program at Canadian Valley Tech Center.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Carl Anthony Pendleton II, 37; Tegan Nicole Adcox, 33.
James Edward Berrier, 41; Melissa Sueann Lavallee, 42.
Hunter Corbin Engle, 22; Hannah Ashley Parker, 25.
Stephen Allen Bubb, 24; Sydney Rayan Montesano, 23.
Danny Scott Reid, 57; Tabitha Katrina Spiegel, 43.
Ryan Mitchell Jones, 29; Leiana Marie Frazier, 28.
Jose Balmore Menjivar Vega, 46; Teisha Nicole Bare, 32.
Kendra L. Kennedy, 38; Stevee Summer Stidham, 40.
Joshua Christopher Howard, 40; Misty Joann Patterson, 42.
Steve Jensen easily won election in the race to succeed Matt White as mayor of El Reno, besting political newcomer Phillip Church by more than 1,800 votes.
Jensen will be joined on the city council by another political newcomer, David Black, after Black defeated Kevin Marr in the Ward 3 council race. That contest was won by Black by more than 200 votes.
And Associate District Judge Bob Hughey defeated challenger Rachel Bussett, garnering more than 55 percent of the vote.
Hughey had a county-wide vote total of 25,152 to 19,910, or just over 44 percent for Bussett.
As early voting in the 2022 midterm wrapped up, something was clear – the turnout was one for the record books.
“We were absolutely amazed and happy about the turnout this year in terms of early/in-person voting and the number of absentee by mail responses we’ve had,” Canadian County Election Board Acting Secretary Allen Arnold said.
“It was a huge increase from anything we’ve seen before.”
The El Reno City Council last week adopted a plan designed to transform Sunset Drive from Choctaw to Country Club as the “official vision of the city.” Council also said farewell to two long-serving members.
The Sunset vote was unanimous and could possibly move the city closer to making the changes recommended in the plan that was created by the University of Oklahoma Institute for Quality Communities with direction from Oklahoma City architect Michael Hoffner of Hoffner Design Studios.
Historic Fort Reno will host the annual German-Italian POW Memorial Service on Sunday, Nov. 13 beginning at 2 p.m.
A brief service will be held at the Visitors Center and Museum, followed by the wreath presentation for the German and Italian POWS at the Post Cemetery.
Light snacks and hot drinks will follow served back at the Visitors Center and Museum.
