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El Reno High School will be holding its annual All Sports Homecoming Festivities this Friday starting with a parade in downtown El Reno.

The Pride of El Reno Marching Band will lead the parade from the high school starting at 1:30 p.m.

The parade route will make a circle pattern through the downtown area and feature class floats and other entries.

El Reno High School Class of 1956 will have a float in the parade.

The queen and king crowning ceremony will start prior to the game with Lawton MacArthur at 6:20 p.m.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes teamed up with Indian Health Services and the city of El Reno to put on a drive-thru vaccine clinic last week inside Adams Park

Native American attendees could get free vaccinations against COVID-19, flu, shingles, diphtheria and other diseases.

The COVID-19 vaccine was also available to the general public.

Other single-day clinics will be held in the future.

The Second Annual El Reno Community Day and Fly-In at the El Reno Regional Airport was held over the weekend.

See Saturday’s Tribune for more coverage of the event.

Members of the U.S. Cavalry Association must show command on their horses as well as different forms of weapons during the annual National Competition at Fort Reno last week.

The horse-jumping event had three different classes with jump heights and gates depending on skill level of the rider and horse.

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The Rock Island overpass is officially open.

A ribbon cutting ceremony Friday afternoon celebrated the construction of the $10 million project, tabbed by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation as the U.S. 81 Rock Island Bridge.

The day featured the El Reno High School Marching Band along with more than a dozen classic automobiles driven over the bridge by the El Reno Cruisers Car Club.

The sounds of charging horses, rattling sabers and pistols firing returned to the parade grounds at Historic Fort Reno Wednesday as the 2021 U.S. Cavalry Association's Bivouac and National Competition returned.

The four-day event runs through Saturday, with daily events starting at 9 a.m.

“It’s good to be back,” said U.S. Cavalry Association President Bill Tempero.

The event was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the first time the competition was not held since the association moved its national headquarters to Fort Reno.

The husband of a Canadian County Jail inmate who died in custody is suing the county commissioners, sheriff, jail administrator and the jail’s medical provider.

Lesley Sara Hendrix, 27, died Oct. 12, 2020, at a hospital after suffering from a flesh-eating disorder called necrotizing fasciitis. She had been an inmate since January 2016 at the Canadian County Jail.

Hendrix was charged in Canadian County District Court in the death of a 23-month-old toddler she had been baby-sitting in November 2015.

Dan Galloway said he and his wife visited downtown Stillwater in 1992. That was before he became city manager for the Payne County municipality.

“There were maybe three stores open,” Galloway said.

He was talking last week to about a dozen people who had gathered in the Centre Theatre in downtown El Reno. They were there to hear and discuss the possibilities of creating a Business Improvement District for the downtown.

An El Reno man was taken into custody after police reportedly found him hiding in bushes in the 600 block of North Bickford, allegedly with a large machete and a bag of meth.

Reports said Quentel Eugene Perkins, 36, was arrested just before 1 a.m. on Sept. 14. Police had been called to the area on North Bickford after receiving reports that a man carrying a light was seen walking in the area.