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MUNICIPAL COURT Jeffrey Carl Moeller, Okarche, expired tag, $165. Calvin Jay Jarrell, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295. Richard Allen Knight, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295. Lucas Dean Russell, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

El Reno VFW Post 382 and Auxiliary are partnering with Feed the Children to provide free groceries and hygiene products to local families. The event will be Friday, Dec. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. outside the VFW, 1515 S. Rock Island.

Robert Edgar Monday Jr., also known as Bob, was an Aviation Radioman First Class for the U.S. Navy during World War II. A graduate of El Reno High School in 1936, he passed away on Nov. 11, 1944, due to a head injury sustained in an earlier incident while in the service. He was 26 years old.

A brisk north wind greeted the annual Christmas parade in downtown El Reno on Saturday. People lined Rock Island and Bickford as the El Reno High School Marching Band and the Heritage Express Trolley led the colorful parade.

El Reno High’s drama department turned the parking lot into its own Bedford Falls for a live radio broadcast of It’s a Wonderful Life last week.  

City Manager Matt Sandidge called the latest housing permit numbers issued for El Reno “impressive.” Community Development Director Shelly Dalla Rosa released the figures last week. With one month left in 2021, El Reno so far has issued 147 permits for new housing.

A new Canadian County district map has been finalized. State law requires all counties in Oklahoma to be divided into three districts “as equal in population as practical,” according to an amended resolution approving county commissioner district boundaries.

On Tuesday, hundreds of visitors from Oklahoma and across the United States gathered at the USS Oklahoma Memorial to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Though you won’t be able to see them, dinosaurs will be walking the streets of El Reno. Filming for a Lionsgate live-action movie titled “The Adventures of Jurassic Pets: The Lost Secrets” is set to begin in downtown El Reno and other locations around the city Dec. 18.

Rev. Aaron Kotila arrived in El Reno in September of 2020. The new pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church got here just in time to experience a crippling ice storm in October as well as the lingering and at times, devastating local effects of COVID-19.