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Several El Reno middle school students made history last week, becoming the youngest team ever to compete in an aviation competition at Oklahoma State University.

After holding a virtual ceremony for 2020 graduates last spring, Redlands Community College is celebrating the Class of 2021 with an in-person ceremony Friday, May 7 at Jenks Simmons Field House. Nearly 180 students will graduate with degrees.. The Class of 2021 also includes 30 nursing graduates.

Improvements will be made at El Reno parks and recreation courts after the city agreed to build several new pavilions and resurface basketball and tennis courts throughout town. Also, two pickleball courts will be added to the recreation inventory.

Elected leaders from Canadian County and El Reno are in talks to improve a stretch of road leading to the new Canadian County Expo and Event Center.

April 20 will be remembered as a historical day in Oklahoma for Indigenous people. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 172 into law, named Ida’s Law. Rep. Mickey Dollens first submitted Ida’s Law in December 2019 for the 2020 legislative session.

Canadian County OK’d two road projects on a county cooperative long-range plan.

Kent Lagaly, former El Reno fire chief and now assistant city manager, was honored recently by the Oklahoma Fire Chiefs Association with the J Ray Pence Award.

El Reno police took a man into custody on a complaint of second-degree arson. Jeremy Bush, 26, was arrested after police were called to the 1500 block of South Rock Island on April 13.

The Center of Family Love in Okarche will host its Gift of Love fundraising event on June 19. The event will be online and will celebrate the CFL’s 40th anniversary of serving as a home for intellectually disabled adults. The center was founded by the Knights of Columbus in 1981.

The Catholic Daughters of America donated 14 new car seats to El Reno’s Love the Children Center Inc. to be given to new parents to help keep their newborns safe while in a vehicle.