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Candidates for the Board of Education in 11 Canadian County school districts will file their Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 7, and continuing Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 8 and 9, according to Canadian County Election Board Secretary Wanda Armold.

Armold said the official filing period ends at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9.

All candidate filings will occur at the Canadian County Election Board, 200 S. Bickford Ave.

The Craft Brewers Association of Oklahoma (CBAO), in partnership with Equity Brewing, is announcing the inaugural Oklahoma Pint Days Nov. 28-29 to celebrate Shop Small Saturday and Small Brewery Sunday.

Craft beer fans can get their limited-edition collector’s glassware exclusively at 28 breweries across the state, including Expedinture Brewery in Okarche.

Each glass is $10 and comes with one free beer of the brewery’s choice. The glass is yours to keep and collect.

LAWSUITS

Bank of America N.A. vs. James M. Kinuthia for $5,385.17 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Christy Mackey for $8,740.41 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Jefferson Capital Systems LLC vs. Sylvia Wilcox for $9,843.91 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Tinker Federal Credit Union vs. Sandra L. Watz and James L. Smith for $6,696.73 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Less than a year after pulling up stakes and leaving El Reno, energy giant Halliburton is looking to hire employees at its Duncan operation.

The Duncan Area Economic Development Authority sent out a press release last week saying Halliburton is looking to fill numerous positions within the company.

In December of 2019, Halliburton announced it was leaving the El Reno campus on SH 66 and moving its operation back to Duncan from where it had relocated a few years earlier. No explanation was given for the move and about 800 people were quickly looking for new employment.

Emilie McReynolds has loved looking at the sky since she was a little girl. She especially was drawn to gazing upward when the storm clouds would roll across Oklahoma.

So fascinated by the weather was McReynolds, she enrolled in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma after graduating from El Reno High School in 2017.

McReynolds was honored recently, winning first place in the National Weather Festival Photo Contest for 2020.

She dubbed the photo she took of a storm developing in southwest Kansas “The Mother Ship.”

The Jonny and Mary Ellison family of Calumet recently was honored with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee’s District Three Farm and Ranch Family Recognition.

The Ellisons, with their two grown children, Luke and Regan, operate a cow/calf and stocker cattle operation, along with growing wheat and hay in Canadian County.

The family also operates a custom harvest and baling/swathing business for area producers.

Raising their children in rural Oklahoma and around agriculture has always been important to Jonny and Mary.

The man charged with leaving his young son to die in a pickup on an August day in 2018 will be sentenced for his crime on Tuesday after waiving his right to a jury trial.

Adam Kolar is charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 3-year-old son, Ryker.

Assistant District Attorney Eric Epplin said Kolar will enter a plea and be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Canadian County District Court.

A jury trial for Kolar had been scheduled in Canadian County District Court, but it was postponed.

Crisp November air creates a light fog over Lake El Reno. Mild temperatures were enjoyed the past several days although a brief cold snap is expected to arrive over the weekend. The Thanksgiving holiday is expected to be in the 60s. (Courtesy photo)

The El Reno Community Chorus is preparing for its upcoming concerts, Songs of Hope, Peace and Comfort, to be performed Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 22 at 2:30 p.m.

Over the summer, our long wait for a new home was realized when we were able to finalize arrangements with St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church in Yukon.

When we could no longer rehearse at Redlands Community College in El Reno because of new hours and fees, we searched for a place where we could rehearse and perform with our own piano and which would also house our music library.