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After losing five straight games to start the 2025 portion of its schedule, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team has flipped the script heading into the new year.

El Reno made the journey to the Oklahoma panhandle last week to defeat Guymon 72-40 in league play for its third straight victory.

The Indians are now 3-5 on the year.

More importantly, the 32-point win moves El Reno to 2-3 in the District 5A-2 standings. The Indians are now tied for fourth in the win column with Lawton (2-1).

El Reno siblings Shyann and Donnie Taylor jiggled and smiled as they played around in a box full of stuffed animals.

It’s the kind of carefree spirit that kids have during the holiday season and those happy faces and laughter is why Colsen Girty loved Christmas over any holiday.

“He loved Christmas, it was his favorite holiday,” said Colsen’s mother, Whitney Sides.

Colsen had a dream of one day buying a Christmas present for every child in the world. However, that dream was cut short by a 2021 auto accident which claimed the life of the 10-year-old.

The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field will open to the public beginning Jan. 10. 

Scott Law, manager of the El Reno Municipal Airport, said Tony Caldwell wants to gauge community interest in visiting the collection of historic airplanes housed at the airport. 

Starting Jan. 10, the museum will be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Caldwell opened the museum in early October.

The aviation museum features dozens of aircraft, mostly from what is considered the Golden Age of American aviation, the 1920s through the 1940s. 

El Reno police are seeking the public’s help to identify a body that was found last week in a condemned house on Sunset Drive. 

Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said police were called to the house at 501 Sunset Drive about 9:40 the morning of Dec. 11. City crews were at the address preparing for demolition when the body was discovered. 

Riverside instructor Mike Booher took a group of students to help El Reno Blessing Baskets last week.

The students helped pack boxes for the Christmas distribution.
 

Jace Abshire, Gracen Walker, Macen Moore, Colton Price, Korbyn Kraft, Maggie Calzada, Camryn Foster, Jett Marquez and Leyla Johnson.

Macen Moore stacks bags of fruit on a pallet.

During World War II, comedian Eddie Cantor began raising money for Christmas gifts to be sent to American military members hospitalized in England.

Over the 80 years since, the holiday drive kept going through the efforts of American Legion posts around the United States as well as high school students.

El Reno High School and American Legion Post 34 Auxiliary have been supporting the program from the outset and celebrated the 80th anniversary by raising $12,207 to purchase gifts for the men and women at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Oklahoma City.

Canadian County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) annual volunteer appreciation Christmas Jingle & Mingle was held last week at Christ’s Church of Yukon.

Executive Director Dana Lutz said the event helps the organization reach even more children. 

“We host the annual holiday party as an appreciation for our volunteers,” Lutz said.

“We provide gifts for the children on their caseload. If we have extras, they go to children in DHS (Department of Human Services) custody that don’t have a CASA volunteer.”

A bridge project serving the Banner community in Canadian County District 1 is due to be finished next spring.

The new bridge and approaches will be constructed along Banner Road over Purcell Creek just north of Highway 66.

County commissioners, at their weekly meeting Dec. 15, approved claim forms authorizing the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) to pay for services associated with this project.

The Oklahoma Aerospace and Aeronautics Commission voted Wednesday to allocate $490,900 to designs for a spacecraft hangar.

The commission’s decision comes after the state’s $17 million agreement with international space company Dawn Aerospace was approved earlier this year. The uncrewed plane is suborbital and can be used for life science research and defense.