During the Canadian County Fair Family Night festivities, Kate Kearby of Piedmont and Joan Herr of El Reno were recognized with the 2021 Outstanding Canadian County Citizen Awards.

Kearby and Herr were presented with a certificate and the top winning cookie jar fair entries, made by Underwood OHCE and Sunshine OHCE Groups.

Kearby was nominated by Jim and Judy Swaim and below is what they wrote:

A group of people involved in the million-dollar renovation of Memorial Stadium gathered last week to celebrate the improvements.

A few hours later they learned the El Reno High School football game scheduled for Friday night would be canceled because of COVID.

School board members Dallas Curtis, Brad Baker and Curtis Blanc were on hand for the celebration. Curtis was singled out by Superintendent Craig McVay for his efforts in pushing the project forward.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Researchers from the University of Oklahoma and OU Health have detected a major increase of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage samples collected in the state’s metropolitan areas, which predicted the current surge in COVID-19 cases across the city and the state as a whole.

Over the past two weeks, the concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 in the different samples from wastewater-treatment plants have been anywhere from 33 to 67 times higher than when they were measured in May.

Take away a horrific start and El Reno High School’s softball team outplayed and outscored Guthrie in the first game of a key District 5A-2 matchup at the Ashbrook North complex.

However, the Indians could not overcome the 13 runs given up to the Bluejays in the first three frames, leading to an 18-8 setback.

The loss dropped El Reno to 3-7 on the season and kept the Indians in the fifth-place spot in the league standings at 1-3. Guthrie improved to 8-1 in 5A-2 action and maintained its hold on the No.2 position.