Funeral services for Jewel Dean Apple were held Monday at First Baptist Church with her son, Ray Apple officiating. Services were under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Jewel died May 5, 2021, at her home in El Reno. She was born April 4, 1938, in El Reno, daughter of Ulysses S. and Etta (Leathers) Sands. She was the plant operator for the El Reno Water Plant and the only woman to retire from the Public Works Department of the city of El Reno. Jewel was a member of Southern Heights Baptist Church.

El Reno has been named the first city in Oklahoma to achieve Film Friendly Community Certification, according to the Oklahoma Film and Music Office.

El Reno’s proposed city budget for the coming fiscal year will be in a word, flat.

City Manager Matt Sandidge will present the proposed Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget to the city council during a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“The future is bright for El Reno with new infrastructure, parks improvements, housing and businesses. However, before we discuss the future, we need to review this past fiscal year,” Sandidge wrote in a letter to members of the city council.

He said the past year has “contained uncertainties, challenges and natural disasters.”

It wasn’t your typical Burger Day, but it was outdoors, it had some cornhole and it was fun.

That was the thinking after El Reno celebrated the famous fried onion hamburger after a year hiatus.

Main Street Director Shana Ford said the day went off well with the inaugural cornhole tournament attracting 47 two-person teams. The winning team featured a 14-year-old cornhole whiz in Isabelle Surprenant of Enid and her partner, Mark Bitner.