Charles and Cherlyn “Cherri” (Maass) Brandley celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on March 24, 2021.

They were married at the Oklahoma County Courthouse by Judge Charles Halley in 1971 and later celebrated with friends and family with a reception at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Yukon.

Witnesses at the wedding were Rex and Martha Coit, who remain great friends today.

Each of us as individuals would probably find it a fairly easy task to define what patriotism means to us, and in various geographic locations, many of the definitions would look very similar.

However, today we would also find in various geographic locations, the definition would look very different if there was a definition at all.

What do Pepé Le Pew and a high school student in Las Vegas have in common? Both are targets of adherents of Marxist-derived “critical race theory” and its offshoots — and many Oklahomans could soon join them.

Pepé Le Pew drew attention when a New York Times columnist, soon joined by other critics, complained the cartoon skunk “normalizes” rape culture.

That the female cat in the cartoons is always fearfully, frantically trying to escape Pepé’s embrace is proof, they say.

Aided by the first league title under head coach Jennifer Douglas, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team was awarded seven positions on the 2021-All-Suburban Conference Team.

Surprisingly, though, Douglas was not named the league’s Coach of the Year despite taking El Reno to the state semifinals for the second time in three seasons with a 15-6 record and a No.5 ranking in the final Class 5A poll. That honor went to Carl Albert’s Kyle Richey.