Burger Day is back.

Admittedly, it’s a slimmed-down Burger Day Festival, but it’s still about the fried-onion hamburger that El Reno made famous. And it will be held the first Saturday in May.

In early March the El Reno Main Street Board announced it would not host the Burger Day Festival for the second consecutive year. The festival was canceled in 2020 after COVID-19 forced people to stay away from one another.

Having just celebrated its 45th anniversary, El Reno Mobile Meals is bringing more than just hot meals to the table this year. With new ideas and plans under way, the organization recently welcomed its newly hired director, longtime chef Norman Sheridan.

El Reno Mobile Meals is a nonprofit organization that provides meals to anyone who is unable to prepare meals themselves.

Working solely with volunteers, meal packages are hand-delivered to the 125 recipients throughout the community.

El Reno School Board member Brad Baker gets his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine late last month. The district began giving the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine over the weekend and will continue throughout the week. (Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)

A 38-year-old El Reno man was killed Friday evening on I-40 after a tire blowout caused his vehicle to roll several times, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Ryan Hale was pronounced deceased at the scene of the accident that happened just after 6 p.m., one mile east of El Reno, near mile marker 127, the OHP said.

El Reno firefighters freed Hale from the 2005 Toyota Camry after he was pinned inside for more than two and a half hours, the OHP said.