After responding to emergencies during the day, members of El Reno’s police and fire departments converged on another call last week – to help children in the city have presents for Christmas.

With the help of El Reno Walmart, the first responders were able to help more than two dozen kids purchase gifts for themselves or family members through the annual Shop With a Cop program.

New housing developments going up in El Reno will have some noticeable differences in that sidewalks are visible, while utility lines are nowhere to be found. That’s because they are buried.

Mayor Matt White addressed the issues during last week’s El Reno Live program.

The event runs at 3 p.m. each Thursday and can be found at the City of El Reno Facebook site, as well as the Facebook site of the El Reno Tribune.

Because of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the program is scheduled to run next on Jan. 7.

The city of Yukon has hired El Reno attorney Roger Rinehart to serve as that city’s municipal attorney. Rinehart has held the same position in El Reno and said he will continue to do so.

Yukon City Council approved a contract with Rinehart, Rinehart & Rinehart, P.C., for Roger Rinehart’s services as city attorney. He’ll begin Jan. 1.

The attorney-client agreement signed last week is for an annual contract at a rate of $7,000 per month. Judge Gary Miller has been serving as the city attorney for Yukon. His final day to serve is Dec. 31.

Calling it an “early Christmas present,” El Reno city officials were pleased with the news the city, along with other areas of Canadian County, have been declared a disaster following the late October ice storm.

The news was received Monday that President Trump had declared that a major disaster exists in the state of Oklahoma and ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected.