Prayer service for Peter Marquez will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14 at St. John Nepomuk Church in Yukon, with Mass of Christian Burial on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John with Rev. Rex Arnold and Deacon John Teague officiating.

Burial will be in the El Reno Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Mr. Marquez died Sept. 7, 2020, at his home in Yukon. He was born Feb. 16, 1953, in El Reno and lived here until the early 1970s when he moved to Yukon.

Hollywood may be the “Entertainment Capitol of the World” but El Reno is quickly becoming the home away from home for movie-makers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For the third time since Oklahoma reopened its doors from the virus lockdown, production on a full-length movie was done at different locations in the city.

“I shot here in June and we were the first Screen Actors Guild crew to shoot here since COVID-19 hit. There are a ton of producers and directors working on movies in Los Angeles and you just get sick of the same look.

El Reno High School’s football team will close out the non-district portion of its schedule Friday night as the Indians travel down Interstate 40 to play the Weatherford Eagles.

It’s the second game of a back-to-back road swing for El Reno, which played at Piedmont last week. It’s the only time this season the Indians will have away games on consecutive weeks.

The series with Weatherford was renewed for a two-year cycle this season after Chickasha opted to drop El Reno from its 2020 schedule.

At 2:30 a.m., when most people are home fast asleep, members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Farm and Ranch crew were busy preparing for the arrival of the tribes new additions to a growing buffalo herd.

In mid-August, the C&A received delivery of two buffalo bulls by way of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribal reservation in Montana.

The bulls began their lives at the Yellowstone National Park and were moved to Fort Peck instead of being slaughtered as part of a population control measure.