Glenda Rose DeSantis, 69, was born June 4, 1951, in El Reno to Virgil Glenn Atwood and Della Amanda Scull Atwood. She passed peacefully on July 30, 2020, at her home in El Reno after a brief fight with colon cancer.   

Glenda taught art at Sacred Heart Catholic School and was the Director of Religious Education for Sacred Heart Catholic Church for many years before retiring. She received her master’s degree in art from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and the American Legion Auxiliary.

On the advice of local and state health officials, El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Craig McVay has opted to push forward with the district’s plan to hold in-person classes.

Using the Emergency Power Declaration passed by the El Reno Board of Education in March at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, McVay made the decision to hold in-person classes as well as push back the start of the school year. The school year will now begin Aug. 20.

A quick-acting adult was able to pull a child from Four Mile Creek after the girl slipped into the fast-moving water.

El Reno Assistant Police Chief Ken Dickerson said officers were called to the area of North Grand and Comanche after a 911 call reported the young girl had fallen into the creek. The child, whose age or name was not released, was reportedly swept downstream before an adult in the area was able to pull her out.

The adult was not identified.

Rafe Goucher put his health on the line for football as he and 73 other high school players statewide took part in the 2020 Oklahoma Football Coaches Association’s All-State Game.

It was by design.

“We had our first practice in Kingfisher two days earlier and they told us this was the first 11-man football played in Oklahoma since the state championships.

“They said this would go a long way to determining how football season would go this year for high schools. I didn’t mind being a guinea pig as long as I got to play football,” said Goucher.