El Reno police are waiting on a report from the state medical examiner to learn what caused the death of a 29-year-old man.

Assistant Police Chief Major Kirk Dickerson said Kompton Otto Killsnight was found unconscious and unresponsive near the ATV track at Lake El Reno. Officers were called to the scene Friday, June 26 shortly after 3:30 p.m. When they arrived they found citizens performing CPR, trying to revive Killsnight.

A request from the parent company of Oklahoma Natural Gas for additional assurances from county officials that they will not build over a gas distribution line at the new county fairgrounds complex was denied last week.

ONG had sought an encroachment agreement on its rights-of-way on the site of the future facilities.

However, attorney Joe Weaver of the Bass Law Firm said the agreement was not needed because the county had already agreed to not build near the pipeline. It does, however, plan to create a parking lot over the pipeline, which is legal.

County officials are hoping to recoup some of the expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The money would come from Oklahoma’s portion of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

County commissioners, during their meeting Monday, authorized emergency management director Andrew Skidmore to begin the application process for reimbursement.

This summer seems determined to rival the summer of 2011 when we had record-breaking heat, excruciating long days of humid sweltering and little rainfall, allowing thousands of grasshoppers to thrive.

This year, along with a pandemic, we can add the hazy dust from Africa to the miserable mix.

The fact that dust traveled across the entire Atlantic Ocean to our landlocked state is amazing, and besides being hazy, it has caused breathing problems and those who garden may develop crusty eyes from irritation.