The fifth annual El Reno Air Show and Community Day turned out to be exactly that, a celebration of community and aviation, enthusiastically topped off by the grand opening of the Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field.
Tony Caldwell, the Oklahoma City businessman who brought his vision for showcasing America’s love for aviation to life in a restored 1943 hangar at the airport, said the day was all about family and community.
El Reno voters will decide a more than $69 million school bond issue on Tuesday, Oct. 14
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Voters living within the district will decide on the proposed $69.5 million request, which is broken up into two proposals.
There are 8,287 registered voters in the district, information from the county election board shows.
State law requires 60 percent majority approval for passage of school bond issues.
El Reno school officials held two public meetings to field questions about the bond proposal.
In a solemn and historic undertaking more than two years in the making, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, in partnership with the U.S. Army, have begun the sacred process of returning 16 children with Cheyenne and Arapaho bloodlines to their homelands.
The disinterment began Sept. 8 at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Canadian County’s domestic violence agency since 1986, Intervention & Crisis Advocacy Network (ICAN) is observing Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.
ICAN, which will have its 40th anniversary in 2026, now has staff members at two locations in Canadian County. ICAN’s program house is in El Reno and ICAN is the on-site domestic violence service provider at Cardinal Point Family Justice Center in Yukon.
