When state schools were allowed to open preseason workouts July 15, El Reno High School volleyball coach Kristin Koehler faced a puzzling situation.

With the majority of her team at Falls Creek Church Camp for a week, Koehler had to choose between holding practices with a limited number of players or delay the start of workouts.

While scaled down dramatically from their life-sized crafts, size is about the only real difference between remote-controlled racing and the competitions found on either the drag boat or offshore powerboat circuits.

More than 100 R/C boat racers descended on Lake El Reno last week for the inaugural Oklahoma Shootout. They came from six different states, the furthest California, driving campers and pulling trailers filled with boats, supplies and replacement parts.

Jacquelyn Rae Nanette Vaught, age 93, passed away peacefully July 23, 2025, in El Reno. She was born June 2, 1932, in Union, Missouri. She was a member of First Christian Church of El Reno.  

Jacquelyn was the daughter of Alvin and Sue Diestelkamp. She was the wife of Wayne E. Vaught. 

She was preceded in death by her husband; two daughters, Christine Vaught and Terry Koehler; and by her siblings, Donald Diestelkamp and Glenda Terschluse.  

El Reno faced Union City in a home scrimmage last week.