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The 2023 Canadian County Junior Livestock Show was held at the Expo Center last week.

Youth from across the county showed livestock in pigs, goats, sheep and cattle.

When a tornado watch or warning is issued for El Reno, local residents will have a place to take shelter.

Last Sunday, severe weather was forecast for Oklahoma with the central part of the state in the path. That day, School Superintendent Matt Goucher said the four large underground shelters at school campuses were opened and made available to the public.

The only time the shelters will not be open to the general public is during normal school hours.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Paul Rosino, R-Oklahoma City, will host a remembrance vigil for Oklahomans who’ve lost loved ones from COVID-19.

Rosino said people are asked to gather before sunrise on the south plaza of the state Capitol on Monday, March 6 would have been his son, Gregory’s 36th birthday. He passed from COVID on July 4, 2021, one of nearly 18,000 Oklahoma deaths attributed to the virus since it first was detected in the state in 2020.

LAWSUITS

Bank United N.A. vs. Craig B. Smith for $154,435.15 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 10, Block 2, Rancho Acres Addition, Oklahoma City.

U.S. Bank N.A. vs. Brock Ramsey for $180,117.89 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 2, Block 7, Feddersen Addition Section 2, El Reno.

El Reno VFW Post 382 and Auxiliary will host a free breakfast for all veterans and their families.

The event will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 4 at the VFW.

VFW State Service Officer James Dockemeyer will be the speaker. The purpose of the breakfast is to get new changes explained to veterans and their families.

Some of these changes veterans may not be aware of yet, said Nancy Salsman.

El Reno police were told to be on the lookout for a white vehicle driven by a white female with a black male passenger after the pair had allegedly robbed a convenince store west of El Reno.

The hold-up, police said, took place at mile marker 108 on I-40 at about 11:35 p.m. Feb. 19.

What police didn’t know until an officer spotted it was that the vehicle was traveling the wrong way along the I-40 loop just west of the Federal Correctional Institution.

A 27-year-old El Reno man remains in the Canadian County Jail while a first-degree murder case filed against him is in limbo, pending a March 20 hearing.

Kyler Wayne Barber is accused in the fatal stabbing of Adam Lee Frogge, 35, of Oklahoma City.

He faces a single count of first-degree murder with deliberate intent and is being held without bail.

El Reno police investigators said officers were called to a home in the 700 block of South Rock Island Avenue in the early morning hours of Sept. 18, 2022.

SAN DIEGO - Petty Officer 2nd Class Cameron Wahweah, a native of El Reno, serves aboard the U.S. Navy warship, USS Boxer, home-ported in San Diego, Calif.

Wahweah, a 2018 El Reno High School graduate, joined the Navy two years ago. “I joined the Navy to travel,” said Wahweah.

“Eventually, I want to go back to school, and the Navy will help pay for my education.” Skills and values learned in the Navy are similar to those found in El Reno.

Canadian County CASA will hold a banquet, awards ceremony and auction on Thursday, March 30 beginning at 6 p.m.

The event will be held at the Dale Robertson Center, 1200 Lakeshore Drive, Yukon.

Tickets are $30 per person or $15 for CASA volunteers.

To purchase tickets, RSVP at 405-264-5508 or at dana@canadiancountycasa.org.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Reps. Mark McBride, R-Moore, and Rhonda Baker, R-Yukon, called on State Superintendent Ryan Walters to hire a chief financial officer for the Oklahoma State Department of Education immediately to take care of the needs of state public school students.

“With federal grant application deadlines looming, Oklahoma school superintendents are worried about having these critical dollars to continue to serve the needs of their students,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement.