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Canadian County commissioners have declined to renew membership in a regional economic development group.

The three-member board took no action last week on a request to pay $17,960 to the Oklahoma City Economic Development Foundation in fiscal year 2023 for the Greater OKC Partnership.

Neither District 2 Commissioner David Anderson nor District 1 Commissioner Marc Hader would second District 3 Commissioner Jack Stewart’s motion to continue Canadian County’s participation.

El Reno’s Centre Theatre will host the “Clean Jokes for Regular Folks” comedy tour.

The event will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18.

The show features the comedy of Edward Bell, Austin Black and Ben Dailey.

The show features only clean comedy, meaning no use of curse words or uncomfortable topics, according to information promoting the show.

The routines consist of “funny personal stories, interesting observations and silly thoughts that are entertaining.”

LAWSUITS

Shelter Mutual Insurance Company vs. Whilhmena Holt for $6,210.37 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Veronica L. McClane Delarosa for $1,840.23 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Synchrony Bank vs. Lisa Nichols for $4,731.54 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Dusan Bozovic for $3,041.52 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Nameplates and offices may have changed over the summer inside the El Reno Public Schools administration building, but incoming Superintendent Matt Goucher is quick to point out the mission remains the same.

“We will operate off four questions. What do we want them to learn? How are we going to know they learned it? What are we going to do if they didn’t learn it? And what are we going to do if they did learn it.

Welcome to school year 2022-23!

The excitement and hopeful anticipation I feel at the beginning of a new school year has never faded, even though I am about to begin my 31st year in education. I am particularly eager to kick off this year as I am now serving as superintendent.

There are so many accomplishments made during summer and I want to share some of them with our community, as our faculty and staff have been busy!

Dear El Reno High School families:

I hope this letter finds you refreshed and ready to begin a new school year.

I am excited, along with the dedicated and enthusiastic staff, to welcome back all of our students. We are even more committed to our philosophy of reaching “Every Student Every Day.”

This ties directly into our mission at El Reno Public Schools to “Ensure every student’s achievement and inspire excellence.” The first step in fulfilling this mission is to help every student feel welcomed, connected, and a part of our EHS family.

Dear Parents and Students,

Welcome to the 2022-23 school year! I would like to introduce myself, my name is Kurt Myers and this is my third year as principal at Etta Dale Junior High and will be my 26th year in education.

I have been a teacher, coach and administrator in school districts throughout Oklahoma and Texas. 

I can’t put into words the excitement that I have for the continued opportunity to serve the stakeholders of El Reno Public Schools.

El Reno Public Schools mission is to “Ensure every student’s achievement and inspire excellence.”