The annual Letter Carrier Food Drive is returning to El Reno after taking a two-year hiatus because of the COVID pandemic.
Janice Cox, a postal employee who coordinates the Letter Carrier Food Drive in El Reno, said the collection will take place May 14.
“It’s always the second Saturday in May,” Cox said.
Begun in 1993 by the National Letter Carriers Association, the food drive is especially important to The Lord’s Harvest food ministry in El Reno.
Gerardo Troncoso has been named Great Plains Bank El Reno branch president.
In a statement, the bank said Troncoso’s promotion comes after the recent Great Plains Bank branch opening in Yukon, where previous branch president Chase Tippens has been promoted to Yukon market president.
Troncoso has been in the banking industry for 10 years, with the last two years spent at Great Plains Bank as a senior vice president, commercial lender in El Reno.
Canadian County lawyers William Flanagan and Jack Dawson were honored by fellow attorneys and judges last week for 50 years as members of the Oklahoma Bar Association.
Both lawyers made speeches and introduced family members in attendance before refreshments were served.
The annual Holy Trinity Catholic School Track Meet attracted more than 350 participants from Holy Trinity, Sacred Heart, El Reno, St. Charles in Oklahoma City and St. John Nepomuk in Yukon.
El Reno Fire Chief Jason Duff uses hand signals to guide the ladder operator into position to allow him to take down the Burger Day Festival banner over Rock Island Avenue that was damaged by high winds in April.
Opinions on Oklahoma’s weather are often more variable than the weather itself.
Some Oklahomans will look back on April 2022 and remember the seven confirmed tornadoes that touched down, although that is still below the long-term average of 11.7 for the month.
Many others will remember drought that saw both intensification in the northwest and improvement across the southeast.
There is one aspect of this April’s weather that would unite most Oklahomans, however — the wind.
MUNICIPAL COURT
Naomi Davidson, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.
Michael Everett Sweezy, Mustang, failure to appear warrant, $295.
Thomas Morton, Calumet, failure to maintain single lane and driving under suspension, $570.
Thomas Christopher Morton Jr., El Reno, driving under suspension and failure to appear warrant, $690.
Mileena Kay Horse, El Reno, obstructing an officer, $845.
Kameron Capone Wallace, Yukon, failure to appear warrant, $295.
El Reno High School held its 2022 prom recently at The Festivities, located in downtown El Reno. This year’s theme was “A Night Under the Stars,” with 310 tickets being sold for the event.
Students arrived for the Grand March which included a walk down the red carpet. The line waiting to arrive for the march was four vehicles wide and stretched for three blocks.
Clara Bushyhead died in early January after battling cancer. She would have turned 58 in July.
On Saturday, her life will be remembered and honored as the Main Stage at El Reno’s Burger Day Festival is dedicated in her memory.
Bushyhead of El Reno was an active member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
She represented the C&A on a number of boards and was very involved in building community relations.
BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center recently held its annual Agriscience Symposium at Redlands Community College.
Established in 2015, BlueSTEM students have for the past several years displayed posters explaining their agriscience projects at the symposium and this year was no different.
Students from El Reno, Yukon and Calumet high schools are enrolled in BlueSTEM, a collaborative effort between the USDA, area high schools and other partners such as Redlands.
