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A jury trial is expected in a lawsuit filed over a woman’s fall near the Canadian County Jail.

Mustang’s Pamela Smith is plaintiff in the civil suit against Canadian County commissioners and the city of El Reno. Both defendants deny they are negligent.

The court action stems from injuries Smith sustained in April 2019, after allegedly stumbling and falling on “broken and uneven sidewalk” in front of the old jail building at the corner of Evans Avenue and Rogers Street.

The first ever Honoring Hope luncheon was named appropriately.

About 200 people gathered at the new Canadian County Expo Center last week to learn why supporting Cardinal Point is most definitely a way to honor hope.

Cardinal Point is the Family Justice Center created in Canadian County to help victims of domestic violence. It’s only the fourth such center in Oklahoma. Since opening earlier this year, Cardinal Point has already assisted 256 people victimized by domestic abuse.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes has officially acquired the Best Western El Reno.

Lucky Star Hospitalities LLC (LSH), a solely tribally-owned Limited Liability Company of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, closed the purchase of the 60-room Best Western El Reno, 2701 S. Country Club Road.

The purchase represents a strategic expansion into the hospitality industry for the Tribes and their Lucky Star Casinos, said Gov. Reggie Wassana.

The El Reno Fire Department was performing a yearly pump test on its ladder truck and several other units.

According to firemen, the required tests are performed by siphoning water out of the lake with special hoses and then spraying the water back into the lake and monitoring the pressure and temperature of the trucks during the process.

Canadian County’s domestic violence center has been awarded a $492,576 federal grant that offers some financial sustainability.

These grant funds, through the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women, will be accepted over four years to support operations at the Cardinal Point Family Justice Center.

The grant program is titled “Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking.”

Two Calumet residents took part in the Great American Relay over the weekend.

Shawn Davis ran from El Reno’s Heroes Plaza to the Calumet Y, while Lindy Renbarger took the baton and ran from the Y to Cherokee Trading Post. Both runners traveled down Historic Route 66.

The El Reno Fire Department, Calumet Volunteer Fire Department and the Calumet Police Department provided escorts for the run.

The Great American Relay is a coast-to-coast relay consisting of 415 stages covering 3,500 miles over 38 days and 18 states.

On Sept. 29 at approximately 1 p.m., El Reno police were called to BancFirst, 2000 S. Country Club Road, in reference to a bomb threat.

The threat was made by phone. Police reports said the caller was believed to be a younger male who made references to destroying the bank.

Bank employees and customers were evacuated from the building.

El Reno’s Frontier Chevrolet donated $10,000 last week to El Reno Public Schools.

Presenting the check, front row from left, Frontier’s Shane Tuck and Stacey Gaylord, ERPS’ Brooke Robertson, Frontier’s Linda Cosgrove and Debbie Denwalt, ERPS’ Matt Goucher and Frontier’s Kyle Smith. Back row, Frontier’s Jana Ferguson and Mindy Tech and ERPS Superintendent Craig McVay.

Paul Hobbs, 44, of Yukon, was arrested Aug. 10 at his workplace in Ada on charges of possession of child pornography.

Hobbs was taken into custody after an investigation by the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children sent a tip to the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office regarding Hobbs uploading child pornography to the Internet cloud. The images that were uploaded contained children as young as 6 years old being forced to pose nude.

DIVORCES GRANTED

Nadia Jones vs. Robert Carl Jones.

Rebecca Ruth Yacyszyn vs. Kevin Wayne Yacyszyn.

Megan Van Vechten vs. Nicholas Van Vechten.

Brandon Joe Box vs. Ashley Leann Box.

Laurie Blalock Bennett vs. Matthew Bennett.

Tarek Samara vs. Ilona D. Samara.

Amanda L. Hickman vs. John R. Hickman.

Monica Nicole Ramey vs. Blake R. Ramey.

Kendra Lynn Kennedy vs. Samantha Dawn Kennedy.

Mandy Lee Buchman vs. Jason Michael Bushman.

Mary Janaan Hensley vs. James Quintin Hensley.