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The annual Distinguished Alumni Banquet will honor three EHS alums Nov. 18. The event will be at 6 p.m. at the Canadian Valley Career Tech. Tickets are $30 and are available at BancFirst, Great Plains Bank and at the door. 

The alumni to be honored are Marty Hall, Dr. Rhys Cole and the late David Eaton. 

Hall and Eaton started working early at El Reno fried onion burger establishments, while Cole was involved in agriculture at an early age.

The 14th Annual Canadian County Veterans Day Parade was held in El Reno Sunday.

The parade had floats, the El Reno High School Band and salutes to veterans.

See story in Saturday’s edition.

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El Reno High School students have researched and written about veterans with local ties who have served this nation over the many years.

Students in Brian Rukes’ AP English 3 class spent weeks pouring through records and finding details about these American veterans, many who gave their lives in the line of duty.

The Tribune is honored to share some of these articles with our readers in today's edition that includes a special tribute to Veterans Day.

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part look at Tuesday night’s candidate forum featuring races for El Reno mayor and Ward 2 city council. The candidates fielded a number of questions, this is a look at the first few. Part 2 will run in the Wednesday, Nov. 12 Tribune.

Candidates for El Reno mayor and the Ward 2 city council seat covered a number of topics Tuesday night at a forum leading up to the Nov. 18 municipal election. 

El Reno High School has seen graduates serve in most branches of the U.S. military, but few households can match the influence of the Marion Conner family.

Ten family members, spanning three generations, have answered the call to defend this nation over a 53-year period.

It’s that commitment to service that has earned the family the 2025 El Reno High School Veteran of the Year Award. The Conners will be honored Tuesday during the school’s annual Veterans Day Assembly.

Public safety was the focus when Canadian County Sheriff Chris West traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Donald Trump and cabinet members for a Homeland Security Committee meeting.

Sheriff West, president of the National Sheriffs Association (NSA), joined incoming NSA Executive Director Justin Smith for a roundtable at the White House to discuss the administration’s efforts to combat cartels as well as drug and human trafficking.

Acknowledging their decision was practically a toss-up, Canadian County commissioners selected a company to conduct the county’s bridge inspections for a two-year period.

Commissioners voted 3-0 Monday to use CEC Corporation of Oklahoma City to perform routine bridge safety inspections in the county from April 1, 2026, to March 31, 2028.

Commissioners recently interviewed vendors from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s pre-qualified bridge inspector list.

On May 18, 53-year-old Carl Kachel stepped into line for a routine blood sugar check in the Cleveland County Detention Center. They turned out to be his last steps.

Jailed on a 16-year-old Jackson County warrant with a $1,000 bond, Kachel’s end came after a string of evictions that also began in 2009. The last one on record was filed on Dec. 2, 2020, by Brigid Kennedy, one of thousands she filed in central Oklahoma that year.  

El Reno Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will be taking part in the annual Scouting for Food collection effort. 

Beth Griesel is coordinating the effort. Residents are asked to place plastic bags filled with non-perishable food items near the mailbox or curb prior to 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.

Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts will be working with adults to collect the bags. Griesel said if a bag has not been collected by noon on Saturday, she can be reached either by calling or texting 405-590-3516 and arrangements will be made to collect the bag.