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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Nathan Braudrick. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Sunday: Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Evening worship begins at 5:30 p.m. Young adults gather at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday: Wednesday services include 7 p.m. Bible Study, and youth group also meets at 7 p.m. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at...
Holy. It’s a word we shy away from. It seems too daunting, too strict, too boring, too demanding. We use it as a put down: “holier than thou,” as if holiness is a bad thing, something to keep well more than arm's length away. Even within the Church, we think of holiness as something beyond us, something we shouldn’t even want. But I believe holiness is actually what our world is longing for. Most of the time we think of holiness like a white suit. It’s impractical. You can’t wear a white suit just anywhere. You have to be cautious because dir...
Family and community, these difficult times have disrupted our lives as we have never seen before. We are to be socially distant and stop all the hugs, and wear a mask and hide all the smiles. Love is all around, but harder to experience. Comfort and encouragement are needed by everyone. The Bible offers comfort, encouragement, enlightenment and love. The family of College Hill Church of Christ invites this community to read the entire Bible with us in 2021. We have a 52-week schedule to follow that will take us all the way through the...
Agricultural producers and private landowners interested in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) can sign up for the popular program until Feb. 12. The competitive program, administered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), provides annual rental payments for land devoted to conservation purposes. “This sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program gives producers and landowners an opportunity to enroll for the first time or continue their participation for another term,” FSA State Director Scott Biggs said. “This program encourages conserv...
Funeral services for Chester Shelite are pending at Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....
Johnnie R. Sharp (John), 84, passed away at his home in Amarillo, Texas. Funeral services were Thursday, January 7, 2021, at First Baptist Church Chapel, with Dr. Howard Batson officiating. Graveside services were at the Boys Ranch Alumni Cemetery with Rev. Corky Holland, Minister of Pastoral Care and Adult Care FBC-Amarillo and the Reverend John Love officiating. John was born to Iva and Arlie Sharp in Freedom, Oklahoma, on April 1, 1936. The family later moved to Alva, Oklahoma. He graduated...
Rex Boswell, 93, died peacefully on January 1, 2021, in Greenville, Texas, after a valiant battle with cancer. Rex will be dearly missed by his family and those friends and acquaintances he leaves behind. Rex was born on December 4, 1927, and raised on a farm north of Waynoka near Avard, Oklahoma. Except for the last two years of his life, Rex lived his entire life on that farm. After graduating from high school in Avard, Rex spent his working life as a farmer in Woods County. Rex's...
The Alva Goldbugs traveled to Enid for the first round of the Wheat Capital Tournament Thursday afternoon. Alva drew the hosts, the Chisholm Longhorns, for their first round opponent. The teams were evenly matched going into the contest. Alva had a 4-3 record while Chisholm's was 4-2. They were tied at the end of the first quarter, and Alva led 26-22 at the half. However, Chisholm went on a scoring run to lead at the end of three quarters and eventually won 51-43. First Half Luke Balenti put... Full story
The Alva Ladybugs faced a somewhat unknown Garber Wolverines team in the first round of the Wheat Capital Tournament at Chisholm Thursday afternoon. Garber is ranked sixth in Class A while the Ladybugs are fifth in Class 3A. However, a look at the Garber bench showed a lot of tall players on the opposing team. Garber got off to an early lead, but Alva stayed fairly close in the first half. Garber continued to widen their lead, but the Ladybugs cut down the margin near the end of the game. Alva... Full story
When the Ladybugs had to quarantine due to Covid exposure, Alva Goldbugs coach Shane Feely picked up a couple of games for his team before the holiday break. From the start of Tuesday night's game against Blackwell in Alva, the Goldbugs looked ready. Blackwell, 0-5 on the season, has been struggling after graduating several good players. Leading scorer Worthy Shepherd is out with an ACL injury. The Alva Goldbugs dominated the first half of the game. As Alva began emptying the bench, Blackwell... Full story
After winning the championship game in the Oilton tournament, the Alva Ladybugs expected to play Newkirk, Fairview and Perry before the Christmas break. Although the Ladybugs won that championship game 42-41 in overtime against Frontier, they also were exposed to a player who later tested positive for the coronavirus. This put them in quarantine for two weeks, right up to the break. Coach Dusty Horn had to wait until after Christmas to get the players back on the court. He also scheduled a... Full story
If you don’t recognize the name, you may recognize the fame. Elon Musk has established himself as a leader in electric car technology, taking the Tesla name from anonymity to notoriety and the new Cyber Truck is on track to upend the pickup segment with total electrification. My favorite of his stunts was the launch of a heavy-lift rocket with Tesla sports car atop, leaving Earth’s atmosphere to never return, radio blaring “Rocket Man” by Elton John for no one to hear! Tesla has become the wor...
Charles Dawes took the oath of office as vice president of the United States, serving under President Calvin Coolidge, on March 4. 1925. Unfortunately, the two men did not enjoy a good relationship. Some people found Dawes to be overbearing and brusque in manner—unlike the congenial Coolidge. They also disagreed on some policy issues. But the chief event that led to their strained partnership had to do with Coolidge’s appointment of Charles B. Warren as attorney general. Warren’s nomin...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma revenue collections for the calendar year 2020 declined by 3.8% as the coronavirus pandemic swept the state, state Treasurer Randy McDaniel said Friday. The state collected nearly $13.2 billion in taxes and fees for the year, $520.9 million less than the previous year. "The state's economy declined in 2020," McDaniel said in a statement. "Hopefully, we will see improvement in the months ahead as the (coronavirus) vaccine becomes widely available." December collections of $1.16 billion were 0.4% below December 2019,...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a state law which governs how much money workers who are injured on the job can collect. The court ruled that an amendment to the Kansas Workers Compensation Act was constitutional because it did not alter the requirement that a worker's impairment be "established by competent medical evidence." The court last year heard arguments over which edition of the American Medical Association guide should be used for evaluating injuries in determining compensation to injured workers i...
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County Court deputies shot and wounded a man Friday while they were trying to serve an eviction notice in suburban Kansas City, officials said. The process servers went to a home in Blue Springs to serve the eviction notice. The man who lived in the home pointed a weapon at the two deputies, who then shot him, Jackson County Court spokeswoman Valerie Hartman said in a news release. The man was hospitalized with serious injuries. The deputies were not injured. Blue Springs police spokesman Capt. Jeff Sargent s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Regulators are getting a flood of complaints as the state's largest electric utility tries to come up with a new plan for recovering the cost of providing solar energy. Evergy was sent back to the drawing board after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled last spring that utilities cannot charges customers who produce some of their own energy more than other customers. From Oct. 15 to Dec. 21, the Kansas Corporation Commission received more than 1,000 calls, emails and letters, all but about 20 of them opposed to the alternative p...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas law designed to allow voters to cast their ballots at any polling place in their county, instead of just their assigned voting precinct, may not be implemented until 2023 because of bureaucratic delays. Passed in 2019, the law directed Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab to write the rules and regulations to implement it, but with no deadlines on when he had to act, The Wichita Eagle reports. Officials in Sedgwick County, who championed the measure through the legislative process, had hoped to have the rules i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump left plenty of clues he'd try to burn the place down on his way out the door. The clues spread over a lifetime of refusing to acknowledge defeat. They spanned a presidency marked by raw, angry rhetoric, puffed-up conspiracy theories and a kind of fellowship with "patriots" drawn from the seething ranks of right-wing extremists. The clues piled on at light speed when Trump lost the election and wouldn't admit it. The culmination of all that came Wednesday when Trump supporters, exhorted by the p...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he'll peacefully leave after Congress affirmed his defeat. Trump led off a video from the White House by condemning the violence carried out in his name a day earlier at the Capitol. Then, for the first time on camera, he admitted his presidency would soon end — though he declined to mention President-elect Joe Biden by name or explicitly state he had lost. "A new adm...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With COVID-19 surging and vaccinations off to a slow start, President-elect Joe Biden will rapidly release most available vaccine doses to protect more people, his office said Friday, a reversal of Trump administration policies. "The president-elect believes we must accelerate distribution of the vaccine while continuing to ensure the Americans who need it most get it as soon as possible," spokesman T.J. Ducklo said in a statement. Biden "supports releasing available doses immediately, and believes the government should s...
PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration's most sweeping set of asylum restrictions less than two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. The rules had been set to take effect Monday. The court order has limited immediate impact because the government has largely suspended asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border during the coronavirus pandemic, citing public health concerns. Still, letting the rules take effect would have been felt by some who can still claim asylum and make it significantly more difficult f...
NEW YORK (AP) — A printing company in Maryland saw the photo on Twitter Wednesday night: an employee roaming the halls of the U.S. Capitol with a company badge around his neck. He was fired the next day. Others are facing similar repercussions at work for their participation in Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol. Some business owners are being trashed on social media and their establishments boycotted, while rank-and-file employees at other businesses have been fired. The printing company, Navistar Direct Marketing, declined to name the w...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The insurrection by supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol this week has prompted governors and lawmakers in several states to heighten security at their own capitol buildings as they gather amid a pandemic for legislative sessions and inaugural ceremonies. Like the U.S. Capitol, statehouses are regular targets for demonstrations. Many already have armed security personnel and metal detectors that screen visitors. But if the U.S. Capitol — a shining symbol of democracy with a dedicated police for...
