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AAlva 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 10:1...
The oldest book of the Bible addresses the singular aspect that all humanity faces, that of suffering. The ancient poem of Job addresses human suffering on a level that few would ever experience. The Book of Job opens with, “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil” (Job 1:1). We are introduced to a man who loved God and lived his faith out in his daily life. Job had a beautiful family, successful in life, health, but that would change suddenly. By...
I’m not sure my students (or the average Christian, for that matter) understand the importance of the question “Is it inspired?” If it sounds right, if it seems to be in agreement with the rest of scripture, if the preacher quotes it during a sermon or it shows up in the stateliest of hymns, it must be from God. Why bother asking if it’s really inspired? Because the Bible does not claim to be a gathering of worthwhile documents and quotes; it claims to be the very Word of God. If it is, we must...
The Alva Public Library will track book fines and other revenues separately for another month. The January tracking showed $35.50 collected in fines, $56.50 for copies and $7 for faxes. Other revenue totaled $39 for inter-library loans, book replacements, etc. However, the library staff found they all do math differently so they’re assigning one person to handle the tracking in February. The tracking is to determine how much fines bring in as the library is considering removing fines on book checkouts. The library saw an increase of 89 in c...
Quilting has evolved from a way to use up scraps of cloth into a celebration of artistic expression. This month the Graceful Arts Gallery in Alva is featuring "Fabrics of the Heartland." The Scrap Pack Quilt Guild from Kansas is displaying quilts and other textile artworks. The Gallery will be open tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. for the First Friday Artwalk to show off their newest display. Colorful quilts line the walls while tables show smaller works. Artist Jo Carr will demonstrate her work on...
Alva Robotics will have their first meeting of the year 2020 on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 10 a.m. at the Alva Public Library in the Share Room upstairs. Topics for the meeting will include discussion about the new game, the team’s new equipment and plans for the off season....
Dr. Eric Schmaltz, professor of history and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva will present, “Those Other German Records: Germans from Russia in Oklahoma and Family History Research.” The Northwest Oklahoma Genealogy Society (NWOGS) meeting will be Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. at the Alva Public Library. Schmaltz has published a number of articles both here and abroad. Many of his publications are in the field of ethnic and nationality studies related to ethnic German communities in Russia and the...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University's visual arts program will present a free abstract art workshop open to the public in Jesse Dunn Annex, room 324, on the Alva campus on Feb. 12. The workshop will be taught by the program's current artist-in-residence Yelena Martynovskaya, and is intended to give attendees a greater appreciation, deeper vision and compound perspective for art done with textures. At 6 p.m. Martynovskaya will discuss her studio practice, process, influences and body of work...
Oklahoma's 2019 Teacher of the Year will be on the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Alva campus Feb. 19 to speak at "Why Serve," an event to highlight the importance of service through teaching with the goal of inspiring those in attendance to consider a career in teaching. Becky Oglesby, who teaches Pre-K through third grade art at Ranchwood Elementary in Yukon, will make a presentation during a lunch in the Student Center Ballroom from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Dr. Janet Cunningham, univer...
An article in The Week Magazine states evidence that shows the decline in skills and professional achievement that accompany advancing age. Being aware of the very great possibility may help you plan for retirement or career change. No matter how successful a person is, the thought “Can I really keep this going?” is in the back of the mind. Happiness also may decline after age 50, and by the 70s, depression and suicide rates increase for men. Alex Dias Ribeiro is quoted: “Unhappy is he who d...
In the 1830s and 1840s many Americans looking for good farmland set their sights on the Oregon Country. This region – referred to today as the Pacific Northwest – included roughly the future states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Every year several hundred souls would make the 2,000-mile trip up the Oregon Trail hoping to have better lives there than the ones they left behind. These folks were said to be stricken with Oregon Fever. They were lured to the Oregon Country because it had a mil...
Wednesday Morning Alva Senior, Todd Ruwaldt, signed his letter of intent to Northwestern Oklahoma State University for football....
Dilly Dilly 56 ½ wins 35 ½ losses Marshall's Oldtimers 51 wins 41 losses Knights of Columbus 47 wins 45 losses Rollin Good Times 46 wins 46 losses Ms Deb's Hairstyling 43 ½ wins 48 ½ losses O'Bar 42 wins 50 losses Next Frame 42 wins 50 losses The Bowl Movements 40 wins 52 losses Men/Individual High Scratch Game – Doug Reuss - 213 High Scratch Series – John Cook - 554 High Handicap Game – Greg Bowman - 268 Handicap Series Game – Greg Bowman - 689 Women/Individual High Scratch Game – Kayanna Williams - 234 High Scratch Series – Kayanna William...
The Alva Ladybugs had no difficulty dominating Tuesday night's road game at Tonkawa. The Ladybugs defeated the Lady Buccaneers 64-35. The score would have been even more lopsided if Alva hadn't started substituting from the bench midway through the third quarter. One of Tonkawa's leading scorers Skylee Perkins got into foul trouble early and spent quite a bit of time on the bench. The Ladybug duo of Lexie Reihm and Payton Jones did most of the Alva scoring in the first half, but Acacia Charles...
Anthony Davis is LeBron James' teammate in Los Angeles, and they'll be teammates at the All-Star Game in Chicago as well. James took his fellow Lakers All-Star with the No. 1 overall pick of the Feb. 16 game's draft on Thursday, as he matched wits with fellow captain Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks for the second consecutive year. James is looking to go 3-0 as an All-Star captain, after his team beat the one picked by Golden State's Stephen Curry in 2018 and topped the one Antetokounmpo selected last year as well. James had the...
No. 13 West Virginia (18-4, 6-3) vs. Oklahoma (14-8, 4-5) Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 13 West Virginia looks to give Oklahoma its fifth straight loss to ranked opponents. Oklahoma's last win vs a ranked opponent came against the then-No. 13 Kansas Jayhawks 81-68 on March 5, 2019. West Virginia knocked off Iowa State by 15 at home on Wednesday. SUPER SENIORS: Oklahoma's Brady Manek, Austin Reaves and Kristian Doolittle have collectively accounted for 61 percent of the team's scoring this season and...
Detroit Pistons (19-34, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (31-20, sixth in the Western Conference) Oklahoma City; Friday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will try to build upon its three-game win streak with a victory over Detroit. The Thunder are 16-10 in home games. Oklahoma City scores 110.5 points and has outscored opponents by 2.7 points per game. The Pistons are 8-17 on the road. Detroit averages 42.5 rebounds per game and is 6-19 when outrebounded by opponents. The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the...
HOUSTON (AP) — A company filed for bankruptcy Thursday in the wake of a massive explosion at one of its warehouses in Houston that killed two workers, injured 20 more and damaged hundreds of buildings. Watson Grinding and Manufacturing said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Houston federal court because of what it expects to be "a long-term interruption of business operations" due to the Jan. 24 blast. Chapter 11 allows the metal fabricating and manufacturing company to reorganize as opposed to liquidating its assets and shutting down perma...
SOUTH HAVEN, Kan. (AP) — The remains of a Kansas man who was killed 78 years ago when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor have been identified. U.S. Navy Fireman First Class Rex Wise will be buried in April near his home in South Haven, near the state's southern border with Oklahoma, The Wichita Eagle reports. "I think it's great," said Wise's niece, Helen Weller. "I wish his brothers and sister could have been alive to see him properly buried." The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that Wise was accounted for in fall 2019. T...
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The Hutchinson Correctional Facility is on lockdown after five correctional officers were injured during a disturbance, state prison officials announced Thursday. Visitations to the prison's central unit have been canceled until further notice, starting Saturday, the Kansas Department of Corrections said. Inmates in that unit are under limited movement. Visitation to the east and south units will be allowed. The inmates involved in the disturbance are being held in restrictive housing during the investigation. Prison o...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita woman was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the decapitation death of her ex-boyfriend's mother, whose head she left in the kitchen sink. Prosecutors said Rachael Hilyard cut off the head of 63-year-old Micki Davis using two steak knives on April 9, 2017. Davis had gone to Hilyard's home with her 9-year-old grandson to collect her son's belongings, at Hilyard's insistence. The child ran away before his grandmother was beheaded and called for help. Hilyard's lawyer acknowledged his client killed Davis b...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A conservative legislator in Kansas is pursuing a proposal to prevent transgender high school and middle school students from playing on sports teams aligned with their gender identities, and LGBTQ rights advocates are trying to kill it even before he can formally introduce it. Equality Kansas, the state's leading LGBTQ rights group, had a Statehouse news conference Thursday to denounce the proposal from Republican Rep. Michael Capps, of Wichita. The group's executive director was joined by the state's two openly LGBTQ l...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators considering a proposed amendment to the state constitution on abortion are raising the spectre of women being forced back into going to unsafe and unclean "back alley" clinics if their measure does not pass. But in a twist away from what's typical in such debates, anti-abortion lawmakers were making the argument Thursday as the House gave first-round approval to the proposed amendment. The measure would overturn a Kansas Supreme Court decision last year declaring access to abortion a "fundamental right" un...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Thursday questioned the adequacy of the protections against workplace harassment and misconduct in the judicial branch after a federal judge in Kansas was publicly reprimanded for sexually harassing female employees and having an extramarital affair with an offender. The Judicial Council for the 10th U.S. Circuit admonished U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia last September for subjecting employees to sexually suggestive comments, inappropriate text messages and excessive, non-work c...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A powerful winter storm in the central United States dropped snow as far south as El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday while areas of the Deep South had severe weather through the night, including tornadoes and torrential rains. Winter storm warnings or advisories were in effect from northeastern Oklahoma to the Great North Woods of Maine, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, the Storm Prediction Center forecast storms with the potential of generating hail, 60 mph (95 kph) winds and twisters from Mississippi through A...
