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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...
Jim Eichenberger wrote, "In 1934, Theodore Jones and Henry Grob made a discovery most children only dream about. Jones and Grob had started a secret club and were burying the box that would hold the club's treasury and secrets. Digging in the dirt floor of Jones's cellar, the teens discovered the Holy Grail of childhood fantasy – real buried treasure! They first came across a shiny $20 gold coin. When their excavation was complete, the boys had unearthed 3,558 century-old gold coins, a f...
About four and a half years ago, when Lynn Martin first offered me the opportunity to write a weekly column for the ARC Friday edition, I felt really honored and raring to go. He warned me that, given time, a weekly deadline (even just one) could become a difficult task. After decades of turning in his weekly words of wisdom, he was more than aware of how taxing it can be just to decide on a subject. This afternoon (Tuesday) I was just over a paragraph into my latest offering when I realized it sounded vaguely familiar. Sure enough, I wrote...
Funeral services for Rose Harris will be held on Saturday, June 22, 2019, at 10 a.m. at First Christian Church with Reverend Luke Heim officiating. Burial will follow in Cherokee Cemetery under the direction of Goodwin-Wharton Funeral Chapel of Cherokee. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Rose Marie, daughter of Mamie Viola (Clemence) and Archie Frank Yardley, was born May 25, 1929, in Dalhart, Texas. She passed away on June 19, 2019, at her home in Cherokee,...
The current lawsuits involving opioid manufacture, promotion and distribution bring to mind other drug company issues addressed in an article in Time magazine by Katherine Eban. Ninety percent of the prescriptions filled in the U.S. are generic drugs, 80% of their active ingredients come from outside the country, and most insurance companies insist on generic drugs for in-plan payment. Over the years, we have praised generic drug manufacturers for helping to control medical costs but they have...
Commentators on television news shows constantly talk about politics. When it comes to candidates for president of the United States, they often use words and phrases like “electability” and “acting presidential.” Basically, they are talking about politicians looking good on television and presenting positive images to the voters upon whom their futures rely. As we saw previously, Franklin D. Roosevelt did not want to draw attention to his physical limitations because: (1) they did not adverse...
With a long council meeting expected Monday and a large group of citizens attending, Alva City Business Manager Joe Don Dunham kept his verbal report to a minimum. However, he submitted a ten page written report to the council members. The Alva water and wastewater department has been concentrating on getting the swimming pool open during May. On April 12 the city received notification from the Oklahoma Department of Health accepting the three-year plan for the pool. The pool had to close early last summer due to failing a health department...
Hospice goes beyond caring for the patient. At Faith Hospice of Alva and Faith Hospice services across Oklahoma; they focus on being there for the family as well. Open since May 1, on Thursday, May 23, Faith Hospice of Alva had their official grand opening and ribbon cutting at their new location at 919 W Oklahoma Blvd. Faith Hospice also has another offices located in Woodward, Elk City and Weatherford. This office in Alva leaves open the opportunity for nurses and counselors to help the...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney has announced plans to expand its operations at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. Pratt & Whitney vice president Kevin Kirkpatrick, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt announced what is called a "multimillion-dollar investment" to expand its military aftermarket services at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex based at Tinker. The project is also expected to add more than 100 jobs. Pratt & Whitney is a division of Farmington, Connecticut-based United T...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge says a 19-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his parents and who is described by his attorney as "very mentally ill" isn't competent to be tried for first-degree murder. Michael Elijah Walker was remanded to the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Wednesday and was committed to a state mental health hospital for treatment. Walker is charged in the March 4 shooting deaths of 50-year-old Michael Logan Walker and 44-year-old Rachel Walker at their home in t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected the appeal of a man convicted of gunning down another man who was on his knees. The court on Thursday upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life without parole sentence of 48-year-old John Joseph Quinter Jr. Quinter was convicted in the fatal shooting of Robert Almon in 2015 the driveway of Quinter's home in Bethel Acres on the southeastern edge of Oklahoma City. Quinter argued the jury should have been instructed to consider the lesser charge of first-degree m...
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Police have arrested a second man in connection with a shooting that critically injured a woman who was left for dead along a rural road in Washington County. Authorities say the woman was saved by an Uber driver who happened to be driving along the road near Stillwater in the early morning hours of June 9. Angel Sardina-Padilla was arrested in Minneapolis Tuesday night. He's being held on $2 million bond and is accused of being an accomplice to attempted murder and kidnapping. The man accused of pulling the trigger, L...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted two more employees of a company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people. Curtis Lanham, the general manager at Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles Baltzell, the operations supervisor, were charged with misconduct and neglect in a 47-count indictment that was unsealed and made public Thursday following their initial court appearances, the U.S. attorney's office said. The boat's captain, Kenneth Scott McKee, was indicted previously on charges a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has broken with most other Republican senators in voting to block President Donald Trump's administration from selling arms to Saudi Arabia. The Kansas City Star reports that Moran supported two resolutions Thursday disapproving of Trump's use of emergency authority to make the sales. Moran was among seven Republicans to vote for the two measures. Fellow Kansas Republican Pat Roberts voted against them. One resolution objected to arm sales based on the Saudi regime's involvement in a civil war in Y...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The popular Country Stampede music festival will be moving from Manhattan to Topeka — and rebranded the Heartland Stampede. Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla made the announcement Thursday hours before the event kicked off in Topeka. The festival has been held at Tuttle Creek State Park in Manhattan for 23 years. It was moved to Heartland Motorsports Park for this year's event because of flooding at Tuttle Creek. Experts estimated the three-day event brought $8 million to the Manhattan economy. It annually draws more tha...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is giving a key role in a study of Kansas tax laws to a former Republican state Senate leader who was ousted after conflicts with one of her GOP predecessors over tax cuts. Kelly announced Thursday that former Senate President Steve Morris will serve as co-chairman of the Governor's Council on Tax Reform. Kelly noted in her announcement that she served with Morris in the Senate before she was elected governor last year. She called for a study of the state's tax system while vetoing two tax relief...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 53-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to five years of probation for stealing more than $21,000 from his mother while she was in a nursing home. KSNW-TV reports that John Queen also was ordered to pay back the money. He faces five months in prison if he violates his probation. The thefts occurred in 2015 and 2016 while Queen had durable power of attorney. The Kansas Department of Children and Families began investigating after the nursing home reported that the bills for Queen's mother weren't being paid, putting h...
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Johnson County authorities say a couple is charged with child abuse and endangerment after they brought a 5-year-old boy to a hospital weighing only 28 pounds. The Kansas City Star reports 28-year-old Elizabeth Francis and 35-year-old John Carter, of Shawnee, are each charged with abuse of a child and aggravated endangerment of a child. Court documents say investigators were called to Children's Mercy Hospital in December. Doctors said the boy suffered malnutrition from starvation, a distended stomach and a perforated b...
SILVER LAKE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 31-year-old Topeka man died while trimming trees. The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office says Cory Harr died Thursday near Silver Lake in northwest Shawnee County. WIBW reports Harr worked for Capital City Tree Care. He did not live at the scene of the accident. Further details about the circumstances of Harr's death weren't immediately available. ___ Information from: WIBW-TV....
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have failed to back a plan to make the bloc's economy carbon neutral by 2050 in spite of promises to fight harder against climate change. Ahead of a U.N. meeting in the fall, the proposal was relegated to a non-binding footnote in the final statement of Thursday's summit of EU leaders in Brussels. "For a large majority of Member States, climate neutrality must be achieved by 2050," the footnote read. However, for the change in approach to become an official target, all 28 EU countries need to back the c...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Editor’s note: A total solar eclipse will be visible across the U.S. on Monday, August 21. Shannon Schmoll, director of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, explains why and how it happens, and what we can learn from an eclipse. 1. How do we know when an eclipse is going to happen? How do we know in advance where it will be visible? Solar eclipses happen when our view of the sun is blocked by t...
SEATTLE (AP) — The proof is in the pee. A federally funded study has confirmed, not surprisingly, that marijuana use went up in Washington state after its first legal pot stores opened in 2014. In fact, consumption appeared to double, at least in one major city, over three years — a conclusion scientists reached by way of the unglamorous work of analyzing raw sewage. "It's stinky," said lead author Dan Burgard, a chemist at the University of Puget Sound. "But we've worked with urine, we've worked with wastewater, and we've worked with por...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and verified family connections of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now a state board in Texas has asked a growing government provider of the DNA equipment used in those high-profile projects to halt work amid concerns of potentially jeopardized criminal cases, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Texas is not the o...
