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Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday—Toast, sausage patty or cereal/toast, applesauce, juice, milk Tuesday—Muffin or cereal/toast, fruit, juice, milk Wednesday—Biscuit and gravy or cereal/toast, peaches, juice, milk Thursday—Cinnamon toast, yogurt or cereal/toast, apple, juice, milk Friday—Cinnamon roll or cereal/toast, fruit, juice, milk Lunch Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday—Chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, green beans, baby carrots, peaches, milk Tuesday—Beef burrito bowl (beef, rice, queso), chili beans, chips and salsa, apple,...
Seems my own version of ‘tough men’ are rarely found any more, and the modern version of tough men are weak in comparison. Politically, today the phrase characterizes a person who fights for the causes he believes will benefit his people – or likely himself. Physically, it’s a man who has the capability and determination to do whatever he wants to do – usually for himself. Mentally, it is used to describe a man who doesn’t crumple easily under stress and strain – rare, but can be located. And th...
I must be the most unlikely person to give a sermon, but several years ago while feeding the cows I had a thought that profoundly changed how I saw other people. While far from being anything close to what you might describe as a perfect Christian, I nonetheless believe that I was created by God. Now obviously this is not some revolutionary thought, but instead the underpinning of Christianity. But if I recognize myself as being a creation of God, then it likewise means that, logically, every ot...
Smile, summer is just around the corner! Get ready by giving blood with Our Blood Institute at a local blood drive and help save a life! Donors will receive a Happy themed T-shirt and free ticket to Science Museum Oklahoma, Frontier City or Hurricane Harbor. Local Blood Drives in May May 3 – Alva High School – 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Gym Concession Area May 4 – Northwest Technology Center, Alva Campus – 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Multipurpose Room May 8 – Freedom, Cargill Salt – 10:30 a.m. to noon – Bloodmobile May 8 – Freedom High School – 2 p.m. to...
This was the last week for us to vote on bills sent over from the House of Representatives. More than 100 House bills were voted on between Monday and the Thursday deadline, including some of my own. I am the Senate principal author for House Bill 2241, dealing with removal and relocation costs of equipment belonging to municipally owned utilities. Under HB 2241, if right-of-way work requires the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) to remove and relocate equipment belonging to a city-owned utility in a town with a population less than...
If I had known all I had to do to get it to rain was to bring in the car crusher, I would have had them here long ago. It was a very good rain and didn't all fall in just a little bit. I'm afraid it is too late for the wheat crop, but it will help the hungry cows and the lawn service guys with new grass. Thanks to the Farmer's Co-op for the good food Wednesday. May 5-6 is the 2nd Annual Cars, Concert, and BBQ contests sponsored by the Alva Police Department. It is a fundraiser for new...
Thursday, April 20, 2023 During this day were 10 traffic stops, two reports of cattle out and one controlled burn. 1:05 a.m. – Report of trespassing on Logan Street. 6:29 a.m. – Medic needed on Cherokee Street for a general medical issue. 7:01 a.m. – Report of a reckless act. 10:44 a.m. – Medic needed on Jane Jayroe Boulevard for a general medical issue. 10:45 a.m. – Medic needed on Barnes for a person who fell. 1:29 p.m. – Report of a fire. 6:48 p.m. – Welfare check needed on Oklahoma Boulevard. 7:47 p.m. – Smoke investigation needed for a po...
According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Woods County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Felony Filings Joshua Thomas Price, Cherokee, 37, has been...
Real Estate Transfers Book 1350 page 285: Curtis E. Porter and Valynda D. Porter convey unto Curtis E. and Valynda Family Trust. Section 8, Township 25 north, Range 15 west, NE4. Warranty deed. Book 1350 page 287: Pamela Benson Runkel conveys unto 818 Runkel LLC. Lot 12, Block 53 in the City of Alva, College Hill Subdivision. Warranty deed. Book 1350 page 329: Ty Harper and Sharon Harper convey unto Kevin Wares and Dawn Wares. Lots 5–7, Block 2, City of Freedom, Archers Subdivision. Quit claim deed. Book 1350 page 348: Allen Dale Shafer and P...
Funeral services for Carol Jo Schultz will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, at the Alva Church of God with Rev. Sheryl White and Rev. Bob Brown officiating. Interment will follow in the Freedom Cemetery under the direction of the Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....
Services for Nina Tatro are pending with the Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....
Funeral services for Robin Ross Fawvor will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, May 1, 2023, at Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Terry Engler and Rev. Rick Barrett officiating. Interment will follow in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. There will be a visitation with family from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday evening at Marshall Funeral Home. Robin Jolene, daughter of Keith Lowell and Carol Jean (Rhoades) Downer, was born November 15, 1963, at Garden City,...
Four Northwestern Oklahoma State University faculty and staff will be honored on May 4, with a retirement reception in the Student Center Ranger Room from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The public is invited to attend. The 2023 retirees include: • Kevin Fields, Maintenance, 18 years • Dr. Cornelia Mihai, Professor of Chemistry, 18 years • Dr. Steven Palmer, Professor of Business, 13.5 years • Dr. Shelly Wells, Professor of Nursing, 11 years Watches and plaques will be presented to the retirees funded by John and Margaret Barton, who both graduated from No...
Spring commencement exercises at Northwestern Oklahoma State University will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 6, at Ranger Field. Rex Trent, a 1981 graduate who also earned his master’s degree (1984) from Northwestern originally from Cordell and superintendent at Binger-Oney Public Schools, will be speaking at the commencement. In case of inclement weather, the spring commencement exercises will be held in Percefull Fieldhouse. Music will be provided by the Ranger symphonic band under the direction of Dr. Michael Black, director of bands a...
The main goal of the Alva Public Library Youth Department is to organize regular events for children and local students to participate in each month. Students from kindergarten to fifth grade can join Lego Day, held the first three Mondays of each month at 3:15 p.m. They can also visit the library every Tuesday at 3 p.m. for an activity day. Activity days have a different theme every week to provide students with unique and positive experiences. These themes vary from movie days and game days to craft challenge and building days. Preschoolers... Full story
Oklahoma lawmakers continue to be frustrated with a vendor hired to help pregnant women for expanded services under the state's Choosing Childbirth Act. The slow pace of getting money to nonprofit organizations that provide crisis pregnancy care means that almost $8 million is sitting unused in a state account. Oklahoma's abortion ban and the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade in June 2022 adds to the urgency to provide more flexibility under the state's...
Alva High School graduation will be held on Saturday, May 20, at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for ticket holders and 6:30 p.m. for general seating. Spears is from Panama City, Florida, but calls Alva his home. He graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in 2000 with a degree in mass communications, was a member of the 1999 National Championship football team and was the NWOSU 2008 Outstanding Graduate in the area of education. He also earned...
Chad Warmington, president and CEO of the Oklahoma State Chamber, spoke during the Eggs & Issues program at Northwest Technology Friday, April 21. The Alva Chamber Community Coffee featured Warmington and state legislators giving updates from the state capitol. REI Oklahoma hosted the event. "A lot of people are working on the work force. There's nobody that owns it," said Warmington. "There's nobody at the end of the day, where Sen. Murdock can say, 'Why don't we have enough nurses or why... Full story
CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man went next door with a rifle and began shooting his neighbors, killing an 8-year-old and four others inside a house near Houston, after the family asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because they were trying to sleep, authorities said Saturday. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said authorities were still searching for 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza following the shooting in the town of Cleveland, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Houston. He said Oropeza used an AR-style rifle in the attack, w...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — No big tax cuts are coming for Kansas residents even though the state treasury is bulging with surplus cash and the Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers both said over and over that families need relief from inflation. Republican leaders went into the final days of the GOP-controlled Legislature's annual session hoping to override Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a bill cutting taxes nearly $1.4 billion over the next three years. Instead, a Republican senator helped kill the GOP bill after voting for it the day b...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas who say parents need alternatives to public schools couldn't pass even a scaled-back version of the "school choice" plans enacted in other states with GOP-controlled Legislatures. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly strongly opposed using state tax dollars to help parents pay for private or home schooling, and GOP conservatives had trouble winning over rural Republicans who didn't think families living in areas with few private schools would receive much of a benefit. That meant as Republican l...
WASHINGTON (AP) — "We thought we could die." The Russian invasion had just begun when Nancy Pelosi made a surprise visit to Ukraine, the House speaker then the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to lead a congressional delegation to Kyiv. Pelosi and the lawmakers were ushered under the cloak of secrecy into the capital city, an undisclosed passage that even to this day she will not divulge. "It was very, it was dangerous," Pelosi told The Associated Press before Sunday's one-year anniversary of that trip. "We never feared about it, but we t...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The competition between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is intensifying as the former president is scheduling a return trip to Iowa on the same day that the Florida governor was already going to be in the state that will kick off the Republican contest for the White House. A Trump campaign official said Saturday that the former president plans to be in Iowa on May 13 to headline an organizing rally at a sprawling park in downtown Des Moines. That's when DeSantis was already slated to headline Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra's a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen senators are making a bipartisan appeal to President Joe Biden to reinvigorate the power of U.S. authorities to seize Iranian oil assets under an enforcement program they say has been allowed to languish. Despite existing sanctions, Iranian oil exports jumped 35% last year and proceeds are being used to sponsor attacks on U.S. citizens and service members as well as allies, the senators said in a letter to the president. Brinkmanship at sea was on display Thursday when masked Iranian navy commandos seized a U...
