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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 Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15 a.m. every...
How many of us go camping, tent or trailer, it doesn’t matter? We enjoy the outdoors and love sitting around a campfire roasting hot dogs and marshmallows, telling tall-tale fishing stories, and talking with friends and family. If you’re like me, you could sit and watch the flames of the fire all night long as they seem to dance for you, and the feeling of pure peace comes over your soul. Strange thing about a fire, though: it continually needs more wood to produce the brilliant flames that we enjoy watching. If we don’t keep the fire stoke...
It has been nearly a year since federal auditors revealed a pattern of improper spending at the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, jeopardizing critical aid for the state’s abused women and children. But those findings have not hindered the flow of public funds to the nonprofit, which supports domestic and sexual abuse victims and victim advocates with training, policy updates and financial aid. Oklahoma reported a record number of domestic abuse incidents last year. Its rate of domestic violence against women is t...
The Oklahoma Blood Institute is offering blood donors a chance to choose their own adventure this summer by hosting local blood drives. Individuals ages 16 and older are urged to give blood at one of these locations: June 1 – Cherokee – United Grocery from 2 to 5 p.m. June 8 – Waynoka – Chamber Office from 2 to 6 p.m. June 9 – Alva – Walmart from 9 to 11 a.m. and Radio Shack from 1 to 4 p.m. June 12 – Alva – First Christian Church from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 20 – Alva – Alva Ambulance Service at the recreation center from 1 to 4 p.m. Ju...
Funeral services for Isla F. Hada will be 11 a.m. Friday, May 27, 2022, at the Alva Wesleyan Church with Pastor Paul Kirk, Rev. Louis Garcia, and Rev. Max Colaw officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Isla F. Hada, daughter of the late Wesley Alexander Copeland and Edith Naomi (Chatham) Copeland, was born February 12, 1948, in Topeka, Kansas, and passed away May 24, 2022, in Oklahoma City, at the age of 74 years, 3...
Ralph Gagnon passed away at the age of 86 on January 1, 2022. Beloved husband of the late Marjorie Gagnon for 66 years; loving father of Francis (Lesley) Gagnon, Cynthia (Robert) Reeg, and Glenn (Georgianna) Gagnon; cherished grandfather of Amy Tilley, Adam and Andrew Gagnon, Katie (John) Gresko and Laura Cass, Matthew (Jordon Agee) and Daniel (Megan) Reeg, Luke (Desirae) Gagnon and Abbey (Rich) Bachmann; loving brother of the late Doris Landry, Margaret McKibben, Hank Gagnon, Robert Gagnon, Daniel Gagnon, and his two surviving sisters,...
As we have seen recently, baseball enthusiasts cannot get enough of statistics – specially unusual ones. This is yet another story about that uniquely incurable disease. For pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), the “gold standard” of performance is to win 20 games in a season. The vast majority of pitchers, however, never come close to that mark. Moreover, such athletes can be quite successful and have productive careers without ever expecting in their dreams to win 20 games. But, dream...
Caves: home to humankind before the written word whose history is documented on their walls; habitat for many creatures, including prehistoric cave bears and wolves, who competed with Neanderthals for survival. Along with preserving early drawings, caves have been the repository for archaeological artifacts including the Dead Sea Scrolls. Caves are found on every continent, including ice caves in polar regions. Cavers are always anxious to go to great depths and often find themselves in...
Spring semester honor rolls at Northwestern Oklahoma State University have been announced by the Office of the Executive Vice President. Those on the President’s Honor Roll earned all A’s, or a 4.0 grade point average (GPA), in a minimum of 12 undergraduate or nine graduate hours. Those on the Vice President’s list had grade point averages of 3.5 or better in a minimum of 12 undergraduate or nine graduate hours. Undergraduate students on the honorable mention lists had 4.0 or 3.5 GPAs, respectively, in a minimum of three to a maximum of 11 se...
OKLAHOMA CITY – For too many Oklahoma children, the end of school means months of wondering whether they will have enough food to eat. Thanks to the Regional Food Bank's Summer Feeding Program any child, 18 and under, can receive free, nutritious meals and snacks all summer long across central and western Oklahoma. "The Summer Feeding Program gives children the nutrition they need to be themselves during the summer months when they should be having fun and not worrying about where their next meal will come from," said Stacy Dykstra, chief e...
OKLAHOMA CITY – On May 21, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a Salmonella outbreak linked to Jif brand peanut butter that was sold at stores nationwide. The recall includes several types and sizes of creamy, crunchy and natural peanut butter. The lot numbers included in the recall are 1274425 through 2140425, with “425” at the end of the first seven numbers. FAQs Addressing this Recall Q: What do I do if I have the recalled peanut butter? A: We advise people who find the recalled product in their home to th...
STILLWATER, Okla. (May 23, 2022) – On the western side of Oklahoma, early cotton acre establishment is in question, and winter wheat outcome looks devastating, according to Gary Strickland, Jackson County director and southwest regional agronomist for Oklahoma State University Extension. With winter wheat crops being harvested as of last week, OSU Extension experts predict a nearly 50% decline in wheat yields on the western side of the state. Strickland said about half of the wheat fields in his local area have been abandoned by producers. ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Thursday he vetoed several key pieces of a legislative budget deal, setting up a showdown with fellow Republicans in the Legislature who are expected to try and override him. Stitt told reporters at a press conference that he and his staff were left out of budget negotiations with lawmakers and that he disagreed with some of its big-ticket items. He said he planned to call lawmakers back for a special session next month to address his priorities, which include eliminating the state sales t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge should expunge a portion of a state grand jury report that is sharply critical of Gov. Kevin Stitt, according to a motion filed by Stitt. The portion of the May 13 report calling Stitt's meetings with his appointees to the state Pardon and Parole Board before they took office "grossly improper" is not allowed under a state law that limits grand juries to issuing only indictments, according to the motion filed Wednesday. The report said Stitt and the appointees discussed upcoming votes and dismissal of the...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of abortion providers in Oklahoma filed a legal challenge Thursday to a new law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. The lawsuit filed with the Oklahoma Supreme Court seeks to stop the new law from taking effect. The court declined to temporarily halt a similar law that prevents abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy that took effect earlier this year. But the court did agree to hear arguments in that case and scheduled dates for briefs to be filed in June and July. Abortion providers in Oklahoma stopp...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Justin Campbell struck out 10 in seven innings, Griffin Doersching hit a three-run homer and No. 4 seed Oklahoma State beat eighth-seeded Baylor 11-1 on Thursday in the Big 12 Tournament. Oklahoma State (37-19), coming off a 4-0 loss to Texas after recording just three hits, advances to play on Friday in the double-elimination tournament. Baylor (26-28) had its season come to an end. Jake Thompson's two-run single in the seventh inning ended the game on the 10-run rule. Thompson and Doersching each had three RBIs, and R...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill requiring public school students to use only the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. About a dozen conservative states have passed laws targeting the transgender population over bathroom use, participation in school sports, and gender-affirming treatments or surgery for young people. The bill passed overwhelmingly in the Republican-controlled House and Senate last week, and Stitt signed it on Wednesday. "It's about safety, it's about protection, it's about c...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita woman has pleaded guilty to defrauding her former employer of about $3.1 million, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Nancy Martin, 77, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and filing a false tax document. Martin was bookkeeper, business manager and chief operating officer of Mid-Kansas Wound Specialists and Emergency Services P.A. An audit found that she embezzled the money from 2012 to 2017 by obtaining money from the company's banks and making false accounting entries to disguise the transactions as payments or t...
BOSTON (AP) — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem "witch" who wasn't has been officially pardoned. Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. Johnson was never executed, but neither was she officially pardoned like others wrongly accused of witchcraft. Lawmakers agreed to reconsider her case last year after a curious eighth-grade civics class at North A...
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Jacklyn Cazares hadn't yet reached her 10th birthday, but her father described her as a tough-minded "firecracker" always looking to help people in need. Jacklyn and her second cousin, Annabelle Rodriguez, were especially tight with three other classmates at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Now, Javier Cazares says, "they are all gone." The girls were among 19 students killed Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom at the school in the southwestern Texas town and began to k...
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — It was 11:28 a.m. when the Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped out carrying an AR-15-style rifle. Twelve minutes after that, authorities say, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was in the hallways of Robb Elementary School. Soon he entered a fourth-grade classroom. And there, he killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in a still-unexplained spasm of violence. At 12:58 p.m., law enforcement radio chatter said Ramos had been killed and the siege was over. What happened in those 9...
LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men, an announcement that came as the actor was in court in New York testifying in a different case. The Crown Prosecution Service said it had "authorized criminal charges" on the four sex assault counts and one of "causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent." The alleged incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western E...
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Monday morning at Robb Elementary School, a line of graduating high school seniors in maroon caps and gowns paid a visit to the children to offer smiles, high fives and encouragement that one day, if they studied hard enough, they could graduate too. Notably missing from those Uvalde High School seniors was 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who had frequently skipped class and was not set to graduate. The next day, he shot his grandmother and then went to the school alone with an AR-style rifle and fatally shot 19 children and tw...
HOUSTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to "reflect on" -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Former President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans are scheduled to address the three-day firearms marketing and advocacy event, which is expected to draw protesters fed up with gun violence. Some scheduled s...
