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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...
Hello Alva! (Or wherever you happen to be reading this.) I hope you’re enjoying yourselves, but mostly, I hope you’re living with the joy of serving Christ as your King! On Sunday morning, our church has been going through the book of 1 Samuel and while it is a book filled with all sorts of exciting, miraculous and even funny things going on from chapter to chapter, one theme that runs through it (and the whole Bible itself for that matter) is that God is still God whether we act like He is or n...
It’s Monday afternoon of Singing School week. According to the flier, this is the 47th annual Alva School of Music and the congregation is playing host to around 35 students from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The euphemism, “herding cats” might come close to describing the experience. My job for the week is to lurk around and help out when needed. Some students are ill equipped for the grueling schedule of classes and activities. Others make the whole thing look easy and there are learners that fill every conceivable area between those two extrem...
A scene from the classic movie “Jurassic Park” has a humorous yet terrifying moment when Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom flees the Tyrannosaurus in his Jeep. “Must go faster,” he exclaims, and as he looks in the rear-view mirror, the message printed on it reads: “Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.” Such was the feeling of the Allies as they prepared for the invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe in1944. The 75th anniversary of D-Day is being observed and the papers are full of acc...
In this technological era in which we live, candidates for high political office – among other things – have to look good on television. Those people running for president, for example, will spend millions of dollars airing slick political ads. Likewise, candidates will often appear on television talk shows and news programs. Since most voters never see a presidential candidate in person, they usually rely on what they see on television when deciding for whom they will vote. That was not alw...
For intercollegiate rodeo contestants, the ultimate goal each year is the College National Finals Rodeo, home of the sport’s elite. For five Northwestern Oklahoma State University athletes, the culmination of their year of hard work will come to fruition this next week in Casper, Wyoming, where qualifiers from around the country will embark on their missions to leave town with the coveted titles. “I’m looking forward to a national title,” said Taylor Munsell, a senior from Arnett, Oklahoma, who won the breakaway roping title in the Central...
Three academic departments at Northwestern Oklahoma State University will have new leadership beginning on July 1. The Division of Business will welcome Dr. John Stockmyer as its new chair, replacing Dr. David Hawkins, who will remain on the faculty. Stockmyer joined the division at Northwestern in 2013 and specializes in marketing-related studies. He previously led the business department at Eastern New Mexico University. Stockmyer earned his doctorate from the University of Missouri in 1999. In the School of Arts and Sciences, the Department...
Calling all incoming freshmen at Northwestern Oklahoma State University – Camp Ranger is set for June 20-22 at the Alva campus. The deadline to register is June 18 at www.nwosu.edu/camp-ranger. Calleb Mosburg, dean of student affairs and enrollment management, explained this Northwestern event is organized and run by the Northwestern Scholar Ambassadors, a group of campus leaders who are selected to represent Northwestern in and out of the classroom. By attending, incoming freshmen will have the opportunity to meet their classmates, become f...
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation & Alumni Association has announced Katherine (Kat) Lunn is its new communications and marketing manager. Lunn will be responsible for the creative and strategic development and execution of marketing and communication programs. "We are excited to have Kat on our team," said Skeeter Bird, CEO, Northwestern Foundation & Alumni Association. "We look forward to the impact her enthusiasm and creative spirit will add to our organization's mission...
Fourteen area incoming eighth grade students participated in the Northwest Career Academy program (NWCA). The students spent three days touring area businesses, performing community service and learning about economic opportunities available for them throughout Northwest Oklahoma. The academy ran May 21-23. NWCA is a joint effort by Northwest Technology Center, the NWTC Foundation and area banks, financial institutions, the ORRC and others. Those participating included: Kennedy Zook of Waynoka,...
During the summer months, the Alva Public Library is providing several programs to entertain and educate children and teens. The summer reading program began Monday, June 3, with two age groups. Sixth graders have been acting as volunteers to assist the younger students in the summer reading program. On Tuesdays at 10 a.m., those not ready to start kindergarten can enjoy their own summer program with Little Explorers. Teens and tweens are invited to “McGyver Time” on Thursdays for ages 10 and up. Dates and times vary and space is limited so...
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Storm-weary Oklahoma and Arkansas are seeing another round of severe weather that has flooded roadways. The National Weather Service reports more than 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of rain fell in Tulsa on Thursday, days after water from the swollen Arkansas River started receding . A flash flood warning was in effect downriver in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Forecasters don't expect the rain to raise water levels higher than where they crested. The same storm system dumped to 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) of rain in 30 minutes in O...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — About 600 Tulsa County homes and business were inundated during last week's historic flooding along the swollen Arkansas River, city officials said. Joe Kralicek, executive director of the Tulsa Area Emergency Management Agency, said roughly half of the swamped structures were in the unincorporated Town and County addition west of Tulsa suburb Sand Springs, the Tulsa World reported. Sand Springs was among the first communities flooded when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began releasing more water from a dam upriver to c...
ADA, Okla. (AP) — Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby will serve a ninth consecutive four-year term as the tribe's leader, this time with his son as his lieutenant governor. Tribal election officials say Anoatubby and his son, Chris, were officially elected by a one-vote margin late Wednesday after no challengers filed at the close of the election filing period. The 74-year-old Anoatubby has long been the face of the Ada, Oklahoma-based tribe, having served as governor since 1987 and overseen a period of tremendous growth and d...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Norman police are investigating after former state Sen. Jonathan Nichols was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound inside his home. Police confirmed in a press release Thursday they discovered the body of the 53-year-old inside his west Norman home after receiving a call Wednesday night of an individual with a gunshot wound. Police say the case remains under investigation and that they are working with the medical examiner's office to determine the exact cause and manner of his death. Nichols is a former Republican s...
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — An Oklahoma company says it will reapply to build a hotly contested pipeline that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, and under a bay and the ocean to New York. Tulsa-based Williams Companies says it will reapply for key environmental permits that were rejected Wednesday night by New Jersey regulators. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection rejected the permits without prejudice, meaning the company can reapply. On Thursday morning, the company said it would do just that. "We a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Wes Studi has played a cop in the crime thriller "Heat," a superhero trainer in the comedy "Mystery Men" and as the patriarch of an alien tribe, the Na'vi, in the sci-fi epic "Avatar." Still, the Cherokee actor is best known for his work in Westerns, including the title role in "Geronimo: An American Legend," as a tough Pawnee warrior in "Dances With Wolves" and, more recently, as a dying Cheyenne chief in "Hostiles." "You take a film like 'Avatar,' which is set off into the future, that's essentially a Western, in terms of...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Russian woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for taking a child she had with a Kansas man to her native country and demanding money before she would allow the father to talk to his daughter. Bogdana Alexandrovna Mobley was sentenced Thursday for international parental kidnapping and two counts of attempting to extort money. She was convicted in March. Prosecutors say she left Kansas in 2014 with two children, one from her marriage to Brian Mobley. He was awarded joint custody of the girl in Sedgwick C...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The assistant football coach at a Kansas community college told officials a 300-pound defensive lineman who died of heatstroke after practice was "making a stressful moan" when he arrived to help, but rather than immediately dial 911 he called the head coach "for instruction to see how we wanted to handle the situation." That account and others from emails The Associated Press obtained through an open records request detail a chaotic nearly 25-minute period last August between when teammates found 19-year-old Braeden B...
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — Veterans are traveling to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential museum to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in the place where the Supreme Allied Commander during World War II was raised. Among them was 96-year-old Louis Graziano, who was part of the third wave during the largest seaborne invasion in history. Amid a week of events, he sat behind Eisenhower's old desk and recalled what happened. The Wichita Eagle reports that Graziano said he also was present in the little red school house where Germany s...
OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — A volunteer water rescue team saved an 8-year-old boy who floated away from the North Carolina coast on a raft shaped like a unicorn. News outlets report that the Ohio boy was at the beach on Oak Island on Monday when a gust of wind blew the raft nearly half a mile (0.8 kilometers) out to sea. Volunteers with Oak Island Water Rescue say the unicorn float acted as a sail, which caused it to move too fast for the boy to stop. Rescue crews say family members called 911 and the team used a raft to reach the boy and bring h...
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Standing on the windswept beaches and bluffs of Normandy, a dwindling number of aging veterans of history's greatest air and sea invasion received the thanks and praise of a world transformed by their sacrifice. The mission now, they said, was to honor the dead and keep their memory alive, 75 years after the D-Day operation that portended the end of World War II. "We know we don't have much time left, so I tell my story so people know it was because of that generation, because of those guys in this cemetery," said 9...
