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Real Estate Transfers Book 1362, page 845: Benjamin G. Miner conveya unto Tyler Hummer. Section 17, Township 24N, Range 15W, E2NE4. Quit claim deed. Book 1362, page 863: Layton Packwood and Jessica Packwood convey unto Joe Jessup. Section 22, Township 27N, Range 18W, SE4SE4. Warranty deed. Book 1362, page 913: Larry G. Wade and Eva Jean Wade convey unto Chad and Kanon Collins. Lots 19–21, Block 3, City of Alva, County Club Heights Subdivision. Warranty deed. Book 1362, page 918: Chuck B. Tune conveys unto Chuck B. Tune and Chad E. Tune. Section...
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 Dylan Michael Garrison Knierim, Alva, 32, has...
Thursday, May 30, 2024 During this day were 12 traffic stops, two controlled burns and one report of cattle out. 6:47 a.m. – Welfare check needed. 6:57 a.m. – Report of a reckless act. 8:16 a.m. – Report of a fire alarm going off on Oklahoma Boulevard. 8:36 a.m. – Medic needed on Oklahoma Boulevard for back pain. 8:57 a.m. – Report of a dog barking on Skyline Drive. 1:29 p.m. – Medic needed on County Road 110 for a general medical issue. 2:30 p.m. – Report of a trespassing. 2:39 p.m. – Medic needed on College Boulevard for a general medical...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State University contingent of College National Finals Rodeo qualifiers is small but mighty. The men will field four cowboys during the seven-day championship, set for June 9-15 at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper, Wyoming. The group includes two that have played the game at the highest level before: All-around cowboy Jacob Haren of Callaway, Nebraska, and steer wrestler Trisyn Kalawaia of Waiakea, Hawaii. Both were at other schools the first time they qualified. Kalawaia was at Central Arizona C...
This evening is the First Friday Art Walk. Enjoy. South Barber, Kansas, is having a free lunch program from now until July 26. You don't have to be a South Barber student to attend. Any student from anywhere who is under 18 is welcome. Call 833-722-7237 for information on times and location. Parents, please don't let your children miss a meal. Thanks to South Barber USD 255 for sponsoring this event. On a related note, I saw where the city of Kiowa, Kansas, had found a company to pick up...
When the Civil War ended, Confederate army veteran Martin Van Buren Bates moved from his native Kentucky across the Ohio River into the southern part of the state that shares a name with that waterway. Bates settled near Cincinnati where he lived when not touring with a local circus. Soon, however, he moved over 200 miles northeast and bought a 130-acre farm near the village of Seville, Ohio. Eventually, the circus took Bates to Halifax, Nova Scotia. One of the locals who came to see the so-call...
People are trying to destroy this country – some from the inside out, some from the bench, some from a television station, and some from a plaintiff’s table in front of the aforementioned bench. I really don’t know what is going on with this country. We have a president who doesn’t know if he is coming or going. We have an ex-president who will be a felon at election time and one of those two yahoos will be our next president. Politics is just strange. Consider a former president who captivates his followers so much that they are sharing...
For the last two weeks I wrote about Life Lessons from a Wayward Cow, about how my son and I spent several hours on horseback riding through canyons, grass and weeds taller than our heads, through brush, trees, thickets and deep-steep streams, trying to corral and reunite a cow that had inadvertently got lost from her calf. Today, for the last lesson, I want to illustrate how something that you may dread or that looks like a bad task, situation or job may ironically turn out to be something real...
You may have been racing to get out of your marriage. You could hardly wait until your signature was still wet on that divorce decree. Maybe or maybe not. Instead, maybe you were one of those spouses who fought desperately to hold on to your marriage but lost it anyway. But now, like it or not, a divorce is in your rear-view mirror. And as you drove away from that part of your life, celebrating or sobbing, you very likely discovered something. That no matter how long and how far you drive,...
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” – Love Story, 1970. After 50 years of marriage, I have violated that definition many times. One of Jethro Gibbs’ seven rules from NCIS is “Never say you’re sorry.” “I’m sorry” is a phrase that loses meaning when over-used, like the word awesome and the word stuff. Is there an art to apologizing? Can you make it sincere, or do you “throw it out there” as a one-size-fits-all response to everyday interactions? According to Healthline.com, by taking res...
In my daily Bible reading, I have been going through the book of Psalm. If you ever want to be encouraged and strengthened about the trials you are going through and learn how to praise God while going through them, you need to read the book of Psalm. King David wrote a lot of the verses of which we have received over one hundred of our hymns today. Many of the chapters, not all written by David, have so much emotion about life’s struggles and victories that they are an inspiration to everyone who reads them. As many of you already know, P...
Alva Church of God Alva Church of God, 517 9th St. in Alva with Pastor Sheryl White. Sunday, June2: Sunday school will be at 9:30 a.m., and morning worship at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Roy Dobbs will be the guest speaker for morning worship. Young adults will meet at 5 p.m. and youth at 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday: Bible study at 7 p.m. focused on “Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table,” by Louie Giglio. For more information, call 620-672-1596. Alva Friends Church Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15 a.m. every Sunday morni...
Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday—Loaded tater tots, taco sauce, sour cream, cheese, shredded lettuce, corn chips, salsa, kiwi muffin Tuesday—Tuna salad sandwich, tomato soup, crackers, pineapple (sf pineapple), snickerdoodle cookie (sf shortbread cookie) Wednesday—Oven-fried chicken, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, green beans, hot roll, applesauce Jello (sf applesauce Jello) Thursday—Chefs salad (chicken, ham, cheese, egg), crackers, salad dressing, three-bean salad, crackers, strawberry shortcake (sf strawberry shortca...
The Nescatunga Arts and Humanities Council is offering a workshop to learn more about creating art with frosting at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 14, at the Runnymede in downtown Alva. The two-section workshop will be led by April Ridgway, owner of Sunflower Road Sweets and chair of the Nescatunga Arts Festival Sugar Show contest. The first section will be over Fondant vs Buttercream showing how to make two versions of a marble effect on a cake using both fondant and buttercream frosting to finish a cake. The second section will show how to create...
Thirteen Northwestern Oklahoma State University students have been selected as members of the Northwestern Scholar Ambassadors (NSA) for the 2024-2025 academic year. NSA is a group of academically high achievers led by Ethan Sacket, student success coordinator and transfer student recruiter. Their stated goal is to look beyond themselves to discover opportunities to serve the campus and the Alva community. In addition to working one hour a week with the university and conducting one personal service project, scholar ambassadors lead campus...
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University mathematics and natural science departments are gearing up for a math and science academy held on Fridays this June. Elementary students in grades 2-5 will engage in math and science enrichment activities with Northwestern faculty and students. Each week students will do various hands-on math and science activities learning about different math and science concepts. The academy will take place on the following dates from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Northwestern Alva Science Amphitheater: June 7, June 14, June...
The Goldbug Gulp and Gallop meals have been highly successful in getting signups this summer. In fact, they’ve been so successful they are asking for donations. Approximately 150 kids have signed up, through parents and guardians, for the program. Anyone with children ages 1-18 is invited to contact Goldbug Gulp and Gallop to enroll in the program, although their primary focus is Alva. There’s a QR code on their Facebook page and also on posters around Alva directing you to the signup. Those enrolled in the program are asked to choose bet...
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Medicaid program's recent switch to a managed care model has been a disaster, health care providers, a consumer and a state senator said on Wednesday. The problem is more serious in rural parts of the state that already face a shortage of providers and specialists, they said. The April 1 transition to a managed care model called SoonerSelect has resulted in late payments, billing errors and a loss of patients for some, they said. "The ship is astray, I can tell you that m...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Bills that create new high school credit requirements are now law while others that would have permitted school chaplains and banned corporal punishment are dead. The 2024 legislative session ended on Thursday, marking the final opportunity for lawmakers to send bills to the governor’s desk. Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law a measure to add a mandatory fourth math credit to graduate from public high schools, starting with the graduating class of 2030. State lawmakers passed House Bill 3278 despite criticisms that it demotes wor...
The Alva City Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday for a public hearing on next year’s budget. Councilmembers will also hear a presentation on privatizing sanitation services. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. June 11 in the Council Chambers of City Hall. The budget hearing for fiscal year 2024-2025 will be held first with members of the public invited to speak. The budget is the only topic to be discussed. Following the public hearing, the council will discuss and vote on a resolution adopting the budget. The General Fund budget shows p...
Art on the Salt Fork is the theme of this month's exhibit at the Graceful Arts Gallery in Alva. Although you can stop by the gallery during regular hours to view the exhibit for free, the First Friday Art Walk provides a fun time to see the art, socialize and enjoy refreshments. The gallery walls are filled with scenes familiar to this area along with paintings featuring animal life and agricultural scenes. David Padgett has included a lot of Salt Fork River paintings in his exhibit. In...
A call from a concerned citizen led to the arrest of an Alva man on a domestic assault and battery charge. On May 27, Alva police officers Anthony Ramirez and Jayce Cline were told to do a welfare check on a resident in the 900 block of Noble Street after a report that a child living at that address made comments about his mother being head-butted. Officers were unable to make contact with the resident at that address or to reach her by phone. About 10 p.m. Officer Ramirez received a call from Kenna Bence, who agreed to allow him to come to...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma needs just one more win to make softball history. Tiare Jennings' two-run homer in the first inning sparked an 8-3 win over Texas on Wednesday night that left the Sooners one victory short of a record fourth straight Women's College World Series title. Oklahoma (58-7) had nine hits and three home runs against a Texas squad that had thrown three one-hit shutouts in three World Series games. Sooners coach Patty Gasso said the plan was to help pitcher Kelly Maxwell by scoring early. Maxwell had pitched a complete g...
GLEN ROSE, Texas (AP) — A Texas family got a brief scare when a nibble from a giraffe turned a 2-year-old's safari visit into an airborne adventure. Paisley Toten was in the bed of a pickup truck on June 1 when her family drove through the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, where visitors can see exotic animals such as zebras, giraffes and sable antelope, and feed some of them from their car. The family had stopped to feed a giraffe when it grabbed Paisley's shirt with its mouth and lifted her several feet. Paisley's mother was in the pickup bed w...
PHIPPSBURG, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman enjoying a walk on a popular beach learned that quicksand doesn't just happen in Hollywood movies in jungles or rainforests. Jamie Acord was walking at the water's edge at Popham Beach State Park over the weekend when she sunk to her hips in a split second, letting out a stunned scream. She told her husband, "I can't get out!" "I couldn't feel the bottom," she said. "I couldn't find my footing." Within seconds, her husband had pulled her from the sand trap, the sand filled in, and the stunned couple w...
