Articles from the June 9, 2017 edition
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Area religious services and events
Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva, and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.;...
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Your worst nightmare
What do you consider your worst nightmare, and you cannot say, “The day I was born.” You may say, “Could I have two or three worst nightmares?” No, you can only have one. You may say your worst n...
Spiritually Speaking
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 11:1). The great cloud of...
Co-Parenting For Resilience class
Parents who are in the divorcing process, people thinking about divorce, concerned friends or family members may attend a Co-Parenting for Resilience class to be held on Wednesday, June 28, at 6 p.m. in the conference room of the Woods County...
Kids in the Kitchen workshop schedule
The Woods County OSU Extension Office will be offering a two-day workshop, Kids in the Kitchen, designed to teach food safety, food preparation and nutrition basics for 9 to 13 year old children in Woods County. Taught by Susan Holliday, extension...
Bank It raises $6,160 for the Alva Public Swimming Pool
The Alva Public Swimming Pool was selected as Bank It's first quarter vision for 2017. From January to March, Bank It, the community of Alva and local participating banks raised $6,170.70 to make...
Northwestern, NWTC partner to play host to MASH Camp for 43 students
Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Northwest Technology Center (NWTC) partnered to offer the annual MASH (Medical Avenues in Service and Health) Camp. The camp was held on the campuses of...
Wildlife Day includes learning and wild caving
The Woods County OSU Cooperative Extension Service hosted a Wildlife Fun Day, May 31, at Alabaster Caverns State Park. Over 50 4-H youth and adults from Woods, Woodward, Harper and Major counties...
DAVID GREGORY SMART
Memorial services for David Gregory Smart will be 3:30 p.m. Sunday, June 11, 2017, at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. William S. Kalfas officiating. He was cremated at his request under the...
DR. NEAL HAROLD KILMER
Former Alva resident Dr. Neal Harold Kilmer, 73, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, loving husband, brother, cousin and grandfather, passed peacefully into the loving arms of Jesus on Monday, April 3, 2017,...
Hidden persuaders
Sitting on the porch after a spring shower, listening to the birds, it’s hard to imagine that there is another world, created by technology, called cyberspace. Cyberspace is powered by data, and t...
Random Thoughts
Previously, we looked at some of the famous political families in U.S. history. Among the most prominent of those was the Harrison family whose original members lived on a plantation in Virginia. We...
Employee pay raise part of new city budget
The City of Alva held a public hearing on next year’s budgets in the council chambers Monday. All council members except Randy Stelling were present. Stelling arrived a little later in time for the special meetings that followed. The public hearing w...
Credit and debt management workshop offered
The sixth in a series of the Woods County Extension C.A.F.E Lunchtime Learning Workshops – Credit and Debt Management – will be offered on June 25 at the Woods County Courthouse conference room. Extension C.A.F.E. (Catch a Fast Education) Lun...
Open letter to Kevin Durant: This boring NBA postseason isn't your fault, it's ours
Dear Kevin Durant: I’ve seen people call you a villain lately, and I have to laugh. It’s silly. Nothing in your personality screams “villain!” I don’t think many people actually think of you as a villain. It’s a contrived storyline in an NBA spring...
NBA Finals: Kevin Durant, Golden State Warriors take 3-0 lead on Cleveland Cavaliers
CLEVELAND (AP) – Kevin Durant drained the shot of his professional life – a 3-pointer with 45.3 seconds left – and scored 31 points as the Golden State Warriors moved within one win of postseason perfection and payback by rallying to beat the Clevela...
Bob Stoops retires at 56
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) – Like a well-executed blitz, Bob Stoops shocked the college football world. Oklahoma’s football coach abruptly announced his retirement Wednesday after leading the Sooners to 10 conference championships and a national title in...
National Champions Again!!!
OKLAHOMA CITY – For the second straight year, the third time in the last five years and the fourth time overall, the Oklahoma Sooners are national champions. No. 10 OU (61-9) defeated top-seed Florida (58-10) Tuesday evening, 5-4, for a WCWS C...
Friends' minister and daughter moving
Mark McDonald preached his final sermon at the Alva Friend's church last Sunday. He and his daughter, Linda, will be returning to the Northwestern United States from which they came. He will be...
SWOSU Rodeo Sending Five Individuals to Compete at CNFR
Setting the Scene - A group consisting of three men and two women will represent SWOSU Rodeo at the 2017 College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR), which begins on Sunday in Casper, Wyoming - SWOSU finished the season with the third (men) and fourth...
Tribe that led pipeline fight to embrace renewable energy
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The American Indian tribe that led opposition to the Dakota Access oil pipeline says it hopes to move away from reliance on fossil fuels. Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault says the tribe wants to transition to r...
In Beijing, Perry promotes US-China clean energy cooperation
BEIJING (AP) — America and China have "extraordinary opportunities" to work together on clean energy, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday, amid global criticism of President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris c...
Panel poses questions on plutonium risks at Los Alamos lab
any of the safety systems in place at a federal laboratory in New Mexico where key components of nuclear weapons are developed date to the late 1970s and will likely need to be upgraded to meet future demands, an official with an independent...
Trump election-fraud official running for Kansas governor
LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas official who has supported President Donald Trump's claim that millions of people may have voted illegally in last year's election launched a campaign for governor Thursday, sounding conservative themes that echo T...
