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Real Estate Transfers Book 1363, page 417: Sunflower Associates LLC conveys unto Stephanie Sermsai. Lot 11, Block 12, City of Alva, OT Subdivision. Warranty deed. Book 1363, page 420: Jimmy Jacobson, Randy J. Fox convey unto Randy Fox. Lots 4, 5, 6; Block 9; City of Alva; Hatfield Subdivision. Quit claim deed. Book 1363, page 422: Douglas L. Hamblin conveys unto James A. Hablin, Tonita G. Hamblin and Douglas Hamblin. Section 28, Township 24N, Range 14W, SW4NW4, NW4SW4. Warranty deed. Book 1363, page 315: Jacinda Perot and John Mike Perot...
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. Divorce Filings Eric Matthew Warren, Alva, vs. Shonda Denise Wa...
Thursday, June 13, 2024 During this day were 10 traffic stops, four controlled burns and one utility complaint. 11:34 a.m. – Report of a verbal domestic issue. 11:35 a.m. – Report of a disturbance on SW 1st Street. 11:56 a.m. – Medic needed on Meno Street for a person who fell. 11:57 a.m. – Lift assist needed on Meno Street. 12:03 p.m. – Report of trespassing. 12:14 p.m. – Welfare check needed on SW 1st Street. 1:34 p.m. – Medic needed on Oklahoma for a general medical issue. 2:43 p.m. – Welfare check needed on 7th Street. 2:59 p.m. – Report o...
ALVA – Success as an athlete doesn't always translate into the victories all dream about. For Northwestern Oklahoma State University's contingent of five contestants competing at the College National Finals Rodeo last week, there was some great success but only a trio came away with the actual awards. All-around cowboy Jacob Haren of Callaway, Nebraska, had the highest honor, finishing fourth in the nation in steer wrestling after placing in two of four go-rounds, and Trisyn Kalawaia of W...
Alva Church of God Alva Church of God, 517 9th St. in Alva with Pastor Sheryl White. Sunday, June: Sunday school will be at 9:30 a.m., and morning worship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m. will be a showing of “The Chosen,” Season 4, Session 2. Wednesday: Bible study at 7 p.m. Thursday: Bible study at 6:30 p.m. 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 morning. Worship is at 10:30 a.m. If you cannot make it in person, we are on Facebook at Alv...
Scripture References: John 13:34-35, Matthew 22:36-40, Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and Leviticus 19:18 On Wednesday I attended the funeral of my wife’s maternal grandfather. He was an incredible man who devoted his life to serving the LORD and caring for his family. For the majority of his working life, he served as a Baptist pastor in a handful of different churches. Now, me being a United Methodist, I will never forget the first time I met him. He approached me, and I was unsure whether to interpret his demeanor as grumpy or the typical gruffness of a...
How many of us have had a period in our lives that has been so busy there has not been a chance to just stop, sit down, and rest? It seems to happen to all of us that several important things going on in our lives just come together at the same time and need our attention. We labor, day and night, weeks, and even months to make sure we accomplish all these tasks. Because of this, we become so very tired, but to get things finished, we continue on using up all of our energy and desperately seek a time to rest. In our Christian lives, it seems...
Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday—Meatloaf with catsup topping, potatoes au gratin, broccoli, dinner roll, tapioca pudding (sf vanilla pudding) Tuesday—Oven fried fish, tartar sauce, coleslaw, tater tots, garlic bread, dragon fruit smoothie bowl Wednesday—Philly cheese steak sandwich, potato wedges, mixed fruit (sf mixed fruit), chocolate chip cookie (sf chocolate chip cookie) Thursday—Ham and beans, onions, spinach, tomato spoon relish, cornbread, cinnamon roll with icing (plain cinnamon roll) Friday—Closed...
Agricultural producers who have not yet completed their crop acreage reports after spring planting should make an appointment with the Woods CountyFarm Service Agency (FSA) before the applicable deadline. “In order to comply with USDA program eligibility requirements, all producers must file an accurate crop acreage report by the applicable deadline,” said Lisa Higgins, FSA’s County executive director in Woods County. “Once planting is complete, please call our office to make an appointment to report your acreage.” An acreage report documents...
“The gold standard is a system whereby countries agree to convert paper money into a fixed amount of gold. If the price of gold was $2,000 an ounce, the value of a dollar would be 1/500 of an ounce of gold.” – Nick Loudis, Investopedia. Steve Forbes, from Forbes Magazine, says, “We never had inflation when the dollar’s value was tied to the yellow metal.” He also says, “The real cause of monetary inflation is weakening the value of the dollar, usually by creating too many of them.” Is it...
Don’t kid yourself. You ain’t ever gonna be that strong, that good, or that important to anyone in your world. It doesn’t matter how hard you try, or how great you believe that you are. In fact, that attitude can cause you to wear yourself out trying to be the Grand Man in the Cape. And at the same time, you just might be coming across as the pompous know-it-all who-thinks-he-can-do-it-all to those around you. Superheroes are just … not. Sure, in the comic strips they can have it all, be it a...
Do you think you know who you are, or what you see is what you get? Well, if you do then I am going to respectfully challenge this belief. First, I used to believe this too, until I saw a television program 30 years ago or so. That made me understand there is far more to us than we could ever realize. The program was about people who, as adults, suffered some type of brain trauma, and found after they’d recovered they had somehow obtained or exhibited some new talent, skill or knowledge. The f...
Jesus will get ahold of you even when you don’t realize he did. After this week, some of you might think I would be coming out of the gate with both barrels blazing towards a politician. I would be lying if I said I hadn’t thought about it, a lot. But every time I have gone to write something this weekend, the words just wouldn’t come. Nothing would flow out of my brain and to the tips of my fingers and finally to the keyboard on my computer. I can’t imagine anyone liking their character questioned; I sure didn’t. I kinda felt like Zechariah wh...
Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan Bates lived comfortably in Seville, Ohio, in the 1870s and 1880s. They earned good incomes working as circus attractions, and they owned a productive farm with a comfortable home. Martin and Anna were also active members of the local community, including regularly attending a Baptist church. But all was not perfect. Their desire to add children to their family was unsuccessful; a daughter was stillborn and a son lived less than a day. Then, in 1888, Anna...
I forgot it until the kids fed me a really good meal and told me why. There was quite a discussion on the “Alva Rants and Raves and Gossip” Facebook page about the trash services the other night. Joe Parsons tries to answer all the questions he can and help keep the natives calm. He seems to be a proponent of outsourcing the trash to a private company. The main talk is about how much cheaper it would be. This company is going to do it for a profit. What we need to do is look at how they wor...
Juneteenth has been unable to escape the inevitable – commercialization. An online search for Juneteenth products brings up everything from T-shirts to temporary tattoos, flags to jewelry, wreaths to doormats. The dedicated Juneteenth shopper can find socks, golf balls, sunglasses, makeup bags, party favors and more. For Baltimore community organizer and advocate Brian Sessions, that sort of merchandising is part of the “controlling of the narrative” of the holiday by corporations. “You take the focus off of emancipation for Africans who wer...
On Tuesday, June 18, 92 percent of voters in the City of Alva approved the proposition to transfer ownership of Share Convalescent Home to the Alva Hospital Authority. This vote will give the hospital authority a clear title to sell the facility to the owners of Beadles Nursing Home. The Adam and Dayna Jordan family have been working toward this goal with the hospital authority for many months. Of the 828 votes cast, 762 voted in favor of the proposition while 55 voted against it. It’s still undecided who will be the new District 2 Woods C...
UpliftAlva met for their quarterly meeting on June 17 at 6:30 p.m. at Gambino's Pizza in Alva. President, Dawn Shafer called the meeting to order. Old Business The bylaws have been completed and approved. The group discussed that a meal was delivered to Alva EMS consisting of lasagna, salad, garlic bread, ice cream bars and soda. These meals will be delivered to a different medical provider in our community each month as a way to thank them for their services. The July meal will go to Alva Health and Wellness on July 27 at noon and will...
With the fiscal year coming to an end this month, the Woods County Excise Board heard reports Wednesday from the county assessor about numbers for next year. Present were board members Joe Shirley, Chris Olson and Bob Seivert along with County Clerk Shelley Reed. County Assessor Renetta Benson came to the meeting to give a couple of reports. She said she took the annual assessor’s abstract report to Oklahoma City last week. The total assessed valuation for the county is down 4.9 percent from last year. She attributed the decrease to oil and g...
The Alva City Council agenda Monday night was mostly routine, but there were several interesting discussions. Mayor Kelly Parker attended the summer mayor’s conference the previous week in Weatherford. He said he wore NWOSU Ranger shirts for the entire conference. (SWOSU in Weatherford is a longtime rival of NWOSU.) Parker said he learned about other options to signing on with Retail Strategies. That company made a presentation to the council concerning attracting regional and national retail companies to Alva. The mayor asked that anyone i...
MORRILTON, Ark. (AP) — An Alabama man wanted in connection with homicides in Oklahoma and Alabama was apprehended Thursday in Arkansas after a search that spanned multiple southern states, Arkansas State Police said. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, was taken into custody around 10 a.m. in a wooded area in Morrilton, state police said. He was taken into custody "without incident," the agency said in a brief statement. Drake is wanted in connection with homicides and carjackings in Oklahoma, Arkansas State Police said. They said he's also wanted on other f...
SQUAM LAKE, N.H. (AP) — As New England baked in a heat wave Thursday, guests at one campground were keeping their food and beer cold with blocks of ice harvested months earlier from a frozen lake. And while some relief is expected in the eastern Great Lakes region and New England starting Friday, the National Weather Service said scorching temperatures will linger across the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic region, and even rise in places, including California and Arizona, where they could eclipse 100 degrees (nearly 38 degrees Celsius). On S...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday that it was establishing a new safe corridor to deliver aid into southern Gaza. But days later, this self-declared "tactical pause" has brought little relief to desperate Palestinians. The United Nations and international aid organizations say a breakdown in law and order has made the aid route unusable. With thousands of truckloads of aid piled up, groups of armed men are regularly blocking convoys, holding drivers at gunpoint and rifling through their cargo, according to a U.N. official who s...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges — and stirs the long-running debate over the role of religion in government institutions. Under the new law, all public K-12 classrooms and state-funded universities will be required to display a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in "large, easily readable font" next year. Civil liberties groups planned lawsuits to block the law signed by Republican Gov....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Thursday that it will rush delivery of air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine by redirecting planned shipments to other allied nations, as Washington scrambles to counter increased Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. National security spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. had taken the "difficult but necessary decision to reprioritize near-term planned deliveries of foreign military sales to other countries," though he wouldn't say which nations would be affected or how many. "Right...
