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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 all! I hope you are all healthy, happy and navigating these unbelievably kooky times with all the grace that God will provide. With all the absolute nuttiness sweeping our world and culture right now, it’s a daunting task to attempt to figure out what to highlight in a section of the newspaper that I only write for once every few months. But, with all things, I tend to default to the idea that our spiritual health and relationship with Jesus Christ trumps anything at any time, so I’d like...
Oklahoma State Veterinarian, Dr. Rod Hall, has banned all rabbit exhibitions in the state until Sept. 24, to allow time to assess the scope and range of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) in the region surrounding Oklahoma. “It is essential to stop commingling of rabbits until we have a better understanding of the disease prevalence and better tools to prevent disease transmission,” said Dr. Hall in the ban released this morning. “I encourage all owners and breeders of pet, show and meat production rabbits to immediately institute strict biose...
Dr. Bryce Galbreath will be arriving in Alva in July with the opening of his office expected to be on July 13. At the Alva Hospital Authority (AHA) meeting Tuesday, Share Medical Center CEO Kandice Allen said Galbreath’s office in the Professional Building is being furnished and set up. Also the office staff is being trained. Allen said Share had their reaccreditation survey last week and overall it was very good. There were just a couple of things that will be corrected. The number of patients at the hospital clinics is picking up with the e...
An initiative petition to give voters the chance to cancel a city sales tax supporting Share Medical Center has been ruled invalid. The petition was circulated by Meagan Caldwell and filed on June 8 with the Alva City Clerk. Alva City Business Manager Angelica Brady said when filed, the petition listed 141 signatures. It was up to City Clerk Melody Theademan to check the signatures. Some were illegible and some were not registered voters in the City of Alva. After eliminating ineligible signatures, the initiative petition had only 109 eligible...
The reopening of Oklahoma's economy has brought thousands of people back into stores and workplaces, many of whom are choosing not to wear face masks or bother with social distancing. A question on the minds of election officials is whether a similar scenario will play out when thousands of voters head for the polls for the primary election, raising the risk of spreading the deadly coronavirus. Early voting starts June 25 with Election Day on June 30. Although the state election board is...
Oklahomans will soon vote in the first major election since the COVID-19 pandemic surged to a level that locked down much of the state. The disruption has left many voters with questions about the voting process itself, in addition to basic questions about dates, deadlines and the ballot lineup. Here’s what you need to know about voting in the June 30 primary. What’s on the ballot? One of the biggest statewide decisions will be on State Question 802, which would expand Oklahoma’s Medicaid program to cover people earning up to 138% of the feder...
Dr. Deena Fisher, professor of history and dean of the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Woodward campus who is retiring at the end of June, has been conferred the title of Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus by the Regional University System of Oklahoma Board of Regents. The emeritus title may be bestowed on retired professors and administrative officers who are specially recommended to the board by university president Dr. Janet Cunningham in recognition of exemplary service to the...
Anyone who loves to bake and decorate cakes, cookies or cupcakes is welcome to attend a meeting Monday, June 29, to learn more about the new “Sugar Show” contest associated with the 51st annual Nescatunga Arts Festival on Aug. 8. The meeting will be at The Runnymede, 402 Fourth St., in downtown Alva at 7 p.m. and will be led by Nescatunga Arts Festival committee member April Ridgway. “I got the idea about having a Sugar Show in Alva from Kay Decker when she was looking at some of my cookies once,” Ridgway said. “She said that they really we...
I was raised in the city. I was predominantly raised by my mother, since she had the challenge of being a stay-at-home mom until I was well into my teens. I was well fed. Most of the meals at our home followed the old pyramid plan, including a meat and two veggies, some bread and sweet iced tea. With the exception of the veggies, our doctors now encourage us to avoid eating very much of all the things we always ate. But I digress. I was never, NEVER, in the presence of an animal being butchered...
March 13, 2020: the beginning of the Great Toilet Tissue Panic. According to Arist Mastorides, president of Cottonelle and Scott, toilet paper sales grew by 734% in dollars, from the same day the year before. Why toilet paper? As quarantines began, people would need 40% more toilet paper at home for “occasions,” as the industry refers to bathroom breaks. Shoppers became preppers and hunkered down as a run cleared the shelves. Even Amazon was wiped out. The Wall Street Journal, unaware of the ter...
Graveside services for Vera R. Boham, 82, of Alva, will be Monday, June 29, 2020, at 11 a.m. in Alva Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home, Enid. Vera was born on September 11, 1937, in Helena, Oklahoma, to Archie and Goldie Crop Simmons, and died on June 24, 2020, in Enid. She grew up in the Carmen area and graduated from Cleo Springs High School in 1956. On April 29, 1962, Vera married George Boham in Alva and they made their home on the farm west of Alva. She...
With summer and its blazing hot 100-degree days upon us, perhaps this is a good time to tell the story of a blizzard that happened near here once upon a time. The year was 1886 and I am happy to report that I did not witness this weather event first-hand! What I know about it are accounts I have read in books, newspapers and journals. I mention the blizzard of 1886 in some of my classes at Northwestern Oklahoma State University every year. It had a huge impact upon life – human, animal and p...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A semipro soccer team based in Tulsa will replace the national anthem with Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" at all home matches. The Tulsa Athletic made the announcement in a news release Wednesday. The Athletic are part of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), which has more than 90 teams. In a statement, the team said it went away from "The Star-Spangled Banner" after reviewing its lyrics. It pointed to the third verse of Francis Scott Key's poem, which includes the line: "No refuge could save the hireling and...
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- PANHANDLE OIL AND GAS INC., "Panhandle" or the "Company," (NYSE: PHX), today announced it has entered into an agreement with Bank of Oklahoma ("BOK") during its scheduled borrowing base redetermination to amend its revolving credit facility. The amended facility reduces the Company's borrowing base to $32 million effective June 24, 2020. Further details regarding this amendment are contained in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 25, 2020. The next regularly scheduled borrowing...
VINITA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper shot and killed a man Thursday during a traffic stop in northeastern Oklahoma, the highway patrol said. The shooting happened shortly before 9 a.m. during a traffic stop on Interstate 44/Will Rogers Turnpike near Vinita, about 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) northeast of Tulsa near the border with Kansas, said OHP spokeswoman Sarah Stewart. Identities, the cause of the shooting, and the reason for the traffic stop were not immediately released. Stewart said the trooper and a woman who was d...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Many department chairs at the University of Kansas are pushing back against the school's plan to have classroom instruction in the fall, saying they should have the option to teach online. On Monday, a letter signed by 38 department heads was emailed to Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer after Chancellor Douglas Girod announced last week that the school would hold in-class sessions starting Aug. 24. Since then, another 14 have signed, KCUR-FM reported Thursday. Instructors can ask for an exemption from the requirement under t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The president of the state medical association on Thursday called for Oklahoma to require that face masks be worn at businesses and in public places, as the state health department reported 438 new coronavirus cases and three additional deaths. The Oklahoma State Department of Health said at least 11,948 residents have been infected and 375 of them have died due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. The actual number of people who have been infected is likely higher because many people have not been tested, and s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An audit of Oklahoma's Medicaid agency released on Thursday found income eligibility was not verified for about 37% of its recipients. State Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd conducted the audit of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority at the request of Gov. Kevin Stitt. The audit projected an estimated $845 million in claims were paid to recipients whose income was not verified, although that does not mean the recipients did not qualify for services. "It's critical that OHCA use every electronic, digital, or other means of d...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo (THE CONVERSATION) The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats and pangolins, has brought the risk of viruses that jump from wildlife to humans into stark focus. These leaps often happen at the edges of the world's tropical forests, where deforestation is increasingly...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma court on Thursday upheld the convictions and life prison sentence of a man who was convicted in the fatal stabbings of five family members when he was 16. The five-member Court of Criminal Appeals voted unanimously to uphold the five murder convictions and one count of assault with intent to kill against Michael Bever, 21. It ruled 3-2 to uphold his sentence of five consecutive life terms, essentially a life in prison sentence. Bever sought concurrent terms, meaning the sentences would be served at the same t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is preparing to direct the federal government to overhaul its hiring to prioritize a job applicant's skills over a college degree, administration and industry officials say. Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday outlining a new direction for the nation's largest employer during a meeting of the board that advises the administration on worker policy. Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and adviser, is co-chair of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board and has worked on improving job t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a far-reaching police overhaul from Democrats Thursday, a vote heavy with emotion and symbolism as a divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gathered with members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the Capitol steps, challenging opponents not to allow the deaths to have been in vain or the outpouring of public support for changes to go unmatched. But the collapse of a Senate Republican bill leaves final le...
Video telemedicine took off earlier this year as the coronavirus paused in-person doctor visits. Earl Egner missed that trend. The 84-year-old diabetic and cancer survivor has no computer or cellphone. Instead, he relies on a form of communication older than himself — the telephone — to talk to doctors as he stays hunkered down in his Somerset, Virginia, home. "We don't even have people come out to the house because I have underlying conditions," Egner said. "If this bug every passed my way, I'm a dead man, and I'm going to try to be as car...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of steady progress, new confirmed cases of COVID-19 climbed to near record levels in the U.S. this week. Experts blame a nation that's become complacent, and a new poll finds evidence to back them up: Support for measures to slow the virus' spread has declined from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. To be sure, the June survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Americans never fully embraced the reopening effort now underway in many states. A majority of A...
