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I hope you and your family will have a great holiday this weekend. We can all use some much-needed family time and a great BBQ. Monday night, I hope all your fireworks go off and are loud and bright. Usually, after a great meal and a day full of family time, we enjoy watching Alva’s firework show. All the celebrations drift to the background as I reflect on our nation. I am very grateful that I was born in this country. The freedoms I enjoy were born from a group of godly men who desired a f...
Graveside services for Lu Ann Baker will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 1, 2022, at the Alva Municipal Cemetery with Rev. Bob Brown officiating. Celebration of life services will then be at 11 a.m. at the Alva Church of God. Arrangements are entrusted to Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Lu Ann Baker, daughter of the late Gordon Willis and Margaret Louise (Williamson) Burkett, was born November 25, 1953, in Altus, Oklahoma, and passed away June 28, 2022, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 68...
If you have been to the ocean, you may have witnessed the overpowering energy in waves. Wave motion is usually caused by the wind and affects the water from the surface all the way to the bottom. When waves reach the shore, they “break” or tumble over, only to return to sea in an undertow or rip current. A less predictable wave is the tsunami. They are caused by undersea earthquakes, the greatest of modern time occurring in the Indian Ocean in late December of 2004. Tides are also waves, cau...
As we have seen, Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death by a hatchet in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home on August 4, 1892. Abby was killed first. In the Borden home at the time of Abby Borden’s murder were her younger stepdaughter, Lizzie; a servant named Bridget “Maggie” Sullivan; and perhaps an unknown intruder. Abby was in an upstairs bedroom making up a bed when she was attacked. A few minutes later, Andrew Borden returned home from taking a walk. He was attacked and killed while...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University is pleased to announce Dr. David Pecha as the new executive vice president beginning July 1. Dr. Bo Hannaford, who is assuming the role of university president on July 1, has appointed Pecha as the executive vice president. "Dr. Pecha is a great fit for the executive vice president role as his experience here at Northwestern was an important factor for me in making this decision," Hannaford said. "Dr. Pecha has always represented this university well and al... Full story
The Woods County Industrial Development Authority said goodbye to one of its own Tuesday morning. Longtime member and chairperson Rick Cunningham, who is retiring, conducted his last meeting alongside Randy McMurphy, Stan Kline, and Connor Martin. Melissa Fisher was absent. Jeremy Zeller, Woods County Economic Development Committee Executive Director, was there too. They approved the minutes of their special meeting held earlier this month and then took no action on the following agenda items regarding audits. The audit for FY 2020-2021 and...
Do you know lazy people? Those people who do absolutely nothing to contribute to the betterment and building up of society? We as Christians can fall into the same rut if we don’t show our faith to God and the world by our actions! We can become lazy if we don’t focus on the work God has for us! In the book of James, the Lord’s brother, James warns us about the lazy condition of our faith. James 2:14-17 says, “14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose...
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 Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15 a.m. every...
Operating budgets for the FY22-23 year beginning July 1 were approved during the Alva Hospital Authority (AHA) meeting Tuesday evening. All trustees were present. In a special meeting on June 9, the AHA approved a contract with Meditech as a service at $39,800 per month with a $150,000 implementation fee. The hospital had been seeking help in operating the Meditech software from the Duncan hospital. When that didn’t work out, they learned by changing their contract, they could receive the same help and training from Meditech, and it would c... Full story
Woods County incumbents David Hamil and John Smiley won the Republican primary election on Tuesday, June 28, with more than 50 percent of the vote. Election returns are preliminary until ratified at 5 p.m. today, July 1. Hamil received 62.78 percent of the vote while his opponent Willie McKinley had 37.22 percent. A total of 317 votes were cast in the County Commissioner District 1 race with Hamil receiving 199 and McKinley 118. Since no one else filed, Hamil retains his seat without further voting. There were three candidates on the... Full story
Camera artists are featured during July at Graceful Arts Gallery in Alva. "Through the Lens Photography" provides three different perspectives in photographs by Sherry Stinson, Bruce Montgomery and Greg Silva. All three artists are expected to attend for the First Friday Art Walk tonight to kick off the new exhibit. Photographs large and small depict the amazing colors and textures of mountain canyons, the reality of cowboys working cattle and elusive birds ready to take flight. Cloud painter... Full story
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona. The Higgins landing craft that has long been 185 feet (56 meters) below the surface is now nearly halfway out of the water at Lake Mead. The boat lies less than a mile from Lake Mead Marina and Hemingway Harbor. It was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago, sold to the marina and then sunk, according to dive tours company Las Vegas Scuba. Higgins Industries in New Orleans built s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When you groggily roll out of bed and make breakfast, the government edges up to your kitchen table, too. Unlike you, it's perky. It's an unseen force in your morning. The government makes sure you can see the nutrients in your cereal. It fusses over your toast, insisting that the flour it comes from has no more than 75 insect fragments and one rodent hair per 50 grams. The government also tends to your coffee, mandating that no more than 10% of your beans be moldy. Its satellites inform the weather forecast on your phone f...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Following the horror of a human-smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state troopers to inspect more trucks — again expanding a border security mission that has cost billions, given the National Guard arrest powers and bused migrants to Washington, D.C. What Abbott's get-tough plans haven't done in the year since he began rolling them out is curb the number of people crossing the border. Along the border in Texas, where officials say Monday's fatal tractor-trailer journey beg...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it's landmark 1973 ruling that confirmed a constitutional right to abortion. It was not immediately clear whether the clinics in Texas that resumed performing abortions just days ago would halt services again following the ruling late Friday night. A hearing is scheduled for later this month. The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, r...
Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. These involve taking two prescription medicines days apart — at home or in a clinic. Abortion procedures are an invasive medical technique that empties the womb. They are sometimes called surgical abortions, although they don't involve surgery. Abortion by pills involves the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. As more states seek abortion limits, demand for the pills is expected to grow. HOW THE DRUGS WORK Mife... Full story
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month. The timing was not likely a coincidence. While much of the attritional war in Ukraine's east is hidden from sight, the brutality of Russian missile strikes on a mall in the central city of Kremenchuk and on residential buildings in the capital, Kyiv, unfolded in full view of the world and especially of Western leaders gathered for a trio of su...
