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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...
School will start in about a month. Some parents have great excitement as their children go back to school and have a chance to further their education. The cost for a child to start school and finish their high school education in public schools is around about $150,000. If they go on to college it will cost around another $200,000 or $300,000. If they add in all the time and sacrifice, they wonder if the cost of the education is worth it? Is the money well spent or did they throw their money...
If you’ve been around me much, these last few weeks, I’ve probably mentioned a book I’ve been reading by Ken Ham called “Gospel Reset” (salvation made RELEVANT). I have to admit, the title kept me from beginning this read for quite a while. It seemed that Ken was saying we needed to fix the Gospel to make salvation “relevant.” Of course, that was not his intention at all. Just for reference sake, Ken is the founder of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter. If you have a moment, you might take a look at some of his work....
The monthly meeting of the Alva Robotics Team will be held on Saturday, Aug. 10, at 10 a.m. at the Alva Public Library. The group will be planning the interior of the trade show booth, revising T-shirt designs and discussing topics surrounding the theme of this year's game: Off the Grid. Final plans will be made for attending the senior workshop at NWOSU on Aug. 24. Team members interested in leadership positions with the team this fall need to attend this meeting....
Barbara Peterson died August 3, 2019, resulting from a short illness. She was 74. Barbara was born in 1945 to Bertha and Leo Schmitt. She grew up in Alva, Oklahoma, and Southern California. She met her future husband, Edward D. Peterson, while attending BYU and the two were married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 1, 1965. Following their schooling, the Petersons moved to San Diego, California, where they raised their three children, Craig, Amy and Amanda. After raising their family in...
Honor roll listings for the 2019 summer session at Northwestern Oklahoma State University have been announced. All students – undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate – on the President’s List have a 4.0 grade point average (GPA) in a minimum of seven hours of work. Those on the Vice-President’s List had GPA of 3.5 or better for a minimum of seven hours of work. Listed by permanent residence, those on the honor roll are as follows: PRESIDENT’S HONOR ROLL Graduate & Post-Graduate Students OKLAHOMA ALVA – Alyssa Bowen, Rance Castleberry...
John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful sang, “Hot time, summer in the city, back of my neck getting’ dirt and gritty,” and global warming was yet to come! Oklahoma, cool, and August have never been used in the same sentence. I remember childhood without air conditioning. We had “water coolers,” which, unlike air conditioning which removes humidity, added moisture to the air. We had to have some windows open to allow the large quantity of humid air inserted into the living space by the squirre...
Be a legend and give blood with Oklahoma Blood Institute. Bigfoot is stomping his way through blood drives in Oklahoma this summer! Oklahoma Blood Institute will hold a Bigfoot-themed blood drive with Alva School PTA Challenge on Friday, Aug. 16, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Longfellow Elementary, 19 E. Barnes Ave. Each blood donor will receive a limited edition Bigfoot T-shirt. Donors will also receive a coupon from Whataburger for a free honey butter chicken biscuit and be entered for a chance to win Whataburger for a year! Donors also receive a...
President Abraham Lincoln (who served from 1861 to 1865) and his wife, Mary, had four children. All boys, they were – in the order of their births – Robert, Edward, William and Thomas. Unfortunately, Robert was the only one to live to adulthood. Robert Lincoln lived a long and notable life. Born in August 1843, he became a successful corporate attorney after undergraduate work at Harvard and law school at Northwestern University in his native Illinois. Lincoln also had a distinguished pol...
Interim is the time in between the end of one legislative session and the beginning of another. While it is true that the session itself is only about four months long, work continues at the State Capitol throughout the year. A couple of weeks ago, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate announced a list of 72 interim studies that had received approval. These studies afford legislators the opportunity to hold in-depth hearings on complex issues that may come before us during the session. Some of the studies may be simply to inform legislators...
None of the plans being considered for the Alva pool include any figures for repair and restoration of our existing historical Alva pool. As I understand it, a yes vote allows a committee to choose any design they want and the designs that have been presented are only ideas. It seems that going from a 15,000 sq. ft. facility (what we have now) to one half or less (as illustrated in proposed drawings) doesn’t make sense for our community. The citizens of Alva deserve the facts. Give me the facts about a concrete plan and perhaps I’ll be in fav...
Share Medical Center in Alva is one of the 47 Oklahoma hospitals and hospital specialty units to have met a challenge from the Oklahoma Hospital Association to achieve a health care worker influenza vaccination rate of 96 percent or higher during the 2018-2019 flu season. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “Influenza places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year. CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9.2 million and 35.6 million illnesses, between 1...
The fall semester at Graceful Arts Center will include weekly Tuesday Youth Acrylics from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for ages 8 – 14 years of age, Wednesday After-School Arts & Crafts from 3:30 to 5 p.m. for ages K – 12 years, and once a month Children's Make-n-Take Friday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for ages K – 12 years. The schedule is as follows: Tuesday Youth Acrylics Session 1: Sept. 3 to Oct. 8 Session 2: Oct. 15 to Nov. 19 Wednesday After-School Arts & Crafts Aug. 21, 28 Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25 Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20 Dec. 4, 11, 18 Child...
With local public school classes beginning Aug. 14, the Alva Public Library is transitioning into a number of fall programs for youth and adults. If you want to get a full list of planned activities, stop by the front desk at the library where they have printed schedules available. These will also be posted on the library’s Facebook page. Library Director Sandra Ott Hamilton says a number of activities have been planned for after school. Meeting once each week, the activities will include building, knowledge-based challenges and problem s...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in northern Arizona have identified an Oklahoma man who died after falling off a moving car following a struggle. The Coconino County Medical Examiner's Office says 35-year-old Richard Osburn died from blunt-force head trauma. Osburn's body was found on Highway 89N near Gray Mountain when county sheriff's deputies and Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers from Flagstaff responded to the scene Monday. Authorities say an unidentified couple from Conway, Arkansas stopped to assist a driver who had just b...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Nearly 1,800 Cherokee Nation employees will get a pay raise this year and the minimum wage will increase to $11 for tribal employees, a tribal official said. Principal Chief-elect Chuck Hoskin Jr. announced the raises to more than 100 employees during a town hall at the W.W. Hastings health facility in Tahlequah on Wednesday. The tribe's minimum hourly wage will increase from $9.50 to $11 when Hoskin signs the executive order in October. "It's fiscally responsible," he said. "It keeps us sustainable because we want to b...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in an Oklahoma City suburb were justified when they fatally shot a black teenager who was naked and unarmed, an attorney for the city argues in a response to a civil rights lawsuit filed by the teen's parents. The parents of Isaiah Mark Lewis contend in their federal lawsuit that Sgt. Milo Box and Officer Denton Scherman used excessive force and acted "unnecessarily and unjustly" when they hit their 17-year-old son with a stun gun and then fatally shot him on April 29 after he allegedly broke into a home. In a r...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma City hope the 10th anniversary of a businessman's death will produce clues leading to the arrest of a suspect. Inspector Cris Cunningham said Thursday that police are searching for now 43-year-old Noel Fuentes. He's charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 8, 2009, stabbing death of 49-year-old Dwight Patrick in southwest Oklahoma City. Cunningham says Fuentes has family and friends in the Baja California, Mexico, area. Cunningham says Fuentes was an employee of Patrick, who owned Patrick Plumbing. T...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell said Thursday that a Kansas government watchdog that purchased transcripts this week of the testimony of four campaign workers at his federal trial was acting in response to a self-referral last year seeking an investigation by the state agency. Jurors in March acquitted O'Donnell on 21 counts of wire fraud, but deadlocked on two counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering related to his state and county campaigns. The judge later dismissed the remaining counts a...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A jury has awarded a Kansas man and his 3-year-old son $6.55 million in a wrongful death verdict after the man's wife died hours after giving birth at a Wichita hospital. The Wichita Eagle reports that the award is the largest wrongful death verdict ever in Kansas. It splits the judgment between Edgar Perez and his son, Zander. Lindsay Perez was a middle school drama teacher who died after giving birth on Oct. 8, 2015, at Wesley Medical Center. The suit named the hospital, its parent company and nine physicians. A h...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — One 14-year-old Kansas boy is dead and another is in custody after a shooting at a townhome in suburban Kansas City. The shooting happened around 2:15 a.m. Thursday in the town of Olathe. The Kansas City Star reports that the victim is Zavier Mendoza of Olathe. The suspect was arrested hours after the shooting. His name has not been released. Police say the suspect and Zavier knew each other. Police Sgt. Joel Yeldell says the shooting happened during a disturbance, but details about the disturbance are still being pieced t...
KINGSTON, Mo. (AP) — A man charged with tampering with a vehicle used by two Wisconsin brothers who are missing and presumed dead in Missouri was involved in a business arrangement with another farmer that included calves owned by the brothers, according to people involved in the deal. Brothers Nick and Justin Diemel, from Shawano County, Wisconsin, disappeared July 21 while visiting northwest Missouri for a trip related to their cattle business. Authorities say the brothers are presumed dead. Human remains found on a farm owned by Garland N...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The owner of a Kansas City day care center was sentenced to federal prison for fraudulently receiving more than $556,000 in benefits. Forty-one-year-old Sharif Karie, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced Thursday to four years and 10 months without parole. He was convicted in January of nearly 30 counts, including participating in a conspiracy to steal government property. Prosecutors say Karie, a naturalized citizen from Somalia, fraudulently established KARIE Day Care Center and Tima Child Care Center at the same l...
