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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.; coffee and donut fellowship at 10:10 a.m.; worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Friends Church is on the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Avard Christian Church Sunday services are from 2-4 p.m. Avard Christian Church is 7 miles west of Alva on Highway 64 and 7 miles south on County Road 370, or 6...
Salvation is a word used by the Apostle Paul to describe our relationship with God. The word salvation is a word that implies rescue. By choosing to use this word, Paul is therefore describing a one-sided relationship. God is the rescuer and we are those who are rescued. Furthermore, Paul makes it crystal-clear that this one-sided relationship with God called salvation is the result of God’s own independent action. We bring nothing to it except our faith. “By grace you are saved, through faith,” Paul writes. “And that not of yoursel...
Raise your hand if you hate giving blood. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Some of you actually raised your hands – earning some strange looks from the other early morning coffee drinkers at McDonalds. Some were a bit more demure and raised hands in your heart (where it counts). Then, of course, there is that handful that didn’t raise a hand at all; those folks who don’t mind getting stuck with tiny needles. Thank you for your ongoing gift of life, as you regularly donate what the Good Lord gave you to help the health of others. I have a few fri...
The Alva Arena Authority is investigating using solar energy to provide low cost or no cost electricity for the arena project. During the noon meeting on Tuesday, a representative of Solar FX from Ames, Iowa, presented information in an executive session. The company was recommended by Glen Calvert of Priefert Expo and Arena Design. Priefert has been working closely with the trustees during all phases of the project. Following the executive session, authority trustees encouraged Solar FX to contact OG&E, which provides electric power in the...
Fair books and entry tags may be picked up at the Woods County Extension Office located on the ground floor of the Woods County Courthouse. Poultry and rabbit exhibits and the Oklahoma Home and Community Education Group exhibits will be required to have pre-entry forms filled out, as well as exhibit tags and returned by Friday, Aug. 31, to the OSU Extension Office. Horse show pre-entries are due by noon, Aug. 31. All poultry and rabbit exhibits must be in place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, for entry and for blood testing. Other fair...
Kiddos are back to school and so it's time to register for Girl Scouts for the upcoming year. The local Girl Scouts are holding a party at the Girl Scout Hut in Hatfield Park on Friday, Aug. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. The whole family is invited to come enjoy s'mores and games while signing up your daughter. Girl Scouts are for all girls in kindergarten through seniors in high school. Troops are forming for the upcoming year so come enroll your daughter to be a part of the excitement. There are six different age levels of scouting: Daisy – k...
Zion Lutheran Church announces that the Lutheran Early Care Education Center will cease operations. This decision was not made lightly. Rising costs of operations and maintaining staff have hindered Lutheran Early Care for many years. Currently enrolled children will be provided child care until Dec. 21, 2018, with no new enrollments. Lutheran Early Care Center is proud of all the support they have been given by parents of former and current children and for trusting them with your children to love and care for. Lutheran Early Care is...
The August NWOGS guest speaker will be Lakin Ragains-Kastl who will present methods she used to publish her book “Relentless,” which is about the 1947 Woodward Tornado, on Aug. 11 at 10:30 a.m. in the Alva Public Library. Kastl grew up in Burlington and now lives in Yukon. Her love of history began when she was in high school and she had the privilege of representing Oklahoma at the National History Day in Washington, D.C., at the age of 13. She earned her B.A. in political sciences from Northwestern Oklahoma State University. As she stu...
Honor roll listings for the 2018 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 and Post-Graduate Students OKLAHOMA ALVA – Anthony Andrade, Karmen Andrews, Ye...
Fredrick “Howard” Miller passed away on Wednesday, August 8, 2018, at Ellsworth County Medical Center in Ellsworth, Kansas, at the age of 75. He was born on May 15, 1943, to the late Gerold and Vona Lee (McGuire) Miller in Alva, Oklahoma. After graduating from Alva High School with the Class of 1961, he enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1962 and proudly served his country for 20 years until his honorable discharge and retirement in 1982. After having met on a blind date, he was united in marriage to Patty Whitmer in Alva on June 30,...
Tunnels have always held a fascination for me. It began with a boyhood plan to tunnel under the alley at 719 First St. connecting my back yard with Bill Sperry’s on the other side. I knew of a tunnel connecting Leo Brandt’s mansion with the guest house in the back yard. Most interesting was a tunnel thought to connect a livery stable on the north side of Barnes with the Pribble Hotel across the street, site of today’s Alva Public Library. During demolition, tunnels were discovered under the B...
Dear Editor, We have been blessed with ample moisture this year to help make our city look good – wrong! I have never seen our city look so “ratty” and unkempt. Where is our pride? The courthouse lawn is really kept nice due to the pride of the “keeper.” Many yards and homes are really in need of care. Where is our city inspector? I propose our city hire our many local yard service crews to mow and clean up this mess. Let the city pay for their service and add the cost to the property tax. Let us take some pride in the appearance of our city...
Few people would dispute that the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was perhaps the most significant domestic event in U.S. history in the last half of the 20th century. Among other things, the laws that came out of the movement granted voting rights to millions of Americans who did not have them, outlawed to some extent discrimination in the workplace, and ended segregation in public schools and many other facilities. Besides expanding the voting rolls by millions of people, the civi...
The expectations for the Northwestern Oklahoma State University football team continue to rise each season as the Great American Conference coaches picked the Rangers to finish eighth, the conference released on Thursday. Northwestern, who finished 5-6 in 2018, beat both Southern Arkansas and Henderson State last season, each of which were in at the third and sixth spots in the preseason poll, respectively. The SAU Muleriders picked up a first place vote from the coaches, with Harding tabbed to win the lead with eight first place nods. Harding...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Educators from across the state gathered in the heat of the summer to go to school. They spent two days at the annual Healthy Schools Oklahoma's Summer Health Institute. Teachers and administrators engaged with one another as well as various speakers and innovators from across the country regarding the best ways to educate students about living healthy lifestyles and making good choices about nutrition and fitness. Alesa Murrow, physical education teacher at Washington E...
Sharon Batchelder, police officer for the Enid campus at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, has been selected by the Staff Council as the recipient of the 2018 spring semester Campus Kudos Award. Tiffany Misak, administrative assistant at the Enid campus and Staff Council Enid representative, presented Batchelder with the Campus Kudos award. The person nominating Batchelder for this award said, "Sharon is such a team player. Here at the Enid campus, she is always willing to help with...
SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 8, 2018) – Her senior season of collegiate golf can't get here fast enough for Oklahoma Christian's Kate Goodwin. Goodwin's summer of success continued Tuesday when she rolled through a field that included four NCAA Division I golfers to win the The Canyons Classic, a Texas Collegiate Amateur Tour event at TPC San Antonio's Canyons Course. The Tulsa product shot 75-70-75—220 on the 6,142-yard course. Her 4-over-par score was four shots better than the runner-up, Mikayla Bardwell of Lewisville, Texas – a rising freshman at Te...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Arkansas Tech volleyball has been ranked 14th in the AVCA Division II Coaches Top 25 Preseason Poll, the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced Thursday. The Golden Suns are the lone Great American Conference team in the preseason poll, after Arkansas Tech completed an undefeated regular season and added a fourth GAC Tournament Championship in 2017. Tech finished the 2017 season ranked 14th in the AVCA Top 25, after falling to No. 2 Southwest Minnesota in the NCAA Division II Central Region Championships....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has placed on the Nov. 6 general election ballot a proposal to create a new oil and natural gas trust fund to help operate state government. Fallin said Thursday she signed an executive order scheduling a statewide vote on the Oklahoma Vision Fund ballot question. If State Question 800 is approved, at least 5 percent of gross production tax receipts would be deposited into the fund annually. No more than 5 percent of the endowment could be used for service payments on bonds. Four percent of the a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has missed a self-imposed deadline to finish creating a new execution protocol involving nitrogen gas, and it's unclear when executions will resume in the state. Attorney General Mike Hunter and Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh announced in March that they intended to switch to nitrogen hypoxia for executions in Oklahoma. The announcement came after the state had trouble obtaining lethal injection drugs amid opposition from drugmakers to having their products used in executions. Officials had hoped t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University both say all marijuana, including medical marijuana, remains banned on the two campuses. OU and OSU say in a joint news release Thursday that they are legally required to comply with the Federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act that mandates drug prevention programs and prohibits the use of illegal drugs on campus or at university-sponsored events and activities. The two must also comply with the Federal Drug-Free Workplace Act that describes the drug-free p...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 19-year-old Oklahoma man convicted of stabbing his parents and three siblings to death was sentenced Thursday to five life terms in prison to run consecutively, meaning that even with the possibility of parole he likely won't ever be released. Michael Bever was 16 years old in 2015 when prosecutors say he and his older brother, Robert Bever, killed their mother, father, two younger brothers and 5-year-old sister at their suburban Tulsa home. Two other sisters survived the attack. Robert Bever, who was 18 at the time of t...
CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma official says a special state investigative audit has been requested into allegations that elected officials in Grady County have been overpaid for years. The Oklahoman reports that Grady County District Attorney Jason Hicks on Wednesday authorized state auditors to examine the salaries of all county employees. Hicks says the three county commissioners, sheriff, treasurer, county clerk, court clerk and assessor may have been overpaid a total of $20,000 per year. Grady County Commission Chairman Windle H...
