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Alva Church of God Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Bible study is at 7 p.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 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 Alva Friends Church Group. The church is located at the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Barnes Street Church of Christ...
There’s a famous song written by J.J. Cale and then performed by Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Johnny Cash. You’d be hard pressed to find a better lineup than that to perform the classic rock song “Call Me the Breeze.” And within this particular song, there is a lyric that has always caught my attention and made me think. “Ain’t no change in the weather ... Ain’t no changes in me.” This is a common mindset, isn’t it? I’ve heard it put a few different ways. “I am who I am and I refuse to ap...
Something that is easier said than done is to be kind to one another. Being kind to someone you like or love is easy, but to be kind to someone that you don’t know or even don’t like, is another story altogether! Our lives as Christians are a little more detailed than just showing up to church service on Sundays, singing a few songs, partaking of the Lord’s Supper, and listening to a motivational speaker that may or may not inspire you. No, Christianity is living a life that is mimicking the life of our Lord and savior Jesus the Christ! That li...
Peggy Goodrich, columnist for Enid News and Eagle and former teacher, will be the guest speaker at the Aug. 13 meeting of the Northwest Oklahoma Genealogy Society at 10 a.m. at the Cherokee Strip Museum School House. Goodrich will talk about teaching sixth graders “Life Lessons.” The lesson will be informative, interesting and very entertaining with her anecdotes, memories and experiences and will leave you with something to think about. Come sit in the old schoolhouse and reminiscence about your school days. Open to the pub...
Have you ever said, “When you need someone to talk to, just call me.” I have, and people called. People need a shoulder to cry on today more than ever. This country has been through numerous bouts of division and we flounder in it today. Many people have more tension, more regret and more anger than they can control. That is why “Call me” may be the most important words you ever speak. While mental health care is available, people often see it as sign of weakness. “Shake it off:” words that...
By the mid-1960s, Jesse Hill Ford’s writing career had become quite successful. He had published a novel, a play and several short stories. And, after a slow start, he was making money. He secured a Fulbright Scholarship to spend a year teaching at a university in Norway, and he began receiving numerous paid speaking invitations. Then, in 1965, his reputation soared to new heights with the publication of his second novel, “The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones.” The book sold well and critics prais...
The Woods County 4-H Achievement Banquet was held on Aug. 5 to recognize the accomplishments of 4-H members who completed a record book for 2021-2022. Ko Brooks of the Alva 4-H club and Davin Budy of the Waynoka 4-H club were given the Outstanding Senior Awards for the Woods County 4-H program. Trenton Welty and Jimmie Smith of Freedom 4-H were named the Outstanding Juniors for Woods County 4-H. Sponsors for these awards included Western Equipment, Core Bank, BancCentral and Wheeler Brothers... Full story
Data released by the Oklahoma State Department of Health on Thursday, Aug. 11, shows a slight increase in people testing positive for Covid-19 in Woods County. However, statewide totals are down a little from last week. Alva has 22 positive cases, up one from last week. Waynoka also increased by one with six cases this week compared to five in last week’s report. Dacoma and Freedom are still showing no cases. The OSDH lists any total less than five as zero. The state of Oklahoma has 19,703 active cases of Covid-19 as of Thursday’s OSDH rep...
Summer programs were very popular at the Alva Public Library as shown by the number of participants. On week seven, there were 32 kids participating in the Summer Reading Program. The Little Explorers had as many as 28 kids attending. A couple of movie days in July brought in 18 kids one day and 11 the next. The two Lego days in July were attended by 13 kids and 23 kids. There were also a couple of days spent in activities on the courthouse lawn. Library Director Sandra Ott said the Summer... Full story
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes will start the Kansas City Chiefs' preseason opener in Chicago on Saturday, bucking a trend across the NFL of coaches sitting their starting quarterbacks for the first of their three exhibition games. Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Thursday he would stick to his usual routine of having each of the four quarterbacks in camp play for a quarter of the preseason opener. And while he acknowledged the number of snaps could change based on the way the game is going, Reid thinks it's important for everybody — sta...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Federal officials allege that a New York man defrauded an organization that provides foster and adoption services to Kansas out of about $10.7 million. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas filed a civil asset forfeiture case Aug. 1 alleging that William Whymark and his company WMK Research, which is based in Mount Kisco, N.Y., defrauded Saint Francis Ministries, based in Salina, Kansas. The FBI alleges Whymark committed wire fraud on at least three occasions but he has not been criminally charged, The Topeka C...
NEW YORK (AP) — Trillions of insects migrate across the globe each year, yet little is known about their journeys. So to look for clues, scientists in Germany took to the skies, placing tiny trackers on the backs of giant moths and following them by plane. To the researchers' surprise, the moths seemed to have a strong sense of where they were going. Even when the winds changed, the insects stayed on a straight course, the scientists reported in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. Their flight paths suggest these death's-head haw...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O'Rourke responded to a heckler at a campaign stop with an expletive after the Texas gubernatorial candidate heard a cackled laugh while criticizing the ease with which the Uvalde elementary school gunman legally purchased an AR-15-style rifle. By Thursday, video of O'Rourke's exchange at a town hall in rural Mineral Wells had drawn millions of views on social media, becoming the latest instance in which O'Rourke has gotten attention for his calls for stricter gun laws following one of the deadliest c...
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio emergency management agency said a standoff has ended Thursday between law enforcement and an armed man suspected of trying to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office. State police earlier said the man has "unknown injuries" after he fled and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement. An update posted to the Facebook page of the Clinton County Emergency Management Agency indicated the "law enforcement operations and response" was over, but included no information about how the standoff was resolved or the status of the s... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it's nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill Friday that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push. Friday's anticipated action comes 34 years after a top scientist grabbed headlines warning Congress about the dangers of global warming. In the decades since, there have b... Full story
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities worked Thursday to determine the cause of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood that killed three people and left another person hospitalized. The explosion Wednesday afternoon in Evansville damaged 39 homes. Crews on Thursday completed a secondary search of buildings that were left unstable by the explosion and no more victims were found, Fire Chief Mike Connelly told reporters. "It's a huge relief, for everybody," the chief said of the results of the secondary search. Eleven of the damaged h...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of Brazilians flocked to a law school Thursday in defense of the nation's democratic institutions, an event that carried echoes of a gathering nearly 45 years ago when citizens joined together at the same site to denounce a brutal military dictatorship. In 1977, the masses poured into the University of Sao Paulo's law school to listen to a reading of "A Letter to Brazilians," a manifesto calling for a prompt return of the rule of law. On Thursday, they heard declarations defending democracy and the country's elections...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is asking a federal court to unseal the warrant the FBI used to search the Mar-a-Lago estate of former President Donald Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday, acknowledging extraordinary public interest in the case about classified records. The request is striking because such documents traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the Justice Department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and h...
MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors in South Florida announced a second-degree murder charge Thursday against social media model Courtney Clenney related to the fatal stabbing of her live-in boyfriend. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced the charge against the 26-year-old model during a news conference. Clenney was arrested Wednesday in Hawaii. Fernandez Rundle said Clenney, who goes by the name Courtney Tailor on platforms like Instagram and OnlyFans, remains jailed in Hawaii while authorities work to have her extradited to Flo...
DALLAS (AP) — Gasoline prices have dipped under $4 for the first time in more than five months — good news for consumers who are struggling with high prices for many other essentials. AAA said the national average for a gallon of regular was $3.99 on Thursday, down from the mid-June record of $5.02. However, that's still about 80 cents higher than the average a year ago. Energy is a key factor in the cost of many goods and services, and falling prices for gas, airline tickets and clothes are giving consumers a bit of relief, although inf...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Drag performers shimmied up and down a walkway between café tables, as enthusiastic patrons took photos, waved cash and filled out ballots ranking the shows. The mock election, fueled by performances that brought the din of an Anchorage, Alaska, café to a roar, was aimed at teaching voters about the state's new ranked choice voting system. The first ranked voting election under a suite of elections changes approved by Alaska voters in 2020 will be the Aug. 16 special U.S. House election featuring Republicans Sarah Pal... Full story
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Rescue divers' first attempts to reach 10 miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine since last week were stopped by debris-filled shafts and poor visibility, Mexican authorities said Thursday. They made four attempts Wednesday and managed to remove more than a dozen pieces of wood and some 15 yards of hose, but were not able to go far. "They found they didn't have space to advance," said Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval. "With the lights they carry they don't have the visibility they need to identify what they f... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in more than two years and a sign that some of the U.S. economy's inflationary pressures cooled last month. Thursday's report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.5% in July. It was the first monthly drop since April 2020 and was down from a sharp 1% increase from May to June. The easing of wholesale inflation suggests that consumers could get some...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' elections director says the state will go along with a request for a hand recount of votes from every county after last week's decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights, even though there was a 165,000-vote difference and a recount won't change the result. Melissa Leavitt, of Colby in far western Kansas, requested the recount and declined to comment to reporters Friday evening, citing work obligations. But she said on an online site raising funds for a recount that she had "seen data" about the election. H...
DERBY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas school district's board rejected a proposed strategic plan after some members questioned its emphasis on diversity and students' mental health. The Derby Board of Education voted 4-3 this week to reject a plan presented after months of work by parents, students, employees and community members, the Kansas News Service reported. Board President Michael Blankenship said focusing on diversity would not help students academically. He proposed replacing the word "diversity" in one part of the plan with the word "...
