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Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday – Biscuit and sausage gravy, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Tuesday – Apple pie parfait, cereal, juice, milk Wednesday – Waffle, sausage patty, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Thursday – Cinnamon toast, scrambled eggs, fruit, juice, milk Friday – Donut, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Lunch Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday – Spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic breadstick, green beans, fruit, milk Tuesday – Chicken taco, refried beans, chips and salsa, fruit, milk Wednesday – Pork loin, loaded mashed potatoes, di...
Treat yourself and your family to a cup or bowl of delicious homemade chili at the Woods County Free Fair on Friday, Sept. 10, at our Chili Cook-Off Contest. The contest will take place in the Women’s Building at the Woods County Fairgrounds at 6 p.m. Any Woods County resident is eligible to enter the contest. Participants are encouraged to make their favorite recipe to enter, including traditional chili, white chili, vegetarian chili and more. Following judging, bowls of chili will be sold for $2 and cups will be sold for $1. The top three f...
STILLWATER, Okla. – State 4-H Roundup always is an exciting time on the Oklahoma State University campus. This year’s celebration that took place July 28-30 was especially exciting as the delegates were part of the 100th Roundup. Steve Beck, Oklahoma 4-H Youth Development program leader, said it was great to have everyone back on the OSU campus this year and reported about 550 total participants. “We were very excited to have the kids back on campus this year. Last year we did a virtual State 4-H Roundup because of the pandemic, and it was a...
You have seen it, surely. There’s the tomboy mom who somehow gave birth to a princess daughter who despises the dirty outdoors, but loves makeup, and high fashion. The mother is left to wonder if two babies got swapped in the hospital. It’s confusing stuff sometimes. Andy was a farm boy. But he always pastored churches located in small towns, so our two sons were not raised in a farm atmosphere. In adulthood, both became city-preferring men. It sounds reasonable, given their town upbringing. But...
It seems like school starts earlier every year. Good luck to all the students and teachers. Jaylyn has left us for her new adventure at OSU. Best of luck, kid! History is disappearing, and that is scary. South Dakota is the home of several Native American tribes, collectively called the Oceti Sakowin. The history of these tribes has been taught in the South Dakota schools since time began. The South Dakota Department of Education has gutted how it has been taught in school for generations, and...
ALVA, Okla. – The Rangers Men's and Women's Cross Country team have finalized their 2021 schedule for the fall. The teams will compete in five meets before the Great American Conference Championships. "I am excited about this upcoming season; following the Covid season, we are ready to compete and return to action. This off-season has been strong for both our returners, along with a talented new class coming in for this upcoming season. They are ready to meet the challenge of moving the programs forward," head coach Jill Lancaster stated on t...
Alva, Okla. –- The Great American Conference has released their annual coaches poll for the upcoming 2021 season. Rangers' Soccer was voted seventh for the upcoming season after receiving eight total points from the coaches. Northwestern falls right behind Southern Nazarene, which placed sixth with nine points. The reigning conference tournament champion Ouachita Baptist was voted first, with 32 points receiving three of the seven first-place votes. Oklahoma Baptist, the regular season champion follows the Tigers with 32 points placing s...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 1:41 a.m. – Report of a noise complaint in the 300 block of Church. 4:06 a.m. – Medic needed for a person with chest pain in the 200 block of Aspen Street. 6 a.m. – Resident burglar alarm going off in the 1300 block of Church. 9:45 a.m. – Report of an abandoned vehicle in the 900 block of Oklahoma Boulevard. 11:09 a.m. – Report of a verbal domestic situation in the 100 block of Park Lane. 2:26 p.m. – Medic needed for a person with abdominal pain in the 900 block of 2nd Street. 3:22 p.m. – Report of a stray animal in th...
Real Estate Transfers Book 1321 page 233: Eugene Lee Henson Estate conveys unto Michael Scott Wyrick. Section 23, township 29N, Range 19, southwest quarter. Quit claim deed. Book 1321 page 237: Darlene M. Dauphin conveys unto Darlene M. Dauphin and Patrica E. Dauphin. Lot 1 and 2, block 13, City of Freedom, OT Subdivision. Quit claim deed. Book 1321 page 267: Steve Bouziden Individual & Trustee conveys unto Bouziden Brothers & Sons Land, LLC. Section 23, township 26N, range 15W All, Etc. Quit claim deed. Book 1321 page 273: Timothy A. Bradley...
The Photoshop editing station is nearly ready to use at the Alva Public Library. At the Monday, Aug. 9, board meeting, Library Director Sandra Ott said all the software and equipment was set up. Getting the scanner set up was the only additional work needed. Located on the north end of the main floor near the elevator, the computer offers access to Photoshop Elements for photos and Premier Elements for video. Ott said she plans to write a policy on parameters for use of the equipment and...
Northwest Technology Center was recognized last week as a recipient of the Gold Star Award, the highest honor given by the Oklahoma Association of Technology Centers (OATC). Northwest Technology Center has received this award 15 times since 2002. The Gold Star Award recognizes technology centers that have met rigid and demanding criteria, demonstrating a high level of excellence. The Awards Presentation was a part of the annual Oklahoma Association of Career and Technology Educators (OkACTE)...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Paul E. Saylor left Johnson City in 1940. Nearly 81 years later, he is returning home. In 1940 he was a brand-new sailor in the United States Navy and had just completed boot camp in Norfolk, Virginia. He stopped in Johnson City to visit with his parents, friends and family while he was en route to California to join the ship he had been assigned to, the USS Oklahoma. Just over a year after his visit, when Saylor was 21, the Oklahoma was moored at Ford Island in berth Fox 5 on Battleship Row of Pearl Harbor on the m...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An emergency rule by Gov. Kevin Stitt allows Oklahoma hospitals to renovate conference rooms and other areas to care for COVID-19 patients, the state's health commissioner said Friday. The rule is not an emergency declaration, which would allow state schools to implement mask mandates, said Dr. Lance Frye, adding he is not convinced one is needed. "We strictly looked at what do we need to respond (to the virus surge) and is there anything that was ... accomplished before in our emergency declaration that we can't do n...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — J.R. Todd led Funny Car qualifying Friday night in the Menards NHRA Nationals at Heartland Motorsports Park. Coming off a runner-up finish two weeks ago in Pomona, Todd had a 3.884-second pass at 332.67 mph in a Toyota Camry. "I want to get going. After Pomona, I got pumped up," Todd said. "Seeing the points gap we closed, we know we're in the hunt and in the fight. Now it's time to get after it. That's a big run. We haven't had a 3-second run in a long time, let alone a 3.80-something." Billy Torrence was the fastest in T...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, with the epicenter about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. People in the capital felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear, although there did not appear to be damage there. Naomi Verneus, a 34-year-old resident of Port-au-Prince, said she was jolted awake by the earthquake and that her bed was shaking. "I woke up and didn't have time to put my shoes on. We lived the 2010 earthquake and...
MIAMI (AP) — A young mother had just celebrated her first wedding anniversary and was one of six members of a Jacksonville church to die over a 10-day span. Another Florida woman had just given birth to her first child, but was only able to hold the newborn girl for a few moments before dying. A California man died a few weeks shy of his 53rd birthday while his wife was on a ventilator at the same hospital in Oakland, unaware of his passing on Aug. 4. The COVID-19 death toll has started soaring again as the delta variant tears through the n...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — As a Taliban offensive encircles the Afghan capital, there's increasingly only one way out for those fleeing the war, and only one way in for U.S. troops sent to protect American diplomats still on the ground: Kabul's international airport. A steady stream of people makes its way first to ticket sale counters set up on the parking lot outside the terminal. They push their luggage, load carts with carpets, television sets and mementos, stuff clothes inside purses to make their weight limit as they slowly inch f...
Here's what 19-year-old Lance Cpl. William Bee felt flying into southern Afghanistan on Christmas Day 2001: purely lucky. The U.S. was hitting back at the al-Qaida plotters who had brought down the World Trade Center, and Bee found himself among the first Marines on the ground. "Excitement," Bee says these days, of the teenage Bee's thoughts then. "To be the dudes that got to open it up first." In the decade that followed, three more deployments in America's longest war scoured away that lucky feeling. For Bee, it came down to a night in 2008...
EILAT, Israel (AP) — The Red Sea reefs off the Israeli resort of Eilat host some of the greatest coral diversity on the planet. A symphony in splendid technicolor, the reefs are among the world's most resilient coral colonies against warming seas. They have also become an unlikely battleground, caught between Israeli diplomatic and business interests, and ecological groups that fear this natural treasure could be in danger. A clandestine oil deal struck last year as part of the historic agreement establishing formal diplomatic ties between I...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Included in the sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the Senate is funding for Western water projects that farmers, water providers and environmentalists say are badly needed across the parched region. The Senate voted this week in favor of the legislation that seeks to rebuild U.S. roads and highways, improve broadband internet access and modernize water pipes and public works systems. The bill's future in the House is uncertain. The federal funding would come as the West bakes under a decadeslong drought t...
While suburban congressional districts are swelling with new residents, lawmakers in large swaths of rural America and some Rust Belt cities are in need of more people to represent. In rural Illinois, Republican Rep. Mary Miller's district is short 73,000 people. In northeastern Ohio, Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan needs an additional 88,000 people. And the Detroit-area district of Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib lacks over 100,000 people — one of the biggest shortfalls in the country. That makes them all potential targets for map makers — and possibly...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It's only a few days into the new school year, but New Mexico's largest district is reeling from a shooting that left one student dead and landed another in custody. The gunfire at Washington Middle School during the lunch hour Friday marked the second shooting in Albuquerque in less than 24 hours. With the city on pace to shatter its homicide record this year, top state officials said they were heartbroken by what they described as a scourge. "These tragedies should never occur. That they do tells us there is more w...
HAVANA (AP) — Tropical depression Fred was moving along Cuba's northern coast and could regain tropical storm status as it moves towards the Florida Keys on Saturday and southwest Florida on Sunday, forecasters said. Meanwhile, still east of the Caribbean Sea, forecasters were watching a tropical depression that they said would likely become Grace, the seventh named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. A tropical storm warning was in effect for several islands including Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy. A t...
According to Alva Recreation Complex (ARC) Director Courtney Nesseralla, the gym floor in the Pete and Ruth Leslie Fieldhouse has been refinished. She told the ARC Board Wednesday that soccer forms are being accepted with soccer to begin Aug. 30. Football will start Sept. 11. Board members present for the meeting were Dr. Troy Smith, Matt Tucker, Gregg Glass, Chad Fisher and Shane Hansen. Brandon Sherman arrived a little late. Jaci Heaton was absent. Nesseralla said summer tournaments went well, and they may try to hold a one day softball tourn...
An Alva woman is charged with a felony for using her ex-boyfriend’s debit card information without his permission. Kaitlyn Michelle Buckley, 26, of Alva, was charged Aug. 11 with taking or receiving a stolen credit or debit card, a felony. This crime is punishable by imprisonment for up to three years or up to $3,000 fine, or both. Court records show on July 19 Josef States reported his ex-girlfriend of two months, Buckley, had taken his debit card information without his permission and made a two night reservation through Booking.com at the R...
