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Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday – Waffle with toppings, scrambled eggs, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Tuesday – Biscuit and sausage gravy, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Wednesday – Banana split parfait (yogurt, homemade granola, banana, chocolate chips, cherry), cereal, juice, milk Thursday – Pancake on a stick, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Friday – Cinnamon roll, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Lunch Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday – Cheeseburger, Ruffles, baby carrots, fruit, milk Tuesday – Chicken taquitos, refried beans, chips and sal...
Andrea Durbin, director of interior design for MA+ Architecture and daughter of Dale and Vicki Logsdon of Alva, has received the Journal Record's Achievers under 40 Award. The Journal Record, an Oklahoma business publication, honored Durbin and the other 44 awardees in a virtual ceremony on Aug. 28. The winners will also be profiled in a special publication of Journal Record. This is the 17th year the Journal Record has held the event. Durbin joined MA+ Architecture in Oklahoma City in 2016....
How do you honor a woman's career achievements? This was the dilemma faced by the staff at Bill Johnson Correctional Center (BJCC) in Alva. Since its beginning until her retirement in 2017, BJCC was led by Warden Janice Melton. Becky Guffy, who was named as warden after Melton's retirement, said the staff discussed honoring her with a bench in front of the building or perhaps a bronze bust. That wasn't good enough. They decided to name a building in her honor. After more discussion, it was...
Inmates in Oklahoma state prisons will soon connect to the outside world through Securus Technologies, a Texas-based prison communications company that has paid out millions over the past four years to settle claims that it illegally recorded phone conversations between inmates and attorneys. Securus has also faced multiple class-action lawsuits from family and friends of inmates who say the company excessively charged them between $9.99 and $14.99 for a 15-minute call. In a July 29 Facebook post, the state Department of Corrections announced S...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s homecoming events are postponed. The homecoming events originally scheduled for Oct. 8-10 are tentatively being planned for spring 2021. The Great American Conference's Council of Presidents announced Friday, Aug. 14, the league will suspend all fall and winter sports – basketball, cross country, football, soccer and volleyball – and the two-semester sports of golf and tennis through Dec. 31. “Postponing homecoming was a difficult decision,” Dr. David Pecha, general c...
A book title, “It Was On Fire When I Laid Down On It” caught my eye a few years ago. Curiosity being what it is, I looked up the story behind that title. True story. A small local fire department was called to put out a house fire. They also found and rescued a man trapped inside. Some days after his rescue, it was determined that the fire had begun with the mattress where he was found. Later, the local media asked the man about the cause of the blaze. Quote, “I don’t know, it was on fire wh...
Oklahoma got some great news in August. Our state has gone from being ranked 49th in the nation to now being named a Top Ten state for the condition of our highway system bridges. In 2004, a shocking 1,200 of our 6,800 highway bridges in Oklahoma were considered structurally deficient. Today we’ve reduced that to just 86 dangerous bridges awaiting repairs or replacement. For too many years, the condition of roads and bridges deteriorated because of a failure to commit the resources necessary to improve and modernize our transportation s...
My sister-in-law (Jack's wife) Sandy and our granddaughter Jaylyn both celebrated their birthday on Thursday. Jaylyn's was a milestone. She turned 18. It seems like only yesterday she was JUST 17. Sandy's age is a bit of a mystery. If I heard right, she is so old she cried when the baby dinosaurs died. Anyhow, Happy Birthday to both of them and to anyone who had a birthday last week. I hope everyone had a great time at the cruise. Good job all. The hurricanes are gone, leaving behind plenty of...
The Alva Goldbugs opened the football season Friday night in a home game against the Kingfisher Yellowjackets. Alva has not won against the Kingfisher powerhouse team in recent memory, so the contest was expected to be lopsided. Kingfisher dominated most of the game until they started substituting from the bench. Alva was able to score in the fourth quarter for a 54-6 final in Yellowjackets favor. First Half The Goldbugs won the toss and deferred possession. After a Samuel Houston kick, the...
CLEVELAND – The Division 2 Athletics Directors Association (D2 ADA) announced the 2019-20 recipients of the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards. The Academic Achievement Awards, in its 13th year, is a program that recognizes the academic accomplishments of student-athletes at the Division II level. Northwestern was one of nine schools from the Great American Conference recognized by the D2 ADA and with 48 individuals selected, Among the student-athletes to receive the honor were eight from the Rangers football team, seven from baseball, six a...
Friday, August 21, 2020 7:27 a.m. – Report of a controlled burn on Grant Road. 8:47 a.m. – Commercial fire alarm going off at Lincoln School. 9:03 a.m. – Report of a controlled burn on Johnston. 10:29 a.m. – Report of a two-vehicle accident on Osage and Oklahoma Highway 132. 11:42 a.m. – Report of a controlled burn on Dewey Road. 1:04 p.m. – Report of a controlled burn on Major Road and County Road (CR) 1050. 1:52 p.m. – Report of deer out on U.S. Highway 281. 2:59 p.m. – Commercial fire alarm going off in the 400 block of Choctaw. 3:57 p...
Matthew Blake Evans, Alva, vs. Verenis Cisneros, Alva: marriage license (no counselling) ($50)....
According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Woods County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Civil Filings Thin Red Line Trucking LLC vs. Cadence Premier...
Real Estate Transfers Book 1307 page 672: Brian Vaughn Joachims conveys unto Joachims Family Living Trust. Section 14, 28N, Range 15w. Quit claim deed. Book 1307 page 674: Kevin R. Pingelton and Brooke M. Pingleton convey unto KB Pingelton Revocable Trust. Section 11, township 26N, Range 14W, NW4. Warranty deed. Book 1307 page 684: Jeremy Josh Watkins conveys unto South Fork Group LLC. Lot 1 through 9, block 5, City of Capron, OT Subdivision. Quit claim deed. Book 1307 page 716: Garry D. Curry and Patricia Curry convey unto Johnnie M. Reed and...
Oklahoma City Thunder (44-28, fifth in the Western Conference during the regular season) vs. Houston Rockets (44-28, fourth in the Western Conference during the regular season) Lake Buena Vista, Florida; Saturday, 6:30 p.m. EDT LINE: Rockets -5; over/under is 226.5 WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Series tied 2-2 BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Houston Rockets for game five of the Western Conference first round with the series tied 2-2. The Thunder won the previous matchup 117-114. Dennis Schroder scored 30 points to help...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The latest quarterly oil and gas lease sale for dozens of parcels in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas netted more than $8.2 million, federal land managers said. The Bureau of Land Management reported Friday that nearly half of the revenues earned from this week's sale will go to the states where the leases are located. The funds are often used for infrastructure projects, law enforcement and other government programs. In all, 113 parcels totaling more than 76 square miles (197 square kilometers) were offered. The highest b...
DALLAS (AP) — Five people have been wounded, one critically, in a shooting in the Deep Ellum district on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, police said. The shooting was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Friday on Elm Street near Good-Latimer Expressway, according to a police statement. Officers arrived to find three men and a woman wounded at that location, and they were taken to a hospital. While at the hospital, officers said another wounded man entered after driving himself to the emergency room. The wounds inflicted on three men and the w...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas high school can move their fall sports seasons to the spring under a newly approved plan. The Kansas State High School Activities Association Board of Directors voted 53-21 Friday to approve a proposal establishing an "Alternative fall" schedule, The Wichita Eagle reports. The vote followed a unanimous Monday vote in favor of the option by KSHSAA's executive board. Kansas high schools have been split into two "bands," or groups: Class 6/5A and Class 4/3/2/1A. If at least half of the schools in each of those bands c...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The coronavirus is hitting fraternities and sororities in Kansas particularly hard, with 10% testing positive at the University of Kansas and outbreaks linked to four sororities at Kansas State University. The University of Kansas said Friday in a news release that it has conducted 21,719 tests and 474 have been positive, for a positive rate of 2.18%. But among sororities and fraternities, there have been 270 positives among 2,698 members tested. The university began testing every student, faculty and staff member for C...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Nearly 1,100 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and 11 new deaths from the illness, the Oklahoma State Health Department reported Saturday. The new cases the department reported on Saturday raised the total for the six-month outbreak to 57,353 cases, while the deaths raised Oklahoma's outbreak toll to 797. The true number of cases in Oklahoma is likely higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected and not feel sick. For most people, the new c...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Nearly 1,000 University of Kansas athletes, students and faculty have participated in a march to end racial injustice and protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. The Kansas City Star reports that the students joined other college athletes from across the country in demonstrations Friday to honor of the 57-year anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Kansas junior women's basketball player Emma Merriweather and her teammates kicked off the 2-mile (...
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — President Donald Trump got a firsthand look Saturday at the damage from Hurricane Laura on a post-Republican National Convention trip that allowed him to use the trappings of his office to try to project empathy and leadership. His stops, first in Louisiana and later in Texas, came two days after the Category 4 storm slammed the Gulf Coast, leaving at least 16 dead and wreaking havoc with severe winds and flooding. While the storm surge has receded and the cleanup effort has begun, hundreds of thousands remain w...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall's audience of about 40 people packed a banquet room in a Kansas City-area bistro. No one wore a mask during his lunchtime remarks about the coronavirus. The Republican nominee for Kansas' open Senate seat put one on later while talking to masked reporters but dropped it for a moment, saying, "I can't breathe." A few days earlier, Democrat Barbara Bollier invited half a dozen local officials and activists to her first in-person event of the fall campaign. They stood in a socially distanced c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the economy still in the pandemic's grip, the Federal Reserve is facing a decision on whether to stretch an emergency lending program in a way that could bring more risk for the government and taxpayers. Lawmakers are pressing the central bank to deliver more aid to struggling small and mid-sized businesses. The economic recovery has been uneven and painfully slow in the wake of shutdowns from the coronavirus. The pandemic has killed some 180,000 people in the U.S., and the number of laid-off workers collecting jobless be...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Convention begged this question: Why are President Donald Trump's most fervent supporters describing the state of his union as a hellscape? It was perhaps the central paradox for voters wondering what to believe in the rhetoric, because it defied logic to believe it all. Are Americans living in a dystopia or in an America made great again by Trump? Four years ago, candidate Trump promised that if he won, "The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on J...
