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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...
How do you mark the end of summer? Some look at Labor Day, others when it starts to cool. Some look at the start of school, and some hold to the official date. For me, it begins with the end of VBS, school starts, the county fair, and then the annual car show. I always like the change of the seasons. When people ask me what my favorite season is, it is always the in-betweens. The changing leaves, the first snow, the budding of Spring, and the first dip in the pool. I guess I enjoy change. Life is like a series of changing seasons. One person de...
Simon and Garfunkel sang a song titled “The 59th Street Bridge Song” (Feelin’ Groovy), released in 1966. The premise of this song was to slow down and take life a little slower or a little more easy. What a busy time of the year it is. School has just started, and the schedule is quickly getting filled up. Sometimes our lives seem to be going so fast that we often miss some very important events that could impact our lives in a positive way. Only when those events are past do we sometimes look back and say, “Darn, I missed that opportu...
Jeremy Newton, son of Robbie (Stephens) Diefenbach and Clyde W. Tune, was born on February 12, 1979, in Enid, Oklahoma, and passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on August 28, 2022, at the age of 43 years, 6 months and 16 days. Jeremy Newton Tune was the kind of guy that never met a stranger. If he had a roof over his head, you had one over yours. The kind of friend you could always count on to be there. One phone call away and he could either fix your problems (especially if they were mechanical),...
When our daughters were young, apple juice was a favorite. There has always been discussion about the value of juice in the diet, because most are high in sugar, contain acids harmful to the tooth enamel, and since most are filtered, are low in fiber. An article in The American Legion Magazine discusses juice as part of a healthy diet. A popular brand, V-8, so named because it contained 8 different vegetable juices, used the ad: “Drink your vegetables.” We all know that fruits and veg...
In the fall of 1970, Jesse Hill Ford had lived in Humboldt, Tennessee, for more than a decade, and he had become well-known in the town. He had also become financially successful after several years of struggle. He and his family lived on the edge of town in a large two-story house that the Fords had built on 27 acres of land. They enjoyed entertaining friends and visitors in their imposing spacious residence. But all was not rosy. The Fords’ marriage was shaky and their son, Charles, was b...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University recently received notification from the U.S. Department of Education of the renewal of two federal Upward Bound grants. Together, Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math & Science will receive over $2.9 million in grant money over the next five years, beginning in September. The grants will provide the institution with $595,202 annually, with both programs receiving $297,601 per year to serve 122 participants. The university’s Upward Bound programs are designed to provide participants with STEM-focused a...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University was awarded two Higher Education Prevention Services (HEPS) grants, one for opioid prevention and the other for stimulant prevention, through the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Each grant received $50,000. These grants will fund campus efforts to prevent opioid and stimulant misuse and provide referral services for those needing treatment. Northwestern will provide outreach, engagement and...
Active Covid-19 numbers have decreased in Alva, but Freedom and Waynoka have increases. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) data released on Thursday lists Alva with nine active cases compared to 13 a week ago. Freedom has five cases with zero for last week. Waynoka has 11 active cases, up from eight a week ago. Dacoma is still listed with zero cases. The OSDH suppresses numbers below five, listing them as zero. The state of Oklahoma has 17,492 active cases of Covid-19 compared to...
Team Standings Knights of Columbus 7 Wins 1 Loss The Bowl Movements 6 Wins 2 Losses Rollin GoodTimes 6 Wins 2 Losses Livin' on a Spare 5 Wins 3 losses Marshall's Oldtimers 3 Wins 5 Losses Dilly Dilly 2 Wins 6 Losses O'Bar 2 Wins 6 Losses Ghost Team 0 Wins 8 Losses Season High Scores Scratch Game The Bowl Movements – 827 Knights of Columbus – 809 Rollin GoodTimes – 792 Scratch Series Knights of Columbus – 2337 Rollin GoodTimes – 2294 The Bowl Movements – 2257 Handicap Game The Bowl Movements – 1179 O'Bar – 1135 Knights of Columbus – 1113...
RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas – Northwestern Oklahoma State Ranger volleyball opened their 2022 season over the past weekend finishing the Missouri Southern State Tournament 3-1 with wins over William Jewell, Truman and Newman. Ranger junior Cameron Lobb earned Great American Conference setter of the week after the opening weekend for the Rangers after a standout performance. Lobb finished the week with 179 assists and 25 digs over the weekend in the four matches. The opening one of the tournament she helped lead the Rangers to a sweep over William J...
JOPLIN, Missouri – The Northwestern Oklahoma State volleyball team closed out the Missouri Southern State University tournament with two matches Saturday. The team swept Truman State University in the first 3-0 and defeated Newman University in the final match of the tournament 3-1. Northwestern concludes the weekend 3-1 overall to start the season. Match One The Rangers swept the Bulldogs of Truman State for the opening match of Day 2 in the Missouri Southern State Tournament. Addison Wimmer led her team in kills with 21. Transfer setter C...
ALVA, Oklahoma – Sunday afternoon the Rangers hosted their second non-conference game of the season against Newman University. The Rangers were able to find momentum late in the first half finding the back of the net twice. This helped lead to Northwestern being able to score one more goal in the second half, finishing the match 3-1 over the Jets. Abby Nunez led Northwestern with four shots and Callie Haneborg had three. Nunez scored one out of her five attempts. Christi-Anne Mills had two shots, one goal, and one assist throughout the match f...
ALVA, Oklahoma – Northwestern Oklahoma State Soccer opened their first week of the season going 2-0 with wins on Friday over Oklahoma Panhandle State and on Sunday over Newman University. The Ranger team was rewarded with two player of the week winners as the GAC announced Wednesday afternoon. Senior Abby Nunez won offensive player of the week following her performance this past weekend. While transfer Maggie Koster earned goalkeeper of the week following her performance in the win over Newman. Nunez scored in both games this season with two g...
The First Friday Art Walk in downtown Alva tonight kicks off this month's featured exhibit "Native American Visions" at Graceful Arts Gallery, 523 Barnes St. Native American artists include Michael Elizondo, George Levi, Halcyon Levi and Madelynn Byrd. Rounding out the display are photographs by Jon Linder and paintings by David Holland. You'll also see some attractive pottery, wood carvings and other sculptural art on display. Refreshments will be served. Several other places like Holder Drug...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Finally, Brent Venables gets his shot. The man who helped build dominant defenses in 26 years as an assistant coach at Kansas State, Oklahoma and Clemson will make his head coaching debut Saturday when ninth-ranked Oklahoma hosts UTEP. "The excitement, the anticipation is real," Venables said. "Our guys have worked incredibly hard for the last eight months – coaches and players – preparing for this. This is what you work for. ... It's that time to play somebody else, to go compete and kind of see where we are at." Venab...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body found near an Oklahoma lake 14 years ago has been identified, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The remains are those of Angela Mason, 25, and were identified after a DNA sample from the body was used to find a possible relative. The DNA from the body was compared to DNA from the relative and confirmed Mason's identity, the OSBI said. Mason's body was found Aug. 31, 2008, in a shallow grave near Lake Thunderbird by fishermen. "It is a great day when we can give a victim their name back," said A...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The Republican candidate for governor in Kansas said Thursday that if he is elected he will respect voters' overwhelming rejection of an amendment that would have removed the right to abortion from the state's constitution. Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who is seeking to oust Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, said the Aug. 2 vote in which voters rejected the proposed amendment by a 41% to 59% margin, means his priority will be upholding abortion laws already in force in the state, The Kansas City Star reported. When a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas jury announced Thursday that it could not reach a verdict in the trial of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend 20 years ago. Jurors deliberated for about 35 hours over six days in Dana Chandler's trial. Chandler, now 62, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of 47-year-old Mike Sisco and 53-year-old Karen Harkness in July 2002, in Topeka. The jury foreman told Shawnee County District Court Judge Cheryl Rios that jurors were not able to reach a unanimous v...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Legalized sports betting arrived in Kansas on Thursday, with wagers being taken at state-owned casinos and via mobile apps. The "soft launch" of sports betting in Kansas comes after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill in May that the Republican-controlled Legislature passed with bipartisan support. The launch meets a goal set by state officials to have the operations running by Sept. 1, in time for the first NFL games. An official launch of the operations is scheduled for Sept. 8. Bettors must be in Kansas to place t...
ROCKPORT, Mass. (AP) — When Laura Hernandez fell into the water and lost her iPhone while paddleboarding off Massachusetts earlier this month, she figured it was probably gone for good. But the next day the New York woman returned to the Rockport beach and approached the instructor of a novice scuba diving class and told him her situation. Instructor Larry Bettencourt told her the odds of finding it, even with its distinctive pink case, were not good, but he told the class to keep an eye out for it, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. A...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson's water system is in crisis. The big "Gotta Go" trailer is just one example of the city's desperation. Many homes, businesses and government offices have had little or no running water this week, forcing people to wait in long lines for drinking water or water to flush toilets. The scenes testify to the near collapse of a water system that residents could not trust even in the best of times. T...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm about what he views as extremist threats to the nation's democracy from the restive forces of Trumpism. In a speech Thursday night, he framed the November elections as part of an ongoing battle for the "soul of the nation." In the speech from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Biden declared that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans "fan the flames of political violence." Biden pointed to the large number of Trump adherents who have denied the 2020 election results and sown doubt a...
Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people's movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. Police have used "Fog Reveal" to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses known among law enforcement as "patterns of life," according...
