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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Nathan Braudrick. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Sunday: Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Evening worship begins at 5:30 p.m. Young adults gather at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday: Wednesday services include 7 p.m. Bible Study, and youth group also meets at 7 p.m. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at...
Screwdrivers, component of every handyperson’s tool kit, have been around for at least 150 years. We wouldn’t need them if it weren’t for the plethora of fasteners we refer to as screws. Nails were around in pre-history, screws appearing in the 15th century, but manufacturing cost limited widespread use until the early 18th century. Gunsmiths are credited with their development for everyday use as the term tournevis, French for screwdriver, made rapid assembly/disassembly possible as stand...
I watched an interesting video the other night on YouTube called “Ascension” starring the magician David Blaine. He is known for his magnificent and unbelievable stunts and magic tricks (seriously, you could spend hours watching his videos online and it blows your mind). But just recently, he performed a stunt he called “Ascension.” He planned on taking a handful of balloons (of course it was a little more complicated than that) and floating out of sight into the atmosphere, then skydivi...
In Genesis 6, as the author is describing the state of the world just prior to the flood, we are told that the thoughts and intentions of men’s hearts were only on evil all of the time. As a result, we learn that “It repented God that He had made man on the Earth” (KJV). The NIV chooses a word that is a little easier to digest. It reports that God was “sorry” that He had made man. A quick look back at the beginning of the book of beginnings reminds us that God was pleased with His creation at the outset. He looked at all the things He had cr...
The Woods County Fair livestock shows for the youth will all be held on Friday, Sept. 11, including the Poultry Show. Swine, beef cattle, sheep and goats under a revised schedule allowing for an all-in and all-out format to reduce the time needed at the fairgrounds. Each specie show will begin at a specific time to allow for staggered arrival and more orderly show preparation. The Horse Show will have its normal schedule with indoor events on Friday evening and the speed events on Saturday. The Poultry Show will have a revised schedule as well...
Bank It: a Habit of Helping Foundation is your local non-profit organization dedicated to supporting smaller organizations and people in need in the Alva and Woods County areas. Bank It began in 2009 with a small group of bank employees from Alva State Bank and BancCentral to support the food bank during the final 2 months of the year. Once donations were collected from employees, both banks generously offered to match the money that was raised. That was the spark of a great idea. In 2011, Bank It formed board of directors, and became incorpora...
GAINSVILLE, Texas – Douglas "Doug" Stoner passed away peacefully on September 2, 2020, after a lengthy battle with COPD, at his home surrounded by family and friends. Doug is survived by his wife of 32 years, Linda Moralli Stoner, son Joshua Stoner and wife Christin, grandsons Jarrett and Jackson Stoner, sister Janet Miller and husband Zeke, brother Ken and wife Glenda, sister Kathy Schwerdtfeger, sister-in-law Debbie Stoner, sister-in-law Natalie Stoner, numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and f...
Ruth Brown, the head of the Bartlesville public library from 1919 to 1950, believed that the library should provide all kinds of materials for its patrons to read. These included two journals that some people criticized as being “liberal” in philosophy, The Nation and The New Republic, and a few books on the people and government of Russia. During most of Brown’s tenure at the Bartlesville library, Russia was part of the Soviet Union, which had been an ally of the United States during World...
Rick Cunningham, Stan Kline and Randy McMurphy were enough to make a quorum at Tuesday morning's Woods County Industrial Development Authority meeting. (Members Richard Ryerson and Connor Martin were not present.) Neal Williams, Woods County Economic Development Committee director, was on hand to do a roll call and provide board members with documents detailing previous meeting minutes, financial reports and outstanding bills. He also presented a new meeting schedule for quickly approaching 2021. (Board members approved meeting quarterly on...
The Tuesday meeting of the Woods County Economic Development Committee (WCEDC) began with Dr. Bo Hannaford, chairman, reading a resignation letter from Allan Poe. Because he is moving to a neighboring county, Poe can no longer serve on the committee. It's customary for the outgoing or resigning committee member to submit someone to fill their position, and Poe recommended Jack Staats. Dr. Kay Decker said she had no objection to Staats but thought Poe was a representative from Waynoka while...
DALLAS (AP) — Works of art depicting the American West and other pieces collected by the late Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens are expected to sell at auction for more than $15 million. Christie's said Thursday that the auction will be held Oct. 28 in New York. Christie's said the art collection spans over a century, with works ranging from from Frederic Remington's "The Signal" from 1900 to Howard Terpning's "Flags on the Frontier" from 2001. Tylee Abbott, an American art specialist at Christie's, said the works assembled by Pickens were "...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Claims for unemployment benefits in Oklahoma are declining after reaching record levels during the coronavirus pandemic, the state Employment Security Commission reported Thursday. First-time weekly claims for the week ending Sept. 5 totaled of 5,241, and continuing claims numbered 103,903, down from 6,019 initial claims and 119,571 continuing claims from a week earlier, according to the commission. The OESC reported a record 93,885 initial claims in early May and more than 182,000 continuing claims in late June as the s...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeff Gruenewald, University of Arkansas; Joshua D. Freilich, City University of New York; Steven Chermak, Michigan State University, and William Parkin, Seattle University (THE CONVERSATION) On a Tuesday morning in September 2001, the American experience with terrorism was fundamentally altered. Two thousand, nine hundred and ninety-six people were killed as the direct result of attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's top congressional allies, is denouncing an implication floated by a Fox News personality that he intended to sabotage the president by setting up a series of revelatory interviews with journalist Bob Woodward. During an interview Thursday, the South Carolina Republican confirmed to The Associated Press that he had helped orchestrate an initial meeting between Woodward and Trump that ultimately led to Woodward's upcoming book "Rage." Excerpts released Wednesday reveal t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday named a former classroom teacher and CEO of an education reform group as his new secretary of education. Every Kid Counts CEO Ryan Walters will replace Secretary of State Michael Rogers, who stepped down from the education position last month, citing his workload. Walters taught history at McAlester High School for eight years and was an Oklahoma Teacher of the Year finalist in 2016. "Ryan Walters has been a highly respected teacher committed to his students and their success," State S...
For a day, Bobby Petrino will return to the big stage. The controversial coach will open his first season guiding Missouri State, a Football Championship Subdivision program, on Saturday night at No. 5 Oklahoma. Petrino has a 119-56 career college record in 14 seasons at Louisville, Arkansas and Western Kentucky. He looks forward to helping the Bears bounce back from a 1-10 finish last season. "I'm real excited about the opportunity here," he said. "I think we've got a really good base to recruit to. We've got a really good area where we can...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The roughly 17,000 fans of the Kansas City Chiefs who filed into Arrowhead Stadium for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season Thursday were prohibited from wearing headdresses or war paint amid a nationwide push for racial justice following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The move by the reigning Super Bowl champions has been received by Native Americans as a good first step, but it also frustrated some of the franchise's longtime fans, including some who were in the stands as t...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Are you ready for some football? The kickoff of the NFL season Thursday with 17,000 fans in the stadium illustrates the nation's determination to resume its most popular sport in the middle of a pandemic that has already killed nearly 200,000 Americans. The topic has led to passionate debates at the state and local level, including whether to allow high school seasons to proceed and how many fans to allow in professional and college stadiums. While Major League Baseball and the NBA have played without fans, the Super B...
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas will face a dramatic reduction in coronavirus-related services that would put residents' lives at risk if a state council does not approve extending a state disaster declaration, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday. The State Finance Council, which is dominated by Republicans, is scheduled to meet Friday to discuss extending the declaration before it expires on Tuesday. Failure to extend the declaration will prevent the state from leveraging critical resources, Kelly said at a news conference. "In other words, t...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades. Mark Wanner, manager of herpetology at the zoo, said it unusual but not rare for ball pythons to reproduce asexually. The snakes also sometimes store sperm for delayed fertilization. The birth also is unusual because ball pythons usually stop laying eggs long before they reach their 60s, Wanner said. "She'd definitely be the oldest snake we know of in history," to l...
BOSTON (AP) — It was a tempest in a teapot — or, more accurately, a whiskey tumbler. Presidential transitions are always at least a little tricky. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK's embrace of cocktails at White House events. The letters shed new insight into President Dwight D. Eisenhower's handoff to Kennedy early in 1961, and the strikingly different attitudes that people held about alcohol at official functions. "Liquor dulls the...
MIAMI (AP) — Customs officers at a Florida airport found nearly a half-million dollars being smuggled out of the United States hidden inside furniture, officials said. U.S. Custom and Border Protection officers at Miami International Airport seized $491,280 in unreported U.S. currency last Thursday, the agency said in a news release. The money had been concealed inside a chair placed in a crate with other furniture. The shipment was heading to the Dominican Republic and was selected for examination during outbound enforcement operations, o...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities were searching Thursday morning for a tiger in East Tennessee. A deputy spotted the animal Wednesday night at an industrial park, the Knox County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on social media. Several agencies including animal control, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and representatives with the rescue organization Tiger Haven are helping with the search, the statement said. There were unconfirmed tiger sightings reported overnight in the eastern part of the county, and the search was c...
GRIDLEY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that at least 10 people have died in a massive Northern California wildfire and 16 people remain missing. Butte County sheriff's investigators found seven bodies on Thursday, a day after three other victims were discovered. Among those unaccounted for are grandparents who told their son they were going to try to escape the flames by finding shelter in a pond. The weeks-old fire was about 50% contained when winds drove it into explosive growth on Tuesday. Some 2,000 homes and other buildings o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday charged a Russian national in a sweeping plot to sow distrust in the American political process and imposed sanctions against a Russia-linked Ukrainian lawmaker accused of interfering in the U.S. presidential election. Those actions, combined with a Microsoft announcement on hacking attempts targeting U.S. political campaigns, parties and consultants, underscore the extent to which the same cyber intrusions and foreign influence operations that defined the 2016 White House race remain a p...
