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Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools (AHS has a Grab-n-Go breakfast with choice of main breakfast item or substitute item) Monday—Waffle, sausage patty, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Tuesday—Biscuits and sausage gravy, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Wednesday—Cinnamon toast, scrambled eggs, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Thursday—Breakfast pizza, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Friday—Apple turnover, cereal, juice, milk Lunch Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday—Corn dog, mac and cheese, green beans fruit, milk Tuesday—Mexican pizza, refried beans, chips...
Jerry Lynn Garrison, son of the late Geral Dee and Velma Marie (Wright) Garrison, was born February 5, 1947, in Canadian, Texas, and passed away September 17, 2021, in Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 74 years. There are no services planned at this time. Jerry graduated from Pampa (Texas) High School in 1965. He then received his Bachelor's degree from NWOSU in 1969. After graduation Jerry worked for a finance company in Pampa, Texas, and then moved to Dallas, Texas, to work for Chrysler Credit...
Religion – being good enough for God to accept us. Many do turn to religion … trying to always behave and say the perfect things. So that hopefully, their holy God will be obliged to help them handle the fears and horrible problems in life. But down deep, each of us know ourselves well enough to have to admit, “Being perfect all the time – that just ain’t possible!” That’s true – and the very reason why religion simply does not work. For it to work would mean that we can do enough and say enough...
I never walked the whole show but the cars I saw were really special. Jack brought his '63 Falcon convertible, complete with his frog collection of stuffed animals. One young lady wanted her picture taken with the trunk frog, so I put the paw over her shoulder, and she got a good memory shot. I brought an old green station wagon like the Griswalds drove in the movie “National Lampoon's Vacation.” It is a 1983 movie, so many young people have no idea who the Griswalds were. A couple of my friends...
Memorial services for Marcia Dreiling will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at the Zion Lutheran Church with Pastor Timothy Roggow officiating. Marcia Jean Dreiling, daughter of Norma Jean (Petermann) Lowe and the late William E. "Bill" Lowe, was born November 19, 1952, in Hardtner, Kansas, and passed away unexpectedly September 21, 2021, at her home in Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 68 years, 10 months and 2 days. Marcia grew up in the Alva area graduating from Alva High School in...
Alva Robotics' 2021 season is in full swing! With this year's theme being "Demo Daze," the Technic Gold team is ready to demolish the competition. Since last year's competition was canceled due to Covid-19, the team is preparing for the new challenge. An after-school program for middle and high school students, the team works together to build and test a robot for the challenge. They meet for two hours each afternoon at Northwest Technology Center to build and discuss their ideas in the eight...
Thursday, September 15, 2021 12:14 a.m. – Report of an electrical hazard. 3:18 a.m. – Report of a fire alarm in the 400 block of Mimosa Drive. 7:39 a.m. – Report of a stray animal. 8:12 a.m. – Welfare check needed in the 900 block of 14th Street. 12:09 p.m. – Medic need for a fire on Grant Road and County Road 450. 12:58 p.m. – Report of a theft. 3:25 p.m. – Welfare check needed in the 700 block of 4th Street. 3:34 p.m. – Medic needed for a person with chest pains in the 400 block of 4th Street. 4:03 p.m. – Report of vandalism in the...
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 Jimmy Gus Erikson, Stillwater, vs. Cole Koppitz,...
Real Estate Transfers Book 1321 page 674: Robert Wayne Fugit conveys unto Fugit Family Trust. Section 21, township 26N, Range 13W, S2SE4, SW4NW4SE4, SE4NW4SE4, SW4NE4SE4, SE4NE4SE4. Quit claim deed. Book 1321 page 686: William Blankenship conveys unto William Willis and Shelly Wills. Lots 12 and 13, block 13, City of Waynoka, Elm Grove. Quit claim deed. Book 1321 page 767: Lorenzo Ceniceros and Maria Ceniceros conveys unto Isaias Galindo and Nancy Galindo. Lot 9, block 15, City of Alva, OT Subdivision. Quit claim deed. Book 1321 page 768: Sand...
As Oklahoma prepares to carry out seven executions over a five-month stretch, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in a case that could expand civil rights for the condemned. Convicted of murdering a convenience store worker and sentenced to death in 2008, Texas prisoner John Henry Ramirez was scheduled to be executed on Sept. 8. In the weeks leading up to the execution, Ramirez requested that his pastor be allowed to lay hands on him during the administration of lethal...
When new city council members were seated in April, Mayor Kelly Parker said it was his intention to get back on a schedule of regular monthly council committee meetings. From the number of reports at Monday’s Alva City Council meeting, it’s obvious that is happening. Sanitation Committee In the absence of Chairman Randy Stelling, Troy Brooks reported on the Aug. 19 sanitation committee meeting. The next meeting was planned for Sept. 23. Brooks said the committee discussed delaying the purchase of polycarts in favor of getting a new trash truck...
The Alva City Council had split votes on two agenda items during their regular meeting Sept. 20. The votes were on an amendment to the Tourism Tax budget and an appointment to the Alva Hospital Authority. Councilmembers present for the meeting were Daniel Winters, Connor Martin, Taylor Dowling, Sadie Bier, Troy Brooks and Greg Bowman. Brandon Sherman and Randy Stelling were absent. Resolution 2021-012 to amend the FY2020-2021 budget by adding $11,065 was passed by a four-two vote with Brooks and Dowling dissenting. During the fiscal year...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Friday called a special session of the Legislature to address redistricting of the state's federal and state legislative districts. Stitt said the session will begin Nov. 15 to draw new district maps for for all 101 state House seats and 48 Senate seats and for the state's five congressional districts. The Oklahoma Legislature approved new House and Senate districts earlier this year. But lawmakers drew those districts based on U.S. Census Bureau estimates, not the final numbers released in A...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The president of Emporia State University in Kansas was chosen Friday as the next chancellor of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Allison Garrett, the first woman selected as chancellor, will succeed Glen Johnson, who is retiring Nov. 7 after 14 years as chancellor. Garrett will take office Nov. 8, said regents Chair Jeffrey Hickman. In September 2020, Johnson announced plans to retire at the end of 2020, more than a year after Gov. Kevin Stitt sought his ouster. The regents supported Johnson, who remained c...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former central Kansas middle school counselor convicted of raping a student will get a new trial to consider her arguments that the then-13-year-old boy forced her to have sex the first time and blackmailed her into continuing. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the attorney handling Brooke Dinkel's trial in 2014 did not provide her with an adequate defense and sent her case back to Saline County District Court. A jury convicted Dinkel of two counts of raping a child under 14, and she was sentenced to nearly 14 y...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Reported sexual assaults have sparked large protests on college campuses in at least seven states just weeks into the new school year, which advocates say reflects both a greater vulnerability among students who spent last school year learning remotelyand a greater ability among young people to make themselves heard on the issue. Such protests aren't new, but there seems to have been an unusually large number already this semester, with demonstrations over the past month at schools in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Alabama, Michiga...
ROME (AP) — Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of an entirely different sort: rubbish-seeking wild boars. Entire families of wild boars have become a daily sight in Rome, as groups of 10-30 beasts young and old emerge from the vast parks surrounding the city to trot down traffic-clogged streets in search of food in Rome's notoriously overflowing rubbish bins. Posting wild boar videos on social media has become something of a sport as exasperated...
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — As Haitian migrants stepped off a white U.S. Border Patrol van in the Texas border city of Del Rio after learning they'd be allowed to stay in the country for now, a man in a neon yellow vest stood nearby and quietly surveyed them. Some carried sleeping babies, and one toddler walked behind her mother wrapped in a silver heat blanket. As they passed by to be processed by a local nonprofit that provides migrants with basic essentials and helps them reach family in the U.S., many smiled — happy to be starting a new leg of...
The speeches may be scripted, but the U.N. General Assembly can sometimes be the only direct window into the regional challenges that command global concern. On Saturday, world leaders were speaking on behalf of some of the most unstable and unsettling current conflicts. That includes India's fight over the Kashmir region with bitter rival Pakistan, Haiti's domestic crises spilling into a migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and questions about the Ethiopian government's role in reported starvation deaths in the Tigray region. Haiti Prime...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line movement's return to some of its brutal tactics of the past. Taliban officials initially brought four bodies to the central square in the western city of Herat, then moved three of them to other parts of the city for public display, said Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the edge of the square. Taliban officials announced that the four were caught taking part in a ki...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election in a battleground state lost by former President Donald Trump is coming to an embarrassing end in Arizona, but their efforts are cranking up elsewhere. The most recent is in Republican-controlled Texas, where the secretary of state's office announced Thursday it would conduct a "full and comprehensive forensic audit" of the 2020 election in four heavily populated counties. These reviews go by various names: "audits" or "...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the three months since 62-year-old Navajo rug weaver Ella Mae Begay vanished, the haunting unanswered questions sometimes threaten to overwhelm her niece. Seraphine Warren has organized searches of the vast Navajo Nation landscape near her aunt's home in Arizona but is running out of money to pay for gas and food for the volunteers. "Why is it taking so long? Why aren't our prayers being answered?" she asks. Begay is one of thousands of Indigenous women who have disappeared throughout the U.S. Some receive no public a...
