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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...
“If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all, gloom despair, and agony on me,” are the words to a popular little song on the show “Hee Haw” back when I was a child. We would all sing along and laugh together as we watched that show. We also watched a movie titled “Polyanna” in which the famous line, “... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it” was made famous, as Pollyanna set out on a mission to change the attitudes of an entire town to view everything in life...
The wilderness is an intimidating place, full of dangerous animals and extreme conditions. It is a place that will test a person – body, mind, heart and spirit. Very few of us enter the wilderness willingly. And when we find ourselves there, we try to find our way out as quickly as possible. The Hebrew people found themselves in the wilderness a lot. Father Abraham was a nomad, traveling from place to place, often making his way through the wilderness. His grandson Jacob wrestled with the Lord in the wilderness. Generations later, the d...
Services for Georgiana Ramy are pending with Marshall Funeral Home....
In the American Legion Magazine, General H.R. McMaster on our record of predicting future wars observes, “And that record is zero percent.” We have speculation about future domestic terrorist activity, observe the imperialism of Russia, bullying by North Korea, and recognize the threat from China, but need we prioritize the imminence of each? Military and civilian intelligence should already be doing that. We hear words like “unthinkable,” and “unimaginable,” categorizing human and nature’s ev...
One of the bulls we use on our cowherd is an Angus bull. We were sorting some calves today and the bull was being his usual self, bellowing every chance he got. He seems to like to remind us that he is The Man. He isn’t 40 but he can go on a rant that equals Mike Gundy's. Deb told me today that whenever he bellows, he reminds her of Dad. I found it kinda funny. Actually I find it real funny that a bull bellowing reminds my wife of my father. Not that dad didn’t do some bellowing from time to time, but I didn’t really think of him a bello...
Prior to the 1920s, major league baseball did not, in some ways, look like the game that is played a century later. Unlike today, for example, players back then hit few home runs. Baseball insiders have argued for decades about how “lively” or not baseballs have been at different times in the game’s history. Baseballs today travel farther and faster than they did in previous times. In fact, fans of the sport often refer to the period from about 1900 to 1920 as the “dead ball” era because b...
Team Standings Rollin GoodTimes – 16 wins and 8 losses Knights of Columbus – 15 wins and 9 losses Dilly Dilly – 14 ½ wins and 9 ½ losses O'Bar – 13 wins and 11 losses The Bowl Movements – 13 wins and 11 losses Livin' on a Spare – 11 wins and 13 losses Marshall's Oldtimers – 9 ½ wins and 14 ½ losses Holy Bowlers – 2 wins and 6 losses Season High Scores Scratch Game Knights of Columbus – 897 Dilly Dilly – 878 Rollin GoodTimes – 853 Scratch Series Knights of Columbus – 2401 Rollin GoodTimes – 2384 Dilly Dilly and Marshall's Oldtimers – 2347 H...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State Women's Golf team concluded the OBU invitational Tuesday in fourth place. The Rangers had their best outing of the fall season finishing with a total score of 645 as a team. The 645 team score is the second lowest team score in program history just behind the 642 score as the current record. Northwestern shot a 322 in the first day before a 323 in Day 2, which both sit in the top five for lowest team rounds. Northwestern was led by Samantha Friday as she set a Ranger record for the lowest round score o...
LAWTON, Okla. – The Rangers hit the road for a non-conference game against Cameron University and swept the Aggies 3-0. Addison Wimmer led Northwestern in kills with 14. Cameron Lobb collected 32 assists and Andrea Coady accumulated 14 digs. This win advances the Rangers to an overall record of 11-6 on the season. Set One Amazing defense from libero Andrea Coady paired with aggressive offense from Addison Wimmer and Ravyn Burns allowed the Rangers to start the match with an early 5-0 run. Wimmer contributed another deep corner kill to force C...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State men's cross country team has run in four meets this fall after concluding the Muthama-Rogers meet hosted by Bethel in North Newton, Kansas, on Sept. 24. The Rangers finished the meet second overall. Zachary Cox led the Rangers, finishing second in the meet while earning his second GAC Runner of the Week award this season. Cox finished the race with a time of 26:56.6 for the Rangers, helping the team earn first in the race for a team meet the win over Bethany and Bethel. Northwestern will continue the s...
ADA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State traveled to Ada Oklahoma Saturday for the fourth game of the season. East Central jumped out fast scoring the first points of the game before leading to a 31-3 win. Northwestern falls to 0-4 on the season as East Central improves to 2-2 on the season. East Central elected to receive in the opening quarter as the Tigers used a 14-play, 63-yard drive to open the game that they were able to capitalize on ending with three points on a 35-yard field goal. The Rangers countered with a big opening play to t...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University has new leadership in the Department of Natural Science as Dr. Jenny Sattler recently assumed the role of chair. Sattler replaces Dr. Steven Maier who assumed the role of dean of faculty recently. "Dr. Sattler is an active member of the campus community who involves herself in a variety of activities at Northwestern, both academic and co-curricular," said Dr. James Bell, vice president for academic affairs. "She has become an essential part of the life of...
Twenty Woods County 4-H members entered 70 exhibits in the 4-H division of the State Fair of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City on opening day. Of the 70 exhibits, over 50 received ribbons for being in the top 10 and an amazing 37 placed in the Top 5. Top 10 exhibits qualified to remain at the fair on the official display in the 4-H department. The quality of this year’s Woods County entries was outstanding with members receiving first place on six entries, second place on 11 entries and third place on nine entries. Davin Budy, Waynoka 4-H, had 15 entri... Full story
Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s music program is once again welcoming members of the public and anyone from the university to participate in the Concert Choir. Rehearsals are Mondays from 6:55 to 8:45 p.m. in the J.W. Martin Library Annex. “We want to welcome all community members and alumni members to come out and join in to sing and enjoy our singing community,” Dr. Karsten Longhurst, assistant professor of music and director of choral music, said. “We have room for singers of all levels. If you are just getting started, returni...
Ron and Nancy Minton have been missionaries in Ukraine for about 17 years. They spoke this Sunday at Bible Baptist Church in Alva both about the Bible college they founded there, and about their astonishing experiences in Ukraine, particularly since Russia invaded. "My background is as a professor," said Ron. "I have two and a half master's degrees and a doctoral degree, so I was a professor in the United States for most of my career." When he arrived in Ukraine, "I could immediately see they... Full story
WACO, Texas (AP) — Ninth-ranked Oklahoma State came up only inches short of a Big 12 championship in its last meeting against Baylor. "We use it to fuel us," Cowboys running back Dominic Richardson said this week. Nearly 10 months after that Big 12 title game loss, when running back Dezmon Jackson was knocked out of bounds just short of the end zone on a desperate fourth-down dive in the final seconds, Oklahoma State (3-0) plays its Big 12 opener Saturday at defending champion and No. 16 Baylor (3-1, 1-0 Big 12). "It'll set the tone for Big 1...
Some things to watch in Week 5 of the Big 12 season, the first full weekend of conference games: GAME OF THE WEEK No. 9 Oklahoma State at No. 16 Baylor. A rematch of last season's Big 12 title game that the Bears won 21-16 when safety Jairon McVea knocked running back Dezmon Jackson out of bounds just short of the end zone on a desperate, fourth-down dive in the final seconds. That was the last Big 12 game for both of those seniors. Before being denied their first Big 12 title since 2011, the Cowboys had won the regular-season meeting over...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man suspected of murder and a police officer were injured during a mid-morning shootout Thursday in downtown Topeka after the suspect led officers on a chase through Kansas' capital city, firing at them as he drove. Topeka police had sought the suspect over the Thursday morning shooting of two people at a south Topeka home, one of whom died, Chief Bryan Wheeles said. The suspect was hospitalized and in critical condition, under guard and in custody. The other shooting victim was hospitalized with life-threatening i...
BERLIN (AP) — A cow herd in Germany has gained an unlikely following, after adopting a lone wild boar piglet. Farmer Friedrich Stapel told the dpa news agency that he spotted the piglet among the herd in the central German community of Brevoerde about three weeks ago. It had likely lost its group when they crossed a nearby river. Stapel said while he knows what extensive damage wild boars can cause, he can't bring himself to chase the animal away, dpa reported Thursday. The local hunter has been told not to shoot the piglet — nicknamed Fri...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina's coast Friday and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods after the megastorm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and left people trapped in their homes. With all of South Carolina's coast under a hurricane warning, a steady stream of vehicles left Charleston on Thursday, many likely heeding officials' warnings to seek higher ground. Storefronts were sandbagged to ward off high water levels in an area prone to i...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, rockets and suicide drones, with one strike reported to have killed 25 people, as it moved Friday to annex Ukrainian territory and put it under the protection of Moscow's nuclear umbrella despite international condemnation. But even as it prepared to celebrate the incorporation of four occupied Ukrainian regions, the Kremlin was on the verge of another stinging battlefield loss, with reports of the imminent Ukrainian encirclement of the eastern city of Lyman. Retaking it c...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, including teenagers who were taking practice entry exams for university, a Taliban spokesman said. The morning explosion at the center took place in Kabul's Dashti Barchi neighborhood, an area populated mostly by ethnic Hazaras, who belong to Afghanistan's minority Shiite community. The Islamic State group has carried out repeated, horrific attacks on schools, hospitals and mosques in D...
