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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...
Thorns are painful. They are a good deterrent from gardening and landscaping! The Bible uses thorns as a metaphor for adversity, pain and trials. Adam was told that thorns would be a part of his life until his death. All of mankind struggles with thorns. They can be a simple poke or a deep wound. We all experience pain. We all experience thorns. People often become desperate in their pain. Many try to comfort themselves with addictive behaviors. Some turn their thorns into anger toward their loved ones and often toward the Lord. What if I told...
The time is fast approaching for the holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas in which we all stuff our faces and bellies until we are hurting in such a beautiful way. Food is a wonderful, satisfying, aromatic pleasure that we as humans can’t ever get enough of. It’s really interesting that God put a meal with every worship festival He commanded in the Old Testament, the Feast of the Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of the First Fruits, the Feast of the Trumpets, etc. When Jesus shows up on earth, he continues the use of food when...
Services for Kay V. Tomberlin are pending with Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Online condolences may be made at www.marshallfuneralhomes.com....
Services for Ted D. Jones are pending with Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Online condolences may be made at www.marshallfuneralhomes.com....
In my opinion, leaving a paper trail is still important. As CFO of our business, I like copies. Technology experts disagree: “You don’t need to print the internet,” and electronic transactions leave records. Emails are proof of that but just like magazines and newspapers, I like something concrete to hold and in the case of records, to file. My accountant refers to “the shoebox method.” She claims that is how some of her customers present their tax receipts. I have advanced past that to multip...
Oct. 12, 2022, was the 100th birthday of a man named Borden Deal. Unfortunately, he did not live to celebrate it, having died of a heart attack in January 1985 at the age of 62. Borden Deal was a writer of quality fiction – novels and short stories. He was born in Mississippi to a poor couple who had their farm taken from them during the Great Depression. The family’s precarious financial situation was made even worse when Borden’s father died in an automobile accident in 1938 when Borden was o...
Team Standings Dilly Dilly – 22 ½ wins and 9 ½ losses Rollin GoodTimes – 21 wins and 11 losses Knights of Columbus – 19 wins and 13 losses Livin' on a Spare – 17 wins and 15 losses O'Bar – 14 wins and 18 losses The Bowl Movements – 14 wins and 18 losses Marshall's Oldtimers – 12 ½ wins and 19 ½ losses Holy Bowlers – 6 wins and 14 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game Rollin' GoodTimes – 781 Dilly Dilly – 775 Knights of Columbus – 744 Scratch Series Dilly Dilly – 2270 Rollin' GoodTimes – 2228 Knights of Columbus – 2150 Handicap Game Rollin'...
ALVA, Okla. – The 2023 Hall of Fame inductee class is comprised of a two baseball stars, a fantastic Ranger basketball player, and a record-holding football coach. John Mazzocca (Baseball), Brandon Brown (Basketball), Rikki Delvecchio (Baseball) and Garin Higgins (Football) will be inducted in ceremonies on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. The 31st Hall of Fame class will be honored at a luncheon in the Student Center Ballroom at 11:30 a.m., and formally inducted during halftime of the men's basketball game against Arkansas Tech University later t...
ALVA, Okla. – The Ranger soccer team faced their rivals the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Bulldogs Tuesday. The Rangers and Bulldogs finished the match with a 0-0 draw. The result of this match moves the Rangers to 6-4-3 (3-2-2) and the Bulldogs to 4-4-5 (4-0-3). Abby Nunez and Isabella Mcmillan led the Rangers with three shots each while Nunez, McMillan, Callie Haneborg, and Gissell Holguin each had two shots on goal. In the draw Rachel Brown earned her second shutout of the season with the previous one against Harding. To start t...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State football defeated Arkansas-Monticello Saturday afternoon 26-23 in Monticello, Arkansas. Northwestern used a defensive touchdown and blocked field goal at the end to steal the road victory over the Weevils. A big part of the win was from linebacker Joseph Saunders, who earned this week's conference defensive player of the week award. Saunders played in his fourth game of the 2022 season having his career high in tackles, tackle for a loss, sacks and break ups. He also picked up his first defensive t...
Improving the reading experience is high on the list of goals for libraries. The Alva Public hopes a new software tool will encourage reading with lists, goals and fun challenges. During Monday’s board meeting, Library Director Sandra Ott said a new subscription is being purchased for Beanstack. The library will make the program available on their website. People can sign up and use the program to keep lists such as books read and books to read. The program can track minutes spent reading, consecutive days reading, and other such statistics. O... Full story
Back when an audit revealed funds designated for the Alva Regional Airport had been spent on City of Alva general fund expenses, the city made an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to pay back those funds, with interest, over a ten year period. Most of those airport funds were from FAA grants to be used in future airport project. At the Alva Airport Commission meeting Monday night, Mayor Kelly Parker said that payback may be completed this year. He said the city...
It’s unusual to see four vehicles involved in a wreck, but that’s what happened Monday, Oct. 3, on College Boulevard. The collisions occurred at 4:44 p.m. at Hart Street which borders the Lincoln Elementary School playground. The Alva Police Department traffic report says three vehicles were traveling north on College Boulevard in the inside lane. The lead vehicle, a 2017 Dodge Charger driven by Jaci Faith Oakley of Alva, stopped to make a left turn to the west onto Hart Street. Tatum Lee Winters of Alva in a 2020 Hyundai Tucson was dir...
A light pole was the most obvious casualty in a one vehicle wreck last Wednesday, Oct. 5, but the driver was also taken to the hospital. According to a report from the Alva Police Department, Derek Wade Heaton of Alva was driving a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado westbound on Oklahoma Boulevard about 8:20 a.m. when he blacked out. His vehicle swerved to the right, striking a light pole. Heaton then pulled into a parking lot near the scene and was checked by Alva EMS. Heaton was taken to the emergency room by private vehicle. The scene at 614 Oklahoma...
The Woods County Economic Development Committee hosted its first donor dinner and annual reception earlier this week in hopes of spreading awareness of who they are and what they do. Its executive director, Jeremy Zeller, presented information on what WCEDC offers to the community regarding economic development and growth. Over a meal catered by Yur place of Hardtner, Zeller told of ways he and the committee are working to improve the Woods County area's business base through communication,... Full story
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kris Kobach, the Kansan with a national reputation as a hardline provocateur on immigration and voter ID laws, is trying to rebrand himself as a calmer, steadier voice in his comeback bid for elective office. Republicans hope the candidate for Kansas attorney general is a "new" Kobach. Many of them say he's staying more on message with a better organized campaign after losing the 2018 race for Kansas governor and a 2020 U.S. Senate primary. Both of those losses were chalked up to disorganized campaigns and Kobach being too a...
BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany said Friday they detained a man for resisting arrest and biting a service dog. Officers were called to a dispute between two 29-year-old men and a 35-year-old woman in the western town of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg shortly after midnight. The trio acted in an "extremely aggressive and uncooperative" fashion, police said in a statement. Officers were only able to overpower one of the men by using "massive physical force," it said. "In the course of resisting arrest the 29-year-old man also bit a police dog," the s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to shut down the work of an independent arbiter who was appointed last month to review documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. The appeal is the latest salvo in weeks of litigation over the scope of duties of the arbiter, also known as a special master, who was assigned to inspect the records taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and weed out any that may be protected by claims of legal privilege. The special m...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy killed five people and injured two more in a shooting rampage in Raleigh, police said, horrifying a community that is now mourning victims whose lives were cut short as they were going about their daily routines. Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said the teen was captured hours after the the victims were gunned down Thursday evening. He was hospitalized and in critical condition following his arrest, but authorities have not said how he was injured. Patterson said Friday that police haven't determine...
DALLAS (AP) — A week after the second conviction of a man charged in the deaths of 22 elderly women, family members of those he is accused of killing gathered at a Dallas courthouse Friday to face him. In Ellen French House's victim impact statement, she told Billy Chemirmir, who was wearing a striped jail uniform, that she wanted him to see two photos of her mother: one of Norma French alive, the other after the 85-year-old was killed. "This is my beautiful mother," House said as she displayed the first photo. "This is my mother after you p...
KYIV, UKRAINE (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he expects his mobilization of army reservists for combat in Ukraine to be completed in about two weeks, allowing him to end an unpopular and chaotic call-up meant to counter Ukrainian battlefield gains and solidify his illegal annexation of occupied territory. Putin — facing domestic discontent and military setbacks in a neighboring country armed with increasingly advanced Western weapons — also told reporters he does not regret starting the conflict and "did not set out to de...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary step, the House Jan. 6 committee has voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump — a final effort to get the full story of the Capitol insurrection as the panel wraps up its work by the end of the year. Trump still does not acknowledge the "former" in front of "president," and he has been relentlessly hostile to the investigation. He called it a "charade and a witch hunt" in a letter to the committee on Friday — but notably did not mention the subpoena or say whether he would comply with...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey killed at least 22 people, Turkey's health minister announced, while rescuers working through the night were trying to bring dozens of others trapped to the surface. The explosion occurred 6:45 p.m. at the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin. Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said a preliminary assessment indicated the explosion was likely caused by firedamp — a reference to flammable gases found in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department has gotten a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over funding for his satellite network that has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces since almost the beginning of its war with Russia, U.S. officials said Friday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter not yet made public, said the issue has been discussed in meetings and senior leaders are weighing the matter. There have been no decisions. In a statement l...
