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In the second chapter of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he wrote, “I want you to know how much I am struggling for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me face to face.” Naturally, Paul would have preferred to see those to whom he is writing face to face. His purpose, in such a personal meeting, would have certainly been to communicate his message about Christ to them. But because his circumstances evidently made face to face contact impossible, he instead communicated his message to them by means of a letter. For P... Full story
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...
The recent winter weather has caused a rescheduling of the artist talk and collage/mixed media workshop originally planned for Oct. 28 by the Northwestern Oklahoma State University visual arts program's October artist-in-residence Alyssa Klauer, a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. This event will now be Nov. 4, and both the talk and workshop will be in the Student Center Ballroom. Klauer, who began her residency on Oct. 4, will discuss her studio practice, process, influences and body of work...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Foundation & Alumni Association is pleased to announce Gracie Martin as its new development officer. As the development officer, she is responsible for the research, cultivation and solicitation of major gifts for Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Previously, Martin worked at Oklahoma State University as a lead nutrition assistant. She was also an ambassador for the College of Human Sciences. Martin received her bachelor's degree from OSU in 2020. "We are e... Full story
Team Standings Dilly Dilly: 19 wins, 9 losses The Bowl Movements: 19 wins, 9 losses Knights of Columbus: 18 wins, 10 losses Rollin Good Times: 13 wins, 15 losses O’Bar: 12 wins, 16 losses Marshall's Oldtimers: 12 wins, 16 losses Next Frame: 12 wins, 16 losses Ghost Team: 0 wins, 28 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game: Knights of Columbus – 835, Dilly Dilly – 822, Rollin Good Times – 767 Scratch Series: Dilly Dilly – 2384, Knights of Columbus – 2348, Rollin Good Times – 2233 Handicap Game: Knights of Columbus – 1144, Dilly Dilly – 1...
“Mama Mia, that's a spicy meatball,” “Heat, eat and enjoy,” and “A meal in a minute with the Chef’s touch in it” were advertising slogans for quick-fix meals that are heating up again. It all began in 1928 when Clarence Birdseye started freezing packaged fish. Maxson Foods used Birdseye’s technology to offer frozen dinners to airlines in 1945, but it was Swanson that opened the oven door for complete consumer meals in 1953 with what they called the “TV dinner.” Using some of the 260 tons of fro...
Due to weather conditions, the Woods County Courthouse in Alva was closed on Monday. The county commissioners canceled their meeting that morning, but payroll had to be approved. A special meeting was held Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. Commissioners present were Randy McMurphy, David Hamil and John Smiley. The commissioners approved minutes of the last meeting, payroll, warrants and claims. Eight road-crossing permits for the Sundance Wind project were approved. These are for electrical transmission lines for power generated by the wind...
On Saturday, Oct. 24, four Woods County 4-H members competed at the State 4-H Trap Shoot in El Reno. Drake Brady from Waynoka 4-H was the first place high individual out of 80 contestants with a score of 49 out of 50. Brady also joined Woods County 4-H members Thomas Mathes, Cooper Rich and Logan Bays as a team, which was just eight points from placing in the top five teams. "I could not be more proud of the way these you men have performed as a team and as individual," said Woods County 4-H...
As we saw recently, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extending the right to vote to American women. With the right to vote, of course, comes the right to hold political office. Interestingly, however, decades passed before many women held high elective (or appointive) positions in the United States. Between 1920 and 1974 for example, exactly three women served as state governors. In the latter year, Ella Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut,...
According to OG&E, as of 8 a.m. Thursday power had been restored for more than 140,000 customers in Oklahoma following the Oct. 26 ice storm. But as of 8 a.m. Thursday, 244,000 were still without power. OG&E has more than 2,600 restoration personnel in the field. In northwest Oklahoma, the storm brought less ice but residents have dealt with sleet and snow accumulations. With temperatures rising above freezing, the precipitation turned to rain on Wednesday, melting the frozen accumulation. The...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An ice storm that struck Oklahoma this week is among the worst ever to affect the state's largest utility system, the company's president said Thursday. "This is probably the most severe storm we've ever had on our system," according to OGE Energy Corp. CEO, Chairman and President Sean Trauschke. We probably had in excess of 500,000 outages," and repairs could take up to a week to complete OGE has about 858,000 customers in Oklahoma, according to its website. The storm struck Monday and led Gov. Kevin Stitt to declare a s...
No. 24 Oklahoma (3-2, 2-2 Big 12) at Texas Tech (2-3, 1-3), Saturday at 8 p.m. ET (FOX). Line: Oklahoma by 14 1/2. Series record: Oklahoma leads 21-6. WHAT'S AT STAKE? Oklahoma already has two losses and won't reach the College Football Playoff this season after being selected three straight years. But the Sooners still can qualify for the Big 12 title game. They have won five straight conference titles and can't afford a loss with Kansas State and Oklahoma State entering the weekend undefeated in league play. KEY MATCHUP Oklahoma RB T.J....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Early in-person voting began Thursday across Oklahoma for an election that has already seen record turnout throughout the U.S. Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at most of the 77 county election board offices on Thursday and Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. In Tulsa, early voting was taking place at the minor league baseball stadium, ONEOK Field, to accommodate more voters and allow for better social distancing as the coronavirus continues to surge in Oklahoma and beyond. Besides president, Oklahoma v...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma remains in the red zone for coronavirus cases and the number of reported cases was up by 1,041 on Thursday. A report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force, released Wednesday by the Oklahoma State Department of Health, said community spread of the disease is increasing in the state. The report continued to encourage masks be worn, social distancing, frequent washing of hands and that residents avoid crowds, especially private gatherings. "We are finding that as the weather cools, friends and families are movi...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A nursing home where every resident has tested positive for the coronavirus in a rural Kansas county with the state's highest infection rate has been warned that federal officials are moving to remove it from the Medicare program, putting its funding at risk. A scathing report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cited a lack of masks as a main driver in the outbreak at the Andbe Home in Norton, Kansas. Sixty-one residents and about three dozen staff members have been infected at the home, and 12 have d...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas election officials predicted Thursday that the state will see record-setting turnout for this year's presidential election. The Kansas Secretary of State's office said it anticipates 70% of Kansas voters will participate in the election. It anticipates that about 1.35 million Kansans will cast a ballot. "The 70% itself is not a record — but every number behind it is," said Bryan Caskey, director of elections. "We will have approximately 1.94 million registered voters, which is almost 100,000 more than in 2018." The...
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (AP) — An Arkansas man who exchanged gunfire with a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, an autopsy has found. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that the results of the autopsy on 32-year-old Wesley Jordan, of Hot Springs, are consistent with the agency's investigative findings. Jordan died Friday in rural Montgomery County after a pursuit. The incident began when a robbery at gunpoint was reported at the Regal Inn in Coffeyville. When Kansas Highway Patrol troopers tried to s...
MARION -- A Wichita man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman whose body was found in a river earlier this year. Robert Burns Mans Jr., 48, was charged Wednesday in Marion County in the death of Shalan Niccole Gannon, 27, of Wichita. He was arrested Thursday in Wichita, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a news release. Authorities allege Gannon was killed on or about April 8. She was reported missing April 11 and her body was found in the Ninnescah River in rural Sumner County in June. No other...
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The new surge of the coronavirus was evident in Missouri on Thursday, with record hospitalizations in St. Louis and Columbia, and the Kansas City metropolitan area experiencing its worst month ever for COVID-19 deaths. The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force late Wednesday reported 72 hospital admissions in one day, the most since tracking began in April. While new admissions dropped to 52 on Thursday, the task force said the seven-day average of total hospitalizations rose to 379 from 371. Admissions at St. L...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 14-year-old girl was killed and her father critically injured in a two-vehicle crash in Wichita, police there said. The crash happened just before noon Wednesday in northwest Wichita, police said. Police said a red car being driven by the father of the girl was speeding when it hit a dip in the road, lost control and spun first into a pickup truck, then hit a second pickup. Police say 14-year-old Aryana Lay, of Wichita, who was a passenger in her father's car, died at the scene. Her 38-year-old father suffered serious i...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant Florida woman didn't let labor stop her from casting her vote in the presidential election, refusing to go to the hospital until she filled out her ballot. Officials with the Orange County Supervisor of Elections said the woman was already in labor when she arrived at the polling site with her husband Tuesday afternoon, news outlets reported. Elections employee Karen Briceño González said the husband asked for a ballot for his wife and later told the staff that she was in the car, in labor and refusing to go to...
BERLIN (AP) — A lawnmower robot's electronic cries for help foiled a thief's plan to make off with the grass-cutting automaton. German police said Friday that a homeowner in the western town of Lippstadt was surprised on Tuesday evening with a smartphone message from the robot that it had flipped upside down. When he went outside to the lawn to check on the device, he spotted a thief with the robot tucked under his arm. Caught in the act, the thief dropped the robot and fled, according to police. Officers searched the area but did not locate a...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — When Joe Biden was last in Iowa, his presidential campaign was on the verge of collapse and he was soundly trounced in the caucuses by a former Indiana mayor nearly 40 years his junior. He returns Friday as the Democratic nominee, believing he's just days away from becoming president-elect. Biden's trip reflects the remarkable arc of his third presidential campaign. He entered the race as the most experienced candidate in a crowded primary, but was overshadowed by fresh faces who dazzled Democratic voters and nearly r...
