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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.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 Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at 10:10 a.m.; worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Friends Church is on the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Avard Christian Church Sunday services are from 2-4 p.m. Avard Christian Church is 7 miles west of Alva on Highway 64 and 7 miles south on County Road 370, or 6...
In his first epistle, the Apostle John has a lot to say about our relationship with God, which he describes as a relationship based on love, specifically God’s love for us. He writes that “we love him because he first loved us.” Our love for God, therefore, is merely a response to his love for us, because, as John says, he loved us first. Furthermore, the Apostle Paul tells us that God loved us while we were sinners, highlighting the fact that his love for us, and therefore our relationship with him, is not based on our actions or perfo...
“If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing” (1 Cor. 13:3, ASV). Let me be among the first to welcome you to the Christmas season. May your days be merry and bright! It’s Black Friday: a day when folks are centered on getting as much MORE for as much LESS as possible. Our main goal for the weekend is not to divest ourselves of all we own (to the poor or anyone else, for that matter) but to increase our share of the proverbial pie while retaining enough of our allowance to have a nice m...
In October the Alva City Council discussed the need to update the current ordinance on land use or zoning. Earlier the Planning Commission had approved an exception to allow a zoning change to commercial in the middle of two lots in a residential neighborhood. Several residents in the area attended the council meeting to protest. Although the applicant intended the building for storage, subsequent owners could change the use to a commercial business. Following discussion, in a split vote the council chose to turn down the application for an... Full story
Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Alva campus is partnering with the Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) for a one-day blood drive on Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Center Ranger Room. The blood donor goal for the Northwestern softball and volleyball teams-sponsored event is 94 donors. This event is open to the public. All donors will receive free pizza, a limited edition long sleeved “Give Blood. Make it a Tradition.” T-shirt, free health screenings and donor reward points. Donors will have the chance to enter in a...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Computer Science program will sponsor a 24-hour livestream to raise funds for Child's Play Charity from 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, until 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. Members of the program will gather in the Bill and Billie Buckles Computer Science and Robotics Labs in Shockley Hall to play a mix of video games as well as a few group activities while live broadcasting the whole event on Twitch. A few teachers from various departments are expected to stop by as well. As the students work in teams and as solo p...
“Is it live, or is it Memorex?” – a slogan from the days of recording tape. Is it a real diamond, or is it paste? Paste diamonds, also known as diamond simulants, have some of the same characteristics as real diamonds, such as light dispersion and hardness, but are made of high-lead glass, also known as rhinestones, cubic zirconia, known as CZ, and a number of artificial materials. The value of diamonds has remained high for several reasons. There are price swings as there are with any commodity...
Sports fans often refer to the Rose Bowl game as “the granddaddy of them all.” This is so because it is the oldest of all football bowl games played in the United States. Back in 1934 it was also the only game played on Jan. 1. The later in the season a bowl game occurs, the more importance sports aficionados attach to it. It was the last game and, consequently, the most important of the 1933 football season. As we have seen, the game was played on an extremely muddy field in Pasadena, Californi...
ALVA, Okla. – A late comeback bid by the Northwestern Oklahoma State University women’s basketball squad came up short Tuesday evening against former conference rival Oklahoma Christian inside Percefull Fieldhouse. Down by as many as 16 late in the third quarter, the Lady Rangers made a push in the final 12 minutes of game play to cut the difference two with two minutes remaining. However, the Lady Eagles held on late for a 65-61 victory over the Lady Rangers. Northwestern is 1-3 this season following the loss as the Lady Rangers head to the...
Ben Orcutt, Alva police chief, presented the program at the Nov. 15 meeting of the Woods County Retired Educators Association held at the Alva Public Library Auditorium. Chief Orcutt talked about the Kids & Cops Program sponsored by the Alva Police Department with the help of generous donations from local businesses and members of the community. Some of the events for kids include Pack the Park, Halloween Trick-or-Treating, pumpkin painting, Christmas shopping with a police officer, and...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University's Alva campus hosted the 13th annual Ranger Research Day in the Student Center Ballroom where 31 projects were entered with 47 participants having the opportunity to display, share and discuss their research with peers, professors and the Alva community. Graduate and undergraduate students created poster presentations or prepared oral presentations of academic research papers conducted in one of their classes. All presenters are encouraged to attend... Full story
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian official says the country's top domestic security agency has thwarted a series of attacks on schools in the wake of last month's shooting-and-bomb attack by a teenager on a school in Crimea. An 18-year-old student went on a rampage at his vocational school in the city of Kerch on Oct. 17, killing 20 and injuring more than 50 before killing himself. His motives remained unclear, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has drawn parallels to shooting attacks in the U.S. Sergei Yegorov, a deputy department chief at the F...
BEIJING (AP) — A car plowed into a crowd of children outside a primary school in northeastern China on Thursday, killing five people and injuring 18, a local government spokesman said. The driver was taken into custody after the crash around noon in the coastal city of Huludao in Liaoning province, said the spokesman for Jianchang county in the city's suburbs, who declined to give his name as is standard with Chinese bureaucrats. He described the crash as "a major traffic accident" and said the cause was under investigation. State b...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday disputed that U.S. intelligence officials had concluded that the de facto leader of American ally Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of a U.S.-based journalist critical of the kingdom's royal family. Citing vehement denials by the crown prince and king that they were involved, Trump said "maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious place. The world is a very, very vicious place." Critics in Congress and high-ranking officials in other countries are accusing T...
VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog has called on North Korea to allow inspectors back in to monitor its nuclear program. Speaking at a board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency Thursday, Director General Yukiya Amano noted that Pyongyang had in September talked about denuclearization measures including the "permanent dismantlement of the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon" — a reactor where it produces plutonium. Amano said there has been activity observed at Yongbyon, but "without access the agency cannot con...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The Manhattan City Commission has approved a plan to convert half of its energy use to wind power. The Mercury reports that the commission Tuesday backed a 20-year agreement with Westar Energy for the 300-megawatt Soldier Creek Wind Farm in northeast Kansas, a project that will be complete in the fourth quarter of 2020. The city has paid Westar about $2.6 million a year for the past five years. Officials say the agreement with Westar will save the city $50,000 a year for the next 20 years. Kansas State University has e...
GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. scientist on Thursday shrugged off an online quip from U.S. President Donald Trump that questioned global warming, saying a U.S. government report will show the "fundamental impacts of climate change on the U.S. continent." Officials at the World Meteorological Organization also said environmentally minded efforts by the state of California, in parts of the financial sector, among grassroots activists and others will have more of an impact to help the fight against climate change than "political disturbance" and "discou...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A large-scale clinical trial at an Arkansas research institute and other nationwide institutions to find a treatment for peanut allergies has been a success. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Arkansas Children's Research Institute is one of 66 institutions across 10 countries participating in the study, which gradually increases peanut protein doses. The goal is to increase tolerance in allergic patients. Two-thirds of children in the treatment group were able to tolerate the equivalent of two peanuts by the e...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic and moderate Republicans lawmakers worked together last year to try to make Kansas the latest state to expand Medicaid, only to see their bipartisan effort rewarded with a veto from former conservative GOP Gov. Sam Brownback. The election this month of a governor who supports Medicaid expansion seemed to remove the biggest hurdle for those hoping to bring health coverage to thousands of the state's poor. But it's not that simple. In the same election that put Democrat Laura Kelly in the governor's office, K...
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — The future of elk in Southwest Colorado is in jeopardy. Over the past few years, herds in the region have been slowly dying off, and wildlife officials are concerned about the iconic ungulate's ability to survive in healthy numbers in the long term. The issue involves a mystery: About half of the elk calves born in Southwest Colorado die within six months. Of the survivors, another 15 percent perish before they turn a year old. And researchers don't know why, The Durango Herald reports . The problem encompasses wildlife m...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas' busiest highway. The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm resulted in a 17 percent reduction in crashes along a portion of northbound Interstate 15 just west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Waycare, a provider of artificial intelligence-based mobility products and services for smart cities, helped lead the crash prevention pilot program. They h...
WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — As wildfires raged this month in California, insurance claims experts at Travelers sat in a command center 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) away in Connecticut, monitoring screens showing satellite images, photos from airplane flyovers and social media posts describing what was happening on the ground. Real-time data and technology that were unavailable to property-casualty companies even a few years ago have shaped the industry's response to the Camp Fire, which has burned nearly 240 square miles (622 square kilometers) i...
BERLIN (AP) — A giant, plant-eating creature with a beak-like mouth and reptilian features may have roamed the Earth during the late Triassic period more than 200 million years ago, scientists said Thursday. In a paper published Thursday by the journal Science, Polish researchers claim their find overturns the notion that the only giant plant-eaters at the time were dinosaurs. The elephant-sized creature, known as Lisowicia bojani after a village in southern Poland where its remains were found, belonged to the same evolutionary branch as m...
NEW DELHI (AP) — For thousands of years, the people of North Sentinel island have been isolated from the rest of the world. They use spears and bows and arrows to hunt the animals that roam the small, heavily forested island, and gather plants to eat and to fashion into homes. Their closest neighbors live more than 50 kilometers (30 miles) away. Deeply suspicious of outsiders, they attack anyone who comes through the surf and onto their beaches. Police say that is what happened last week when a young American, John Allen Chau, was killed by isl...
CAIRO (AP) — Authorities in eastern Libya said Thursday they have taken into custody suspects in the 2013 killing of a U.S. chemistry teacher in Benghazi, and that more suspects would be tried over the deadly attack a year earlier that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans there. The announcement highlights efforts by Libya's eastern forces, led by Gen. Khalifa Hifter, to bring justice to hundreds of cases involving unlawful killings. Authorities have also come under pressure by families of the detained who are awaiting h...
