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Alva Church of God Alva Church of God is located at 517 9th St. in Alva. Sunday morning Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. with Worship Service following at 10:30 a.m. On Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m., “The Chosen” series will be shown. Young adults meet at 5 p.m. with supper and Bible study. Youth ages sixth through 12th grade meet at 6 p.m. Sunday evenings. Wednesday evening, we hold a prayer meeting at 7 p.m. 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 can...
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). When is it easiest to be thankful? When things are going good, right? While it might be easier to praise God when you are most happy and comfortable, it is just as important, if not more important, to thank Him in the midst of trials. In 1 Thessalonians, Paul tells the church at Thessalonica to rejoice always and give thanks in all circumstances. This can be hard to do, especially when things aren’t going well. So why do we have to g...
Something that is easier said than done is to love one another. Loving someone you like or already love is easy, but loving someone that you don’t know or even don’t like, is another story altogether! Our lives as Christians are a little more detailed than just showing up to church service on Sundays, singing a few songs, partaking of the Lord’s Supper, and listening to a motivational speaker that may or may not inspire you. No, Christianity is living a life that is mimicking the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ! That life shoul...
Funeral services for Marion Leon Millege, 84, will be Friday, November 24, at 10:00 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Alva with Rev. Taylor Anderson, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery with Wharton Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements. Marion Leon, son of Vivian (Turner) and Clifford Millege, was born at the Alva General Hospital on July 4, 1939. He passed away at Beadles Nursing Home on November 21, 2023 at the age of 84 years, 4 months and 17...
Twinkies are near the top of America’s least healthy food pyramid. Sales of packaged snacks such as Ding Dongs, Donettes, and of course Twinkies held up well during the pandemic. Liquor sales were up as well but that is a different health issue. A business story in the Wall Street Journal says that “America’s longstanding obsession with snacks is colliding with its exuberance for new weight-loss drugs.” Is that an oxymoron? Ozempic is new but Twinkies began nearly 100 years ago. James Dewar,...
We are celebrating my favorite holiday: Thanksgiving. What about Christmas or Easter, you might ask? They are certainly near the top of the list. How could the day we celebrate our Savior’s birth and his ascension to Heaven not be really high on the list! It isn’t just the hunting and all the food that goes with Thanksgiving that makes it my favorite. Although I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t some of it. The main reason that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday is because we stop and thank our Lord for all he has blessed us with. We don’t d...
When Shirley Muldowney began competing in the “Top Fuel” category of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) in 1973, she faced discrimination from fans of the sport as well as some of her fellow male drivers. She soon won over her numerous detractors, however, by winning races and showing that a woman could drive a race car as well as a man could. In fact, she proved to be a better driver than most of the men competing on the NHRA circuit. The NHRA conducts qualifying runs with the top 16 qua...
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Growing up in northern British Columbia, Stephen Culling didn’t have the typical childhood of a rodeo cowboy. “My parents are both wildlife biologists,” said Culling, 29, a professional steer wrestler for Fort St. John who has qualified for the National Finals Rodeo for the first time. “We had some pretty interesting adventures. When I was really young, I never went to daycare much. I usually jumped in the helicopter with them; that was a pretty cool thing I got to do. “The things that most people wouldn’t even think ab...
Team Standings The Bowl Movements – 32 ½ wins, 19 ½ losses Marshall's Oldtimers – 29 wins, 23 losses Rollin GoodTimes – 29 wins, 23 losses Knights of Columbus – 27 wins, 25 losses Dilly Dilly – 26 wins, 26 losses O'Bar – 25 wins, 27 losses X-Team – 23 wins, 29 losses Holy Bowlers – 16 ½ wins, 35 ½ losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game Holy Bowlers – 816 Rollin GoodTimes – 811 The Bowl Movements – 811 Scratch Series The Bowl Movements – 2330 Rollin GoodTimes – 2318 Knights of Columbus – 2309 Handicap Game Holy Bowlers – 1150 Rollin Good...
With the arrival of colder weather, gardeners should spend some time tidying up their garden spaces in the offseason. What stays in the garden and what goes? Casey Hentges, Oklahoma State University Extension specialist and host of OSU Agriculture’s “Oklahoma Gardening” television show, said most annuals and tropical plants should be pulled up from the garden. “Vegetable plants such as tomatoes and peppers can be removed, roots and all,” Hentges said. “When removing the plants, try to leave as much soil as possible. If gardeners didn’t experien...
Students of the Charles Morton Share Trust Division of Nursing received a perfect score for their research project at the 18th annual Ranger Research day at the Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Alva campus. Tiffany Goss, Garber senior; Viviana Resendiz, Enid senior; Ana Cruz Hernandez, Enid senior, and their project, “Hospital Interpreters and Limited English Proficiency Patient Outcomes” received top marks from the judges out of 14 projects entered and displayed in the Student Center Ballroom. Graduate and undergraduate students creat...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University's employees were honored during the annual Employee Service Recognition Ceremonies Nov. 14-15. Ceremonies took place in Alva and Enid to honor employees who work at Alva, Enid and Woodward campus locations. Dr. Aaron Mason, executive director for the Institute of Citizenship Studies and professor of political science, received the John Barton Distinguished Teaching and Service Award. "John Barton's examples of service, distinguished teaching and...
The consent agenda is a way for public bodies to lump together some routine items and vote on them together. At the Alva City Council meeting Monday night, Nov. 20, the consent agenda was separated into minutes and claims due to a problem. Councilmember Sadie Bier made a motion to approve the consent agenda. Before anyone seconded the motion, Councilmember Gail Swallow said the claims list had the Alva Economic Development scholarships under the wrong (Parks and Recreation) account. She also asked what an abbreviation (MHS) meant and learned... Full story
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jalon Moore made 6 of 7 from the field, 5 of 5 from the free-throw line and finished with 18 points to help Oklahoma beat Iowa 79-67 Thursday at the Rady Children's Invitational. Javian McCollum scored 14 points, Otega Oweh 13 and Sam Godwin added 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting for Oklahoma (5-0). Owen Freeman had 13 points and seven rebounds for Iowa (3-2). Payton Sandfort added 12 points and seven boards and Ben Krikke scored 11 points. Oklahoma scored eight of the game's first 10 points before McCollum and Rivaldo Soares e...
NEW YORK (AP) — A pair of multicolored briefs peeking out above a robbery suspect's low-slung trousers helped police arrest him more than a year later, federal authorities in New York said Wednesday. The robbery happened at a tobacco shop in Queens on Sept. 14, 2022. Three masked men got out of a Mazda and entered the store, according to a complaint filed in federal court last week. Two of the men pointed guns at employees and customers while the third emptied the cash register and grabbed merchandise and employees' cellphones, the complaint s...
LONDON (AP) — Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin on Thursday evening, with vehicles torched and riot police attacked, after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized. Irish police said the girl was receiving emergency medical treatment in a Dublin hospital following the attack outside a school. Soon after that announcement, at least 100 people took to the streets, some armed with metal bars and covering their faces. Police said over 4...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A four-day cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas was set to begin Friday morning, Qatar said after a daylong delay extended the agony for those hoping for some relief from the deal, which is to bring the release of dozens of hostages held by militants and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. The diplomatic breakthrough promised some relief for the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza who have endured weeks of Israeli bombardment, as well as families in Israel fearful for the fate of their loved ones taken c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harm done by opioids could help combat the overdose epidemic that the painkiller helped spark. But that does not mean all the victims are satisfied. In exchange for giving up ownership of drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma and for contributing up to $6 billion to fight the crisis, members of the wealthy Sackler family would be exempt from any civil lawsuits. At the same time, they could potentially keep billions of dollars from their profits on O...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday. The three-page filing does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the transit bureau of the New York Police Department and the New York Police Department Guardians Association as defendants. "Plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York," the summons reads. The filing seeks a trial and $...
