Alva Review-Courier -

This Saturday morning Laverne is having a community wide prayer service to ask our Lord and Savior to make it rain.

I don’t know how dry we are. I know we are drier than the dirty '30s and when it was so dry in the 1950s. I know wheat pastures are brown and not green. I know the pastures don’t look dormant, they look dead. I know that if we don’t get moisture in the next 60-90 days, cattlemen and farmers are going to have to make some tough decisions.

I know that if farmers and ranchers have to make tough decisions then stores and businesses up and down Main Street are going to have t...