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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...
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23). I'll have to admit I love gifts from God. God is Provider; He loves us and always takes care of us. He loves us so much that he made sure that we can have eternal life with him. He sent his one and only son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for us. So we see here in Romans 6:23 that one of the most precious gifts that God has given us is eternal life – a way to be restored to him. So why d...
Most of us have had that neighbor, co-worker, or relative that we just can’t seem to get along with, no matter how hard we try. Maybe they have done something that you are unwilling to forgive them for. Whatever they try to do, to reconcile the situation, you just don’t want to get along or forgive them! The Lord teaches us to forgive, and not only a few times but many, many times! Peter comes to Jesus in Matthew 18:21-22 with the question about forgiving our brothers to alleviate conflict, and Jesus takes a teaching opportunity. The pas...
“Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea.” These words were spoken by Walter Winchell at the beginning of each radio and later television news broadcast from 1930 to the late ‘50s. These communication mediums have become commonplace but before Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio in 1920, we had Morse code. It is an electronic form of communication, first carried by telegraph lines and later over the airwaves. It uses a series of dots and dashes to relay information. Braille...
I think God doesn’t give you answers to your prayers sometimes to show you that his answers that he reveals later are so much better. Last week I had decided that I had to write about the farm this week. What direction I was going to take was still a mystery, but I knew that I had neglected writing about the farm lately, so I asked God to give me direction, which I usually do on a daily basis. I was going to write about being overwhelmed but also knowing we have to get certain things done before spring hits or it will never get done. I asked G...
Recently, Americans witnessed one of the most contentious (and interesting) elections for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in American history. Ultimately, after 15 rounds of voting, the position went to Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California. The speaker is third in line to the presidency (after the president and vice-president). Having this prestigious job, media commentators have surmised, might make McCarthy wish to be in one of the two positions ahead of him. But if history is a...
Team Standings Dilly Dilly – 48 wins, 32 losses Knights of Columbus – 48 wins, 32 losses O'Bar – 44½ wins, 35½ losses Rollin GoodTimes – 41½ wins, 38½ losses The Bowl Movements – 39½ wins, 40½ losses Marshall's Oldtimers – 36½ wins, 43½ losses Holy Bowlers – 30 wins, 38 losses Livin' on a Spare – 30 wins, 50 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game Dilly Dilly – 827 Rollin GoodTimes – 826 Knights of Columbus – 790 Scratch Series Rollin GoodTimes – 2348 Dilly Dilly – 2339 Knights of Columbus – 2328 Handicap Game Holy Bowlers – 1166 Rollin Goo...
The teachers at Alva Middle School have selected Haleigh Richardson and Keaton Adair, eighth grade; Zoe Hall and Jacson Cummings, seventh grade; and Harper Williams and Cord Heaton, sixth grade, as AMS Students of the Month for October. Haleigh Richardson is in eighth grade and is the daughter of Chad and Rachael Richardson. Her grandparents are Bobby and Beth Mosburg, and Pamela and Jeff Fanning. Her favorite classes are math and athletics. She is involved in student council, basketball,...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State Track & Field will travel to six indoor track meets this spring, before getting set for NCAA qualifiers. Following the conclusion of the indoor season the Rangers will then travel to seven outdoor meets before the Conference meet followed by NCAA qualifiers. The season will consist of five Division I meets that include three Big 12, one Big 10 and one AAC. Northwestern will also compete in two MIAA meets for the indoor season. Northwestern will open the 2023 season in Lincoln, Nebraska, for their f...
Northwestern officials have announced a dedication ceremony open to the public on Jan. 20 to rename the female residence hall South Hall to Cunningham Hall. The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. in the lobby of Cunningham Hall, 1301 Davis St. The renovations and name change were completed in fall of 2022, the name change honors Northwestern's former president, Dr. Janet Cunningham. The renovations included new flooring, paint, lighting, new movable furniture and an HVAC unit replacement. The... Full story
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State split its week with a last-second loss to Southern Arkansas before turning around and beating Arkansas-Monticello Saturday afternoon 82-74. Parsons started both games for the Rangers finishing with game high in points each outing, helping the Rangers to their first conference victory Saturday. This is Malik Parsons’ third Great American Conference player of the week award this season after his first two early in the season on Nov. 21 and 28 on back-to-back weeks. The Ranger guard finished the week wit...
As people arrived for the Alva Airport Commission meeting Monday night, we saw Dale Logsdon, chairman of the commission, assisting a pilot in starting his small plane. Logsdon had a handy battery-powered jumpstart kit to get the pilot on his way. Even though the runway lights aren’t working at the Alva Regional Airport, the moon was bright enough that the pilot felt confident he could see the runway to take off. It was discussed briefly in the meeting that smaller planes, many of which are equipped with bright landing lights, can land and t... Full story
From top to bottom, the Big 12 hasn't started conference play like this in a decade. No. 11 Kansas State has already surpassed last season's overall win total and made an impressive Top 25 poll debut this week after being picked to finish last in the 10-team league with new coach Jerome Tang and a completely revamped roster. The Wildcats (15-1) have won their first four Big 12 games, just like defending national champion No. 2 Kansas and No. 14 Iowa State, which is surging again after a surprise run to the NCAA Sweet 16 last March. "I'm very...
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of killing an elderly couple and committing other crimes 20 years ago before authorities caught up to him in Texas after a manhunt. Scott James Eizember, 62, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:15 a.m. "I'm at peace," Eizember said, strapped to a gurney with an intravenous line in his left arm. "My conscience is clear, completely. I love my children." Once the lethal drugs began to flow, Eizember, who...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature are headed toward big fights over spending on special education programs, pay raises for government workers and how much the cash-flush state should sock away for worse economic times. Kelly released budget proposals Thursday that include depositing $500 million into the state's rainy day fund, giving state workers a 5% pay increase across the board and phasing in a 61% increase in spending on programs in K-12 public schools for children with s...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement. Brick buildings collapsed, cars were on their side and traffic poles were strewn about in the downtown area. Plumes of thick, black smoke rose over the city from a fire burning. It was not immediately known whether the storm caused the blaze. A few blocks past the city's famed Edmund Pettus Bridge...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer herself — was hospitalized Thursday, her mother said in a statement. "My beloved daughter Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital. She is now receiving the best care," Priscilla Presley said. "Please keep her and our family in your prayers. We feel the prayers from around the world, and ask for privacy during this time." Los Angeles County paramedics were dispatched to a Calabasas home at 10:37 a.m. following a report of a woman in full cardiac arrest, accor...
U.S. air travel returned mostly to normal Thursday, a day after a computer system that sends safety information to pilots broke down and grounded traffic from coast to coast. By midafternoon on the East Coast, about 150 flights had been canceled and more than 3,700 delayed — much lower figures than on Wednesday, when more than 1,300 flights were scrubbed and 11,000 delayed. Attention turned to the federal agency where the technology failure apparently started hours before it inconvenienced more than 1 million travelers. The Federal Aviation A...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents found at President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an unsecured office in Washington dating from his time as vice president. Robert Hur, a onetime U.S. attorney appointed by former President Donald Trump, will lead the investigation and plans to begin his work soon. His appointment marks the second time in a few months that Garland has appointed a special counsel, an extraordinary f...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsy Doan didn't think the water flowing over the creek crossing on San Marcos Road was deeper than normal when she tried navigating it in her SUV while driving her 5-year-old son to school. But the creek, swollen with rain from California's epic winter storms, was much higher and flowing stronger than she anticipated. Doan cursed as she lost control of the steering, and the 4,300-pound (1,950-kilogram) Chevy Traverse was carried off the road and pinned against a large sycamore tree. "Mom, it's OK," her son, Kyle, r...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department accused Los Angeles-based City National Bank on Thursday of discrimination by refusing to underwrite mortgages in predominately Black and Latino communities, requiring the bank to pay more than $31 million in the largest redlining settlement in department history. City National is the latest bank in the past several years to be found systematically avoiding lending to racial and ethnic minorities, a practice that the Biden administration has set up its own task force to combat. The Justice Department s...
NEW YORK (AP) — Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners dropped again last year, and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up. Usually, 94% to 95% of kindergarteners are vaccinated against measles, tetanus and certain other diseases. The vaccination rates dropped below 94% in the 2020-2021 school year, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday found rates dropped again in the 2021-2022 school year, to about 93%. The pandemic disrupted v...
DENVER (AP) — Earth's fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported Thursday. But expect record-shattering hot years soon, likely in the next couple years because of "relentless" climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas, U.S. government scientists said. Despite a La Nina, a cooling of the equatorial Pacific that slightly reduces global average temperatures, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calculates 2022's g...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As alarms began to go off globally about a novel coronavirus spreading in China, officials in Washington turned to the intelligence agencies for insights about the threat the virus posed to America. But the most useful early warnings came not from spies or intercepts, according to a recent congressional review of classified reports from December 2019 and January 2020. Officials were instead relying on public reporting, diplomatic cables and analysis from medical experts — some examples of so-called open source int...
