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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...
Spring semester classes at Northwestern Oklahoma State University began Jan. 11; however, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the university will be closed Monday, Jan. 18, and no classes will be held. Classes will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 19, and offices will maintain regular office hours. The last day to enroll in 16-week classes at Northwestern for the spring semester is Jan. 20....
I am tired of ugliness. This world we live in has forgotten how to be kind and compassionate. I have seen so much ugliness in how we treat each other. In the name of politics, Covid or toilet paper, we have seen the ugliness of humanity. When men turned to sin, ugliness showed up. We encounter every ugly thing in this world today due to our sins and rebellion from the Lord. When you walk away from the Lord and live life how you want, you will find things quickly get ugly. Ask any addict that is surrounded by the ugliness of their sin and they...
Alva's First Assembly of God invited area law enforcement officers, including the Alva chief of police, Woods County sheriff, their officers and their families, to the church's Sunday morning service for special recognition. Interim Pastor Donnetta Hunter shared a message from Psalms 91: that God will provide a hedge of protection as these officers are protecting the citizens). She stated that it frustrates her that the officers on the news and on social media doing bad things give a bad name to all the officers who are doing good. “Alva is b...
Last week we began our journey through the Bible with the first 26 chapters of Genesis. This coming week we will read the rest of Genesis, chapters 27 through 50. Genesis means the origin, or the beginning of something. “In the Beginning God created.” Such a powerful statement and such a statement of power! The rest of the book begins to establish the nature of God and his relationship to his creation, the earth and people. Genesis establishes themes that are found throughout the Bible. The covenant with Abraham and his descendants that all...
After an evaluation in executive session Monday, the Alva Airport Commission voted to continue the employment of Derrick Courson as airport manager. Courson was on a 90-day trial period after being named manager. Mayor Kelly Parker, who is an airport commission member, made the motion. He commended Courson for the job he has been doing. Three of the five commission members were present for the meeting. Paul Kinzie presided in the absence of Chairman Dale Logsdon. Terry Turner was also absent. Calleb Mosburg and Parker were the other members...
Andrea Lauderdale, student success coordinator and transfer student recruiter at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, has been selected by the Staff Council as the recipient of the 2020 fall semester Campus Kudos Award. Sue Burks, financial aid assistant director and Staff Council chair, and Staff Council member Megan Patel, international student adviser and administrative assistant to Student Services, presented Lauderdale with her Campus Kudos award. The person nominating Lauderdale for...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern traveled to Weatherford Monday, Jan. 11, to face the Bulldogs of Southwestern for the first road game of the season. Unfortunately, the Lady Rangers fell short after a slow start allowed SWOSU to win 93-47. The Lady Rangers finished with two players in double-digit scoring figures, Bailey Brown and Kaylee Jo Neeley. Brown finished shooting 5-of-11. She posted 14 points, eight rebounds, two blocks and a steal. Neeley, a freshman from Wellington, Texas, made her debut of the season shooting 4-of-7. She finished with 1...
ALVA, Okla. – The Lady Rangers won their Great American Conference opener of the 2020-2021 season Saturday afternoon, Jan. 9, after topping the Bison of Oklahoma Baptist University, 65-56. NWOSU women’s basketball hadn’t started the season 3-0 since the 2004-2005 season, until now. Northwestern now leads OBU in the series of GAC history 6-5 after gaining their fourth straight victory over the Bison. “It was nice to have Bailey Brown back on the floor with us.” Head Coach Tasha Diesselhorst explains. “I thought her and Mya worked really well...
By Charles Dawes’s term as vice president of the United States ended in March 1929. The new president, Herbert Hoover, got along with Dawes much better than had his predecessor, Calvin Coolidge. Consequently, Hoover appointed Dawes U.S. ambassador to Great Britain – a job that Dawes held from June 1929 through December 1931. In the meantime, however, the country had been plunged into the Great Depression. The Hoover administration, in an effort to boost the flagging economy, created an age...
Team Standings The Bowl Movements: 48 wins, 16 losses Dilly Dilly: 45 wins, 19 losses Knights of Columbus: 38 wins, 26 losses Rollin Good Times: 32 wins, 32 losses Next Frame: 29 wins, 35 losses Marshall's Oldtimers: 28 wins, 36 losses O'Bar: 28 wins, 36 losses Ghost Team: 0 wins, 64 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game: Dilly Dilly – 859, The Bowl Movement – 772, Knights of Columbus – 760 Scratch Series: Dilly Dilly – 2509, Knights of Columbus – 2232, Rollin Good Times – 2171 Handicap Game: Dilly Dilly – 1138, The Bowl Mvements – 11...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's internal watchdog said Friday that it will investigate how the department and its law enforcement agencies prepared for and responded to last week's riots at the U.S. Capitol. The investigation by the inspector general's office will examine whether information was shared by the Justice Department to other agencies, including the Capitol Police, about the potential for violence. The inspector general said it "also will assess whether there are any weaknesses in DOJ protocols, policies, or procedures t...
In the week since a mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, the House has impeached President Donald Trump. Dozens of people have been arrested nationwide over participation in the riots. Politicians and business leaders are loudly condemning the violence. Twitter and other social media sites have banned Trump and thousands of other accounts. Yet amid all the noise, a Capitol Police officer hailed as a hero for confronting the insurrectionists and leading them away from Senate chambers has remained silent. Officer Eugene Goodman isn't saying...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of Oklahomans filing to continue their unemployment benefits continued to decline, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission reported Thursday. The agency reported the four-week moving average of claims to continue unemployment benefits decreased for the 29th consecutive week. The agency reported a slight increase in initial claims this week, though, attributing the increase in part to seasonal work coming to a close. Meanwhile, state health officials reported 3,142 new confirmed coronavirus cases on T...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal emergency assistance has been approved for 16 more Oklahoma counties paralyzed for days by the October winter storm, Gov. Kevin Stitt said Thursday. In a statement, Stitt said aid had been approved for Alfalfa, Blaine, Comanche, Custer, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Jackson, Kay, Lincoln, Major, McClain, Pawnee, Stephens, Tillman and Washita counties. Twenty-nine counties are now eligible for assistance. Aid was previously approved for Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Dewey, Grady, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Logan, Noble, Oklahoma, P...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — About 400 Oklahoma National Guard soldiers and airmen are expected to head to Washington, D.C. this week to assist with security during the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Oklahoma guard officials announced in a press release that the guardsmen will join soldiers and airmen from 43 states to assist local law enforcement with crowd management, traffic control and logistical and medical support. "When people see the National Guard, they know we are there to help," Maj. Gen. Michael Thompson, adjutant general for O...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — About 75 members of the Oklahoma National Guard are being activated to help protect the state Capitol in case potential protests turn violent, Gov. Kevin Stitt announced on Friday. Stitt activated the troops following a request by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, which is responsible for Capitol security. The governor's office said no specific, credible threats have been identified in Oklahoma, but the FBI has warned of armed rallies in Washington and at all 50 state capitols in the days leading up to President-elect Joe B...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's deputy health commissioner said Friday that a change in the shipment of the coronavirus vaccines came unexpectedly and has left him frustrated in how to manage distribution of the vaccines, one from Pfizer and one from Moderna. Keith Reed said he learned Thursday from a contact at Operation Warp Speed that shipments of second, or boost, doses of the vaccine will not be separated from the first, or prime, doses. Reed said although the doses are identical medically, they were previously being sent as a prime d...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita woman who persuaded an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease to make her the beneficiary of nearly all his assets has been sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to repay the man's family nearly $61,000. Laurie Nowlin, 60, of Wichita, was sentenced Thursday on one count of felony theft. The Sedgwick County Attorney's office said in a news release that Nowlin received several checks and cash withdrawals from the 88-year-old man, who designated her — rather than his adult children— as his power of attor...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents and abortion rights supporters on Friday previewed arguments they'll make to voters if lawmakers put a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot. House and Senate committees heard testimony on a proposal to overturn a Kansas Supreme Court decision in 2019 declaring access to abortion a "fundamental" right under the state constitution. The measure would declare there is no state right to abortion and the Legislature has broad authority to regulate it. Both R...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The president of Haskell Indian Nations University has walked back a directive instructing the school's student newspaper editor not to contact any government agency for information while representing the newspaper or "attack" any student, faculty member or staff in copy. Haskell President Ronald Graham wrote that the university "took an incorrect approach" in its Oct. 16 directive to Jared Nally, editor of The Indian Leader. Nally received Graham's letter on Wednesday, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. "Accordingly, I...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld convictions against a sports marketer, an aspiring agent and a financial adviser in a college basketball scandal that spoiled the careers of several coaches and left a stain on the integrity of college athletics. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in its written decision that it was not adequate for the defendants to argue that their actions mirrored what was commonly done in college basketball programs and that their aim was to help universities, r...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita are investigating a shooting outside a restaurant that left one man dead and say detectives have arrested a 26-year-old man with a long criminal history. The shooting was reported around 1:30 p.m. Thursday in south Wichita, police said. A preliminary investigation revealed that the shooting stemmed from a disturbance outside Berrieria Tito restaurant. Police said the victim made his way back into the restaurant, where he died from his injuries. Police did not immediately release the victim's name. S...
