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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...
Hello, Church! That's right, I called you Church and I even capitalized it so you know I mean business. I hope that you guys are staying safe, being responsible, and enjoying the myriad of new worship and ministry options that have sprung up recently. It has been a frustrating time for all of us as we learn to adjust, but I want to try to offer you a little bit of encouragement if I possibly can right now. I know that there is much uncertainty in many people's minds regarding what is happening,...
Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case – the things that have to do with salvation. God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been p...
It was not business as usual when the Alva City Council met online through Microsoft Teams Monday. As councilmembers joined from various locations, Mayor Kelly Parker set up some guidelines. To keep the meeting orderly, he asked that all microphones except his be muted. When councilmembers wished to speak, they were to notify him by typing in the chat section. Then he would call on them. No comments from the general public were allowed. Councilmembers present were Daniel Winters, Connor Martin, Chris Eckhardt, Brandon Sherman, Mary Hamilton,...
OKLAHOMA CITY — “Send Me Wings,” an Oklahoma faith-based short film, has been accepted to the Branson International Film Festival, where actors Rachel Cannon (“Fresh Off the Boat,” “Mad Men”) and Isaac Anton are both nominated for Best Actress and Best Young Actor, respectively. The Branson International Film Festival begins Thursday, April 30. The film was inspired by the Bobby Cyrus book and song “Send Me Wings,” was directed/produced/co-written by Lance McDaniel (“Crazy Enough,” “Light from the Darkroom”) and stars Cannon, who also served a...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) is making changes to the current Energy Crisis Assistance Program (ECAP) to help eligible Oklahomans pay their utility bills. The changes include: • Eligible ECAP customers with any cut-off notice effective March 17, 2020, or after are eligible for the crisis benefit even if their energy/utility company has suspended disconnections due to COVID-19. • Households approved for ECAP will be issued the $500 maximum annual benefit amount for crisis as...
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), Woods County still has three confirmed positive cases of COVID-19, all located in Alva, the same as last week. In other area counties, Major, Woodward and Grant Counties have two cases each. Alfalfa County has one case in Jet, now recovered. Harper County has one case. Garfield County has 11 cases with one death and seven recovered. As of this advisory at 7 a.m. on April 23, there are 3,017 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. There are nine additional deaths; six...
Horses are remarkably adept at injuring themselves, even in the safest environments possible. A bit of knowledge and preparation can help horse owners handle these seemingly inevitable wounds. Always consider the wound’s location and severity, degree of lameness caused and initial first aid steps with any injury. Most commonly, a horse sustains cuts, scrapes and/or abrasions on its legs. Unfortunately, this part of the body has the least amount of soft tissue protection between the skin and such important structures as joints, tendons and l...
Oklahomans are feeling widespread pain because of the nation’s economic shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic and a resulting glut in the demand for oil. Economic recovery in the state will be slow through this summer and into the winter, according to economists at Oklahoma State University, who predict that as many as 10,000 jobs could be lost in the energy sector alone. “It’s not a pretty picture,” said Dr. Dan Rickman, a Regents Professor in Economics and a researcher at the OSU Center for Applied Economic Research (CAER) at the...
Do you need assistance with minor home repair, building a wheelchair ramp, purchasing an air conditioner window unit or space heater, or repairing your air conditioner or heater? These are just a few examples of how funding from the Masonic Fraternity of Oklahoma in partnership with South Western Oklahoma Development Authority (SWODA) NWPSA11 Area Agency on Aging (AAA) might be utilized. There is an application process for individuals 55 and over who are in need of some type assistance not otherwise provided by other agencies/programs. These...
It wasn't the number of patients that worried Dr. Mark Doescher the most as he made his rounds through the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City last week. The hospital was emptier than usual. Scores of non-emergency surgeries and treatments had been suspended while health-care workers prepared for Oklahoma's expected peak in COVID-19 hospitalizations later this month. What concerned Doescher, who practices family medicine, was the types of patients he was seeing. They tended...
WASHINGTON – Producers signed a record 1.77 million contracts for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2019 crop year, which is more than 107 percent of the total contracts signed compared with a 5-year average. USDA also reminds producers that June 30 is the deadline to enroll in ARC and PLC for the 2020 crop year. “Producers for several years have experienced low commodity prices, a volatile trade environment and catastrophic natural disasters,” said Richard...
One of the largest shows in the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Art Society Art Show's 17-year history has been hanging silently in the J.W. Martin Library on the Alva campus for weeks with only a handful of students and employees able to enjoy it since COVID-19 interrupted everyone's lives in March. The art was up for a week and judged just before leaving for spring break, but because of the virus and the need to keep everyone safe, classes started using alternative instructional...
Jerry Rice refers to his brother’s Chronic Kidney Disease in a commercial and the text of a CVS Pharmacy ad says, “Most adults who have CKD don’t even know it?” According to an article in Fortune Magazine, Halle Berry and Selena Gomez have it and Alfred Hitchcock had it and 10% of the world’s population as well. The 37 million patients in the U.S. make it the ninth leading cause of death – a greater rate than breast or prostate cancer. There are a variety of conditions under the umbrella of...
Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential address to Congress is famous for bringing us the Roosevelt Corollary, which warned European nations from involving themselves in the affairs of Latin America. What is not as well-known is a small paragraph sandwiched between two other issues. In the address Roosevelt said: “It is desirable to enact a proper national quarantine law. It is most undesirable that a state should, on its own initiative, enforce quarantine regulations which are in effect a restriction upon interstate and international com...
I was very pleased to hear reports last week from the White House and the governor’s office that our leaders are looking at various plans for re-opening our economy. They are formulating these plans utilizing reliable information from health officials, with safety being a top priority, and with the shared understanding that our businesses need to be able to open, and people need to be able to get back to work. Again, what happens in the next couple of weeks depends greatly on testing and the data collected. If all goes well, we should expect t...
Besides the work of the apple hunters in the Pacific Northwest, similar initiatives are underway in other apple-growing states such as Colorado, Michigan, New York and Maine. One of the Colorado undertakings is led by an ecology professor at the University of Colorado whose students eagerly help in her quest to hunt down lost apples. She has also started a university-sponsored orchard to make these unique apples more readily available than they have ever been before. The leader of the Maine effo...
Final Team Standings (year) Dilly Dilly 67 ½ wins 44 ½ losses Ms Deb's Hairstyling 58 ½ wins 53 ½ losses Next Frame 55 wins 57 losses Marshall's Oldtimers 55 wins 57 losses O'Bar 53 wins 59 losses Rollin Good Times 53 wins 59 losses The Bowl Movements 53 wins 59 losses Knights of Columbus 52 wins 60 losses Season High Scores Scratch Game: Dilly Dilly – 895, Knights of Columbus – 937, Marshall's Oldtimers – 922 Scratch Series: Knights of Columbus – 2687, Ms. Deb's Hairstyling – 2647, Dilly Dilly – 2625 Handicap Game: Next Frame – 1242, Marshall'...
CORONA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2020-- It's official! As one of the first sports in the United States, Professional Bull Riders (PBR) will return to live competition this weekend amid strict safety guidelines around the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Presented by Monster Energy, the 2020 PBR season continues with the PBR Las Vegas Invitational as a closed-to-the-public, live television event inside Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma from April 25-26, 2020. The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) circuit is the world's biggest stage in prof...
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2020-- Federman & Sherwood, a boutique class action litigation law firm, is investigating ACE Universe, Inc. for its failure to refund customers money for the ACE Comic Con Northeast event that was to be held in Boston in March, 2020. ACE claimed the three day event was nearly sold out through ticket sales by GrowTix LLC. Over $2 million in ticket sales were reported before the coronavirus pandemic State of Emergency was announced on March 11, 2020. Although ticket sales should have been refunded, it is...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A defense lawyer said he expects the son of Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols will post $150,000 bail to be released from jail pending a preliminary hearing in what police allege was the kidnapping and gunpoint robbery of a jeweler at a home in suburban Las Vegas. Attorney Robert Draskovich told the Las Vegas Review-Journal at a court hearing Wednesday for Joshua Isaac Nichols and co-defendant George Richard Moya III that he'll bring new information about the case to the May 13 hearing in Henderson Justice Court. D...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A motorist who was shot and wounded by an officer who was being dragged by the suspect's car has been released from the hospital and taken to jail, police in Topeka said. Dujontez Jaimandre Jerome Owens, 19, has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, aggravated battery of an officer while fleeing and other counts, police said in a news release. The shooting happened Sunday afternoon when, police say, a Topeka police officer was dragged by Owens' car following a traffic stop. A preliminary police i...
Can I get the coronavirus from my pet? There's no evidence pets are spreading the virus to people. However, there have been a few cases worldwide where animals likely got the virus from humans, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A 4-year-old tiger tested positive at New York City's Bronx Zoo, and officials think a zookeeper with the virus got the feline sick. Several other lions and tigers have also tested positive at the zoo. Two house cats in different homes in New York have...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma reported nine more deaths linked to the coronavirus Thursday, a day before some businesses can begin reopening under the governor's plan to help the state start to recover from the pandemic. At least 179 people have now died of COVID-19 in Oklahoma, according to the state's numbers, with eight of the additional deaths in the 65 or older age group and one who was 50-64. The number hospitalized was at 284, down from 298 reported Wednesday. At least 3,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the state. T... Full story
CHICAGO (AP) — Conspiracy theorists are twisting facts online about country singer Joe Diffie's death from COVID-19 complications in an effort to promote their claims that health officials are exaggerating the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. Diffie, who topped the charts in the 1990s with honky-tonk singles including "Home" and "Pickup Man," died in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 29 after he tested positive for the virus. He was 61. In the days following his death, Facebook and Twitter users posing as internet sleuths falsely claimed m...
