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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...
Across the state, church boards and pastors are discussing whether and/or how to reopen their church buildings now that – as of today, May 1 – state restrictions on indoor church gatherings have been eased. State-issued rules say that churches that choose to re-open their buildings for in-person meetings and worship can do so, provided they leave every other row or pew open and adhere to CDC-recommended social distancing and sanitation protocols, along with the recommended guidelines from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. The rules, “Op...
Grace and Mercy! Those two words should be at the forefront of every single person’s vocabulary and thought process that exists today. I have had multiple conversations with medical personnel and pastors over the last few weeks and it’s amazing how different every one of their opinions has been as to how we should be living and acting right now during this time of confusion. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely believe truth is truth, but that doesn’t always translate to the same reaction from every single person that hears the truth. I have be...
After years of study and growth in the Kingdom, do you still have those moments when you suddenly see something you haven’t noticed before? This morning, as I am hurrying to get my article in by the deadline, I suddenly came face to face with a weird fact. The Hebrew writer brought it to our attention nearly 2000 years ago but I’ve missed it all these years. (OK, in the interest of full disclosure, this article is already almost an hour late.) As a child, I was corrected (and rightly so) for...
For its exemplary record of leadership, service and activities that serve to improve the school and community, the Alva High School (AHS) student council has been recognized as a 2020 National Council of Excellence by National Student Council (NatStuCo). "Receiving a National Council of Excellence Award reflects dedication on the part of the school to providing a strong, well-rounded student council program," said Nara Lee, National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) director of...
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), the number of cases remains the same in the following area counties: Woods 3, Major 3, Alfalfa 1, Harper 1 and Woodward 1. Garfield County’s case numbers increased by two, now totaling 17. As of this OSDH advisory on April 30, there are 3,618 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma, an increase of 145. There are eight additional deaths; five of them occurred in the past 24 hours and the others died between April 23 and April 28: One in Oklahoma County, a male in the 65 and o...
Government programs are really coming to the aid of Share Medical Center in Alva. Before the COVID-19 emergency orders and quarantines, Share Medical Center was already dealing with a low patient census. Administrators of the city-owned facility were counting on some delayed reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid to improve their financial situation. Following the quarantines, the hospital experienced a further drop in patient numbers that resulted in even less hospital revenue. Tuesday evening, Interim CFO Steve Knox told the Alva Hospital...
Strong winds Wednesday morning were too much for a motorcyclist. Dale Dean Parker, 65, of Cherokee, was driving a 2018 Kawasaki motorcycle eastbound on OK-132 about 9:06 a.m. when he attempted to negotiate a left hand curve. The motorcycle left the roadway to the right side due to strong crosswinds, rolled a half time and came to rest in the south ditch. Parker was transported by Pond Creek EMS to Bass Hospital in Enid where he was admitted in stable condition with leg injuries. The wreck occurred two miles north and a half mile east of Nash....
Northwest Technology Center practical nursing students Haley Troutt and Kamri Theis placed first in the Oklahoma HOSA Contest in the CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) event. The results were announced in a Virtual HOSA Awards Ceremony last week. Troutt and Theis will move on to the Virtual International HOSA contest later this summer. Other practical nursing students who placed include Franchesca Barnes and Brisa Montes who placed fifth in the CPR/first aid team event, Hannah Horn who...
OKLAHOMA – "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 began 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 D...
An article in Fortune Magazine is titled “The City That Sees All.” Shenzen, North China, is such a place. Based on a booming economy thanks to several tech giants, innovation has gone rampant. Thanks to a population that has grown to 12.5 million since 1990, ways and means to move people into and out of the heart of the city still rely on subways. Automated screens keep real-time data in view to help direct passengers to the nearest waiting car where they swipe their smart phone to board. Tho...
First, I want to say how pleased I was with the decision to begin opening our state’s economy up again. This is a common-sense approach that uses scientific data to get our businesses up and running, along with other activities of day-to-day life. Starting with the opening of personal care businesses on April 24, including beauty and barbershops, nail salons, spas and pet groomers, as well as state parks and outdoor recreation, then expanding to restaurants, movies and sporting venues, gyms and in-person worship services as of May 1, these w...
Previously, we looked at some of the political duels that were fought when they were a common occurrence in the United States. Certainly, the most famous of those took place in New Jersey in 1804 when Aaron Burr, then serving as the vice-president of the United States, killed Alexander Hamilton, the former secretary of the treasury. Having taught U.S. history for several years at the college level, I have noticed that this is one event in the American past with which most students are familiar...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR plans to restart its engines with a flurry of races at two historic tracks. NASCAR said Thursday it is set to return May 17 with an elite Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, the first of seven events in an 11-day stretch across the top three series. There will be no practice, no qualifying and drivers will jump into their cars for the first time since March 8 and attempt to tackle "The Track Too Tough To Tame." "Events are going to look different than they have in the past," said John Bobo, N...
ESPN has named Phil Dean as its new producer for "Monday Night Football" beginning with the upcoming season. Dean has been with the network since 1992. He has been the lead college basketball producer for 12 years and has produced the Women's Final Four since 1995. He also has produced ESPN's Saturday night college football games. Dean will work alongside Jimmy Platt, who was named MNF's new director in 2019. Stephanie Druley, ESPN's vice president of production, said it was important to stagger the producer and director moves in order to keep...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some Oklahoma businesses remain closed out of fear of being exposed to the coronavirus, despite being allowed to reopen. Businesses such as barber shops, hair and nail salons, and spas began reopening April 24 in many cities. Gov. Kevin Stitt said they could resume business as long as they follow social distancing and sanitation guidelines. But massage therapist Syd Lowery in Norman said she will remain closed. "It's a little terrifying to be honest. I work for myself, I go to peoples' homes. ... I don't think we're r...
GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — A man and a woman were hospitalized and another man is in police custody after an argument erupted in gunfire Thursday in the parking lot of an Oklahoma Walmart. The shooting happened around 2 p.m. at a Walmart in Guthrie, about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. The man who fired the gun was in a pickup with the woman when he got into an argument with a man in the parking lot, police Sgt. Anthony Gibbs said. The man in the truck, in reaching for a gun, accidentally shot the woman. He then shot the other man, Gibbs said. T...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found about a half-block apart were related, Topeka police said Thursday. The first shooting on Tuesday left 37-year-old Mark Edwards dead. Police said he was shot by Zennie Vasser Jr. A witness to that shooting shot Vasser in self-defense, police said. Vasser's body was discovered between two houses about a half-block from the site of the first shooting. No one has been arrested and police said they are not looking for anyone in connection to the case. Further details a...
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas couple who authorities said repeatedly coughed on people and claimed the man had contracted the coronavirus while shopping at a Walmart have been charged with felonies. Another customer used her cellphone to record Hazel Hamrick, 29, and Ernest Williams, 47, creating the disturbance April 6 ant a Walmart in Newton. Hamrick was charged Thursday with two counts of criminal threat. while Williams was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting criminal threat. They also both face a misdemeanor charge of d...
The NCAA is facing a federal lawsuit accusing the organization of failing to address gender-based violence by male athletes against female students at colleges and universities. Plaintiffs in the suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Michigan, include women who have been athletes at Michigan State, Nebraska and an unidentified America East school. Other plaintiffs have been students at Michigan State or Nebraska. "Defendants routinely issue harsh punishments against student-athletes who accept payments in exchange for use of their...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Dr. Beth Oller would like Kansas to remain under a stay-at-home order a while longer, even as some neighbors in her rural northwest county are restless to see business return to normal. Oller and her husband are family physicians in their late 30s in Stockton, a town of 1,300 people roughly halfway between Kansas City to the east and Denver to the west. They watched as the coronavirus pandemic crept ever closer from those two metropolitan areas, each some 300 miles (480 kilometers) away. The first positive case in Rooks C...
ATLANTA (AP) — Some of the millions of American workers laid off because of the coronavirus are beginning to face a tough choice — return to work and risk infection, or stay home and risk losing unemployment payments. The decision is most pressing in states where governors have started allowing businesses such as restaurants to reopen with social-distancing restrictions. Tyler Price, 26, was called back to his job at Del Frisco's Grille in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood. Tennessee allowed restaurants to open dining rooms at 50% cap...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal land managers plan to hold a series of virtual meetings on a contested plan that will guide for at least the next decade oil and gas development around a national park and other areas in northwestern New Mexico that are revered by Native American tribes. A World Heritage site, Chaco Culture National Historical Park and its collection of massive stacked stone walls and circular ceremonial subterranean rooms called kivas have been at the center of a decades-long fight over drilling in northwestern New Mexico. H...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the state of Oklahoma responded to a lawsuit filed last week that seeks to make it easier to vote by mail, saying changing absentee voter requirements would jeopardize the security and integrity of the state's elections. The lawsuit filed by the League of Women Voters seeks to allow voters to submit a signed statement under the penalty of perjury with their mail-in ballots, rather than requiring an affidavit signed by a notary public. Oklahoma's voter identification law, however, requires voters to show a d...
HOUSTON (AP) — Oilfield services giant Halliburton has closed down two sites in Texas and laid off 240 employees in Oklahoma in response to reduced customer activity due to plummeting oil prices. Halliburton closed its Elmendorf facility and is relocating operations to field camps in southern Texas. The Houston-based company is also closing a Kilgore center and moving operations to Bossier City, Louisiana. The number of people laid off at the Elmendorf location was not immediately available. But a Texas Workforce Commission notice says 233 w...
