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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...
We will honor our mothers this Sunday. During this time, we remember everything our moms and our wives have done for us. I am no different. I think about what my wife and my mom and my mother-in-law have done for me. When I think about them I know I was and I am truly blessed. Proverbs 31:10-31 gives us a list of what a wife and mother does. As I was reading and meditating on this passage, I think about what my wife and moms have done. Many of the things they have done we don’t think about or we even overlook. I know I have taken for granted t...
“... We who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 6:18b-20 NIV). For the preacher’s kid, the meeting house is an endless sea of opportunity to explore, climb, crawl and discover. Of course, there was a price to pay f...
If the Alva Arena Authority (AAA) could advertise for bids right now, they would likely save ten percent or more in the costs of construction. That was the focus of discussions during the virtual meeting held Tuesday at noon. Board members present were Dr. Janet Cunningham, Darrel Kline, Todd Holder and Daren Slater. Mike Hood and Gregg Glass were absent. Others attending were Sonja Williams who has been serving as secretary, Glenn Calvert of Priefert Complex Design, and Nick Witte and Casey Logue of Timberlake Construction. Calvert has been...
In the fall of 2019-2020 school year each high school in Woods County was contacted for the school election committee to select a Good Citizen from the senior class. After selection the student had available the option of participation in the scholarship essay. The student wrote their essay under a supervised timed limit. The student was not given the topic of the essay until they sat down to participate. This year's topic was “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving it. You and your peers are the nation's leaders of t...
Oklahoma City, Okla. – The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) announced Thursday an upgrade to its COVID-19 data dashboard that now allows the public to view the historical number of active and recovered COVID-19 cases by county as well as the historical number of COVID-19 related deaths by county. This data set is now also available for download at coronavirus.health.ok.gov. The new county data reflects the onset of the disease, including when a person starts experiencing symptoms or when a person tests positive for COVID-19. The d...
Medicaid expansion is inching closer to reality in Oklahoma. Legislative leaders announced a budget deal Monday that includes funding to expand the state's Medicaid program and extend health coverage to more than 220,000 low-income residents. If approved by the full Senate and House in votes expected later this week, and then signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma could start signing up new enrollees in less than two months. But confusion and uncertainty remain on how Medicaid expansion...
The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety is on track to begin issuing REAL IDs to Oklahomans mid-summer at select locations. The department's goal is to be ready to issue to the public beginning July 1. This date will be dependent on COVID-19 restrictions and how quickly the department is able to train employees and tag agents. The original target date was April 30, 2020 but because of challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rollout has been pushed back. The Department of Homeland Security's deadline, originally set for October 1, 2020,...
Reading experts and brain scientists agree nearly every child can learn to read if they are taught using explicit, systematic, research-based instruction. So why aren't all teachers and schools using this method? Many Oklahoma students struggle to read. Only 29% of Oklahoma fourth graders – and 26% of eighth graders – were at or above proficiency in reading in the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, compared with 34% and 32% nationally. The problem is especially acute among low...
Dr. Roxie James, assistant professor of English, and Dr. Kathryn Lane, associate professor of English and chair of the English, Foreign Language and Humanities Department at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, have published "Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture" through Palgrave Macmillan, a world-renowned publishing company. James has a master's degree in English Literature from Northwestern State University. Lane has a master's degree in creative writing from the University of...
Family visitation will be Friday, May 8, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the chapel. (The number of people in the chapel will be limited; please be respectful.) Graveside and burial services will be held Saturday, May 9, 2020, at 2 p.m. at Alva Municipal Cemetery (those attending may turn their car radio to FM 104.9) with Reverend Donetta Hunter, pastor, Alva Assembly of God Church, officiating. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Loretta Mae, daughter of Dorothy Freda...
An article in The American Legion Magazine states that human knowledge doubled every 100 years before the 20th Century; now, it is doubling every 13 months. According to Dan Coats, as director of National Intelligence, “We are awash in data.” Thanks to the “internet of things,” the amount of information we generate is a problem to store, access and use. Some is worthless, but much is precious, priceless and private. Jonah Goldberg of the American Enterprise Institute further states, “We dro...
I have been writing articles supporting the use of masks, but I always forgot to mention that I do not want to wear a mask. For many years I wore a mask every time I mowed the grass. It was uncomfortable and fogged my glasses and made it hard to keep my glasses on – not even to mention small problems like messing up my hair and making it difficult to talk through the mask. But it was even more uncomfortable to have nose and sinus and throat troubles so I would remember to use a mask most of the time. Well, what about everyone else? Nobody w...
On Monday, May 4, members of the House and Senate returned to the Capitol to resume floor work on the 2020 legislative session. We still have a number of policy bills to address, executive nominations to complete, and we must finalize the 2021 fiscal budget, which will begin on July 1, 2020. I shared the information presented to the State Board of Equalization last month – we’re facing significant reductions in revenue due to low energy prices and the economic impact of the pandemic. Unlike the federal government, Oklahoma has a con...
In July 1804 Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel brought on by the political feud the two men had been carrying on for years. Two and a half years earlier, however, another Hamilton had been involved in a political duel. That conflict was fought by Alexander’s oldest son, Philip, in November 1801. The younger Hamilton took offense at a disparaging remark one of his father’s political enemies – a young man named George Eacker – made while delivering an Independence Day speech in July 1...
Jones and Reihm each won OGBCA Mid-School All State awards (OGBCA stands for Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association), and Jones also won the OCA (Oklahoma Coaches Association) Small West All State award. In a typical year, the two would have then gone on to play in an all-state game, said the girls' basketball coach Dusty Horn, but COVID-19 restrictions have injected uncertainty into this year's plans. The OCA all-state games were set to be held July 20-21 in Enid, but in early May the...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The NCAA struck back at the University of Kansas and its men's basketball program Thursday, calling five Level I violations that are alleged to have occurred "egregious" and arguing that they undermine and threaten" college athletics. In the latest in a series of back-and-forth filings, the NCAA reiterated in a 92-page response its claim that Adidas representatives were acting as boosters when two of them — T.J. Gassnolo and Jim Gatto — helped to arrange payments to prospective recruits. Those transactions became a centr...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Gulfport Energy Corp. (GPOR) on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of $517.5 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Oklahoma City-based company said it had a loss of $3.24. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 10 cents per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 12 cents per share. The independent oil and gas company posted revenue of...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Revenue collections in Oklahoma fell by half a billion dollars in April from a year ago as an economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic swept the state, Treasurer Randy McDaniel said Thursday. Gross receipts fell $502.5 million to just under $1.1 billion, down 31.8% from April 2019, McDaniel said. Income tax collections fell by 50.5% to $405.8 million. McDaniel noted that the filing deadline for income taxes was postponed from April 15 until July 15 because of the pandemic. Gross production taxes on the sale o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three teenage McDonald's employees in Oklahoma City suffered gunshot wounds when a customer opened fire because she was angry that the restaurant's dining area was closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, police said Thursday. Gloricia Woody, 32, was in custody after the Wednesday night shooting on four counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, said police Capt. Larry Withrow. It was not known if Woody, whose name is spelled Glorica in jail records, has an attorney, Withrow said. "That is absolutely the same p...
AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in Butler County are searching for a 19-year-old man who went missing while swimming in the Walnut River. KWCH-TV reports that the search began Wednesday near Augusta. The Butler County Sheriff's Office said the man was with at least two other people walking along the river when he decided to go for a swim and jumped in near the Osage Street dam. A woman who was with the man told authorities he never resurfaced. Search crews remained on the scene overnight. The man's family has been notified but his name has n...
Oklahoma State and Oral Roberts have agreed to a home-and-home basketball series for the next two seasons. The first game will be played at Oklahoma State on Nov. 28, 2020. The date for the game at Oral Roberts' Mabee Center in Tulsa has not been set. The schools are 79 miles apart. "Current conditions with COVID-19 have forced a number of institutions to look at regional opportunities, while also being sensitive of athletic budgets," Oral Roberts coach Paul Mills said in a statement Thursday. "This series allows each team to accomplish both...
Regional and political fractures are emerging in many countries over how fast to lift the lid on coronavirus-imposed lockdowns, as worries about economic devastation collide with fears of a second wave of deaths. French mayors are resisting the government's call to reopen schools, but Italian governors want Rome to ease lockdown measures faster. In the U.S., meanwhile, a new report on unemployment claims shows the depth of job losses caused by business shutdowns. Here are some of AP's top stories Thursday on the world's coronavirus pandemic. Fo...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group seeking to further reduce the state's high incarceration rate says it has enough signatures to qualify the question for the ballot and filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the secretary of state to accept the signatures. Yes on 805, a group of business, political and religious leaders, seeks to amend the state constitution to prohibit prosecutors from using previous felony convictions to enhance prison sentences in nonviolent cases. It would also allow people who already had such sentence enhancements to p...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Crews working to finish fixing levees busted in last year's deluge are getting some help from the weather. "Between the flows in the river today and the conditions in our reservoirs, we are in much better shape than we were the first of May a year ago," said John Remus, who leads the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's Missouri River Basin Water Management Division, during a call Thursday with elected officials and other river stakeholders. The flooding last spring along the Missouri River and its tributaries inundated thousan...
