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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...
I hope that title caught your eye. That was the point. I have listened to arguments for two months, both in person and online, about how we as Christians, as well as Americans, should respond to the current pandemic. Do we shut things down and stay inside longer than we’re comfortable being socially distant? Or do we open everything back up and take our chances? The first problem with the debate is that both sides have valid points about health and economic issues, while the second problem is t...
Just think how great he [Melchizedek] was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder! Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people – that is, from their fellow Israelites – even though they also are descended from Abraham. This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater. In the one cas...
With graduation gowns and tassels flying in the wind, the Alva High School Class of 2020 gathered Sunday afternoon, May 16, at NWOSU Ranger Field. Seated six feet apart at the south end of the field, the senior class faced the end zone where a podium and chairs were arranged for dignitaries. Facing them were Superintendent Tim Argo, High School Principal Les Potter and school board members Jane McDermott, Karen Koehn, Tiffany Slater, Larry Parker and Shane Hansen. Family members and friends...
Alva – The U.S. Postal Service is asking all Alva homeowners to inspect and repair their mailboxes during Mailbox Improvement Week, May 17–23, says Postmaster Jo Ellen Fleming. "Repairing suburban and rural mailboxes improves the appearance of our community and makes delivering and receiving mail safer for our carriers and customers," Fleming says. The postal service makes this annual request because of the wear and tear that occurs to mailboxes every year. Some of the typical activities hom...
STILLWATER, Okla. – Meat plant closings, market disruptions and the slow recovery in cattle prices this spring – largely attributable to the coronavirus pandemic – have hit beef producers hard, with those in the Oklahoma Panhandle being among the most significantly affected. Their possible responses are limited. Industry experts said livestock owners need to take on the difficult task of planning alternatives and work out the math. “To make matters worse, the Panhandle just went through 142 days with under a quarter-inch of rain as of May 17...
The disruption COVID-19 has caused to schools is likely to continue into the new school year, and the state Education Department is asking school leaders to begin planning for it. Schools should adopt multiple calendars, one primary and others as contingencies, to adapt to the unfolding public health situation, according to recently updated guidance from the department. Here are five calendar options schools are asked to consider: • An early start to the school year, to reduce the summer learning loss and to maximize time in school before a p...
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the Department is making available up to $1 billion in loan guarantees to help rural businesses meet their working capital needs during the coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, agricultural producers that are not eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency loans may receive funding under USDA Business & Industry (B&I) CARES Act Program provisions included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. “Under the leadership of President...
When a coronavirus vaccine becomes available in the United States, the federal government and states will face a crucial choice: Should all or most residents be required to get the novel coronavirus vaccine? Or should it be required only for school children, with a medical exception allowed, and for groups like front-line health-care workers? Some officials might want few or no requirements at all because they think enough people are likely to get the vaccine voluntarily or have immunity from...
The Woods County Excise and Equalization Board met for a regular meeting Wednesday in the courthouse in Alva. Members present were Bob Seivert, Chris Olson and Joe Shirley along with County Clerk Shelley Reed. After approving minutes of the last meeting and monthly appropriations, the board members acknowledged a transfer of appropriations from General Sales Tax Countywide M & O to Sales Tax Rural Fire in the amount of $10,000. Reed explained this will give rural fire enough money to finish out the year. Reed also told the board about the...
The Northwestern News, a student-produced publication at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, won seven first place awards in this year’s Oklahoma College Media Association contest. Winners are usually announced at the annual OCMA conference in Stillwater, but this year the pandemic forced the cancellation of all events on university and college campuses throughout the state. Instead, advisers recently received notification of the results by email. The Northwestern News also received four second place and four third place awards as well as o...
Mathematics and Computer Science Department faculty at Northwestern Oklahoma State University select outstanding students in mathematics and computer science every year. This year's honorees are Jackson Gardner, computer science; Charis Ginn, mathematics; and Joseph Ortiz, computer science. All three students graduated this spring semester. Gardner is a computer science major/minor from Lawton. He is currently employed full-time as a network administrator for BancCentral in Alva. He is working...
While milk is advertised to be “nature’s most nearly perfect food,” humans are the only animals that drink it after they are grown and dietitians claim it isn’t as great a source of calcium as once thought. As for me, I like eggs. The coneheads from Saturday night live referred to them as “fried chicken embryos” and gave them for Trick-or-treat, but they are really a healthy, versatile ingredient in many different recipes. Like tree nuts, they trigger allergic reactions in some individuals. Eggs...
When the 2020 legislative session convened last February, no one could have predicted how quickly so many things would change here in Oklahoma because of COVID-19. While we’ve passed legislation to help with Oklahoma’s response and given approval to emergency health orders, the biggest impact has been on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget. In April we were told by the governor the anticipated funding gap had grown from $85.5 million to $1.3 billion due to the effect of the pandemic on our economy and state revenues. We knew the budget would be impacte...
As we saw last week, only three people in U.S. history have served as governor of one state and as a United States senator from another. One was Sam Houston who was a senator from Texas after serving as governor of Tennessee. Another is Mitt Romney, a current Utah senator who previously was governor of Massachusetts. The first person to pull off this feat, however, was William Wyatt Bibb. A native of Virginia, Bibb was born in 1781 into a political family. His father, also named William, was a...
May 23 1901 — The Cleveland Blues, later known as the Indians, scored nine runs with two outs in the ninth inning to beat the Washington Senators 14-13. 1910 — In the top of the ninth inning in a game against Boston, Cincinnati's Dode Paskert stole second base, third base and home plate. The theft gave the Reds a 6-5 win. 1924 — Washington's Walter Johnson struck out 14 in a 4-0 one-hitter over the Chicago White Sox for his 103rd shutout. 1925 — Cincinnati pitcher Pete Donohue had five hits — four singles and a homer — in beating the Philade...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Propped up by government payments, net farm income in Kansas last year rose to an average of $110,380 per farm, a new report shows. The Kansas Farm Management Association released this week its annual economic data based on the 970 agricultural operations that their economists advised on financial decisions. Farm balance sheets were heavily subsidized by government payments with more than 72% of the income Kansas farmers received last year coming from the government, their figures show. On average, each Kansas farm r...
PAOLA, Kan. (AP) — A 3-year-old girl in eastern Kansas has died after being hit and killed by a delivery truck in a driveway in rural Paola, authorities said. Deputies with the Miami County Sheriff's Office were called to the home late Wednesday morning for a report of an injury accident, television station KCTV reported. Investigators said a delivery truck was backing out of the home's driveway when it hit the child. The girl was pronounced dead at the scene. The girl's name has not yet been released. Officials said the fatal incident a...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Teacher Tabatha Rosproy's preschool class met inside a nursing and retirement home in rural Kansas, forming a bond with residents that continued even when social distancing requirements due to the coronavirus pandemic forced her classroom to close down. After a school year of unprecedented disruptions, Rosproy was chosen as the 2020 National Teacher of the Year for bridging the worlds of her community's oldest and youngest. Her selection from among 55 award-winning teachers around the country was announced Thursday by t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is taking custody of healthy inmates from one county jail that reported it was ill-equipped to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. Inmates at the Comanche County Detention Center who have two consecutive negative coronavirus tests began being moved to state facilities on Wednesday, the department said in a statement. County inmates who have tested positive for the virus remain quarantined at the jail in Lawton, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma C...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday signed into law a bill giving most retired school teachers, firefighters and other public workers their first pension increase in 12 years. The bill gives a 4% cost-of-living allowance, or COLA, to about 85% of public retirees. Under the bill's tiered approach, those who retired between two and five years ago would see a 2% boost, while those retired for less than two years receive no increase. "I told Oklahomans on the campaign trail that I would work to get this across the finish l...
Jessica Alice Farrell University of Florida (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jessica Alice Farrell, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) Sea turtles' reality is very different than the fun-loving, playful way they're depicted in popular movies such as "Finding Nemo." Far from being carefree, sea turtles across the globe are heavily burdened by debilitating soft-tissue tumors. All seven species of sea turtle found in the Earth's oceans are classified as...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' Republican attorney general says the most recent state of emergency that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly issued for the coronavirus pandemic is "legally suspect," calling into question orders she's issued this month and her plan for reopening the economy. Attorney General Derek Schmidt's opinion came hours before the GOP-controlled Legislature reconvened Thursday for a final day in session this year after a long spring break. Schmidt's opinion is not legally binding, but the Legislature's Republican leaders are likely t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to forecast the U.S. economy's path to recovery from the current deep downturn face "a whole new level of uncertainty," Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday. Not only is there the difficulty predicting how the coronavirus pandemic will play out, it is also unclear how American workers and consumers will react as lockdowns aimed at limiting the spread of the virus are lifted, Powell said in an address to a virtual Fed conference. Successfully restarting the economy will depend in large part on the p...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are invoking a rarely used provision of American law that would shield companies from antitrust regulations to help the country from again running out of medical supplies in a pandemic. The government began formal discussions Thursday with private industry representatives on a cooperative five-year agreement to ensure supplies of protective materials, medical equipment, medicine and vaccines. The agreement would involve a provision of the Defense Production Act that has been used only twice before to enable comp...
