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Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday – Oven-fried fish with tarter sauce, breaded tomatoes, potato and green beans, cornbread, mixed fruit (diabetic: no-sugar-added mixed fruit) Tuesday – Spaghetti with meat sauce, cauliflower, broccoli, garlic bread, marshmallow krispie squares (diabetic: graham crackers) Wednesday – Philly cheese steak sandwich, potato wedges, peaches, sandies (diabetic: vanilla waffers) Thursday – BBQ chicken, baked beans, pea salad, biscuit, mandarin/orange dessert (diabetic; Mandarin orange dessert) Friday – Close...
How are Alva Incentive Scholarships distributed? That was the main focus of questions asked by members of the Alva City Council during the Monday, May 17, meeting. Representatives of Northwestern Oklahoma State University attended the meeting to present the spring scholarship bill and give a brief update on NWOSU. NWOSU Foundation Director Skeeter Bird spoke briefly and presented the $235,734.91 invoice for spring scholarships. He offered to answer questions. Councilmember Daniel Winters said...
"Fireworks are expensive and getting harder and harder to find," said Jesse Kline. He spoke to the Alva Tourism Committee Wednesday to ask for tourism tax funds for the Alva Rotary Club 4th of July Spectacular. Kline said so far the company they work with has been able to obtain fireworks and keep the price close to previous years. Last year due to Covid-19, the event was scaled back to fireworks only and held at the Alva Recreation Complex (ARC). There are plenty of places to park and watch...
The Oklahoma Board of Corrections on Wednesday unanimously approved two contracts that will keep the North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre and Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville open through July 2023. CoreCivic, a Tennessee-based private corrections company, owns both of the prisons. The facilities combined house just under 4,200 prisoners or nearly 20% of Oklahoma’s total prison population. The Department of Corrections will pay CoreCivic at least $12 million annually to use the North Fork facility, which it has leased and s...
Veteran actor Jack Ging will be one of six Oklahomans who will be inducted into the Oklahoma Movie Hall Of Fame on May 29. Born in Alva, Jack Lee Ging had an acting career that spanned more than 30 years and over 150 appearances in movies and on television. Remembered for his portrayal as General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright in NBC Television's hit series "The A-Team," Ging played a full roster of heroes and villains over his career. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, the physical Ging ran...
Phillips University Legacy Foundation is pleased to announce a newly endowed scholarship fund. The Rev. Dr. Jimmie L. and Connie K. Gentle Scholarship was created by the Gentles' three sons and their families to honor their parents. Jimmie and Connie (Roberts) Gentle met at Phillips University. After graduation from Phillips University, Jimmie L. Gentle was an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and served congregations in Oklahoma and Arizona. From 1966 to 1974 he...
It didn’t take long for arguably the most important bill of the 2021 session to work its way through the often-times tedious and laborious legislative process. A week and three hours after Gov. Kevin Stitt and Republican leaders announced the framework of the state’s $8.8 billion spending plan, the annual budget bill passed the Legislature Thursday on its way to the governor’s desk. The budget, along with companion bills that include hundreds of million in tax cuts, passed largely along party-line votes in the GOP-controlled House and Senat...
Occasionally we fix oatmeal for breakfast. Not your favorite thing to eat of a morning? Me neither. So doctor it up. Cinnamon, sugar, and raisins can make even shoe leather pretty tolerable. One morning we were busy working and talking in the kitchen together. Renie was slamming the toast and juice on the table, Andy manning the stove where the oatmeal bubbled away. Our conversation drew his attention enough that he forgot to add the cinnamon. When we sat down to eat, we were still engrossed in...
The most important job of the Legislature is to write and approve a balanced budget. I would go beyond that and say we have a responsibility to the citizens of this state to prioritize the fundamental core services of government, make targeted investments that will move our state forward, and ensure adequate savings for future economic changes. The budget we’ve approved this session will achieve all of that. This time last year, between the economic downturn caused by the pandemic and already low oil and gas prices, we were looking at a r...
Around noon there were some light showers and I thought, “oh no,” but by show time the weather was great. I wore my shorts and got along just fine, but the wind made it a bit chilly for some folks. It was a good plan to use the college football field, because there wasn't a bad seat anywhere. I think we had over a hundred graduates in 1966 when I graduated and it seemed like we would never get done. One thing the speaker, Mrs. Cunningham, said that was true is I don't have a clue who our spe...
Thursday, May 13, 2021 2:54 a.m. – Report of burglary. 12:31 p.m. – Medic needed for a sick person in the 500 block of Barnes. 1:29 p.m. – Report of a theft at County Road (CR) 440 and Johnson Road. 2:20 p.m. – Medic needed for a sick person on Harper Road. 6:46 p.m. – Welfare check needed on US-281. 8:11 p.m. – Medic needed for a person with chest pains. Friday, May 14, 2021 3:06 a.m. – Report of vandalism in the 1700 block of College Boulevard. 3:45 a.m. – Medic needed for a sick person on Harper Road. 2:54 p.m. – Medic needed for a pers...
According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Woods County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Misdemeanor Filings Danielle Marie Metz, Ozark, Missouri, 31,...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than half of the homes in the small north-central Kansas town of Natoma were damaged by flash flooding during last weekend's heavy rains, according to a preliminary estimate. The town of about 350 residents has about 250 homes, Mayor Rick Dunlap said. About 120 homes had moderate to severe damage and another 15 are probably a total loss. About 22 businesses also had water damage, and one is possibly a total loss, the Wichita Eagle reported. "It's extensive," he said. "People have lost their homes." Heavy rain caused P...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas fund intended to help keep young people out of prison could be out of money by 2024 if spending and projected funding remains the same, according to the non-partisan legislative research department. The Evidence-based Programs Fund grew out of a 2016 law designed to shift the focus in juvenile justice from incarceration to rehabilitation. The effort has had some success, with population at the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex dropping 40% in five years. With annual funding and savings from reduced costs for i...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A judge found that a federal prosecutor in Kansas with a history of questionable conduct committed misconduct in a drug case, prompting a sharp reduction in the defendant's sentence. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled last week that Assistant U.S. Attorney Terra Morehead did not provide evidence to the defense attorney for Jay Giannukos, 49, who was convicted of drug and counterfeiting charges, The Kansas City Star reported. Morehead has been previously accused of concealing evidence and threatening witness...
LONDON (AP) — Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster's explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, resigned Saturday as board chairman of Britain's National Gallery. Hall, who subsequently rose to the top job at the BBC, was heavily criticized in a report this week for a botched inquiry into how journalist Martin Bashir obtained the blockbuster interview. In a statement, the 70-year-old said his continued presence at the gallery would be a "distraction to an institution I care d...
BEIJING (AP) — China's first Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform and is now roaming the surface of the red planet, China's space administration said Saturday. The solar-powered rover touched Martian soil at 10:40 a.m. Saturday Beijing time (0240 GMT), the China National Space Administration said. China landed the spacecraft carrying the rover on Mars last Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in a first for the country. It is the second country to land and operate a spacecraft on Mars, aft...
FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) — Every week, migrant rights activist Eduardo Canales fills up blue water drums that are spread throughout a vast valley of Texas ranchlands and brush. They are there for migrants who venture into the rough terrain to avoid being caught and sent back to Mexico. The stretch of land 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of the U.S.-Mexico border is dangerous, and many have died. But some migrants — usually single adults — are willing to take the risk, walking through the shrub-invaded grasslands on the sprawling ranches, seeki...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of Changsha, the Xinhua News agency reported. He was 91. Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China, known by the nickname "Father of Hybrid Rice." Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan's breakthrough discoveries, according to the website of the World Food Prize, which he w...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration recently gave a bit of simple advice to businesses that are unable to find workers: Offer them more money. This recommendation, included in a White House memo about the state of the economy, gets at a fundamental tension in an economy that is returning to full health after the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses are coping with spiking prices for goods such as steel, plywood, plastics and asphalt. Yet workers, after enduring a year of job losses, business closures and social distancing, are no longer i...
NEW YORK (AP) — Monifa Bandele became a community organizer in the late 1990s, after New York City police fatally shot a young, unarmed Black immigrant named Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. In the two decades since, she repeatedly witnessed police reforms that failed to stop Black people from dying at the hands of officers. Some of those reforms are now part of federal legislation being negotiated in the name of George Floyd, the Black man whose murder under the knee of a white Minneapolis officer last year sparked worldwide protests. For i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When he pulled the plug on the American war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said the reasons for staying, 10 years after the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, had become "increasingly unclear." Now that a final departure is in sight, questions about clarity have shifted to Biden's post-withdrawal plan. What would the United States do, for example, if the Taliban took advantage of the U.S. military departure by seizing power? And, can the United States and the international community, through diplomacy and f...
ATLANTA (AP) — When voters in Florida and Georgia want to vote by mail in next year's races for governor, they will have to make sure they take one more step to ensure they receive a ballot: providing their identification. Just two states had ID requirements in 2020 for voters requesting a mailed ballot. This year, Republicans across the country have zeroed in on mail voting and enacted new limits on a process that exploded in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to Florida and Georgia, legislation to require additional ident...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the United Nations his country would make enough COVID-19 vaccines "to help all humanity." Now India is struggling to meet its own domestic needs for the shots amid a startling surge of infections. As the world's largest maker of vaccines, India always was expected to play a pivotal role in global efforts to immunize against COVID-19. But a mixture of overconfidence, poor planning and bad luck has prevented that from happening. Here's a look at what went wrong: CAUGHT OFF G...
