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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’ve been a Christian for a long time. Most of my life, actually, and I have learned to trust God through the highs, lows and in-betweens. I’ve experienced Him pull me through (sometimes kicking and screaming) some incredibly dark periods of my life and there has never been a single instance in which I found myself disappointed or left in the dust by the One in whom I have placed my life and my trust. Long story short, I have never been given a reason not to trust my Jesus. But even at that … I...
Judges and Ruth are on tap for this week. These are two of the twelve books of history in the Old Testament. The Israelites are now in the promised land although there are still people to conquer and areas to be settled. Moses warned them before they crossed the Jordan River that God would be with them so long as they were obedient, and that He would not be with them if they did not keep the law. Judges tells of times they were right with God, and times they were not. When they had a good strong leader, they did well. When that leader died and...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Oklahoma Congressional Delegation introduced and passed a resolution in the Senate unanimously on Tuesday to highlight and accurately tell the history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The resolution also recognizes Oklahoma’s historically Black towns. Senators Lankford (R-OK) and Inhofe (R-OK) made a procedural motion to call for the immediate passage of the resolution ahead of the 100th anniversary on the Senate floor. Following passage of the resolution, Lankford gave a speech on to tell the history of the massacre. Thi...
The flu season was mild this year. Could it be related to widespread mask-wearing, social distancing, reduced social contact, or a higher-than-normal flu vaccination rate? The answer is all of the above. While some will always refuse a mask, experts say masks are a minimally invasive, safe, cheap and effective way to reduce respiratory transmission of virus and bacteria. According to Time Magazine, when masks were mandated in the U.S., rates of Covid cases and deaths were reduced in 20 days....
Dear Governor, Senators and Representative, I’m the Site Manager at the Nutrition Center in Alva, Woods County, and writing in regards to a current situation that involves the lack of funding and our ability to serve all of the senior citizen that need our services. We are allowed by the budget and funding from the state to have 25 seniors in our program which includes home delivered meals as well as those eating at the nutrition site. Our company Community Action Development Corporation has out-of-pocket sponsored up to 60 meals a day here i...
Several years ago, I moved from my native state of Tennessee to New Mexico to attend graduate school at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in order to follow my dream of becoming a historian specializing in the United States. Since I was going to concentrate my studies on the subfield of the American West, I thought that it made sense to live in that part of the country. The history department at NMSU awarded me a graduate assistantship, which meant that I would run a few errands, grade some...
ALVA, Okla. – The after-season accolades continued on Wednesday afternoon when two Rangers baseball players were voted onto the All-Central Region teams voted upon by the College Sports Information Directors of America for the central region. The two players are designated hitter Blake Hoffman voted onto the region's first team as the DH and third baseman Marques Paige, who made the second team at third base. Hoffman earned the First-Team recognition representing the team as the designated hitter on the first team. Following the season's c...
Miss Northwestern Oklahoma State University 2020 Liberty Bird, Alva junior majoring in business, will represent the university and northwest Oklahoma in the 2021 Miss Oklahoma competition June 8-12 at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa. Joining Bird at the contest will be Miss Northwestern Star Brooklyn Zimmerman and Miss Northwestern's Outstanding Teen 2020 Libby Williams. Due to the pandemic, the 2020 event was canceled. Bird, daughter of Skeeter and Raye Lyn Bird, won the Miss Northweste... Full story
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Next week's headline event marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre was canceled suddenly Thursday, with organizers citing "unexpected circumstances with entertainers and speakers." In a statement, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission did not specify the circumstances that led to the cancellation of the event scheduled for Monday at ONEOK Field in Tulsa. The commission statement held out hope that it might be rescheduled later this year. "Due to unexpected circumstances with entertainers and spe...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Remains turned over to the United States by North Korea have been identified as those of a soldier from Oklahoma who disappeared during the Korean War more than 70 years ago, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Thursday. The remains identified as those of Army Pfc. Bill Hobbs of South Coffeyville were among 55 boxes of remains returned to the U.S. in June 2018. The boxes "likely" contain more than 55 individuals, according to the DPAA. They were taken to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, and identified using s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate awaiting execution for a 2004 slaying in Oklahoma City died of COVID-19, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Thursday. Nicholas Davis, 46, died on April 7 at a prison hospital in Lindsay after contracting the coronavirus, according to a medical examiner's report. Davis had several underlying health conditions, including inflammation of the lungs, an autoimmune disease and heart disease, according to the report. Davis was housed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Thursday he has let a bill putting some restrictions on his plan to privatize Medicaid become law without his signature. Stitt has pushed forward with a plan to outsource management of the state's Medicaid system to for-profit insurance companies, maintaining that that approach will maximize health care quality while cutting costs. But much of the Republican-controlled Legislature opposes that proposal. The bill they passed imposes some restrictions on the privatization proposal, dubbed m...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Legislature wrapped up the 2021 regular legislative session on Thursday, one day before a constitutionally mandated deadline. The House and Senate both adjourned before noon after each chamber passed a bill making some minor modifications to the state's medical marijuana laws. The House on Thursday also gave final approval to a measure that allows the governor to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy should one occur. Both of those bills now head to the governor's desk. Lawmakers are expected to return for a special s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As the U.S. marks 100 years since one of its most shameful historical chapters, researchers, including descendants of Black victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre, are preparing to resume a search for remains believed to have been hastily buried in mass graves. Although many details about the two terrifying days in 1921 eventually came to light after decades of shared silence by perpetrators, victims and their progeny, some basic facts remain unknown, including the true death toll and the names of many members of the city's o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Justin Campbell pitched six innings, gave up three hits and struck out seven batters and No. 4-seed Oklahoma State beat fifth-seeded Oklahoma 9-5 on Wednesday night. The Cowboys (33-16-1) advance to play No. 8-seed West Virginia in a second-round game of the Big 12 Tournament on Thursday. Oklahoma takes on top-seeded Texas on Thursday in an elimination game. The Mountaineers beat the Longhorns 5-1 earlier Wednesday. Lead-off batter Caeden Trenkle got Oklahoma State started hitting a 1-0 pitch to center field in the b...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been charged in the death of a neighbor who was killed inside his home when he was hit by a stray bullet, authorities announced Thursday. James Edward Merrick Jr. was charged with first-degree murder in the March 31 killing of Mark Winner, 50, in Kansas City, Kansas. Winner was inside his home when a stray bullet came through the window and hit him, police said. He died at the scene. Investigators determined Merrick was involved in a shooting outside the home before Winner was shot. He f...
Kevin Strickland was in his cell at the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron when his attorneys called. Tricia Rojo Bushnell, executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project, broke news to him that he said is still surreal: prosecutors determined he is innocent in the 1978 triple murder for which he has been imprisoned for more than two-thirds of his life. They would call for him to be released immediately. Strickland's eyes widened, and he was flooded with every emotion possible, he recalled Tuesday in his first interview since...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A state lawmaker from Wichita is giving up her seat, making her the third Democrat in the Kansas House to resign this month. Rep. Elizabeth Bishop told colleagues Wednesday that she wanted to retire and it was her last day in the Legislature. It also was lawmakers' last day in session for the year. Bishop was first elected to the House in 2016, and she served this year on its health, elections and pensions committees. She was the top Democrat on a committee on water issues. Democratic state Rep. Brett Parker announced e...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Officials say two Colorado men employed by a Grand Junction drilling firm died in a May 13 underground explosion while they were working at a dam in Oklahoma. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports that 22-year-old Hayden Tucker of Grand Junction and 48-year-old Philip E. Hughes Jr. of South Fork died in the incident, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma. Tucker and Hughes were working for DA Smith Drilling Co. when the explosion occurred about 80 feet (24 meters) down a shaft at t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican legislators served notice Friday that they're preparing to end Kansas' state of emergency for the coronavirus pandemic and accused Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly of having no "exit strategy." Eight top leaders of the GOP-controlled Legislature, six of them currently Republicans, approved a shorter extension of the state of emergency than Kelly wanted, until June 15. The state of emergency was set to expire Friday, and state law required Kelly to get to lawmakers' approval to keep it in place. She sought the l...
NEW LONDON, N.H. (AP) — Some people are greeted by the family dog. For Todd Westward, it's a ruffed grouse. The bird started hanging out in the New London, New Hampshire, backyard last month with Westward while his family was away on a trip, his wife, Mary Beth Westward, posted in Facebook. Since then, the bird, named Walter, has made himself a fixture in the yard. "I just thought it was a fluke before we left," Mary Beth Westward said Friday. "While we were gone, this bird formed this crazy attachment. He was here every single day, all day l...
BOGAN GATE, Australia (AP) — At night, the floors of sheds vanish beneath carpets of scampering mice. Ceilings come alive with the sounds of scratching. One family blamed mice chewing electrical wires for their house burning down. Vast tracts of land in Australia's New South Wales state are being threatened by a mouse plague that the state government describes as "absolutely unprecedented." Just how many millions of rodents have infested the agricultural plains across the state is guesswork. "We're at a critical point now where if we don't sign...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Friday blocked creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a show of party loyalty to former President Donald Trump, aiming to shift the political focus away from the violent insurrection by his GOP supporters. Instead, it's now likely that questions about who should bear responsibility for the attack will continue to be filtered through a partisan lens rather than addressed by an independent panel modeled after the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terror a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a $6 trillion budget for next year that's piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class, but his generosity depends on taxing corporations and the wealthy to keep the nation's spiking debt from spiraling totally out of control. Biden has already described, in general terms, major plans on infrastructure and he won a big victory on COVID-19 relief earlier this year. Friday's rollout incorporates those costs into the government's budget framework, including Social S...
