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The Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo team hosted the Rodeo on the Square Wednesday for Alva elementary kids. The NWOSU rodeo started Thursday night at 7 p.m. Come out to Woods County Arena to see the rodeo team in action!...
A new health care giant is emerging with the announcement Wednesday that SSM Healthcare of Oklahoma is taking over operations of the OU Medical Center and affiliated campuses. The agreement signed by University of Oklahoma President David Boren, William Thompson, SSM Health president and CEO, and Mike Samis, University Hospitals Authority and Trust Chairman, creates a new nonprofit corporation that is set to fund construction of a new hospital tower and digital upgrades for patient records. “It's been a very complicated transaction,” Samis said... Full story
Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva, and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at 10:10 a.m.; worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Friends Church is on the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Avard Christian Church Sunday services are from 2-4 p.m. Avard Christian Church is 7 miles west of Alva on Highway 64 and 7 miles south on County Road 370, or 6...
“I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust” (Psalms 40:1-4). Where are you? No, not where you are physically, I am asking about you spiritually. Where are you spiritually? Just as you cannot be at two places at onc...
In ancient Greece, old Socrates had an interesting way of teaching others how to think. First, he would allow them to tell him everything they thought they knew about the subject at hand. All the while, he would plead ignorance on the subject and just let them talk. When they eventually ran out of information to impart, Socrates would set about the task of pointing out a few flaws in their system of thought. Often, before they knew what hit them, Socrates had unraveled much of their beloved wisdom. In the end, both Socrates and his subject woul...
All area military veterans are invited to a get-to-know-you gathering. Hot dogs and other snacks will be served. Come and renew old friendships and make some new ones. Food and friendly conversation will begin at 6 p.m. (1800 hours for you gung ho types) on Thursday, Nov. 3. It will take place at the Alva Cherokee Museum in the Fireside Room. Enter in back on the northwest corner of the museum. Guests are also invited to stay for the monthly business meeting of Alva American Legion Post 92, which will begin at 7 p.m. (1900 hours) at the same...
Learning to read is one of the fundamental concepts that schools are expected to teach. But parents of children with dyslexia say public schools in Oklahoma are failing to identify and educate these students. Many turn to expensive private tutoring for the dyslexia-specific lessons their child needs, with out-of-pocket costs often running to $10,000 or beyond. The students are at risk of failing the state's third-grade reading test, which requires students who don't pass to be held back....
The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) began surveillance for seasonal influenza early this fall and is detecting laboratory confirmed cases of influenza among Oklahomans. In addition, there have been 14 influenza-associated hospitalizations since Sept. 1, a total that is concerning at this point in the season. Cases of influenza illness have been geographically spread across the state and have occurred among people of all age groups. Each week, a network of voluntary medical facilities and hospital laboratories report the number of...
The Woods County Conservation District has a contest each year that is offered to all the schools in Woods County. This year the theme for the essay contest was "We All Need Trees." There are three divisions in the contest. In Division I – Sixth Grade, the winners are Jocie Shelton, Alva, first place; Ethan Vaughan, Alva, second place; Laura Anton, Alva, third place. In Division II – Seventh Grade, the winners are Draven Lehr, Alva, first place; Dalon Percival, Alva, second place; Lainey Sea...
Joe Parsons practices putting pigs in the pen with the robot constructed by the Alva Robotics Team....
Fairview natives Colton McKee and Rylee Rankin are the 2016-2017 recipients of the Dean Ranson Scholarship at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. McKee, a sophomore criminal justice major with hopes of working as a federal agent in the future, says he greatly appreciates the financial support scholarships provide him. He says as a student living off campus and commuting back and forth between Fairview and Alva, scholarships – in a way – make that travel expense lighter. Rankin, a senior spec...
The finance committee of the Alva Hospital Authority met with a representative of BKD CPAs and Advisers for a three-hour meeting Tuesday afternoon to hear a detailed report of audit findings for the year. Later, at the meeting of the entire board, the BKD representative Carley Williams, CPA, gave a condensed report to the board. The good news about the audit is there are no “reportable matters” regarding the accuracy of the financial operations at the hospital. BKD's chief concern is staff has been reduced sufficiently that there's ins... Full story
Northwestern Oklahoma State University will partner with the National Association of Social Workers Oklahoma Chapter (NASW-OK) to host a category II, two-hour Northwest Helping Professional Network event during November. Northwest Helping Professional Network is a networking event for Northwestern Oklahoma Social workers to come together and build a network. The event, “Today, I’m Thankful For…” will take place on Monday, Nov. 14, in Woodward at Big Dan’s Restaurant from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The restaurant location for the event is 3113 Will...
Phyllis June McNeely, 84, passed away Wednesday, October 26, 2016, at the Comanche County Hospital in Coldwater, Kansas. She was born on May 28, 1932, on a farm southeast of Coldwater, Kansas, the daughter of Glenn and Madeline (Marley) McCulla. She attended Pike Country School and graduated from Coldwater High School in 1950. She received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Northwestern State College in Alva in 1954. On December 27, 1953, she married John McNeely at the Antioch Church in Buttermilk, Kansas. He survives. She is s...
The Big Bopper sang: “G-men, T-men, revenuers too, running through the hills where he made his brew, lookin’ tryin’ to book em’ while my Pappy kept on cookin’ white lightning.” In 1919 the 18th Amendment was passed, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. This law was called Prohibition. The joke was, “Prohibition replaced good beer with bad gin.” There were other repercussions, including whiskey stills, bootleggers and organized crime. America was “dry” unti...
Most of the time, I consider myself a fairly strong, brave person. At other times, not so much. I learned I could do many otherwise terrifying things if it involved getting a good story – walking out on a bridge over a flooding river, crawling through a natural cave with only a small light on my hat knowing that snakes could be anywhere, climbing on the roof of a building or onto a tall ladder to get a good picture of the crowd below. I’ve overcome many fears that way. For years, driving over bridges made me physically queasy. Walking on one...
Every two years we go through an agonizing ritual in this country known as a national election. And even though this spectacle is an essential exercise in a democracy, most Americans are glad when it’s over. In every other national election (like the one in 2016) we elect a president. In all national elections we elect every member of the U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the members of the U.S. Senate. When the country’s “founding fathers” were drafting the U.S. Constit...
State prison employees will have a little something extra to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The state Board of Corrections has approved one-time stipends of $1,750 for all of its employees who have been with the agency for at least six months. Those who have been with the agency for less than six months will get their stipend after they’ve been around half a year. For most of the about 4,000 workers, the money should be distributed by late November. The money comes from more than $10 million the corrections department got as a result of t...
The Ranger Dugout Club is now accepting renewals and new registration for the 2017 season. In its ninth season of existence, the Ranger Dugout Club (RDC) – which exists separately from the university and the baseball office – serves as a rallying point for supporters of Northwestern Oklahoma State Baseball. Its members share the common desire to help continue the growth and success of the program. To that end, the group has a successful track record of raising money for everything from facilities improvement to scholarships. Their hard wor...
ENID – The Northwestern men's golf team claimed the 2016 Ranger invite with a team total of 589 at Meadlowlake Golf Course in Enid on Monday afternoon. The Ranger's Black team completed a two-stroke comeback on the University of the Southwest to win their first team title as an official NCAA Division II school. Northwestern's Red team also played a solid round of golf today, finishing in fifth place with a two-day total of 622. Consistency was the key for the Rangers as the top four players on the Black team finished just two strokes apart f...
ENID – Both of Northwestern’s men's golf teams began their quest for a second straight Top 3 finish in their home tournament in fine fashion on Sunday afternoon. The Black team sits just two strokes behind Southwestern University in second place after a first round team score of 291. The other team from Northwestern, which is comprised of just four golfers as opposed to the normal five, sits in fifth place after a score of 315. The Black team was led by junior Cole Ward and freshman Cody Hixon, who both shot rounds of 72. The 72 from the Ran...
Everything fell into place at just the right time for Cody Devers, a Northwestern Oklahoma State University junior from Perryton, Texas. “It was pretty important for me to do well in Stillwater,” said Devers, a steer wrestler who won both go-rounds and the average championship at the Oklahoma State University rodeo in Stillwater. “The first two rodeos of the year hadn’t gone as planned, so I needed a good rodeo.” The trip to the Payne County seat was the perfect stop for the Texas Panhandle cowboy, who won the OSU bulldogging title a year ago...
The Great American Conference released its preseason women's basketball poll tabbing the Rangers to finish in 12th place. Harding narrowly got the nod over Arkansas Tech as the preseason favorites. The Rangers received 11 votes while the next closest team, Southern Nazarene, received 29 votes. The Rangers will be under the guidance of newly hired head coach Tasha Diesselhorst, who joins the Rangers after a nine-year stint at Pond Creek-Hunter High School. A member of the legendary Turney basketball family, Diesselhorst experienced immense...
ENID – The Northwestern women's golf team finished in third place after a team total of 680 at Meadlowlake Golf Course in Enid on Monday afternoon. The Rangers were led by sophomore Brittani Casement, who finished in fifth place with a two-day total of 164 (79-85). Casement finished 15 strokes out of the individual medalist spot, which was taken by Fort Hays State golfer Hannah Perkins. Freshman Madison Hopper finished four strokes behind Casement with a total of 168 (83-85). London, Ontario, Canada, native Olivia Brock shot a pair of 87s to f...
