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Alva Church of God Alva Church of God is located at 517 9th St., in Alva. Sheryl White is our pastor. Sunday: Normal hours are Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. with morning worship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening youth meet at 5 p.m. This is for youth sixth grade through 12th grade. Young adults meet at 6 p.m. Sunday evening they will be showing "The Chosen" at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited and there will be refreshments. Alva Friends Church Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15 a.m. every Sunday morning. Worship is at 10:30 a.m. If...
My son took me a long time ago to see “The Matrix.” He believed that the executive producer of this movie had to be a Christian. The movie reminded me how life can control us each day. We get so caught up in the day-to-day issues that we become like a hamster in a wheel, running the rat race, over and over. In the midst of all this, there is a war going on (Eph. 6:10–17): “A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. For we ar...
I have known many people that have gone through many trials in this life with nobody there to lean on for help. When something powerfully affects us in a bad way, it literally drains the very life out of us. Our hearts sink so low that we can’t even stand in order to walk away from whatever the situation is. We hurt so badly that we just want to stay down for the count and live in our misery. We need a friend to lean on, someone who will bear our burdens and love us and encourage us. Well, “there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother,” P...
Private family services for Heath Tomberlin are pending with Marshall Funeral Home. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Heath Ray Tomberlin, son of the late Steven Ray and Kay (Vickers) Tomberlin, was born August 24, 1979, at Alva, and passed away July 2, 2023, at Alva, at the age of 43 years, 10 months and 9 days. Heath was raised in Alva and graduated with the Class of 1998. He attended college at Northwestern Oklahoma State University for a couple...
Sherry Jean Doty passed away on Friday, June 30, 2023, at her home in Red Bud, Illinois. She was 74. She was born on November 8, 1948, in Hardtner, Kansas, to the late Charles and Norma Chance. She graduated from Alva High School in 1966. While attending Northwestern Oklahoma State, she met and later married Robert Jay Doty. She is survived by her husband, Robert Doty of Red Bud, Illinois; one daughter, one son, three grandchildren, one sister, and other family members and friends. Visitation will be at the Leesman Funeral Home in Red Bud,...
CBS News: “Joey Chestnut wolfed down 62 wieners and buns at this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4.” Not his best effort: He ate 76 in 2021’s contest. Still a lot of “dogs!” The origin of the hot dog can be traced back to the late 19th century when German immigrants brought their sausages to the United States. Sold in buns, referred to as “Dachshund Rolls” due to their resemblance to the dog of the same name, the term “hot dog” stuck. Hot dogs have evolved to include regional a...
Dad would say a lot that there wasn’t anything this country couldn’t grow, if we just got the moisture to grow it. Apparently, this year we are growing grass and weed seeds. This ole country looks so different than it did three months ago. Then, it was a barren desert. Now it is a lush paradise, albeit with a lot of monstrous mosquitoes. One thing that has surprised me though after the rain is how little tonnage of forage we have grown till those native plants shot a seed head and what concerns me is what that will do to prairie hay cutting whe...
Fall is my favorite time of the year! For one thing, I love autumn weather better than that of the other seasons. For another, I enjoy watching football – in person and on television; whether played by athletes on high school, college or professional teams. Football season starts in August and ends with a flourish every year with playoffs, college bowl games, and ultimately, of course, the Super Bowl to crown the latest National Football League (NFL) champion. By the time all of this p...
"Color is a duplication of actuality, black and white is an interpretation of reality," says Todd Horner, a photographer featured in this month's "Through the Lens" exhibit at Graceful Arts Gallery in Alva. The First Friday Art Walk tonight kicks off the new exhibit. From 6 to 8 p.m. visitors are invited to browse the gallery, listen to music provided by Freddie Riggins and enjoy free refreshments. Horner grew up in the Flint Hills area of Kansas and works to capture the movement of the...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — County election security policies in Kansas don't appear to be strong or detailed enough, and the state doesn't appear to be giving counties enough guidance on how best to oversee voting, according to an audit released Thursday. The report from the auditing arm of the Republican-controlled Legislature is the second on election security issues this year and was initiated amid an ongoing circulation of baseless election conspiracy theories among GOP conservatives. The first report, released in February, said auditors c...
BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — A search is underway in the rural Oklahoma community of Blanchard for a missing pet wallaby. The animal, which is similar to a kangaroo, but smaller, escaped its backyard enclosure on Wednesday and is believed to be in some thick woods near the edge of town, said Diana Daniels, city clerk in Blanchard, which is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City. Daniels says the animal is not typically aggressive, but might kick if it's cornered. "They can hurt somebody if they approach it and try to corner it," s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued in state court Friday to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver's licenses and to rebuke the Democratic governor for defying his interpretation of a new law. Attorney General Kris Kobach is seeking an order to stop Gov. Laura Kelly, and agencies under her control, from allowing the changes to transgender people's licenses. Kobach contends a law that took effect Saturday prevents such changes and requires the state to reverse any previous changes in i...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences but could still face more punishment, including the death penalty. Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, making it one of the U.S. government's largest hate crime cases. Crusius, wearing a jumpsuit and shackles, did not speak during the hearing and showed no r...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities have arrested and charged a teen who detectives believe was involved in a mass shooting at a Baltimore block party over the holiday weekend that left two people dead and 28 others wounded, officials announced Friday. Members of the homicide and SWAT teams arrested the 17-year-old boy around 7 a.m. Friday after a search warrant was executed at a home, police said in a news release. He was taken to the Central Booking Intake Facility, where he was charged with possession of a firearm by a minor and possession of an a...
NEW YORK (AP) — Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta's photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan. Despite some early glitches, 30 million people had signed up before noon on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Threads. New arrivals to the platform include celebrities like Oprah, pop star Shakira and chef Gordon Ramsay — as well as corporate accou...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its military push back Russian forces entrenched along the front lines. The Biden administration is expected to announce on Friday that it will send thousands of them as part of a new military aid package worth $800 million, according to people familiar with the decision who were not authorized to discuss it publicly before the official announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity. The move will likely trigger outrage from some allies and h...
