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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...
What do you consider your true identity? Are you sure? Our society is trying to find their true identity. They go around asking, “Who am I?” I have some great news. You do not have to go around looking for your identity and trying to figure out if you are a male or female. You do not have to try to find your identity (personal worth) in marriage, being single, having a family, work, wealth, pleasure, education, power broker, or in a million avenues that lead to a dead end and sometimes to tot...
Last Wednesday night after devotional, I was helping Crystal Keeler put the finishing touches on her final paper for Comp I. Everything was pretty close to complete, so I had very little to add. Of course, if this particular paper should win the Pulitzer prize, I will expect half the check. Brandon (Mr. Keeler) was in and out of the office, being as patient as possible, until we finally decided to call it quits. That’s when the real fun began. As we were leaving the building, a large frog took advantage of the open door and headed down the hall...
All the planning and preliminary work paid off in hosting the Air Race Classic and the air show. That was the consensus of the discussion at the end of the Alva Airport Commission meeting Monday. April Mills, who spearheaded the effort, brought a nice plaque from the Air Race Classic organization recognizing the Alva Regional Airport as one of the this year’s stops. Had this been a normal race, Mills said, Alva would probably have won the pilots’ vote as best stop. However, weather forced many of the pilot teams to stay overnight in Bea...
Actshon Service $2,100 Administrative petty cash account $200 Alcohol and Drug Testing Inc. $1,500 Alfalfa County Treasurer $7,700 Alva Chamber of Commerce $276 American Fidelity Amin Services $3,800 Beasley Technology Inc. $1,600 BancCentral $479.40 Chas. W. Carroll $13,000 City of Alva $30,000 City of Alva – SRO $81,536 Clearwater Enterprises LLC $35,000 CNA Surety $500 Endex of Oklahoma Inc. $2,000 Farm Plan $33,500 Garnett Oil Company $26,500 Intrust Card Center $1,000 K & S Tire Inc. $2,500 Kellogg & Sovereign $4,000 Mark Ream Motors $300...
No one wants a cancer diagnosis, but if you get one, AARP magazine says you should 1. See a medical specialist and 2. A money manager. The statistics are sobering: cancer patients are 2 ½ times more likely to declare bankruptcy than healthy people and those who do so are 80 percent more likely to die than other cancer patients. The diagnosis is tough and if you’re lucky enough to have insurance, there are deductibles and co-pays that add up. Add in the cost of travel, lost work, at home care ne...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a woman who gave up a career as a singer in order to become a baseball umpire. As part of that story, I argued that all lives are important and that many of them are extremely interesting. If that is so, I will never run out of ideas for this column! With that in mind, this week I am going to tell you about a man named Lew Wallace. He was born in 1827 and died in early 1905 at the age of 77; he was from Indiana. Wallace was successful in several endeavors during...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State has announced the date of the Ranger Dugout Club's 10th annual golf tournament and it will be held Saturday, Aug. 25, at 9 a.m. at the Alva Golf and Country Club. The tournament format will be a shotgun start, four-man scramble that will be played over 18 holes. Due to course capacity, the field is limited to 22 total teams. The purpose of this tournament is to benefit the Ranger baseball team where all proceeds will go to the Ranger Dugout Club, which is in direct support of Northwestern baseball. T...
Alva Middle schooler and upcoming eighth grader Jocie Shelton qualified to attend a three-week educational summer camp sponsored by Duke TIP. Shelton's fourth-grade counselor enrolled her in Duke TIP based on her third-grade Oklahoma State Standardized Test Scores. Duke TIP sponsors enrichment opportunities for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students through national essay contests. With over 800 essays submitted each year, Jocie placed second as a fourth grader and first as a sixth grader....
Kaleigh Henke, a graduate of Alva High School, has been awarded four scholarships to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University during the 2018-2019 academic year. Henke will receive the Freshman Academic Scholarship, the Alva High School (AHS) Graduate Scholarship, the Ranger Preview Scholarship and a theatre scholarship. The Freshman Academic Scholarship requires recipients to have an ACT score of 21-25 and a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average. The AHS Graduate Scholarship is awarded just for being an AHS graduate. The Ranger...
ALVA, Okla. – Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have returned to the Alva area. Sisters Bailey Pittl of Kearns, Utah, and Annalee White of Menan, Idaho, have been assigned to serve throughout Alfalfa and Woods counties in Oklahoma and Barber County in Kansas, which is served by the Alva Branch. The area had been without any full-time missionaries for about a year. "We are so happy to be here in Alva," Pittl said. "We have received so much kindness from all of o...
This summer, Stephanie Spellman from Alva will join outstanding high school students from across the nation to take part in a unique academic and career-oriented development experience, National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF): Law & CSI, in Washington, D.C. NYLF Law & CSI is one of the Envision family of programs that enable students to explore their interests and experience learning beyond the classroom (www.envisionexperience.com). Spellman, a senior at Alva High School, was nominated to...
Darian Smith, a graduate of Alva High School, has been awarded four scholarships to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University during the 2018-2019 academic year. Smith will receive a band scholarship, the Alva High School (AHS) Graduate Scholarship, the Ranger Preview Scholarship and a visual arts scholarship. The band scholarship pays toward tuition, and the recipient has to be enrolled in a practicum class and participate as required. The AHS Graduate Scholarship is awarded just for being...
Two Northwestern Oklahoma State University faculty members, Leigh Kirby, instructor and interim chair of the psychology department, and Stephanie Widick, instructor of psychology, recently earned their doctorate degrees. Kirby earned a doctor of philosophy degree in counselor education and supervision in December 2017 from Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas. Widick earned a doctor of philosophy degree in educational psychology in May 2018 from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater....
Alva Wesleyan Pastor John Smith preached his last sermon in Alva Sunday. He and his wife, Beth, are headed off to Corpus Christie, Texas, where they will plant a new church. After the service this past Sunday, emotions were strong on everyone's faces as the Smiths shared warm hugs and caring words with just about every member of the congregation. The couple were thrown a going-away party the previous week at the church, with 150 or more in attendance. Pastor Smith said he would miss his church...
The second group of members from the Oklahoma Association of Student Councils (OASC) gathered on the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Alva campus for BASIC, a leadership workshop, July 8-13. Overall the university welcomed 300 high school students from across the state. Fourteen are high school graduates who came to Northwestern prior to the camp's start so they could prepare for their roles as junior counselors during the workshop. Students attending for the week included high school...
ALVA, Okla. – Last weekend, shock waves began to ripple across the Alva Goldbug community with word head football coach Taylor Schwerdtfeger had informed the football he had resigned his position as coach and Alva Public Schools athletic director. The resignation was quickly made official Monday evening when the Alva School Board accepted Schwerdfeger's resignation, in which the former coach and AHS alum laid out the circumstance behind his decision in a detailed letter to the board. The d...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced Wednesday the sixth annual Team Academic Excellence Awards, created by the NABC Committee on Academics, and SWOSU Men's Basketball was one of more than 185 schools from the NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA levels to earn the honor. 2017-18 NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards (pdf) These awards recognize outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2017-18 season. In order to earn a NABC Team Academic E...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Henderson State volleyball standout Sydney Skelton was announced as the school's nominee for 2017-18 NCAA Woman of the Year Award on Thursday afternoon. Skelton, who graduated from Henderson in May, was a three-year starter for the Reddies at libero, where she became a two-time All-Great American Conference selection and helped lead the Reddies to their first ever appearance in the GAC Tournament in 2016. Skelton holds the GAC record for digs in a match with 54 and ranks sixth all-time in school history in defensive digs w...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Ouachita Baptist University Athletic Department nominated two-sport athlete and two-time Academic All-American Kori Bullard (Hot Springs, Ark.) for the prestigious 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. During her time at Ouachita, Bullard excelled both on and off the court for the Tigers. The Natural State native graduated Summa Cum Laude Honors with a degree in Biology. Not only did she graduate with a perfect 4.0 GPA but she was also hand selected to be the Senior Class Representative at Commencement. Bullard was a m...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Southern Arkansas University has nominated outgoing senior student-athletes Brooke Goad and Helle Leed for the prestigious 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year award. On Thursday, the NCAA announced that Goad and Leed are among another record number of nominees as the 2018 field is comprised of 581 nominees across all three divisions of the NCAA. Established in 1991 and now in its 28th year, the NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves i...
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State athletics will start selling beer at its venues this fall. The school made the announcement Thursday in a news release. Oklahoma State's concessions partner, Sodexo, will administer all beer sales at sporting events following a successful pilot program at Oklahoma State's baseball and softball games during the spring. At football games, beer will be sold at up to 22 locations adjacent to existing concession stands throughout Boone Pickens Stadium. The offerings will include craft selections. Oklahoma S...
BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — The arraignment of a man accused of bombing an Oklahoma military recruiting station has been postponed over concerns he hasn't received correct medical treatment in custody. Federal Magistrate Frank McCarthy delayed Benjamin Roden's arraignment and competency hearing on Wednesday after his attorney said Tulsa County jail officials weren't following his doctor's medication orders, the Tulsa World reported . A pipe bomb exploded July 2017 in front of an unoccupied Air Force recruiting station near Tulsa. Roden, 29, was i...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former U.S. Postal Service worker has been sentenced to a five-month prison term for her part in a scheme that involved stealing marijuana from packages at a mail sorting facility in Oklahoma. The Tulsa World reports that 47-year-old Laura Mae Campbell was sentenced Wednesday. Police records indicate that the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General received a tip last year that employees were taking drugs from packages at the Tulsa center. The complaint alleged Campbell and her co-worker, Derek Miller, were i...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma custom home builder has been sentenced to three years in a federal prison in connection with an interstate theft ring. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that 45-year-old Dennis Lee pleaded guilty in November to possession of stolen property that crossed a state boundary and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction. A five-count indictment handed up last year alleged Lee was involved in the theft of vehicles and other items from Texas, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The stolen items were allegedly t...
