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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...
Ask anyone in retail if they have had customers treat them unkindly. After spending almost 20 years in the retail world, I can attest to it. All three of my children worked in retail while they were in high school. More than once, I would have to comfort my teens when they came home and told me of being harshly treated by a customer. Our stressed-out world today has definitely forgotten how to be kind. After a long year of lockdowns, quarantines, and worry, people have forgotten the words of...
This week we will read 2 Kings, more history of the kings of Israel and Judah. Most of these kings did evil in the sight of the Lord. Most worshiped idols and led the people away from God. Most of the ones who were more faithful failed to get rid of the idols of past kings. Some served many years, some only a few months. There were two kings who stand out as trying hard to please the Lord. Hezekiah and his great-grandson Josiah both led the people back to God. Hezekiah did what was right in the sight of the Lord as David had done. During the...
The lull of summer has brought little activity to the Avard Regional Rail Park. The authority met this past Tuesday evening, and besides an executive session, there wasn't much doing. Chairman Stan Bixler, Todd Holder and Allan Poe were present in body while Bob Firth joined via telephone. Ed Sutter was unable to attend. Also joining the conference in person were Woods County Clerk Shelley Reed, Woods County Economic Development Committee Director Neal Williams, and former WCEDC Director Sonja Williams. After approving the minutes from their la...
On Saturday, July 17, 2021, Darrell and Ann Kline will celebrate 50 years of marriage. Darrell and Ann exchanged their vows on July 17, 1971, at First United Methodist Church in Alva, Oklahoma. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. Harold D. Leveridge and witnessed by many special family members and friends. Darrell and Ann have been blessed with two sons and five wonderful grandchildren, Jesse (Carrington and Taylor) and Scott and Lavonda (Wesley, Ayden and Emberly) all of Alva. Darrell...
Enrollment is still open in the graduate programs at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Master’s degree programs open to enroll in include: Master of Arts in American Studies, Master of Counseling Psychology, Master of Science in General Psychology, Master of Arts in Heritage Tourism and Conservation and Master of Education with several different options. Applications for admission into the graduate program will be accepted through the beginning of August. Fall classes will begin Monday, Aug. 16. “This fall semester is an excellent tim...
Pat Harkin of the financial services firm Edward Jones in Alva recently received the firm's exclusive Spirit of Caring Award designed to recognize those financial advisors who exemplify the values, culture and spirit of giving back. The firm, in announcing the honor, said Harkin is a leader in the firm and an example of what a dedicated Edward Jones financial advisor can achieve. He has demonstrated unyielding dedication to giving back to his clients, community, other financial advisors, branch...
One of the world’s favorite billionaires, Richard Branson, recently returned from space. During his suborbital flight, pilots, along with their other responsibilities, had to be aware of space trash they might encounter. There are an estimated 23,000 pieces, some no larger than a softball, able to damage spacecraft. That number is small compared to the trash on Earth. When I was growing up on First Street, there were private trash haulers, including Brewer, Temple, Beagley and Altizer. Trash o...
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 11-16. Overall the university welcomed 231 high school students from across the state. Sixteen 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...
This is the story of Roy Worters who was born in Toronto in 1900. Like many Canadian boys, Roy dreamed of becoming a professional hockey player. As a young adult, Roy played for several teams in various junior, professional, and semi-pro leagues. A goaltender, Roy found himself in 1923 playing for a team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called the “Yellow Jackets.” When the National Hockey League (NHL) awarded Pittsburgh an expansion franchise in 1925, the owners of the organization signed sev...
Memorial services for Mary Glenn Phelps, 93 year-old Weatherford resident, will be held Tuesday, July 20, 2021, at 2 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church with Reverend Chuck Horton officiating. Services are under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home. The family strongly encourages masks to be worn, unless you are fully vaccinated. If you choose not to wear a mask for medical or other reasons, please attend virtually. The church will have a live feed of the service on the Facebook page "W...
ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) — One person was killed in an explosion Friday morning at an asphalt plant in southern Oklahoma, police said. Police Chief Kevin Norris said no one else was injured in the explosion at the Asphalt Express plant in Ardmore, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City. "The ID of the deceased is still unknown, but I have been able to confirm that there was one fatality," Norris told KXII-TV. "As of right now we confirmed there were no injuries. No one was transported from the scene to the hospital with injuries," s...
BOSTON (AP) — A notorious New England gangster locked up for life for a slew of killings says his health is in peril behind bars and wants out. Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi wrote in a letter to an Oklahoma state court judge that prison medical staff say his age and underlying health conditions make it "highly likely" that he will "suffer an extremely poor outcome" if he gets the coronavirus, The Boston Globe reported. Flemmi is serving life sentences for convictions in federal court as well as Florida and Oklahoma state courts. Even if f...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Board members of a southwest Oklahoma City school district have defied the state Board of Education and hired an interim superintendent. The Western Heights school board voted 3-1 Thursday to name assistant Superintendent Kim Race interim superintendent, replacing Mannix Barnes. Barnes' superintendent certification was suspended by the state board last month after the district was placed on probation by the state board in April for concerns including financial management, heavy staff losses and poor academic performance. T...
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man told police officers he was "teaching it a lesson" when he tried to throw a live alligator he had stolen from a miniature golf course onto the roof of a beachside cocktail lounge, authorities said. The 32-year-old man was arrested early Thursday when Daytona Beach Shores police officers spotted him attempting to throw the gator onto the roof of a cocktail lounge located just off Highway A1A, according to a police report. The officers then saw the man take the alligator by its tail, hit it against...
A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled illegal an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of some immigrants brought into the United States as children, putting new pressure for action on President Joe Biden and Democrats who control Congress for legislation to safeguard the people known as "Dreamers." U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled in favor of Texas and eight other conservative states that sued to halt the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which provides limited protections to about 650,000 people. People who...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3 million ballots cast in last year's presidential election, further discrediting former President Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election as his allies continue a disputed ballot review in the state's most populous county. An Associated Press investigation found 182 cases where problems were clear enough that officials referred them to investigators for further review. So far, only four cases have led to charges, i...
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado father was convicted Friday of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death in the 2012 disappearance of his 13-year-old son. Mark Redwine, 59, was indicted in 2017 in connection with the disappearance of Dylan Redwine, who was reported missing on Nov. 19, 2012, while on a court-ordered Thanksgiving visit to his father's home outside the city of Durango. Redwine did not show any reaction when the verdicts were read as he stood with his hands clasped in front of him. Dylan Redwine's remains were found a few m...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Smoke and heat from a massive wildfire in southeastern Oregon are creating giant "fire clouds" over the blaze — dangerous columns of smoke and ash that can reach up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) in the sky and are visible from more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) away. Authorities have put these clouds at the top of the list of the extreme fire behavior they are seeing on the Bootleg Fire, the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. The inferno grew Friday to about 75 square miles (194 square kilometers) larger than the siz...
NEW YORK (AP) — If all goes well for NBC Universal over the next several weeks, Americans will be buzzing about the Olympic performances of Simone Biles, Gabby Thomas, Kevin Durant or some unexpected star. The year-delayed Tokyo Olympics officially opens with NBC's telecast of the opening ceremony on July 23 — live in the morning and with an edited version in prime time. The Olympics arrive dripping in bad vibes, amid a COVID-19 state of emergency in Japan. The majority of Japanese citizens are unvaccinated against the virus and most wish the...
The COVID-19 comeback across the U.S. is putting pressure on hospitals at a time when some of them are busy just trying to catch up on surgeries and other procedures that were put on hold during the pandemic. With the highly contagious delta variant spreading rapidly, cases in the U.S. are up around 70% over the last week, hospital admissions have climbed about 36% and deaths rose by 26%, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Some hospitals are reporting record or near-record patient volumes. But even for those that...
LONDON (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Reuters news service was killed Friday as he chronicled fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban near a strategic border crossing amid the continuing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. Danish Siddiqui, 38, had been embedded with Afghan special forces for the past few days and was killed as the commando unit battled for control of the Spin Boldak crossing on the border between southern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Siddiqui was part of a team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for f...
