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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...
We are born with an instinctive, but incomplete, knowledge of God. This is demonstrated by the religious impulse that has been a common characteristic of mankind throughout all ages and in all parts of the world. What all religions have in common is the notion of retribution. Whether attributed to God, Karma, or Nature, the assumption is that everyone “gets what’s coming to them” or that “we’ve all got to pay for what we’ve done.” This is, in fact, the basis of legal systems everywhere in the world. But when God intervened in the course of his...
Woods County Free Fair books and entry tags may be picked up at the Woods County OSU Extension Center located on the first floor of the Woods County Courthouse. The fair will be held Sept. 9–11. Poultry and rabbit exhibits will be required to complete pre-entry forms and exhibit tags, which are due on Friday, Sept. 3, to the Woods County OSU Extension Center. Horse show pre-entries are due by noon on Sept. 3. ALL poultry and rabbit exhibits must be in place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, for entry and for blood testing. Other fair e...
Deidre (Dedee) Beth McCurry was born August 19, 1962, to Robert and Kay Alexander. She married Mac McCurry at age 19 and they were never apart until her death. Dedee was an amazing wife, mother, mother-in-law, sister, grandmother, and friend. She was undaunted by the difficulties of life. "Can't" was not a word she accepted from anyone but her Lord. If there was something she wanted to do she jumped right in and taught herself, from medical and veterinary skills to spinning fiber, handcrafting d...
Humans have enjoyed conflict long before recorded history. Pecking order was established and survival of the fittest was the order of the day. Accounts of Mayan contests are known to have ended in the death of the losers, and movies romanticized defeat in gladiator contests of The Roman Empire. New discoveries have led to a change in history with the facts that, like modern cage fighters, gladiators were sponsored, trained and most often lived to fight again. They even had groupies that followed...
Most Americans, I believe, know that the United States came into existence when colonists fought against Great Britain and won the American Revolutionary War in the late 18th century. I also think that it is safe to say that most of us know that our national government was created when the “Constitution of the United States” went into effect in 1789. But throughout my career teaching U.S. history, I have found that most of my students do not realize that there was an 8-year gap between the two e...
The Woods County 4-H Achievement Banquet was held Aug. 6 to recognize the accomplishments of 4-H members who completed a record book for 2020-2021. Avery McMurphy of the Alva 4-H club and Shay Wilson of the Freedom 4-H club were given the Outstanding Senior Awards for the Woods County 4-H program. Reagan Wilson, Freedom 4-H, and Gavin Stebens, Freedom 4-H, were named the Outstanding Juniors for Woods County 4-H. Sponsors for these awards included Western Equipment, LLC, Alva State Bank and...
We will finish the Book of Psalms this week by reading chapters 101 through 150. Some of these remind us of the history of God’s people coming out of Egypt. Some are prayers of request or praise. Some are songs of praise and thanksgiving. Psalms tells of the oppression of Israel from various times and sources. It tells of the humility and prayers seeking deliverance and of the mighty power of God to care for His people. Psalms makes the point over and over that God hates evil in all its forms, and God rewards those who seek Him. David is contin...
Jack Lee Sims, son of the late Arnold Nathaniel and Leona Juanita (Rawson) Sims, was born June 21, 1954, at Waynoka, and passed away August 10, 2021, at Alva, at the age of 67 years, 1 month and 20 days. No services are planned at this time for Jack. He was cremated under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Jack attended school in Avard and later graduated from Waynoka High School. He was united in marriage to Patricia Carol Roberts on September 2, 1978. They lived in the Woods Count...
Alva, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Dugout Club will host its annual Golf Tournament on Aug. 28, starting at 9 a.m. This year will be the 13th year the Dugout Club will be hosting its Golf tournament. The format is a four-man best ball 18-hole scramble with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. This tournament is located at the Alva Golf and Country Club (4483 Jefferson Rd). Due to availability, the tournament is limited to 22 teams, so we encourage those interested in signing up early. The pricing is set at $100 per person or $400 p...
Active cases of Covid-19 in Woods County have increased from 41 last week to 47 as of Aug. 11, according to the Oklahoma State Health Department (OSHD). The weekly report also shows an increase of nine in Woodward County, now at 29. Alfalfa County now has 15, up five from last week. Major County went up four to 19 current cases. Harper County decreased by two with only two active cases, and Grant County went down one for a total of 17 this week. Statewide, the active cases of coronavirus...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Fifty organizations were awarded Aerospace and Aviation Education Program grants totaling over $365,000 at the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission's (OAC) August meeting. Grants are for targeted learning programs that have a direct application to aerospace and aviation for primary through post-secondary education. The grant funds are part of the agency's initiative to give more Oklahoma young people access to STEM careers in the aerospace and aviation industry. The Commission a...
Property valuations for Woods County are down compared to a year ago, said County Assessor Renetta Benson. She presented her report Wednesday to the Woods County Excise Board. Board members present were Joe Shirley, Bob Seivert and Chris Olson. County Clerk Shelley Reed was also present. The new valuations are the basis for county taxes for 2021. Valuations for public service companies in the county, which are set by the state, are $41,716,244, down $2,247,846 from this time last year. Benson...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea Seielstad, University of Dayton (THE CONVERSATION) Pop singer Britney Spears' quest to end the conservatorship that handed control over her finances and health care to her father demonstrates the double-edged sword of putting people under the legal care and control of another person. A judge may at times deem it necessary to appoint a guardian or conservator to protect a vulnerable person from abuse and trickery by others,...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City school district will require students and staff to wear masks starting next week, with provisions allowing them to opt out of the requirement, the district's superintendent said Friday. Also, school employees with proof of being fully vaccinated by Nov. 15 will receive a $1,000 stipend, according to Superintendent Sean McDaniel. McDaniel said he issued the requirement days after the start of school on Monday because the number of virus cases jumped from four the first day of classes to 119 on Thursday. McD...
NEWKIRK, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma police lieutenant charged with first-degree manslaughter after he opened fire on a pickup truck, killing the driver, was justified in the shooting, a judge has ruled. Kay County District Judge Lee Turner dismissed the case Thursday against Lt. John Mitchell, 41, who had been facing trial in the 2019 fatal shooting of Micheal Ann Godsey in Blackwell, The Oklahoman reported. "The magnitude of this ruling potentially is just huge," attorney Gary James told the newspaper. Mitchell has remained on the force while t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Ten years of population shifts will boost the clout of the Kansas City and Wichita areas in Kansas politics and fuel a fight over redrawing the district of the only Democrat representing the state in Congress. The Republican-controlled Legislature must use U.S. Census data released this week to redraw congressional, legislative and State Board of Education districts next year to ensure they are as equal in population as possible. Lawmakers on Friday wrapped up 14 statewide town hall meetings on redistricting held over f...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Eudora woman who was convicted of murder in the death of a boy at her day care should get a new trial because her attorney during the trial was ineffective, the Kansas Court of Appeals court ruled Friday. The court overturned the conviction of Carrody Buchhorn, 47, and sent it back to the Douglas County District Court for a new trial. The Douglas County District Attorney's Office plans to appeal the ruling to the Kansas Supreme Court, The Lawrence Journal-World reported. The appeals court said Buchhorn's attorney did n...
LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Two police officers who shot and killed a man from Tennessee in May were justified in their actions, Johnson County Attorney Steve Howe said Friday. Darren Dejuan Chandler, 34, of Nashville, was killed on May 25 at an Extended Stay America hotel in Lenexa. Lenexa officers went to the hotel after police received several calls about a possible domestic violence situation in one of the rooms. Callers said they could hear screams and a woman yelling in pain. During a news conference Friday, Howe showed clips from police body c...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man has been convicted of seven felonies, four years after he fled to Mexico while awaiting trial for rape. Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay said a jury on Thursday found Daniel Arreola guilty of a 2015 sexual assault in Topeka. Prosecutors said Arreola forced his way into the apartment of a woman who was having a party in Topeka on July 11, 2015. He forced the woman into a backroom and raped her at gunpoint, Kagay said. Arreola cut off his GPS ankle bracelet and fled to Mexico four days before his t...
ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — A Missouri man has died after being run over while trying to chase a rolling, driverless pickup truck and trailer, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. The accident happened around 2 p.m. Thursday in a driveway off U.S. Highway 73, south of Atchison in northeastern Kansas, television station KAKE reported. Investigators said David Richardson, 61, of St. Joseph, Missouri, was on foot chasing the runaway truck and trailer when the vehicle jackknifed and hit him. Richardson died at the scene, the patrol s...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan's south on Friday, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that brought them closer to Kabul just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. In the last 24 hours, the country's second- and third-largest cities — Herat in the west and Kandahar in the south — have fallen to the insurgents, as has the capital of the southern province of Helmand, where American, British and NATO forces fought some of the bloodiest battles of th...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced a fresh hurdle Friday to passing President Joe Biden's multi-trillion dollar domestic policy aspirations, as nine moderate Democrats threatened to derail a budget blueprint crucial to opening the door to much of that spending. In a letter to Pelosi, D-Calif., the nine said they "will not consider voting" for a budget resolution mapping Democrats' ambitious fiscal plans until the House approves a separate, Senate-passed package of road, broadband and other infrastructure projects and sends it t...
Earth sizzled in July and became the hottest month in 142 years of recordkeeping, U.S. weather officials announced. As extreme heat waves struck parts of the United States and Europe, the globe averaged 62.07 degrees (16.73 degrees Celsius) last month, beating out the previous record set in July 2016 and tied again in 2019 and 2020. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. The margin was just .02 degrees (.01 Celsius), The last seven Julys, from 2015 to 2021, have been the hottest seven Julys on record, said NOAA...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first forces of a Marine battalion arrived in Kabul on Friday to stand guard as the U.S. speeds up evacuation flights for some American diplomats and thousands of Afghans, spurred by a lightning Taliban offensive that increasingly is isolating Afghanistan's capital. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said "elements" of a battalion were now in Kabul, the vanguard of three Marine and Army battalions that the U.S. was sending to the city by the end of the weekend to help more Americans and their Afghan colleagues get out q...
