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Alva Church of God Alva Church of God is located at 517 9th St., in Alva. Sheryl White is pastor. Sunday: Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. followed by morning worship at 10:30 a.m. This Sunday the church will host Back to School Blast Bible School for ages pre-K to fifth grade. Bible School will run Sunday evening through Wednesday, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. each evening. There will be puppets, balloon animals, illusions and music. All children are invited. Come and join the fun. Alva Friends Church Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at...
Real Estate Transfers Book 1353 page 319: Scott Franklin Simon and Tabitha Unruh Simon convey unto Barton Ranch LLC. Section 16, Township 28 north, Range 13 west, SW4. Warranty deed. Book 1353 page 333: Floyd Dakota Boyer conveys unto Jeffrey Shawn Selvey. Lot 11, Block 9, City of Waynoka, Nickerson Subdivision. Quit claim deed. Book 1353 page 335: Jeremy Durkee and Kara Durkee convey unto O’Neal Brandon. Section 25, Township 26 north, Range 16 west, S2NW4. Warranty deed. Book 1353 page 337: Emerald K. Properties LLC convey unto Tristan D...
Rest is important for everyone, but it’s a biblical command for God’s people. This Labor Day, remember that even God took a day to rest from all his labors. The rhythms of work and rest are critical for the care of our souls and our relationship with the one who calls us to rest. God loves people so much that he was willing to leave his place of perfect rest in order to enter into the unrest of this world. Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath, became incarnate, as a man who had “no place to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20), so that his followe...
How good are we at waiting patiently for some event to occur, such as Christmas or a birthday? How patient are we to see someone we haven’t seen in a long time? Patience is a virtue according to Galatians 5:22 that we should be developing. When we hope for something or to see someone, we must be patient until the time is right for those things to be delivered. Hope is something that can keep a person strong when waiting on something or someone. As Christians, we hope for the eternal life that is promised to us by our Lord Jesus the Christ. T...
Memorial services for Elaine Schnebel will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, August 29, 2023, at the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Timothy Roggow officiating. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Elaine Osterloh, daughter of the late Emil and Laura (Popken) Osterloh, was born July 17, 1925, at Hooper, Nebraska, and passed away August 23, 2023, at Alva, at the age of 98 years, 1 month and 6 days. She was raised in Hooper where she graduated Hooper High School...
The Smok-Shak in Ingersol is a local legend and, according to Amanda Foreman in The Wall Street Journal, there are 30,000 BBQ joints in the United States. It’s safe to say that the majority of Americans like barbecue. Barbecue is described as cooking meat with an indirect flame at low temperature over seasoned wood or charcoal, allowing the heated smoke to do the cooking. Pellet smokers are popular and the concept is the same. Grilling is not the same as barbecue. Barbecue is a centuries-old t...
Mason Orcutt of Alva has enrolled as a 2023-24 high school junior at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM), the school announced. Orcutt is one of 50 newly enrolled students in the OSSM Class of 2025. Before joining OSSM, Orcutt was a student at Alva High School. “Students who apply to OSSM go through a comprehensive admissions process,” said Tony Cornforth, president of the school. “OSSM challenges students beyond the traditional academic model, and we congratulate Orcutt and his classmates on this achievement.” Created...
Dixon Lewis was an influential member of the U.S. Senate when he died in October 1848 at the relatively young age of 46. Having married into the politically powerful Elmore family, Lewis had a very successful legislative career. As we saw previously, the patriarch of the Elmore clan, Revolutionary War General John Archer Elmore, served several years in the Alabama state house of representatives. Another Elmore in-law, Benjamin Fitzpatrick, was governor of the state and then a U.S. senator. One...
On Aug. 18, Alva FFA and 4-H livestock judging teams attended the Kansas Interstate Fair Livestock Judging Contest in Coffeyville, Kansas. The Senior FFA Livestock judging team placed fifth overall. The intermediate team placed first. Allison Blocker placed first overall intermediate individual. Larson Mantz placed third individually in the junior division. On Aug. 22, Alva FFA held the Annual FFA Ice Cream Social at Hatfield Park. Members of FFA, 4-H and Cloverbuds joined in for an evening of...
Fifth grade teacher Annalisa Roggow, Alva, returned to her classroom this fall at Lincoln Elementary School with a renewed passion for early American history and a variety of new interactive lessons plans after attending the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute in the restored capital city of 18th-century Virginia. While in Colonial Williamsburg – the world’s largest living history museum – Roggow met character interpreters portraying 18th-century people and was immersed in early Ameri...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Jane McDermott was named chair of the Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO) Board of Regents beginning with their new term. Appointed as a RUSO regent by Gov. Mary Fallin in 2017, McDermott succeeds Connie Reilly who has served as chair since 2021. McDermott's service to civic and community organizations includes serving as current president of Alva Board of Education and Wheatland Republican Women. She is the past president of the Higher Education Alumni Council of O...
Two contestants will compete for the title of Miss Alva 2023 Saturday night. The 61st annual pageant begins at 7 p.m. in the Alva High School Auditorium. This year the pageant is hosted by Gold Rush. Added entertainment will include an Electric Gold performance in a set from last fall. Those attending are encouraged to bring coins and cash to cast their votes for the People's Choice award....
Do you love to bake and create? If so, consider entering the “Death by Chocolate” competition at the Woods County Fair and enter your favorite chocolate recipe! Any type of chocolate food item is eligible for entering – pies, cakes, cookies, desserts, candies, even pasta! Entries, with a recipe included, should be in place by 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, in the Women’s Building at the Woods County Fairgrounds. Anyone over 18 years old should enter in the adult division, and competitors under 18 years old should enter the junior divisio...
Treat yourself and your family to a variety of delicious homemade pies made by some of the finest bakers in Woods County at the Woods County Free Fair on Thursday, Sept. 7 through Friday, Sept. 8. The homemade pies will be for sale in the Women’s Building at the Woods County Fairgrounds from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Individual slices will be sold for $3 each and whole pies are available while they last. All proceeds from the pie sale will go to the Woods County Home and Community Education (OHCE) Organization for community and civic programs to b...
The 2nd Annual Alva Invitational Cross Country Meet begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Alva Recreation Complex. The high school boys' 5K race begins at 9 a.m. followed by the high school girls who will run two miles. Middle school events follow with the boys' one mile at 10 a.m. and the girls' one mile at 10:30 a.m. Each event will begin at the conclusion of the previous race. Start times are an estimate....
The Alva Goldbug football team will open their 2023 season at Purcell tonight, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. The Goldbugs had an overall record of 3-7 last year with 2-5 in district play. This will be Coach Dave Foster’s third year to lead the team. Like the Goldbugs, the Purcell Dragons are also a Class 2A team. They are coached by Aaron Dillard and had a 5-5 overall record in 2022. They were fifth in their district with a 3-4 record. The Goldbugs travel to Thomas next week with a 7 p.m. kickoff on Sept. 1. The first home game will be Friday, Sept. 8, w...
What's the graduation rate of Alva incentive scholarship recipients? That's a question Councilmember Joe Parsons asked when the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation presented their last scholarship invoice. NWOSU President Dr. Bo Hannaford promised he'd get that information and report back to the Alva City Council. Monday night, Hannaford was on the agenda to do just that. He said data was pulled for the most recent 2017 cohort and the 2015 cohort. These are students who begin...
The City of Alva does not have a franchise agreement with Oklahoma Natural Gas (ONG). The last one expired in 2019. Alva residents haven't noticed any change except that a franchise fee was removed from their ONG bills, causing them to be a bit lower. At Monday's Alva City Council meeting, representatives of ONG spoke to ask the city to approve scheduling an election on a franchise agreement. Marti Oyler and attorney Dustin Fredrick spoke while local manager Jay Cooper sat in the audience. When...
A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it. When the camera shutter blinked inside an Atlanta jail on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the sort of frame more commonly associated with drug dealers or drunken drivers. The trappings of power gone, for that split second. Left behind: an...
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — When Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivers a high-profile speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, many analysts think he could make one thing clear: That the Fed plans to keep its benchmark interest rate at a peak level for longer than had been expected. Powell isn't likely to say whether the Fed will continue raising rates. But he may signal that any rate cuts are unlikely until well into next year. The central bank has already helped drive inflation down from painfully high levels. But Fed officials have s...
HOUSTON (AP) — A trial over a lawsuit seeking to end a key element of President Joe Biden's immigration policy that allows a limited number of people from four countries in the Americas to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds was set to conclude Friday. However, U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton in Victoria, Texas, was not expected to rule immediately on the legality of the humanitarian parole program once closing arguments wrap up. A decision could come months down the road. At stake is whether the federal government can continue a program t...
The Big 12 was on the endangered list again two summers ago when the only remaining conference members with national championships set off another round of realignment when they said they were switching leagues. With Texas and Oklahoma going into their final season in the Big 12, the conference is bigger than ever with 14 teams, including BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF making their league debuts. Even more teams – four now in the Pac-12 -- are coming in next year when the Red River rivals join the Southeastern Conference. Until then, the 1...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In his first year as head of Oklahoma's public schools, State Superintendent Ryan Walters has taken on what he describes as "radical leftists" indoctrinating students. He has sought to ban certain books from school libraries and gone after efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom. Now, the Republican who has fully embraced so-called culture war issues has a new target in his sights: Tulsa Public Schools, which is Oklahoma's largest school district and has a student body of more than 33,000 s...
The BTK serial killer has been named the "prime suspect" in two unsolved killings — one in Oklahoma and another in Missouri — leading authorities to dig this week near his former Kansas property in Park City, authorities announced Wednesday. Osage County, Oklahoma, Undersheriff Gary Upton told The Associated Press that the investigation into whether Dennis Rader was responsible for additional crimes started with the re-examination last year of the 1976 disappearance of Cynthia Kinney, a 16-year-old cheerleader in Pawhuska. The case, which was i...
