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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...
“What would Jesus do?” is an expression that was coined by Charles Sheldon in 1886 in Topeka, Kansas. (I just learned something.) I remember it becoming popular when I was growing up. You can still find the bracelets, hats and other items with the letters WWJD on them. There were movies made based on them also. They are good to watch. In the world we live in, it seems that we need to be asking ourselves this question more often. I see things being shared on social media that shouldn’t be share...
What passage of scripture has the greatest amount of ungodliness? Perhaps Jude’s quotation from one of the most ancient of the known prophets would be a contender. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These people are grumblers a...
Business is picking up at Share Medical Center, according to CEO Kandice Allen. She was giving a report at the monthly Alva Hospital Authority (AHA) meeting Tuesday. Dr. Bryce Galbraith, who opened his practice in July, is getting busier too. AHA members present were Chairman Jason Gaisford, Dr. Kenneth Brown, Dr. Bo Hannaford, Dr. Halah Simon, Jay Randels and Dr. Michael Lawrence. Kim Baugh was absent. During July the hospital had four swing bed patients, all on Medicare, resulting in 48 swing bed days. There were 31 patients admitted to the...
Northwest Technology Center with campuses in Alva and Fairview was recently awarded a lottery grant from the State of Oklahoma for a mobile welding lab. The mobile lab will be used to train employees for local businesses and add additional hands-on training experience to high school and adult students attending the full-time Welding Technology Program. Steve Kliewer, Business and Industry Services director at NWTC Fairview, and J.P. Parker, welding instructor at NWTC, completed the grant application. The mobile lab will use a modified gooseneck...
The lineup for November’s general election is set. Tuesday’s runoff election finalized Oklahoma’s high-profile congressional fifth district race. Meanwhile, several incumbent Republicans lost key seats in the Legislature and elsewhere, potentially setting up tight races this fall. As the dust settles on Oklahoma’s latest election, here is a look at how Tuesday will impact the general election. Experts Predict Tight Horn vs. Bice Contest The biggest win of the night, at least in terms of statewide and national interest, went to state Sen. St...
Memorial services for Terry Lee Hodgson will be 10 a.m. Monday, August 31, 2020, at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel. The cremains will be interred in the Short Springs Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Terry Lee Hodgson, son of Ronald Orie and Joquietta Ann (Walker) Hodgson, was born October 15, 1960, and passed away August 25, 2020, at the age of 59 years, 10 months, and 10 days. Terry graduated from Cherokee High School and attended Northwestern Oklahoma State...
Northwestern had nineteen student teachers. Thank you for all the hard work you have already done to prepare to educate the future generations....
“Cadillac rollin’ down the open road, but nothin’ outrun my V-8 Ford.” — Chuck Berry. The Ford V-8 was not the first V-8 engine but the first affordable to the mass market consumer. Introduced in 1932, it was installed in thousands of cars, trucks and utility vehicles until production in the U.S. ceased in 1953. Included on the Ward’s list of the 10 best engines of the 20th century, it was the engine of choice for hot rodders in the ‘50s and remains popular today. Ford had been riding the cr...
Jeanne Calment of Arles, France, made world news in 1997 when she died at the age of 122. That made her the world’s longest-lived person since records have been kept. Or did it? Some people were always skeptical about Calment’s supposed age. Recently, researchers have posited a theory that – if true – debunks her legend. Calment was born in August 1875 into a fairly wealthy family. When she married, she and her husband (who was also born rich) lived a rather upper-class lifestyle with servant...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Northwestern had the fourth most student-athletes received, the All-Academic Great American Conference honor announced Monday. The GAC honored the conference student-athletes who also excelled in academics with the announcement of the Winter/Spring GAC All-Academic Teams setting a new record, with 552 student-athletes receiving the honor. The Lady Rangers basketball team led the GAC and the baseball team shared the lead with Ouachita Baptist. The 17 selections in baseball ranked as the second-best total for any sport. "Divi...
The Red Bluff Classic is sponsored by the Freedom Public School Athletic Department and always on Freedom Rodeo weekend. It was held Aug. 15. Women 5K Results Age Group 11-15 1st – Hannah Greenleaf 2nd – Brianna McGee 3rd – Emerson Sherer Age Group 26-30 1st - Ashleigh Shephard Age Group 31-35 1st - Sara Gasset Age Group 36-40 1st - Jill Russell Age Group 41-45 1st - Alyssa Hillman Age Group 46-50 *1st - Kari Nixon First Place Overall Time 24:26 Age Group 51-55 1st - Sandra Ransome Age Group...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Erik Gonzalez and Adam Frazier singled in runs, rookie Cody Ponce earned his first big league victory and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 Thursday night for a doubleheader sweep. Cole Tucker drove in the go-ahead run in extra innings in the Pirates' 4-3 win in the opener. Ponce (1-1) was used as a reliever in his first two appearances this season and made his first major league start. He went 5 2/3 innings, holding the Cardinals scoreless and scattering five hits. "You know what, it's awesome. It's a f...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- PANHANDLE OIL AND GAS, INC. (NYSE: PHX) ("Panhandle" or the "Company") announced today that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock (the "Common Stock Offering"). Panhandle also intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 750,000 additional shares of common stock. Panhandle intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for pending acquisitions and for general corporate purposes. Stifel and Northland Capital Markets are actin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of federal appeals court judges is letting the U.S. government proceed with the planned execution of a man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 10-year-old Kansas girl. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday evening acted to let the execution of Keith Dwayne Nelson go forward Friday afternoon as scheduled. The court acted less than 24 hours after a lower court judge had halted his execution, saying the law requires the government to get a prescription for the d...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man who kicked a 1-year-old Black child and yelled racial slurs in a Wichita grocery store was sentenced to prison Thursday after prosecutors said rehabilitation efforts failed. Trace Riff was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for the December 2018 attack and for drug crimes, The Wichita Eagle reported. The 1-year-old boy was kicked while he was with his pregnant mother and an older sibling at a Dillon's store. The toddler was not physically injured. Riff, 33, pleaded no contest in May to attempted a...
WESTWOOD, Kan. (AP) — A man already in prison for one killing has been charged in the shooting death of a grocery store worker in suburban Kansas City in 2003, law enforcement authorities announced Thursday. Eugene Clayton Keltner, 40, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of David "Ray" Ninemire at the store in Westwood, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said. Ninemire, 68, was shot and killed when he went to the aid of a co-worker during a robbery at the former Westwood Apple Market, police said. Witnesses said the r...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Health officials ordered residents of nine University of Kansas fraternity and sorority chapter houses to quarantine for two weeks following a coronavirus outbreak on campus. The university opened its fall semester Monday with in-person classes and offered free testing for students, faculty and staff. By Tuesday, 222 people had tested positive out of 19,452 test results received, for a positivity rate of 1.1%, according to the university. But the rate among fraternities and sororities was nearly 5.5%, with 133 Greek m...
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — A former Emporia State University employee was awarded $64,303 Thursday after she complained the school retaliated against her by not renewing her contract when she complained about racial discrimination. Angelica Hale and her husband, Melvin Hale, who are Black, filed separate lawsuits in 2016, alleging they were not rehired because they raised concerns about discrimination when an assistant found a note with a racial slur in their department. Melvin Hale was an associate professor at School of Library and Information M...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DNI, a tribally-owned prime contractor, is excited to announce its collaboration with OBI to provide a public blood drive in Oklahoma City on Tuesday, September 1, from 11-4. OBI will arrive in their "Bloodmobile," parking it in the NE parking lot of the 2000 N. Classen Blvd. office buildings. Every donor will receive: Coupon for a Whataburger Honey Butter Chicken BiscuitFREE COVID-19 antibody test if desired"Gone Savin' Lives!" t-shirt (colors will vary; while supplies last)One choice of the...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former girlfriend said she was slapped and choked in late December by a 19-year-old Kansas House candidate who already has admitted to circulating revenge porn and abusive online behavior toward girls when he was younger. Taylor Passow, a 21-year-old Topeka resident, told The Kansas City Star and The Topeka Capital-Journal that she stopped seeing Aaron Coleman in late January, before he launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination in a Kansas City, Kansas, district. Coleman narrowly defeated seven-term state Rep. S...
TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 26, 2020-- Williams (NYSE: WMB) announced today its climate commitment, setting a near-term goal of 56% absolute reduction from 2005 levels in company-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, putting the company on a positive trajectory to be net zero carbon emissions by 2050. By setting a near-term goal for 2030, the company plans to leverage its natural gas-focused strategy and technology that is available today to focus on immediate opportunities to reduce emissions, scale renewables and build a clean...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma House Democrats criticized Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday for failing to implement the recommendations of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and called for the creation of a state-level bipartisan task force. House Democratic Leader Rep. Emily Virgin lambasted Stitt for failing to impose a statewide mask mandate and the closure of bars in areas with high transmission rates, both recommendations of the federal task force. "Our focus should be only on how to save lives, not how to get reelected," V...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve announced a significant change Thursday in how it manages interest rates by saying it plans to keep rates near zero even after inflation has exceeded its 2% target level. The change means the Fed is prepared to tolerate a higher level of inflation than it generally has in the past. And it means that borrowing rates for households and businesses — for everything from auto loans and home mortgages to corporate expansion — will likely remain ultra-low for years to come. The new goal states that "foll...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a fraught national moment, President Donald Trump was accepting his party's renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night, breaking with tradition by using the executive mansion as a political backdrop and defying pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd. As crises churned outside the gates, Trump was painting an optimistic vision of America's future, including an eventual triumph over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 175,000 people, left m...
