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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...
One of the many mistaken notions of the modern church is that the goal of Christianity is to change the culture; that the culture should somehow be forced into conformity with Christianity. However, this is certainly not the message of the New Testament. Christians are never told to change the culture around them. Instead, we are told that the need for change is much closer to home, in the mind of the individual. In his letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul wrote, “Be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your m...
Our daughter, Elizabeth, is a bibliophile (a lover of the written word). I have no idea how many books she owns or has read in her life, but she would quickly tell you that the number simply isn’t large enough. Perhaps she inherited the trait from her mother, who can always be found with her cell phone/digital reader in hand or at least within arm's reach. The other day, Elizabeth and I got into a discussion about L. Frank Baum’s famous work, “The Wizard of Oz,” and Becky soon joined in. Looking back, I think the discussion was spawned by a qu...
American colonists fought, sacrificed and died to establish and preserve the freedom now guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the United States. The right to privacy has come to the attention through various controversial Supreme Court rulings. Privacy is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution but over the years the Supreme Court has made decisions that have established that the right to privacy is a basic human right and as such is protected by virtue of the Ninth Amendment. The Cherokee Outlet Chapter of the Daughters of the...
Oklahoma Hunter Education Course will be held at the Northwest Technology Center, 1801 S. 11th St., in Alva on Saturday, Sept. 16, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For registration information please call 580-327-0344....
Friends of the Alva Public Library will host Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma’s program “The Gilded Age” at five events from Sept. 18 through Nov. 20. The event is made possible by a grant from Oklahoma Humanities with generous funding from the Inasmuch Foundation and the Kirkpatrick Family Fund. Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma is a program that brings readers and humanities scholars together to discuss works of literature about a specific theme. “The Gilded Age” will include novels written between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of...
Now that the spring and summer storm seasons are over, most people are not thinking about planning for a disaster. However, it is a great time for a family to consider how you can protect one of your most treasured assets: your photos and photo albums. A Save Your Photos (SYP) program will be presented at the Alva Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to noon. The Save Your Photos program is designed to help attendees put a plan to protect their photos in place before a disaster hits. Presenter Carolyn Baird will cover the ABCs of...
Rescued. It's how Fred and Edith Birdsall, Houston residents who relocated to Enid last Friday, describe how they feel. The couple, who own a hurricane-flooded home, was picked up last week. "We are truly refugees from the flood," Fred said. "We have been rescued, yes," Edith said. The morning after Hurricane Harvey hit, Edith woke up around 6 a.m. "It was so quiet, and we knew the hurricane would come, but Hurricane Ike in 2008 was so loud. We didn't hear anything, so I looked out of the window in back and the whole garage, the whole...
Perhaps you have mistakenly bought artificial cheese slices. It’s quite a let down from American, but, after all, real cheese is made from milk, not plastic. Another attempt at a substitute was a frying oil called olestra, claiming to lower calories but causing intestinal distress. Not a good trade-off. Other artificial products are sweeteners that have been blamed but not proven to cause Alzheimer’s. There was proof that sodium cyclamate caused bladder cancer in laboratory rats. It was use...
Saturday, Sept. 9, was the most important day of the second week of the 2017 U.S. college football season. Many sports fans attended college football games that day while millions more watched on television. Football, our country’s most popular spectator sport, monopolized media coverage of athletic events on Sept. 9, so fans can be forgiven if they failed to notice another contest that also occurred on that recent Saturday. Unbeknownst to many people, an historic tennis match was played in N...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State University head men's basketball coach Shawn Dirden has made the finishing touches on his coaching staff for the upcoming 2017-18 season official. The changes include two new hires and a promotion, as Dirden believes that he has found the right guys to help develop the young talent that the Rangers will look to for success this season. Jordan Franz, Assistant Coach Dirden is excited to announce the promotion of Jordan Franz as the lead men's assistant basketball coach at NWOSU. "Jordan has been an i...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The men's cross-country team was in action Saturday, Sept. 9, at the SWOSU Open where they ran a 5.1-mile race. The guys brought home a fourth place finish. Clayton Fletcher a junior from Kilgore, Texas, led the way in his first meet for the Red and Black as he was the first Ranger to cross the finish line clocking in at a time of 28:08. Ben Ivory would be the second Ranger finisher of the day posting a time of 30:04. Tyler Mueller concluded his race shortly after Ivory stopping the officials clocks at a time of 30:52. R...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. -- The Northwestern Oklahoma State football team is looking for their first win of the 2017 season as they head to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for the second time this season, but this time to take on the Henderson State Reddies. The past four seasons have been tough in this series between the two teams, but the Rangers are looking to turn the tables and take home a win. For the second straight week Northwestern was on the short end of the outcome against Arkansas-Monticello, but feel like they are poised for a run of luck and...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State men's golf team concluded their first tournament of the season with a record-breaking performance at the Great American Conference Preview held at Lake Hefner Golf Club's North Course. The Rangers recorded a final round team score of 290 to set the new school record for lowest team finish in a three-round event. That record number of 876 (297-289-290) placed the Rangers in ninth place, bettering the previous low team total by more than 10 strokes. Senior Cole Ward got his senior season i...
The Alva Airport Commission made some progress on several ongoing projects during their meeting Monday. Dale Logsdon was absent so Paul Kinzie chaired the meeting. Airport Manager Greg Murray reported 79 customer interactions in the last month. Total sales for August for $16,428.02 were up about $1,600 from July. The airport sold $11,995.68 in 100LL fuel and $4,229.40 in Jet A. The remaining $204.94 was from oil sales. Murray said dirt work began on the turf runway Aug. 21. Shirley Dozer representative Levi Rose told him they expected to wrap...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State University women's soccer team suffered an 8-1 loss at the hands of the Newman University Jets on Tuesday evening. The Rangers' lone goal came from Yazmin Gomez who drove home her first of the 2017 season. Northwestern had a great chance taken away early when Karla Lopez was tripped from behind on a breakaway, resulting in a yellow card for the Jet defender. The Rangers managed just seven shots against a determined Jets squad that was coming off a 4...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State volleyball team lost to Oklahoma Baptist in their first Great American Conference match of the season, 3-1 (19-25, 13-25, 25-21, 19-25). The Rangers (5-5, 0-1 GAC) were outmatched in the kill category 59-to-39 in the match and also got blocked 10 separate times by the Bison. Northwestern picked up a key victory in the fourth set of the match after dropping the first two sets by a comfortable margin for the Bison. The Rangers answered the first two t...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University held its annual Miss Cinderella Orientation session Sunday, Sept. 10, and welcomed 19 young women who will represent their high schools from Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas during the 66th annual Miss Cinderella Pageant held as part of the school's homecoming celebration at the end of September. Contestants and their sponsors met with the pageant committee to review all requirements and rules associated with the talent show on Sept. 28, the pageant itself on...
ADA – The East Central University soccer team picked up its second-straight win, with a 2-1 victory over Eastern New Mexico in non-conference action at Tiger Field. The Tigers (2-3) were led by junior Kendall Cook, who tallied two shots on goal and a goal. Junior Chloe Hull earned her first win in net, allowing one goal and stopping five shots. ECU started the scoring at 26:28 in the first half, when Cook sent in a shot from the middle of the field at the top of the box. She was assisted on the goal by junior Summer Whalen. The second goal o...
Jon Chidester, SWOSU Sports Information WEATHERFORD, Okla. – Alimata Rabo netted four goals for the second time in her career as SWOSU Soccer rolled past West Texas A&M 6-0 on Thursday out at the Athletic Complex. The Bulldogs never gave the Lady Buffs any time to breathe, jumping ahead 1-0 in the third minute of the match after an Olivia Butler long pass set up Rabo with a run down the middle of the field. After beating the WT goalie, she fired to the back of the net and SWOSU never looked back from there. In the 20th minute it was again R...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A training exercise involving demolitions killed one special operations soldier and injured seven others at the Army's largest base Thursday, just a day after 15 Marines were hurt in a fire while training in California. The soldiers were taken to several hospitals, including the Womack Army Medical Center on base for treatment, said Lt. Col. Rob Bockholt, a spokesman for the U.S. Army's Special Operations Command, which is based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Staff Sgt. Alexander P. Dalida, 32, of Dunstable, M...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was the second aggressive test-flight over the territory of the close U.S. ally in less than a month and it followed the sixth and most powerful nuclear test by North Korea to date on Sept. 3. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) while reaching a maximum height of 770 kilometers (478 m...
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The top commander of U.S. nuclear forces said Thursday he assumes the Sept. 3 nuclear test by North Korea was a hydrogen bomb, suggesting a heightened U.S. concern that the North has advanced to a new level of nuclear firepower. Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of Strategic Command, told reporters that while he was not in a position to confirm it, he assumes from the size of the underground explosion and other factors that it was a hydrogen bomb — which is a leap beyond the fission, or atomic, bom...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday extended sanctions relief to Iran, avoiding imminent action that could implode the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, even as President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accused Tehran of not respecting the entire agreement. The extensions of the waivers on nuclear sanctions, first issued by the Obama administration, were accompanied by new penalties imposed against 11 Iranian people and companies accused of supporting Iran's ballistic missile program or involvement in cyber-attack...
