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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...
This past Sunday I talked to the congregation about prayer. I realize that some of them may be reading this (if you are, HI!) but I’m gonna take a chance at repeating myself to a few of them by sharing with you just a little of what I shared with them this morning. There are an awful lot of needs we all have right now. We are living in crazy times and it seems like nobody knows exactly what the next few hours will hold, let alone the next few months! This has, I suspect, led to an awful lot o...
Pain is something we all live with and some have more than others. There is a distinction between acute and chronic. Medicine defines pain as a symptom of an underlying condition. Pain has its purpose, usually to motivate the body to withdraw from a damaging situation. Most pain is resolved quickly by assessing the cause and avoiding the source in the future. Sometimes pain arises for no apparent reason and no diagnosis is found, but pain is pain and it interferes with quality of life even to...
On August 18, 1920, the Tennessee state legislature was considering becoming the 36th state to ratify the proposed 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. If Tennessee ratified the amendment, it would be added to the Constitution. The state senate had approved the provision but the state house of representatives had not. That body was meeting in Nashville in special session to vote on that one issue. Supporters and opponents of the measure descended upon...
Team Standings The Bowl Movements: 15 wins, 5 losses Dilly Dilly: 14 wins, 6 losses Knights of Columbus: 14 wins, 6 losses Marshall's Oldtimers: 9 wins, 11 losses O'Bar: 8 wins, 12 losses Rollin Good Times: 8 wins, 12 losses Next Frame: 6 wins, 14 losses Ghost Team: 0 wins, 20 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game: O'Bar – 820, Dilly Dilly – 811, The Bowl Movements – 778 Scratch Series: Dilly Dilly – 2302, The Bowl Movements – 2273, O'Bar – 2271 Handicap Game: O'Bar – 1167, The Bowl Movements – 1163, Next Frame – 1148 Handicap Series:...
With the holidays just around the corner, many families are planning special meals that include many traditional favorites. One way to help keep these family traditions alive is to get your kids in the kitchen with you. Not only will your children gain an appreciation for some time-honored recipes and family traditions, they also will develop more healthy eating habits, said Jenni Klufa, assistant state specialist with Oklahoma State University Extension’s Community Nutrition Education Program. “Obesity rates are up for both children and adu...
Having trained paramedics in rural communities can save lives. Paramedics are advantageous to rural communities because they are heavily relied upon by hospitals in emergency situations. Access to paramedics is also important for bringing industry to rural communities. Improved healthcare is appealing to businesses as well as college students. Paramedics also have a job everywhere they go. Several job opportunities are available to those in the field, including ambulance and fire services, clinics and hospitals, air medical services and many...
Officers of the Alva FFA and Burlington FFA chapters participated in the 2020 Oklahoma FFA Chapter Officer Leadership Training Conference on Sept. 29 at the Enid Events Center in Enid. The eight state FFA officers planned and conducted this year's conference based on the theme "Reduce, Renew, Resolve." This year, the conference was split into two sessions to allow for proper social distancing protocols, and all participants were required to wear masks. Kelly Barnes, Choctaw, Oklahoma, was the...
Pastor Tim Roggow's life has always centered around faith and education. He was a third grade teacher for seven years and a director of Christian education for almost 20. Maybe that's why he seems so deeply gentle, so kind to his core. Roggow is the newly ordained pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Alva. "We're just thankful that the Lord has placed us here," he said. "It's been good." Most of Roggow's early life was spent in the northeastern corner of Nebraska, where his parents were Lutheran...
On Tuesday night, members of the Avard Regional Rail Park Authority held their monthly meeting. Members Stan Bixler, Ed Sutter and Todd Holder were joined by Woods County Economic Development Committee director Neal Williams and Woods County Commissioner Randy McMurphy in the conference room while board member Bob Firth joined via video. Former WCEDC director Sonja Williams also joined by video. (Allan Poe was unable to attend.) After approving the previous month's minutes, the board opted to convene in an executive session that lasted almost...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities Thursday night in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Here's how some of the rhetoric compared with the facts in the prime-time events and a day of campaigning: ECONOMY TRUMP: "We had the greatest economy in the history of our country." THE FACTS: The numbers show it wasn't the greatest in U.S. history. Did the U.S. have the most jobs on record before the pandemic? Sure, the population had grown....
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A group of citizens in Norman who launched a petition drive seeking to oust a City Council member did not have the number of signatures needed to force a recall election, the city clerk acknowledged in a legal filing. Ward 3 Councilor Alison Petrone filed a lawsuit on Sept. 22 against City Clerk Brenda Hall after she certified 2,580 of the 3,444 signatures submitted by the group "Unite Norman," just seven more than required. Petrone's attorney challenged the credibility of the group's signatures, alleging the petition f...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's four-week average of unemployment claims has fallen below 100,000 for the first time since the jobless rate skyrocketed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the state employment security commission reported Thursday. The rolling average for the week ending Oct. 10 was 90,445, down from 100,464 the previous week and the unadjusted number of initial claims was 4,840, down by 940 from the prior week's revised total 5,780. A record of more than 182,000 continuing claims were reported in late June as the state reopened f...
No. 8 Cincinnati's game at Tulsa on Saturday has been postponed because of positive COVID-19 tests among Bearcats players. The American Athletic Conference announced Thursday the game is being rescheduled for Dec. 5. The number of players who have tested positive or have been quarantined through contact tracing has not been revealed by Cincinnati. The school has not been making those numbers public throughout its testing of athletes. Cincinnati is next scheduled to play Oct. 24 at No. 17 SMU. Overall, it is the major college fifth game that...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Protesters in Kansas City, Missouri, chained themselves to the doors of a downtown courthouse Thursday and shut down virtual eviction proceedings with online disruptions. The protest, which drew about 100 people, was organized by the nonprofit group KC Tenants, the Kansas City Star reported. Protesters holding signs saying "eviction kills" and "court's closed today" called on Jackson County Judge David Byrn to halt eviction hearings and keep residents in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic and related economic c...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A virtual diversity event at Kansas State University was flooded with racist comments after a white student who caused an uproar with a racist tweet about George Floyd earlier this year shared a link to the livestream and Zoom call with his followers. The executive board of the KSU Young Democrats blamed followers of Jaden McNeil for disrupting Tuesday's KSUnite event in a tweet and demanded that he be expelled, The Manhattan Mercury reported. "Kansas State might claim to have a welcoming atmosphere, but it's all a s...
Hey old-timer, what are you still doing on an NFL field? Guaranteed no one is asking that question to the quarterbacks in the bays: 43-year-old Tom Brady in Tampa and 36-year-old Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. The two future residents of Canton, Ohio — at least their busts in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, that is — spice up the Packers-Buccaneers game Sunday in Tampa. And who says these quarterbacks are old? Certainly not Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians, who has worked with some of the best — young or old — throughout the decades. "Barring major i...
Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the U.S., forcing many places to reimpose tough restrictions eased just months ago. Well after Europe seemed to have largely tamed the virus that proved so lethal last spring, newly confirmed infections are reaching unprecedented levels in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and Poland. Most of the rest of the continent is seeing similar danger signs. France announced a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican state treasurer and Democratic Topeka mayor who are running for the open seat in Kansas' 2nd Congressional District clashed over police reform and racial justice in a debate. Jake LaTurner, the state's treasurer, was on the attack Wednesday for much of the 30-minute debate, televised by KSNT in Topeka. He accused Michelle De La Isla, Topeka's first Latina mayor, of holding "radical" beliefs such as defunding police, The Kansas City Star reports. De La Isla said she does "not support defunding the police" a...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Star and its owner, The McClatchy Company, are suing a Kansas City suburb for records related to the 2018 police killing of an Overland Park teenager. The newspaper reported that the lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses city officials of violating the Kansas Open Records Act by refusing to release the resignation and severance agreement of former Officer Clayton Jenison. Jenison fatally shot 17-year-old John Albers in January 2018 as the teen was backing a minivan out of his family's garage. The officer had b...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — With COVID-19 cases surging in rural areas across the Midwest, a county sheriff in northwestern Kansas found himself struggling to breathe and landed in a hospital room more than an hour from home because there was no space at the local medical center. The county's emergency management director, the hospital CEO and more than 50 medical staff have also tested positive. Most of the 30-plus residents in the local nursing home caught the virus, and six have died since late September. Gove County, with a population of 2,600, i...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rudolph and his still-shiny nose are getting a new home, and it's bound to be a lot nicer than the Island of Misfit Toys. The soaring reindeer and Santa Claus figures who starred in in the perennially beloved stop-motion animation Christmas special "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" are going up for auction. Auction house Profiles in History announced Thursday that a 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa used to animate the 1964 TV special are being sold together in the auction that starts Nov. 13 and are expected to f...
The Alva Goldbugs went into Thursday night's fall break football game with high hopes of improving their district record, but it was not to be. The Goldbugs fell to the Perry Maroons 46-14. It seemed like each time Alva gained some momentum, a turnover turned the tide. Perry scored first following an Alva fumble with quarterback Brody Harbour rushing the final yard. Alva progressed from their 37 to the Perry 30 in nine plays but missed completing a first down by inches. Perry scored on the next...
