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This week we will read Romans and Galatians. These are both letters from Paul. Paul was educated in the law of Moses and the traditions of the Jews. His mission was to preach Christ to the gentiles, the non-Jews. With his background and knowledge this almost seems like his talents would have been better used in teaching the Jewish people. It turns out he was exactly the right man for the job. There had always been conflict between Jews and Gentiles. The Jews considered themselves superior, often referring to gentiles as dogs. There were Jews...
Jack Staats, instructor of agriculture at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, was honored with a VIP Citation during the National FFA Convention & Expo, held in Indianapolis recently. The VIP Citation recognizes individuals' significant contributions to FFA and agricultural education. "I am very humbled and very appreciative of this award," Staats said. "I am fortunate to be married to a great lady, blessed with a great family, and surrounded by great people that have actually encouraged...
Basketball season is back and in full swing. Burlington basketball had the first ever "10 Quarter Games" to kick their season off. The games were used to collect donations to support the basketball teams. Fans were able to donate for different things to change the games, including options such as players being tied together, players and coaches wearing dresses, or adding points to the score. Shortly after the games, players and fans gathered at Burlington Fire Station for the Purple Pride...
Burlington High School senior Kayli Grace Stewart is the 17-year-old daughter of Kelly and Jennifer Stewart. She was born on Dec. 12, 2003, in Pratt, Kansas. Kayli likes to spend time with her six siblings, doing arts and crafts, singing and spending time with her animals. She also enjoys taking trips to the beach with her family. Kayli is involved in Future Farmers of America (FFA), Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), band, vocal, student council, track, basketball, Burlington FFA...
Burlington Schools has taken on various new staff members. One of them is the high school principal, Gerrett Spears. Spears has added the energy and professionalism that Burlington needed. His favorite thing about Burlington is the community. He says the community has welcomed his family and the events held remind him of events held when he was growing up in Garber. Spears has been in education for nine years and has spent nine years coaching basketball. He has worked in Weatherford, Enid,...
Burlington Robotics can build anything they put their collective minds to, including a robot for this year's theme, Demolition. On Oct. 23, Burlington Robotics won first place in the robot competition, the game, and the B.E.S.T. award too. B.E.S.T. stands for Boosting Engineering Science and Technology. It encompasses a notebook including all research, building designs, marketing and presentation, as well as a display booth, sportsmanship, essentially everything that the team did behind the...
Every year an annual Veterans Day assembly is held in the auditorium at Burlington. This year the staff and students had the opportunity to listen to and learn from Rodger Hill, the grandfather of Burlington students Tyler and Carleigh Hill. He spoke about his life experiences and talked about how Veterans Day came to be and why it was important and special to him. "The Star Spangled Banner" was performed by the Burlington Mixed Choir. An invocation was given by Kayli Stewart and McKenzie Olson...
In the book of Numbers, we have a passage that many are familiar with but since it is in one of the least read books of the Bible we do not read it like we should. “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace” (Numbers 6:24-26). This may not be a passage of Scripture that we think of this time of year. I don’t think about this passage during Thanksgiving. But as I read it I see two things from it. I see a blessing for the future and remin...
Team Standings Rollin' GoodTimes 32 wins, 20 losses Knights of Columbus 32 wins, 20 losses The Bowl Movements 30 wins, 22 losses Dilly Dilly 28 wins, 24 losses O'Bar 28 wins, 24 losses Marshall's Oldtimers 21 wins, 31 losses Livin' on a Spare 19 ½ wins, 32 ½ losses Next Frame 17 ½ wins, 34 ½ losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game—Rollin' GoodTimes – 824 Dilly Dilly – 797 The Bowl Movements – 772 Scratch Series—Dilly Dilly – 2271 Rollin' GoodTimes – 2222 The Bowl Movements – 2217 Handicap Game—Rollin' GoodTimes – 1153 The Bowl Movements – 11...
How old is too old? An article in Time Magazine states: “At some point, and statistically it’s in the 80’s, you begin a more rapid decline.” Physically and mentally, we pose questions about the current president’s fitness and there are questions about the previous one as well. Ronald Reagan had issues near the end of his administration at age 78. A cognitive assessment test is available from Medicare and is part of a routine doctor’s visit through direct observation or by considering...
Every presidential election features several “third” (or minor) parties offering American voters alternative candidates to those running as nominees of the two main parties. Rarely do these minor party candidates make a difference in the outcome of a presidential election; so far, they have never won. The time when one of them came the closest was in 1912. As we have seen, in that year former president Theodore Roosevelt tried to wrest the Republican nomination from the incumbent William How...
The Woods County Excise Board approved monthly appropriations and the treasurer’s service budget and billing for schools Wednesday. Present for the meeting were board members Joe Shirley, Chris Olson and Bob Seivert. County Clerk Shelley Reed was also present. After approving minutes of the special meeting on Oct. 25, the board members approved the following monthly appropriations for the county: District #1 Highway Cash $156,335.11 District #2 Highway Cash $156,444.94 District #3 Highway Cash $837,793.93 District #1 CBRI Fund-105 $12,574.50 D...
Tuesday afternoon's Avard Regional Rail Park Authority meeting didn't last long before members voted to go into executive session. Those present were Chairman Stan Bixler, Allan Poe and Bob Firth. Also attending were Woods County Clerk Shelley Reed and Neal Williams, the Woods County Economic Development Committee director. (Authority members Ed Sutter and Todd Holder joined a little later after they finished with other meetings.) Some guests were there, too: Greg Shepard (via Zoom), Larry and Peggy Sutton, and Jesse and Michelle Chapman. The...
Monday night, the Alva City Council approved Ward 2 Councilmember Gail Swallow as the council representative on the ARC (Alva Recreation Complex) Board. Swallow takes the place of Brandon Sherman who is no longer on the city council because he moved outside the city limits. Sherman expressed an interest in continuing on the ARC Board so the council approved his appointment to fill the spot previously held by Jaci Heaton. His term will expire in October 2024. Before voting on reappointing Shane Hansen to the ARC Board, Councilmember Troy Brooks...
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...
Alva, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State men's basketball team hosted their home opener Monday evening with a non-conference game against Kansas Christian College. The Rangers used a dominating first half from a 26 points lead after hitting eight first-half threes. The Red-and-Black would go on to win the game by 27 points 99-72 Monday evening behind a spread-out offensive attack. The Rangers' offense was led by Jason Douglas-Stanley, finishing with a team-high 15 points as one of seven p...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — After a six-year moratorium on the death penalty following a series of botched lethal injections, Oklahoma officials announced in August they would seek execution dates for seven condemned men . By the next month, their executions were scheduled, leading some death penalty supporters to believe the state's executions would resume posthaste. But what was once one of the nation's busiest death chambers has not resumed administering capital punishment as easily as some had hoped after Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday s...
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Tanner Groves scored a season-high 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds in leading Oklahoma to an 87-63 victory over Indiana State on Friday in a Myrtle Beach Invitational semifinal. Groves was 10-of-15 shooting, hitting three 3-pointers. Jordan Goldwire added 14 points and Umoja Gibson and Tanner's brother, Jacob Groves, scored 11 each. The Sooners (4-0) shot over 56% in the second half when they broke the game open. Division II transfer Cameron Henry had a season-high 25 points on 10-of-19 shooting with eight rebounds t...
Seven tribes are asking an Alabama university to return the remains of nearly 6,000 people excavated over the years from what once was one of the largest Native American settlements in North America. The Oklahoma-based Muscogee Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and five other tribes have filed a petition under a federal law for the return of 5,982 "human remains of our ancestors" and funerary objects now held by the University of Alabama and its Moundville Archaeological Park. "These are human beings. We consider them to be our grandparents,"...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge on Friday convicted a white Kansas City police officer of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the fatal shooting of a Black man, in a case in which prosecutors said police planted evidence. Jackson County Judge Dale Youngs issued the bench ruling against Officer Eric DeValkenaere in the death of Cameron Lamb, 26. Lamb was shot while backing into his garage on Dec. 3, 2019, after chasing his girlfriend's convertible in a stolen pickup truck. Police said in a statement that following the v...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge ordered Kansas on Friday to suspend a new law prohibiting out-of-state groups from mailing advance ballot applications, siding with two national nonprofit groups that contend it disenfranchises voters. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil granted the preliminary injunction against the law sought by VoteAmerica and the Voter Participation Center. She also rejected the state's efforts to dismiss the lawsuit. Vratil noted in her ruling the critical constitutional issues that still need to be decided in the c...
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Drivers scrambled to grab cash Friday morning after bags of money fell out of an armored truck on a Southern California freeway, authorities said. The incident occurred shortly before 9:15 a.m. on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad as the truck was heading from San Diego to an office of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., authorities said. "One of the doors popped open and bags of cash fell out," California Highway Patrol Sgt. Curtis Martin said. Several bags broke open, spreading money — mainly $1 and $20 bills — all over the l...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes, accused of bamboozling investors and patients into believing that her startup Theranos had developed a blood-testing device that would reshape health care, took the witness stand Friday in her trial for criminal fraud. The surprise decision to have Holmes testify so early came as a bombshell and carries considerable risk. Federal prosecutors, who rested their months-long case earlier on Friday, have made it clear that they're eager to grill Holmes under oath. Prosecutors w...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth's largest trees, officials said Friday. Fires in Sequoia National Park and surrounding Sequoia National Forest tore through more than a third of groves in California and torched an estimated 2,261 to 3,637 sequoias, which are the largest trees by volume. Nearby wildfires last year killed an unprecedented 7,500 to 10,400 giant sequoias that are only native in a...
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after testifying he acted in self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S. Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up, fell forward toward the defense table and then hugged one of his attorneys as he heard a court clerk recite "not guilty" five times. A sheriff's deputy whisked him out a back door. "He wants to get on with his life," defense attorney Mark Richards said. "He has a huge se...
