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Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday – Pancake, scrambled eggs, fruit, juice, milk Tuesday – Breakfast burrito, fruit, juice, milk Wednesday – Biscuit and sausage gravy, fruit, juice, milk Thursday – Muffin, yogurt, fruit, juice, milk Friday – Cinnamon roll, fruit, juice, milk Lunch Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday – Grilled cheese, baby carrots, tater tots, fruit, milk Tuesday – Spaghetti and meat sauce, green beans, side salad, breadstick, fruit, milk Wednesday – Waffle and syrup, scrambled eggs, sausage patty, seasoned potato...
Real Estate Transfers Book 1355 page 500: Mark Lynn Irwin and Ann Florence Irwin convey unto Virgil Ethan Irwin. Section 10, township 23N, range 13W, SW4, Section 15, township 232N, range 13W, W2NW4. Quit claim deed. Book 1355 page 587: Jerako Properties LLC conveys unto Hayden Caldwell. Lot 13, block 25, City of Alva, OT Subdivision. Warranty deed. Book 1355 page 870: Bobby Alan and Letha Mae McCray Family Revocable Trust convey unto Mitchell Bouziden and Cassi Bouziden. Section 11, township 24N, range 14W, E2SW4, W2SE4. Warranty deed....
Thursday, November 23, 2023 During this day were two traffic stops and one controlled burn. 1:09 a.m. – Report of a noise complaint on Logan Street. 4:29 a.m. – Report of a business burglar alarm on Oklahoma Boulevard. 10:05 a.m. – Medic needed on Birch Avenue for a person with breathing problems. 2:48 p.m. – Report of a suspicious person. 3:05 p.m. – Report of a traffic complaint on Main Street. 4:17 p.m. – Medic needed on Colorado Street for a person with breathing problems. 5:38 p.m. – Medic needed on Cherokee Street for a general medical is...
New homes and rental properties could hit the Oklahoma market in the next two years if rules for a $215 million state-funded construction loan program are approved by the end of the year, officials said. The Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency, which will oversee the state’s new Housing Stability Program, is crafting rules to administer it. During a virtual meeting Wednesday, the agency sought suggestions as it works to finalize the program’s rules. The agency serves low-income residents with vouchers for rental assistance, and down payment and...
Not with life in general, which doesn't help my sanity, but with Medicare Part C commercials and phone calls. If all the money spent on advertising was used for healthcare, we wouldn't even need supplements. Congress, hurry and make it a federal offense to call me after Dec 7. Once in a while I answer a call because it has a number close to a customer number. I always ask if they have a sister available for me and all, but one has said something derogatory and hung up. The guy from India said...
“Private” businesses that are given monopolies typically want to have their cake and eat it too. Thus, a major utility in Oklahoma has sought to impose huge rate increases on consumers while still not having to compete for those customers. This situation highlights the one time that regulation is truly necessary. In the private market, where private companies compete for customers, most government regulation is either unnecessary at best or counterproductive at worst. Because of market forces, companies that fail to deliver quality service at...
One of the first and most important things I learned early on in my relationship with my wife is the important distinction between “good” and “not bad” when describing something. To the best of my memory, my wife had cooked dinner for me, and when she asked how it was, I said, “It wasn’t bad.” At that point, I received a long and very adamant recitation on the big difference between the two sayings. She explained precisely and pointedly that describing something as “not bad” does not have the...
Here’s what happens so often. A person becomes an adult, marries, has children, grows ill or old, and dies. Then the family of the deceased comes together to grieve, and to then plan the funeral. The flower shop gets notified to send flowers, and they all attend the service where the bouquets are usually on display. Afterward, they often follow the casket to the burial site and watch attentively as the flowers they ordered are placed on the grave. Then the family slowly and mournfully walks a...
We woke up today (Thursday) to find a deceased deer in our backyard on Murray Drive. We contacted Oklahoma Wildlife office and the game warden came out and discovered the young deer had been shot by an arrow, and died quickly from the wound. The game warden asked to be on the lookout for anyone with a bow and arrow in our neighborhood, as it was a poaching incident, the deer was too young to be hunted. The game warden removed the deer from our backyard....
Linda Robin, the daughter of Margery Lee (Kirkbride) and Dr. Lowell Newton Clyne, was born on January 9, 1940, in McLeansboro, Illinois. She died on December 1, 2023, at the age of 83 years, 10 months and 22 days. She was a graduate of Alva High School and Northwestern University. She was an educator earning a master's in science while living and teaching in Texas. Linda was preceded in death by her father in 1943, a daughter, Bridget Hoskins in 2004, and her mother in 2009. Robin is survived by...
A Woods County felony warrant has been issued for a Lawton man on a false pretenses/con game charge. According to court records, on Nov. 8, Jo Thompson told District Attorney’s Investigator Steve Tanio she had been the victim of fraud by a long-time acquaintance, Bryan Peeler. Thompson said approximately two months ago while in Alva, she received a cellphone call from Peeler who asked if she was interested in purchasing a four-wheel Razor ATV from him. He sent a photograph of a 2019 Razor from his cellphone in Comanche County to Thompson’s cel...
Vocal students at Alva Middle School and Alva High School have been working since August to prepare for state auditions against all class sizes. Middle school students prepared three pieces of music and high school students prepared four under the direction of Naicee Sutter. Six students have been awarded the highest vocal honor in the state. Dash Dickey, tenor 2, and Avery Goss, soprano 1, made the Oklahoma Music Educators Association All State Mixed Choir. Madeline Ryerson, soprano 2, will be representing Alva in the Oklahoma Music Educators...
The Alva Board of Education will hold a special meeting during the noon hour Monday to make a decision on filling the vacant Seat 5 on the board. The vacancy occurred when Larry Parker resigned from the position due to health reasons. The board asked for letters of interest from potential candidates living in District 5. Monday at 5 p.m. the Alva board will hold a regular meeting. The first item on the agenda is administering the oath of office to the new board member. Monday is also the first day that filing opens for school board positions...
When water meters were being read on Nov. 30, a problem was discovered in the 200 block of Barnes Street. The residence was hooked up to water, but there was no water meter. Alva Fire Chief/Fire Marshal Bryan Miller was asked to respond to the location about a theft of utilities. He met with the public works director and assistant director. They advised they were reading meters and found a hard-piped connection in the water meter box. Miller asked if the residence had a meter service, and they advised that water account is on hold. Miller went...
The mental health services for seniors, Senior Life Solutions, can’t be located at The Homestead, said Share Medical Center CEO Kandice Allen. She told the Alva Hospital Authority (AHA) trustees Monday that the facility used must follow the Life Safety Code just like the hospital. The Homestead doesn’t qualify. Options are being considered. Dr. Addison Roberts, a potential new surgeon, visited on Nov. 14 to meet with staff and tour the surgery department. Allen cautioned that all the paperwork and credentialing can take some time to complete. D...
ADA - The Lady Rangers traveled to Ada for their first GAC conference game against East Central this Thursday, Nov. 30. Both teams had no losses before facing each other. The Lady Rangers fought every minute of the game and won the game 74-58. That makes the Rangers advance to 7-0 and the Tigers 3-1 in the season. Leading scorers for the Rangers: Faith Simpson with 23 points, eight rebounds and four steals; Camille Thomas with 13 points, 13 rebounds, six assists and a block; Carly Craig with 18...
ADA - The Rangers traveled to East Central in Ada for the conference opener Thursday evening. Northwestern jumped out to a 7-0 lead but a 14-0 run by the Tigers late in the game pushed the home team up 62-47 for the win. The loss drops Northwestern to 2-4 on the season and 0-1 in Great American Conference play. Northwestern was led in scoring by Camron McDowell with 14 points, one of three double figure scorers joined by Larry White and Brian Free. White started the scoring with a driving layup...
The Alva varsity basketball teams traveled to Newkirk Friday night and came home with victories. The Ladybugs are now 2-0 on the season while the Goldbugs have a 1-1 record. Ladybugs vs Lady Tigers The Ladybugs scored first as Carly Argo sank a three-pointer. The Lady Tigers scored eight points before the Alva girls could put anything through the hoop. Kylie Adair broke the drought with a trey, and Alva finished the first quarter leading 13-11. From then on, the Ladybugs dominated the game, addi...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An iconic chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, inspired countless Native American children as a powerful but humble leader who expanded early education and rural healthcare. Her reach is now broadening with a quintessential American honor: a Barbie doll in the late Mankiller's likeness as part of toymaker Mattel's "Inspiring Women" series. A public ceremony honoring Mankiller's legacy is set for Tuesday in Tahlequah in northeast Oklahoma, where the Cherokee Nation is headquartered. Mankiller was the nation's f...
Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the nation. His skilled biblical oration, steeped in the Black Pentecostal tradition and melded with white evangelicalism, helped swell the membership of the storefront church he started in 1981 in Jenks, Oklahoma, to a full-service, multiracial congregation of more than 5,000. But things changed dramatically in the 2000s. Pearson underwent a cataclysmic theological shift that altered the course of his life – and his legacy...
