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Alva Church of God Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Bible study is at 7 p.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 Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15 a.m. every Sunday morning. Worship is at 10:30 a.m. If you cannot make it in person, we are on Facebook at Alva Friends Church Group. The church is located at the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Barnes Street Church of Christ...
And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. – Luke 2:10-11 ESV What an announcement! Every time I read this Bible verse, I can hear the excitement in the angel's voice. I imagine the angel feeling humbled being picked to deliver the fantastic news that our Lord and Savior was born. I'm often reminded of the first time I shared Jesus C...
In just a couple of days, we will be celebrating one of the three greatest days this world has ever known. Jesus the Christ died on one day and rose again on the third day, but it would have never taken place if he hadn’t been born into this world on this day! It’s the day we call “Christmas Day”. This is the day that we celebrate the greatest gift ever bestowed upon mankind! We see a lot of nativity scenes that have the shepherds and wise men surrounding Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus at the center of all things placed in many front l...
The New Year is approaching; time for resolutions. Most of us have multiple issues we could work on, and the New Year is a good time to start. As my late friend Ron Seaman said, “Stopping smoking is easy. I have done it 100 times.” When we resolve to do something, it is an agreement with ourselves that can affect the lives of others. Smoking is just one habit that is hard to quit, overeating another, and lack of exercise a third. The list can include unobtainable goals, so if you choose to resol...
It just wouldn’t be the same, would it? Think about it, if Jesus had been born at the Ritz or in another five star hotel of the time, instead of in a manger surrounded by animals, because there wasn’t room at the inn. It wouldn’t have been the same, would it? If He had been born in a fancy inn and the announcement of our Savior's birth went out by government messengers and carrier pigeons and they carried official scrolls that were sealed with wax, with the rulers' rings imprinted on the official papers, making it official, If that had happe...
Shortly after my 24th birthday, I moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to further my education at what is now the University of Memphis but was then known as Memphis State University. I lived in that town of more than 600,000 souls for four years. Memphis State was (and is) an excellent university, and I learned much studying there. I also learned that I did not like living in a large city! Soon after moving to Memphis, I found myself a regular doctor and went to his office most of the times I needed...
Team Standings Dilly Dilly – 43 wins, 29 losses Knights of Columbus – 43 wins, 29 losses O'Bar – 40 ½ wins, 31 ½ losses Rollin GoodTimes – 36 ½ wins, 35 ½ losses Marshall's Oldtimers – 35 ½ wins, 36 ½ losses The Bowl Movements – 34 ½ wins, 37 ½ losses Holy Bowlers – 25 wins, 35 losses Livin' on a Spare – 28 wins, 44 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game Knights of Columbus – 853 Dilly Dilly – 840 O'Bar – 796 Scratch Series Dilly Dilly – 2489 Knights of Columbus – 2426 O'Bar – 2264 Handicap Game Knights of Columbus – 1167 Dilly Dilly – 1142...
Dr. Shelly Wells, RN-to-BSN program director and professor of nursing with the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Charles Morton Share Trust Division of Nursing, participated as a panel member at the plenary session of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) fall conference in Bethesda, Maryland. The invitation to join this panel was extended because of the success of the Northwestern BSN-to-DNP program since its launch. Wells, who served as the chair of the Charles...
The Woods County Excise Board met Wednesday morning for a regular meeting. Present were Joe Shirley and Bob Seivert. Chris Olson was absent. After approving minutes of the Nov. 16 meeting, the board approved the following monthly appropriations: • District #1 Highway Cash $162,301.89 • District #2 Highway Cash $162,407.40 • District #3 Highway Cash $162,553.40 • District #1 CBRI Fund-105 $15,529.10 • District #2 CBRI Fund-105 $15,529.12 • District #3 CBRI Fund-105 $15,529.12 • Enhanced 911...
The Campus Cabinet Food Pantry received quite a surprise during the fall semester in the form of a generous monetary donation from the Alva First United Methodist Church’s endowment funds. “This donation came at the most perfect time because I was starting to worry about the funding for the pantry,” Angelia Case, academic projects assistant, media specialist and coordinator of the Campus Cabinet food pantry, said. “The increase in demand for our assistance has gone up quite a bit this fall semester, so we thank this group so, so much. “The Co...
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Alva Municipal Swimming Pool and Bathhouse is one of two locations recently added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), according to the Oklahoma Historical Society and State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). Once known as the “Little Ocean,” the Alva Municipal Swimming Pool and Bathhouse is an important landmark that symbolizes the importance of New Deal programs to Alva’s historic development. Completed by the Works Projects Administration (WPA) in 1940, the property served a dual purpose of allevia...
Councilmember Troy Brooks wanted to pull an invoice for Christmas lighting from other claims being considered by the Alva City Council Monday night. He was just a moment too late to make that a separate vote. Mayor Kelly Parker read off the list of items in the consent agenda including minutes of the Nov. 21 meeting, claims of $209,425.12, payroll expenses of $455,891.55, and two ASAP aviation fuel invoices for $36,198.17 and $32,152.09. Daniel Winters immediately made a motion to approve the consent agenda, seconded by Sadie Bier. That’s when...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Thousands of flights were canceled and homeless shelters were overflowing Thursday amid one of the most treacherous holiday travel seasons the U.S. has seen in decades, with temperatures plummeting 50 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas and forecasters warning of an impending "bomb cyclone" that could make conditions even worse before Christmas. The frigid air was moving through the central United States to the east, with windchill advisories affecting about 135 million people over the coming days, weather service m...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Madi Williams had a double-double, Taylor Robertson added 18 points on six 3-pointers, and No. 23 Oklahoma defeated Florida 95-79 in the women's game of the Jumpman Invitational on Wednesday night. Robertson made 6-of-7 3-pointers and matched her own Big 12 record of 53 consecutive games with a 3-pointer. It marked the 14th time during the current streak that she has made at least five 3-pointers. Williams had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Sooners (10-1), who have won seven in a row. Skylar Vann had 15 points and N...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Jaz Shelley scored 24 points, hitting two of Nebraska's three 3-pointers in the third overtime, and the Cornhuskers handed No. 20 Kansas its first loss of the season 85-79 on Wednesday night. Shelley's first 3 opened the scoring in the third overtime for a 73-70 lead and after Ioanna Chatzileonti scored the first five Kansas points, Shelley hit again to make it 78-75. Again that didn't hold up as Zakiyah Franklin converted a three-point play, tying the game at 79-all with 1:19 to go. After swapping possessions, Isabelle B...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The outskirts of Kingman, Arizona, used to be a place where pilots would train and recreationists tested their all-terrain vehicles. The dry and empty landscape has since morphed into something much more green that supports pistachio and almond orchards, as well as garlic and potato fields, in a climate similar to California's Central Valley. The crops are fed by groundwater that also serves the city of Kingman. The Arizona Department of Water Resources this week put a limit on the amount of land that can be watered, d...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas state lawmaker was found guilty by a federal jury Wednesday of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief. Federal prosecutors said Wichita Republican Michael Capps, 44, filed forms inflating the number of employees he had at two businesses and a sports foundation, and then applied for loans to pay the nonexistent employees. A federal grand jury indicted Capps in September 2021 and he pleaded not guilty. The Wichita Eagle reported that Capps was found guilty of three counts of m...
Harvard Crimson (8-4) at Kansas Jayhawks (10-1) Lawrence, Kansas; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Kansas -21.5; over/under is 138.5 BOTTOM LINE: No. 4 Kansas hosts the Harvard Crimson after Gradey Dick scored 20 points in Kansas' 84-62 victory over the Indiana Hoosiers. The Jayhawks have gone 6-0 in home games. Kansas is second in the Big 12 with 25.8 defensive rebounds per game led by Jalen Wilson averaging 7.6. The Crimson are 4-1 on the road. Harvard leads the Ivy League with 10.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Chris...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill Thursday that finances federal agencies through September and provides another significant round of military and economic aid to Ukraine one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's dramatic address to a joint meeting of Congress. The bill, which runs for 4,155 pages, includes about $772.5 billion for domestic programs and $858 billion for defense and would finance federal agencies through the fiscal year at the end of September. The bill passed by a vote of 6...
Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris. Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a garrison city, and Russian soldiers, builders, administrators and doctors are replacing the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have died or left. Many of the city's Ukrainian street names are reverting to Soviet ones, with the Avenue of Peace that cuts through Mariupol to be labeled Lenin Avenue. Even...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described to the House Jan. 6 committee a wide-ranging pressure campaign from Donald Trump's allies aimed at influencing her cooperation with Congress and stifling potentially damaging testimony about him. In extraordinary closed-door testimony made public Thursday, Hutchinson recounted how those in the former president's circle dangled job opportunities and financial assistance as she was cooperating with the committee investigating the Capitol riot and how her own lawyer — a for...
NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried walked out of a Manhattan courthouse Thursday with his parents after they agreed to sign a $250 million bond and keep him at their California home while he awaits trial on charges that he swindled investors and looted customer deposits on his FTX trading platform. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos said in federal court that Bankman-Fried, 30, "perpetrated a fraud of epic proportions." Roos proposed strict bail terms including the $250 million bond — which he said is believed to...
