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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...
Isaiah 9:2-7 I’m writing this on Christmas Eve, but know it will be published on the 27th. So, I hope you all had a very merry Christmas. I’m not gonna try to hide it. I absolutely love Christmas! As a pastor, that would make sense, but it’s not just the Jesus-y reasons that inspire my love for Christmas. Yes, Jesus is the reason for the season, but Jesus has given us a reason for some pretty awesome stuff. The food, the friends, the family, the decorations, the music, the gifts, the time off w...
For almost two decades, Pastor Paul Cole has held the reins of Town and Country Christian Church. At the end of this month, Cole will retire. His final sermon will be delivered this Sunday. The worship service begins at 10:30 a.m. Cole has been a unique voice in the Alva religious community for nearly two decades. His many devotions published in Alva Review-Courier always seemed to express a very clearly focused message designed to help us all manage the storms of our lives. For example, in his...
"After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the majesty in Heaven." The last of the Hebrew writer's list of Messiah's qualifications is a segue into the following section, concerning His place of honor above the angelic hosts of Heaven. We hope to spend some time, later, discussing the author's claim that Jesus is greater than the Angels. This week, however, I'm more interested in noticing the new beginnings that permeate the passage. We are, after all, on the...
Kerri D. Covalt, 50, of Alva, was admitted in critical condition to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City Monday following a collision southwest of Alva. Her injuries are described as trunk internal, head and arm injuries. She was transported from the accident scene by Alva EMS to Share Medical Center and then transported to OU Medical Center by Air-Evac. She was pinned in her vehicle and extricated by the Alva Fire Department using Jaws of Life. The collision occurred at 4:52 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23, at the intersection of Grady Road and County...
Two initiative petitions that will be on coming up on state election ballots were discussed during the town hall meeting held by Sen. Casey Murdock Dec. 9 in Alva. Murdock, who is from Felt, was joined by Rep. Carl Newton of Cherokee. Medicaid Expansion Newton said he sat on the task force studying Medicaid last summer. "We looked at it and looked at it, he said. "We had some plans and then all of a sudden they got vetoed at the last minute." He said legislators are still looking at it....
Funeral services for Brandon Carey Brown, 42, of Freedom, Oklahoma, are pending with Wharton Funeral Chapel....
Funeral services for Sherrill Preston will be held Saturday, December 28, 2019, at 1 p.m. at First United Methodist Church with Reverend Chuck Lightfoot officiating. She was cremated at her request. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Sherrill Preston, daughter of Alfred and Frances Edwards, was born August 30, 1936, in Odessa, Texas. She passed away December 25, 2019 at St. Mary's Hospital in Enid, Oklahoma, at the age of 83. She was the oldest of two children....
National Geographic Magazine asks, “Are our health and well-being really driven by the bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa that live in our bodies?” The only human microbe-free lives as a fetus in utero. Encountering the birth canal, it is swaddled in microbes, immediately colonizing the new-found territory. This early microbe encounter begins a life-long relationship with the baby’s immune system. The implications of cesarean section and the avoidance of this early encounter means the immun...
While the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., has much control over the lives of all Americans, the same is true – to a somewhat lesser extent – for other governmental entities, specifically at the state and local levels. Most of us went to schools operated by local school boards with funding coming primarily from state governments. We drive on state highways, county roads and city streets. We are taxed at the state and local (as well as the federal) levels. And there is more, but the point her...
HOUSTON (AP) — At a time when many college stars skip bowl games, Oklahoma State's Chuba Hubbard bucked the trend. He'll be there Friday when the Cowboys meet Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl. "I felt like he would play all along," Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said. "In the environment around college football today, we're never sure, but he's a class guy. He likes his team. He likes Stillwater. He likes Oklahoma State. He has a great relationship with the coaching staff. I know he's excited about playing in the game, and we're glad to have him b...
ATLANTA (AP) — No team in the College Football Playoff has claimed more national titles than Oklahoma. History, though, doesn't carry much weight in this year's field. The Sooners are the clear outsider. No. 1 LSU, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Clemson have established themselves as the nation's best teams over the course of the long season. All three have 13-0 records. All three have sampled the top spot in either the CFP or Associated Press rankings. Then there's fourth-ranked Oklahoma (12-1), which had to overcome a shocking loss to Kansas S...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran says President Donald Trump has given him assurances that Trump will try to soften the economic blow for Kansas from the suspension of production of the troubled Boeing 737 Max jetliner. Boeing has announced plans to suspend 737 Max production in January, and Spirit AeroSystems is suspending its production in Wichita of fuselages. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has said the state may have to help pay Spirit workers. Moran told The Wichita Eagle that in a Sunday phone call, Trump said he'd purchased an a...
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Three people died in a head-on collision in Logan County on Christmas Day, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. The wreck happened Wednesday night about 1 mile north of Edmond when a car crossed the center line and struck an oncoming SUV, according to a preliminary report. The driver and two passengers of the SUV were killed, the highway patrol said, identifying them as 70-year-old Douglas Barnes, 83-year-old Madeleine Walker, and 54-year-old Suzanne Barnes. All were from Edmond. The driver of the car was critically i...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The woman stabbed to death last week in suburban Kansas City has been identified. The Kansas City Star reports that Olathe, Kansas, police on Thursday identified the victim as 68-year-old Patricia Fitzgerald of Montgomery, Texas. She was killed Dec. 20. Police were called to a home for a report of an armed disturbance and found Fitzgerald. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A 38-year-old woman who knew Fitzgerald also was found at the scene and taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. No arrests have been m...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two 16-year-olds are hospitalized but expected to survive after a shooting in Wichita. Police Officer Paul Cruz told the Wichita Eagle that the shooting happened about 12:15 a.m. Thursday on the city's north side. Someone dropped the male teenagers off at a hospital at about the same time officers were sent to a home about a report of a possible shooting. Police found shell casings and bullet strikes to a home in the neighborhood where the shooting was reported. A 71-year-old woman and a 39-year-old man were inside. They w...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Juan Manuel Santos is speaking next year at Kansas State University. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Santos' Feb. 4 address is part of the Landon Lecture series. The series is named for former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon, who was the 1936 Republican nominee for president. The series was established in 1966 to bring in speakers to discuss issues facing business, politics and international relations. Santos received undergraduate degrees in economics and b...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has been putting fewer juvenile offenders in its detention center and lessening their time on probation in the three years since it overhauled its juvenile justice system to handle offenders in their home communities, a new report said Thursday. The oversight committee issuing the report recommended doubling the state's annual spending on juvenile justice programs to nearly $22 million, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. State lawmakers overhauled juvenile justice in 2016 over criticism that youth were removed f...
NEW YORK - December 26, 2019 - ( Newswire.com ) Healthcare Solutions Holdings, a medical service and device company focused on providing clinicians with state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic tools, invites Dr. John Holtzman DPM, to discuss the benefits of utilizing topical creams and specialty pharmacy in lieu of prescription opioids. Over the years, the opioid epidemic ravaging so many American lives has become a top-tier concern of the doctors charged with protecting patients. Opioid abuse has thousands of...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group seeking a public vote on whether to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Oklahoma has temporarily abandoned its effort. The two proponents of the initiative petition — Amy Young and Vanessa Avery — notified the Secretary of State's office on Monday that they were withdrawing the petition they filed earlier this month. Young said in a statement she grew concerned about the impact that recreational marijuana might have on existing medical marijuana businesses and on children who are currently able to recei...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The indoor football team in Wichita is leaving its downtown arena for another home north of the city built specifically for the sport. The Wichita Force has announced that it will leave the Intrust Bank Arena downtown and move to Hartman Arena in Park City, The Wichita Eagle reports. The first of six home games at the new venue is set for April 3. "This building was originally built with indoor football in mind," said Abby Marr, director of sales and marketing for the Hartman Arena. "We know how to do football and we're v...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Zoo animals in Topeka will soon be making use of castoff live Christmas trees. The city said in a news release that the trees can be dropped off starting Thursday at a special location at Gage Park, where the zoo is located. Zoo Director Brendan Wiley says animals that can benefit from the trees include lions, tigers, owls, mountain lions, giraffes, black bears and painted dogs. Once the animals make use of the trees, they will be ground up and turned into mulch. The trees must be free of ornaments, hooks, tinsel and tree s...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma voters may get to decide whether to amend the state constitution to bar people convicted of non-violent felonies from having to serve extra prison time because of previous convictions for non-violent offenses. A petition to get the sentencing enhancements measure on the 2020 ballot cleared a 10-day protest period without objection, meaning its backers have 90 days, starting Thursday, to gather the 178,000 valid signatures needed to get it on the ballot, the Tulsa World reported. "It is the middle of the holiday seas...
Wheat for Mar. rose 8 cents at 5.49 a bushel; Mar. corn was up 1 cent at 3.8850 a bushel, Mar. oats fell 2.75 cents at $2.83 a bushel; while Jan. soybeans gained 1.25 cents at $9.3725 a bushel. Beef and pork higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dec. live cattle was up .62 cent at $1.2327 a pound; Jan. feeder cattle gained 1.88 cents at $1.4545 a pound; while Feb. lean hogs rose .20 cent at $.7090 pound....
NEW YORK (AP) — A California law that makes it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors takes effect next week, forcing small businesses in and outside the state to rethink their staffing. The law puts tough restrictions on who can be independent contractors or freelancers rather than employees. Supporters say it addresses inequities created by the growth of the gig economy, including the employment practices of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft that use contractors. Company owners with independent contractors m...
