Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 80
Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.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 Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at 10:10 a.m.; worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Friends Church is on the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Avard Christian Church Sunday services are from 2-4 p.m. Avard Christian Church is 7 miles west of Alva on Highway 64 and 7 miles south on County Road 370, or 6...
The first thing you should notice about the Bible is that it is divided into two parts labeled “old” and “new.” This distinction is important because it suggests that there is a difference between what is old and what is new. If there were no difference, the labels “Old Testament” and “New Testament” would be meaningless. Sometimes Christians try to smooth over this difference by arguing that God is the same in the Old Testament as he is in the New Testament. While this may be true, the fact of the matter is that everything about his way o...
Sunday morning, as I was preaching from Luke 9, I made special emphasis of a rebuke – given by Jesus to his close companions, James and John. It seems the “sons of thunder” were convinced that they should call down a little fire from heaven to punish a Samaritan village that would not give Jesus a place to spend the night. The King James version (as well as the New King James that I use in the pulpit) include the phrase, “you don’t know what kind of spirit you are of.” It was this particular phrase I chose to expand. Following worship, so...
The Alva Chamber of Commerce is taking nominations for the Citizen of Distinction Awards. Nomination forms have been published in the Newsgram. You may also pick up a copy at the chamber office at 502 Oklahoma Blvd. The deadline for entries is Jan. 5. Entries are being sought in eleven categories: • Business of the Year • Young Professional (age 21-40) • Volunteer of the Year • Teacher of the Year • Citizen of the Year • Lifetime Achievement Award • Fireman of the Year • Law Enforcement of the Year • Healthcare Professional • Youth Entrepren...
Join the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma in fighting hunger in Oklahoma, including Woods County, by making a tax-deductible gift by Dec. 31. Donations raised through the holiday match will provide good food for chronically hungry children, seniors on limited incomes, and hardworking families in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties, including Woods County. The Regional Food Bank works with community-based partner agencies year-round to help fight hunger in Woods County, including: Alva Wesleyan Church, DHS Woods County, Freedom Food Pantry,...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Thinking about quitting tobacco in the new year? The Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), provides FREE resources to Oklahomans who are thinking about quitting tobacco, currently quitting tobacco, former tobacco users wanting to stay tobacco-free and those who want to support loved ones or patients. “December is a natural time to begin thinking of New Year’s resolutions and a healthy start to 2018,” said Paola Klein, Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline coordinator. “Whether you’re re...
Some of the greatest advancements in technology have come in the field of robotics. It is also the field most likely to take human assembly line and other jobs as industry looks for ways to improve the bottom line by reducing staff. Self-driving cars will reduce the need for Uber drivers, Amazon will deliver with drones, and voice-activation is already automating many household chores. One of the market pioneers, Universal Robots, is offering a flexible robot that is designed to work...
The Renaissance was a time in Europe (roughly from the 1300s to the 1600s) when artists, authors, and other creative people produced a great number of novels, plays, poems and paintings. Because of this “explosion” of creative works of art, the term “Renaissance man” (or “woman”) is to this day often applied to talented creative people who engage in a diversity of activities. A Renaissance man whose work I admire is Sheldon Allan Silverstein. He was born in 1930 and died in 1999. He was always...
Alva sales tax collections continue to show a slight downward trend with December 2017 collections down almost eight percent from the same month last year. Alva received $316,093.31 this month compared to $343,049.19 a year ago. December collections are generally from October sales. However, Alva use taxes are up about 20 percent with $18,016.16 for this month and $14,927.71 last year. Looking at other Woods County towns, Freedom was up 57 percent, receiving $3,501.29 this month and $2,226.71 a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Dec. 28, 2017) – In 2016, Oklahoma Christian's 4x400-meter relay team came agonizingly close to qualifying for the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships, but missed making the field by just a few hundredths of a second. The Eagles made sure that wasn't an issue in 2017. Not only did they qualify, they earned All-America status once at the national meet, ranking as the No. 4 story in OC athletics in 2017. In 2016, the Eagles twice lowered a 50-year-old school record in the indoor 4x400, taking it down to 3...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mason Rudolph threw for 351 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and James Washington became No. 17 Oklahoma State's career receiving yards leader in a 30-22 victory over No. 22 Virginia Tech in the Camping World Bowl. Washington caught five passes for 126 yards, giving him 4,472 for his career and passing Rashaun Woods for the school mark. Justice Hill ran for 120 yards and another score for the Cowboys (10-3), who have won 10 games in each of the last three seasons — another Oklahoma State first. Josh Jackson ran for two sco...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Lashann Higgs scored a career-high 25 points and No. 8 Texas won at Oklahoma for the first time since the 2009-10 season, beating the Sooners 88-78 on Thursday night in the Big 12 Conference opener for both teams. Ariel Atkins added 15 points and nine rebounds and Brooke McCarty had 12 points for Texas (10-1, 1-0 Big 12), which had lost its previous seven games at Oklahoma (5-7, 0-1). The Longhorns never trailed and led by as many as 20 points, slowing an Oklahoma offense that had averaged 85.6 points in five previous home...
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Kaylee Jensen had 26 points and 12 rebounds and No. 24 Oklahoma State won its fourth straight with a 98-57 rout of Texas Tech on Thursday night in a Big 12 Conference opener. Jensen was 12 of 16 from the field. Loryn Goodwin added 20 points and Braxtin Miller 17 for Oklahoma State (10-2), which has won nine of its last 10 against the Lady Raiders. Recee' Caldwell scored 20 points to lead Texas Tech (6-6), which had its three-game win streak snapped. Texas Tech led 26-21 with five minutes remaining before the break. O...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kalani Brown scored 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting to lead No. 6 Baylor to an 88-58 victory over Kansas State on Thursday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams. Baylor (10-1, 1-0 Big 12) led 8-0 2:05 into the game, a run that included a technical foul on Kansas State coach Jeff Mittie. The Lady Bears hammered the Wildcats (8-3, 0-1) in the paint, scoring 48 points inside, a number of which came off second-chance opportunities. Kansas State's Kayla Goth led all scorers with 22 points on 8-of-20 shooting from the f...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oklahoma linebacker and Californian Caleb Kelly is not about to start doubting mom. Valerie Kelly has already correctly predicted the Sooners would end up in the Rose Bowl, so when she tells her son that the next stop for No. 2 Oklahoma is Atlanta for the College Football Playoff national championship game he is not going to argue. "'You're going to go to the Rose Bowl and all of us are going to get to go. I just know it, I just know it.' She kept on saying that," Kelly said Thursday. "She says we're going to win this week a...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Police in Lawrence are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman, though indications are that it may have been accidental. Police say 30-year-old Lei Ala A. Turner was killed Wednesday night at an apartment. She died of a single gunshot wound to the chest. Investigators say they have identified a suspect and are trying to find him, even though initial indications are that the shooting was an accident. Authorities have not elaborated on the evidence indicating the shooting may have been accidental....
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas City, Kansas police are investigating a body found in the Kansas River. Officer Zac Blair in a statement said that a water pollution staffer found the body Thursday morning near James and Third streets. The Kansas City Star reported that fire department crews helped retrieve it from the river. Blair told the newspaper that police think the body belongs to a male but said the identity and cause of death is unclear. He said the body appeared to have been on the riverbank for a while....
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Less than a quarter of the court-appointed advocates for abused and neglected children surveyed by state auditors said that prospective same-sex parents are treated differently than heterosexual couples in the state's foster care system. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that the former head of the state Department for Children and Families said in a response that the survey fails to support allegations of LGBT bias. But the leader of the state's most prominent LGBT group said it hopes the report persuades lawmakers to o...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas police officers who fatally shot a black man earlier this year did not need to use deadly force, a lawyer for his family said Thursday, disputing authorities' account of him reaching toward a gun in one of his pockets just before the officers fired. Attorney Gillian Cassell-Stiga said in an interview that Dominique White's family believes his constitutional rights were violated when the two Topeka officers shot him Sept. 28 near a park. She said police body camera footage showed that the 30-year-old White was not a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says utility companies that stand to save an estimated $100 million in new federal corporate tax cuts should pass those savings onto Oklahoma residents. Hunter announced Thursday he has filed five motions with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission seeking a reduction in rates for Oklahoma customers. The utility companies include Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Natural Gas, CenterPoint Energy, and Arkansas Oklahoma Gas. Hunter filed the motions on t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Freshman state House member Meloyde Blancett planned to supplement her legislative salary by continuing her consulting work. Between routine legislative duties, interim committee meetings, knocking doors in her district and meeting constituents, Blancett said she's had little time to nurture her business. "While my legislative plan isn't solely my income, it's darn close to being it after this last 12 months," the Tulsa Democrat said. "While I went into this endeavor with eyes wide open and intent on trying to make a d...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health reports there have now been 10 deaths due to influenza in the state since the start of the current flu season in September. The department said in a news release Thursday that there have also been more than 400 people hospitalized with influenza since Sept. 1. There were 110 flu-related deaths in the state last flu season, just shy of the record 114 deaths three years ago. Oklahoma is one of about two dozen states nationwide in which the federal Centers for Disease Control and P...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is investigating possible food-stamp fraud at two unregulated addiction recovery centers. The department's investigation focuses on Fort Gibson's Faith Based Therapeutic Community Corporation and the Ada-based Southern Oklahoma Addiction Recovery program, The Oklahoman reported. The probe began after program graduates and other participants alleged they were forced to sign up for food stamps but didn't receive the benefits. Participants of the FBTCC said they were fed expired f...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma, a state with one of the busiest death chambers in the country in recent decades, will enter its third year without an execution in 2018 while prison officials and state attorneys fine tune its procedure for putting condemned inmates to death. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said last week he was planning to meet with top prison officials and that he expected more clarity on the state's new lethal injection protocols "in the next two or three weeks." "We need to feel some urgency, but we also need to get i...
