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Sports Bailey Forell transfers to NWOSU basketball Page 10

News Nescatunga Arts Festival Coverage Page 2

Today’s weather Sunny with a light wind.

High near 85 Page 3

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Alva City Council to hold budget hearing Monday

By Marione Martin A public hearing on the city budget proposal will be held near the beginning of the Alva City Council meeting Monday at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be in the council chambers of the city municipal building.

The budget is for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. Following the hearing the council members will discuss and vote on adopting the general fund budgets.

There will be action on approving minutes and claims. The council will hear reports from earlier committee and board meetings. The mayor will give his report followed by the city business manager’s report.

The council will take action on a lease at the city’s Harper Road site with Ben Orcutt in the amount of $20 per acre. There will be discussion and action on negotiations with IAFF Local 3782, the firefighters’ union, for the next fiscal year’s contract.

Mayor Kelly Parker plans to make re-appointments of Terry Turner to the Alva Airport Commission, Linda Joseph to the Alva Library Board and Chance Schultz to the Alva Planning Commission.

At the end of the meeting, time is allotted for public comment limited to two minutes per speaker. Council members will also be given the opportunity to make remarks or ask questions.

The Alva Utility Authority meeting, consisting of the same members, will meet after the council adjourns. They will vote on approving minutes and claims as well as a resolution adopting the enterprise fund budgets.

The Alva Economic Development Authority (AEDA) will then meet. Besides voting on minutes and claims, the members will vote on adopting the AEDA fund budgets.

Numerous student transfers on Alva School Board agenda The slides are a fun feature at the Alva City Pool, which opened Memorial Day weekend. Photo by Stephanie Lambert

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By Marione Martin Several teacher and staff positions are on the agenda of the Alva Board of Education meeting on Monday.

The board will meet at 5 p.m. in the administrative office at 418 Flynn St. The board will consider the employment of a middle school science teacher and a middle school language arts teacher. Among support personnel, they will consider hiring a middle school secretary and two paraprofessionals.

The board will also act on approving Marisha Hendrick as an additional teacher for the elementary summer reading program at Longfellow School.

Fourteen students have applied for open transfers to Alva from other school districts. Eight are from

Freedom, three from Burlington, two from Timberlake and one from Cherokee.

The board will also look at the extra duty salary schedule for the current school year and additions to extra duty assignments for the current year.

The agenda includes numerous other action items such as temporary appropriations, a revised chart of accounts, an E-Rate Board Resolution with Kellogg & Sovereign Consulting, and an agreement with the City of Alva for a school resource officer.

The meeting will conclude with an executive session on Alva Education Association negotiations and the extra duty salary schedule for next school year.

Alva Arena Authority meets Tuesday

By Marione Martin The Alva Arena Authority will have a regular meeting at noon on Tuesday. It will be in the Alva State Bank Annex at Graceful Arts, 525 Barnes St. In addition to the treasurer’s report and approval of minutes, the board The Nescatunga Arts Festival was over when the Alva Fire Department received a report of a dumpster containing a fire in the block behind Holder Drug. The 4:40 p.m. call actually brought the fire trucks members will hear an update from the sub-committee and/or Priefert to a large metal construction dumpster behind the Bell Hotel. The blaze was extinguished in about ten on the complex designs. Possible action may be taken following the discussion. minutes. Photo by Lynn L. Martin

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Nescatunga judge selects winners of the 47th festival’s fine artists

The Nescatunga Arts Festival was held on Alva’s downtown square Saturday with near perfect weather. Photo by Lynn L. Martin

FIRST IN PHOTOGRAPHY – J.W. Holdermann of Eldorado received Judge Arni Anderson’s vote for first place in photography. She told how she transfers and presses her photographs onto wood. Holdermann brought her sons with her to the Nescatunga Arts Festival in Alva Saturday. They are Jarrett, BEST OF SHOW – Contemporary African artist Yusaf Etudaiye Jeton and Jayson. Photo by Yvonne Miller transformed a piece of clay into this show-stopping large pottery bowl that is Judge Arni Anderson’s pick for Best of Show. This is at the Nescatunga Arts Festival on Alva’s downtown square in Alva Saturday.

Etudaiye has an art studio in Tulsa and has shown his unique work at the Nescatunga festival over eight years. Photo by Yvonne Miller

ABOVE: Three members of the Alva Kiwanis Club were at the arts festival hoping to finish out sales of their custom made afghan blanket depicting historic scenes around Alva. About 15 afghans remain out of an order of 130. The money raised from the project will be used to help construct a cover for the stage on the west side of the courthouse. From left: Mac McKinley, Larry Thorne and Richard Ryerson. Photo by Lynn L. Martin

TAKING THREE FIRSTS AND A SECOND PLACE – Salye Gorrell is a fine artist from Enid who has shown several years at the Nescatunga Arts Festival in Alva. Judge Arni Anderson gave Gorrell’s works several top places: first in watercolors with “Onions,” first in pencil with “Leopard,” first in mixed media with “Pegasus,” and second in oil with “Hawk.” Photo by Yvonne Miller

LEFT: FIRST PLACE IN OIL AND ACRYLICS – Naomi Cullen of Cherokee has painted for years. Judge Arni Anderson selected her painting for first place in oil and acrylics at the Nescatunga Arts Festival in Alva Saturday. Photo by Yvonne Miller

FIRST PLACE IN POTTERY – Long-time Nescatunga exhibitor Don Angle of Enid always brings unique pieces of pottery to the festival. Judge Arni Anderson selects Angle’s bowl as first place in pottery. Angle drew this Indian that he cut into the bowl and finished with a blue glaze. He said the three marks on the face signify the tribe of which he is a member. Photo by Yvonne Miller

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State could fall to bottom in average teacher salaries

The Alva City Council has proclaimed June 5-11, 2016, to be National Garden Club Week. Mayor Kelly Parker presents the signed proclamation to Linda McCoy, vice president of the Alva Garden Club Council, and Wanda Cox, president of the Alva Garden Club Council and member of the Alva Petunia Garden Club.

Kaitlyn O’Toole, Student Government Association president (left), awards Jen Oswald (right) for being chosen as Teacher of the Year through student nomination.

Instructor of Education receives ‘Teacher of the Year’ award from Northwestern

Jen Oswald, instructor of education at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, recently received the John Sheffield Teacher of the Year award during the annual Northwestern Foundation and Alumni Association Awards Ceremony.

In order to qualify for this award, a student must first nominate the teacher, and then the Student Government Association members review the nominations and determine the award winner.

Oswald received her first

bachelor’s degree in social studies/history from Oklahoma Panhandle State University, with the intent of becoming a history teacher.

After working at a daycare for a few years, she realized early childhood education would be a better fit. She attended Northwestern for her bachelor’s degree in early childhood education.

After securing a teaching job

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Woods County Forecast Sunday Sunny, with a high near 85. North wind around 8 mph.

Sunday Night Clear, with a low around 58. Northeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.

Monday Sunny, with a high near 88. West southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming south in the afternoon.

Monday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 63.

Southeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming northeast after midnight.

Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 87.

Tuesday Night A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65.

Wednesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.

Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 69.

Thursday Sunny, with a high near 92.

Thursday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 70.

Friday Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.

Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 70.

Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 95.

By Jennifer Palmer Oklahoma Watch In South Dakota, one of two states with lower average teacher pay than Oklahoma, the Legislature in March approved a half-cent sales tax intended to boost salaries by thousands of dollars.

The other state, Mississippi, also is phasing in a teacher pay increase.

By contrast, when Oklahoma legislators adjourned Friday, they left ambitions of higher salaries for teachers unfulfilled. That means the state could find itself dead last in teacher pay soon unless more funding is generated.

The only viable option left this year – a penny hike in the state sales tax – awaits the decision of voters in November.

The situation means that school districts are bracing for continued teacher shortages as candidates seek higher pay in surrounding states or choose different professions. Some outof-state districts, including Dallas and Las Vegas, are recruiting Oklahoma teachers, dangling the carrot of higher pay.

Teachers here haven’t had an across-the-board increase in eight years, though the idea appeared to be gathering steam. In 2015, State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister, a Republican, proposed a $5,000 pay raise to be phased in over five years. In her State of the State address on Feb. 1, Gov. Mary Fallin called for a $3,000 a year pay hike, noting that Oklahomans overwhelmingly support the move. “And we can do it without raising the state sales tax rate to the highest level in the nation,” Fallin said. “We can do it. I’m excited about it.”

A half-dozen bills were introduced this session to boost teacher pay.

Then, oil and gas prices continued to fall, state income tax cuts proceeded, and the state suffered revenue failures, contributing to a projected $1.3 billion shortfall next year.

Teachers’ hopes dimmed.

In the end, appropriations to the Department of Education were reduced by 2 percent for fiscal year 2017, compared with the appropriated 2016 budget.

At $44,921, Oklahoma ranks 49th in the country in average teacher salary among states and the District of Columbia, above Mississippi and South Dakota, according to National Education Association data. The figure represents total compensation, including paid health and retirement benefits.

In Mississippi, teachers received a boost of $2,500 over two years, thanks to legislation signed by their governor in 2014.

Penny Tax Option A penny hike would push the state’s combined state and local sales tax rate from 8.78 percent to 9.78 percent, higher than any other state.

State Question 779, being championed by University of Oklahoma President David Boren, would hike the state sales tax rate from 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent.

The tax hike was originally estimated to generate anywhere from $570 million to $615

million, with about 60 percent of the money earmarked for common education. Most of that money would fund a $5,000 a year raise for teachers.

With the economy still struggling, though, the projected haul is slipping. Current estimates by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services project the penny hike would bring in about $550 million a year. However, that would still be still enough to pay for the salary increases.

With more than five months until a vote, the chances of passage are unclear.

Hofmeister has neither endorsed nor opposed the tax.

Fallin has alluded critically to the proposal. Some cities have come out in opposition, saying the tax hike would hamper their ability to fund local projects with sales taxes. Advocates for the poor have warned that sales taxes are regressive, meaning they fall disproportionately on low-income residents.

The Legislature briefly unveiled an alternative plan, but it was quickly scuttled before the end of the session.

Boren and other supporters acknowledge that a higher sales tax is not the preferred solution to education funding, but say they have no other choice because state lawmakers refuse to address an education crisis that could harm the state for generations.

“It is the only option that is being talked about that is gaining momentum,” said Alicia Priest, president of the Oklahoma Education Association. “We think our children deserve it.”

South Dakota’s ‘Heavy Lift’

South Dakota’s half-cent sales tax, intended to raise the state’s average teacher pay by $8,500, kicks in June 1.

Melody Schopp, the state’s secretary of education, characterized the initiative as “a really heavy lift” led by the state’s governor.

“For a conservative Republican state to make that sort of significant investment in teachers is kind of a landmark,” she said.

But the need was there, Schopp said. South Dakota was no longer regionally competitive and was struggling to recruit and retain teachers.

Revenue generated by the sales tax will be distributed to school districts based on a formula, with a portion set aside for property tax relief. Schools are required to spend 85 percent of the funds on teacher pay.

Schopp said one school district recently negotiated $9,000 acrossthe-board pay increases for its teachers.

The half-cent tax passed by the South Dakota Legislature follows a failed 2012 ballot measure to raise sales tax by a penny, with half earmarked for education and half for Medicaid.

Schopp said after years in 50th place for pay, teachers in South Dakota finally feel respected.

“They truly, finally feel like the work they do has been recognized,” she said.

Oklahoma Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that produces in-depth and investigative content on a range of public-policy issues facing the state. For more Oklahoma Watch content, go to oklahomawatch.org

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Why Trump attacked Martinez

By Byron York Many observers were mystified when Donald Trump attacked New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez. But the story was really very simple: Martinez hit Trump, so Trump hit back. Especially now that Trump is the GOP’s presumptive nominee, he attempted to make an example of a Republican who won’t get with the program. It might work, or it might not, but from Trump’s perspective it’s the tactic he used to beat 15 rivals for the GOP nomination.

The Trump-Martinez bewilderment focused on four factors: Martinez is Hispanic, she’s a woman, she’s a Republican (head of the Republican Governors Association), and she’s popular. “I think it sent all the wrong signals,” said Newt Gingrich, who has generally been pro-Trump. “You particularly don’t want to see your candidate who needs to ... get stronger with Latinos, and stronger with women, attack a Latina woman Republican governor.” “(Trump) has a problem with women, Hispanics, and Republicans,” said George Will on Fox News Sunday, “so he attacks a Republican Hispanic woman governor.”

Trump ignored all those concerns. Also on Fox, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski explained that Trump’s remarks about Martinez at a May 24 rally in Albuquerque -- Trump said, “The governor has to do a better job. She’s

not doing the job” -- was simply a continuation of Trump’s habit of discussing economic problems wherever he travels. “Outlining the economy of a specific location is something that he has done across the country, everywhere we’ve gone, because we need to highlight the problems that we have and what we’re going to do to fix those problems,” Lewandowski said.

It’s true. Trump has pointed to economic problems in state after state. But he has no more Republican rivals to defeat now, and he is trying to consolidate GOP support. And there are those problems with Hispanic and women voters. So why go on the offensive?

To Trump, there was something more important at work. “(Martinez) continues to attack him publicly and privately,” one person in TrumpWorld told me recently. Trump has made a principle of hitting back harder than he is hit. And he has been so effective that many Republicans, elected and not, have decided the smart thing is to refrain from taking on Trump, even if they oppose him.

Not Martinez. In mid-April, the New Mexico governor issued a “remarkably strong rebuke” to Trump, in the words of a Washington Post report, when Martinez spoke to a GOP fundraiser at the home of David Koch in Palm Beach, Florida. Martinez, according to the Post, “did not mince words.

She told the crowd of about 60 wealthy GOP backers that, as a Latina, she was offended by Trump’s language about immigrants. Noting her years work-

Tips from a trooper

By Trooper Randy McCullough ‘May I have FIVE minutes of your time’ We get excuses every day for the reasons a person does not wear their seatbelt. The most often excuse is “I get in and out of my vehicle a lot” – from an oil and gas worker checking wells, delivery drivers, a farmer checking livestock or crops, and even a person just running errands.

On average it takes about five seconds to fasten a seat belt and even less to take it off. To be fair let’s say it takes ten seconds combined to fasten and unfasten a seat belt. If that’s the case, if a person gets in and out of their vehicle thirty times a day, they only save five minutes

Junkman’s Gems

Memorial weekend was great for me.

By Jim Scribner I did wind up going to the cemetery to decorate the graves. The sister-in-law had a See York Page 6 change of plans, so I was the second choice. It was okay, and I ran into a few people to visit with. The Alva Cemetery 620 Choctaw St. wasn’t as well cared for as (USPS 016-180) Alva, OK 73717-1626 Short Springs east of town, Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

(580) 327-2200 but it was lots better than last Monday - Friday (844) 305-2111 year. Probably the main thing Contents Copyright 2016 Fax: (580) 327-2454 I noticed was several grave Member of the Associated Press, stones with tall grass around them.

Website: Oklahoma Press Association, www.alvareviewcourier.com National Newspaper Association The Scribner reunion was Sunday at the Runnymede Hotel. California, Illinois, Publisher.............Lynn L. Martin Sports...................Leslie Nation Nebraska and Oklahoma were represented this (leslie@alvareviewcourier.net) Editor..................Marione Martin year. Monday I went out to Short Springs for (marione@alvareviewcourier.net) Subscriptions their Memorial Day celebration. The program, Ad Sales...... ...Amanda Galindo & Action Ads..........Linda Toone music and speaker were very good. Both places (manager@alvareviewcourier.net) (amanda@alvareviewcourier.net) Annie Towns Ad Design.............Paula Oakes had great food. I hope you got together with (sales@alvareviewcourier.net) Page Design........David Neilson family and friends and had a fun time. Thanks to Reporters.............Yvonne Miller Legal Notices.................... all that participated in ceremonies everywhere, (news@alvareviewcourier.net) (legals@alvareviewcourier.net) and to the boy scouts for the flag ceremony, and whoever was responsible for the flags on the The Alva Review-Courier is combined with the Woods County graves.

News, The Alva Advocate and Newsgram, and is published every If you saw the pictures of the overpass Sunday and Friday by Martin Broadcasting Corp., 620 Choctaw St., collapse on May Avenue in Oklahoma City Alva, OK 73717-1626. Periodical postage paid at Alva, Oklahoma.

Annual subscription rates in Woods County, Oklahoma $72. last week, it was great no one got hurt. For Elsewhere in Oklahoma $90, elsewhere in the United States $108. those that didn’t, a piece of equipment on a POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Alva Review-Courier, truck didn’t clear and knocked a section of the 620 Choctaw St., Alva, OK 73717-1626. overpass loose. What amazed me more than

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by not wearing their seatbelt.

Most people don’t think twice about buckling up before going on a long trip, but don’t think it’s as important to buckle up on those short runs to the store, the next work location, delivery or next field. These short trips are where a person is more likely to be involved in a traffic accident.

You may be a good driver, but not every other driver on the road is and other things can happen that are beyond your control that can cause an accidents. So could you give us five minutes of your time and buckle up? In a car or truck, on a city street, a county/dirt road or highway, FIVE minutes could save your life.

the overpass was the announcement that they had spent $55,000 on correcting the damages, and $60,000 on a consulting firm! Say what!

And you wonder why Oklahoma is broke? Can anybody tell me with a straight face how to justify a $60,000 consulting fee? No smarter than Bubba and I are, we could have put $20 gas in the truck, loaded up a couple of state employees from here, and went to May Avenue.

After we got there we could have told them immediately the overpass was not in the correct spot. Then the two state fellas with us would have called the local highway department yard, told them what to bring and showed them how to start the demolition or repairs and gotten the job done. We probably couldn’t cut the repair costs much, but sure enough would have saved the state $60,000 less the cost of our meals on “consulting” fees. This state rip off makes you wonder which senator had an unemployed brother-in-law. If I was a highway department employee in Oklahoma County, I would feel bad that nobody thought we were smart enough to figure this out on their own.

One other incredible story was on the news this week. A drunk driver ran a stop sign in front of three motorcyclists. The three started following the drunk driver. He stopped at a stop sign, then put his truck in reverse and backed into two of the motorcycles. The third guy followed the See Gems Page 5

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Car Talk

Am I out of line for asking? Reader is all out of ideas Dear Annie: I need help getting my stepbrother to like me. I am a 12-year-old boy. I grew up without a dad or siblings and really wanted them. When I was 11, my mom married my stepdad. I was excited because not only did I get a new father, but also a big brother.

Having a new dad is great. He is nice to me, takes me out to movies and ballgames and works hard.

I like seeing my mom happy. The problem is my stepbrother. “Philip” is 17 years old and he hates me. I don’t know why. I never have done anything bad to him and don’t ever pester him.

When my mom and stepdad were dating, Philip barely spoke to me, although he wasn’t mean.

However, the day we moved into our new house together, he told me to stay out of his way and leave him alone. He also said we will never be brothers, and not to expect him to do things with me or ask for his help with anything.

A month ago, I was having trouble with an older kid who was bullying me at school, knocking me off the bus and calling me names.

One day, Phil saw this as he pulled up in his car. He grabbed this kid by the shirt and threatened to beat him

up if he ever messed with me again.

Phil then drove me home. I tried to thank him, but he said that he didn’t do it for me. He did it because he hates bullies.

After that, things went back to the way they were before. I guess the worst part is, I really look up to him. He’s a great athlete at school and knows about cars and sports and girls. I think he could teach me a lot if I can just get him to stop hating me. Please tell me what to do.

-- Phil’s Stepbrother Dear Step: We think Phil is still working on the idea of a younger sibling. He used to have his father’s full attention, but now Dad spends time with you. This is wonderful for your relationship with your stepdad and we are glad he is close to you. But it probably makes Phil a bit jealous, which is no one’s fault and not your responsibility. Please understand that this is normal. He doesn’t hate you. In fact, he treats you the way a lot of older teenagers treat their younger siblings -- as an annoyance. We suggest you be patient with him until he can see what a great brother you are. And please talk to your parents about it, too.

Dear Annie: You’ve printed

a few letters from women whose husbands complain about what they cook. I once made a meal for my grandson, who was then 16. I asked how he liked the food. He said it was “OK.” So I told him the following: 1. Making a meal for someone is like giving them a gift. You want them to like it, so you carefully figure out what will make them happy.

2. You “wrap” it, by preparing it to make sure it will taste delicious.

3. Then you present it to them.

And hopefully their faces will light up when they take that first bite.

-- Indiana Chief Cook and Bottle Washer Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

Letter to the Editor

New trees for the courthouse lawn It takes 50 jugs of water each week to water trees on the courthouse lawn plus the watering of the trees in front of the old chamber building. The custodian who is no longer employed by the commissioners has almost killed two of the 4-H trees with herbicides, confirmed by Tom Crenshaw.

Two of the trees in front of the old chamber building were mulched hoping to prevent the one on the south from dying of poisoning. I planted those two trees and all the rose bushes when I moved into this building. I replaced one of those trees already, probably killed by herbicides. Perhaps it is time for the commissioners to maybe buy one or two trees for the courthouse lawn.

Julia Bays

By Ray Magliozzi Dear Car Talk: In hot weather, I occasionally hear a very loud horn-like sound when I drive at 65 mph or higher.

The noise appears to be on the passenger side, toward the front of the car.

The local Honda dealer and a local mechanic have checked belts, windows, sunroof and the hood latch. It seems to happen only when I am driving on a curve, and it will stop if I slow to less than 65 mph. I need your help. Thanks. -- Maggie Well, since you’ve had several mechanics look at this, I’m going to make two assumptions. Well, three, actually.

Assumption One is that the mechanics have heard the noise.

Assumption Two is that once they’ve heard the noise, they’ve ruled out something dangerous, like a failing wheel bearing, and they’re convinced it’s more likely a wind noise -- which explains the stuff they’ve checked so far. And Assumption Three is that, since two shops have already been all over the car, I have no chance of figuring it out.

Back in the old days when a customer had a problem like this, we’d strap my brother to the hood of the car and then go for a drive and try to reproduce the sound.

When we got back to the shop, we’d take the leaves out of his mouth, and ask him which direction the noise was coming from.

There’s a more modern-day version of that: We have a tool at the garage that has a bunch of small, wireless microphones that attach with hook-and-loop tape straps, suction cups or magnets.

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Julia Bays’ grandchildren help water the trees and plants on the courthouse lawn and around the old chamber building.

How to help former inmates thrive

By Robert E. Rubin, The New York Times I recently gave a talk at the state prison in San Quentin, California.

At the event, a former inmate said, “I don’t understand why over the 18-year period of my incarceration, over $900,000 was paid to keep me in prison. But when I was paroled, I was given $200 and told ‘good luck.’ ” He’s right. For our economy to succeed, we need to equip every American to be effective in the national workforce. But the more than 600,000 people who leave prison every year are not getting the support they need. That fails them and fails the economy for all of us.

To prepare for my talk at San Quentin, I spoke with some of the people incarcerated there. I was

about mystery noise

trying to understand what I had to offer them in a speech – and I discovered how much they had to offer me. They are individuals – with a whole range of strengths, weaknesses and, yes, contributions still to make. And while there’s been a rightful focus on ending mass incarceration, there has been little public discussion of how we reintegrate this growing population.

Criminal justice reform is not just about being fair to the individuals who will be most directly affected, but it’s also about doing what’s right for our nation’s well-being. A 2009 study estimated that the official poverty rate would have declined by 10 percent for the years 1980 until 2004 had it not been for our incarceration policies. And while there hasn’t been a large-

scale study of the economic effects of criminal-justice reform, most experts in the field agree that preparing people for life after prison is a critically important public investment that would alleviate poverty and increase worker productivity.

In California, incarceration policies have already changed, and the San Quentin inmates I spoke to said that the increased chance of freedom has changed the way they behave in prison. They said they were more focused on increasing their chances of parole and preparing for life after San Quentin by trying to learn the skills and behaviors that can lead to productive and meaningful lives outside.

When you witness the power-

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With that tool, we can attach a bunch of sensors to various parts of the car and then drive the car, tuning in to one mic at a time.

That allows us to home in on the exact location of the sound.

That in itself doesn’t solve the problem, but it at least narrows it down and gives us a fighting chance.

My first guess on something like this -- although it’s just a guess -- would be a bad windshield seal. As the speed of the car increases, the body flexes more. And when you make a turn at 65 mph, the windshield opening may be flexing just enough to move the windshield gasket or seal and create a wind noise.

So here’s what I’d do: First, I’d ask your dealer to confirm that he’s ruled out anything dangerous, like a wheel bearing. Then I’d look for a shop that has one of the listening devices Imentioned earlier. Like NSA Motors.

And then try out some theories. Put a couple of microphones around the perimeter of the windshield, and see if the noise is very loud near one of them. Or you can do it yourself by duct-taping your iPhone on there ... as long as you have the dropped-phone replacement coverage. Good luck, Maggie. *** Used cars can be a great bargain, and reliable, too! Find out why by ordering Click and Clack’s pamphlet “How to Buy a Great Used Car: Secrets Only Your Mechanic Knows.” Send $4.75 (check or money order) to Car Talk/Used Car, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. *** Got a question about cars?

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drunk driver until the police arrived and arrested him and his passenger. Here’s the stupid part.

One of the backed-over cyclists pulled his gun and fired shots at the escaping truck. Now the District Attorney is trying to decide whether or not to file charges against him for discharging a firearm in public. For my part I wish he had been a better shot

because our court system will turn the drunk driver loose with a blessing, and folks it could be me or you this lowlife hits next time he is driving drunk. Think about that, Mr. District Attorney.

Hillary is everywhere. I was in a bathroom somewhere and on the hand drier was: “Press button to hear a short speech from Hillary Clinton.”

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Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday – Smothered steak, whipped potatoes with gravy, mixed vegetables, hot roll, cinnamon apple slices Tuesday – Ham and cheese sandwich, lettuce and tomato, bananas, dessert Wednesday – Steak fingers,

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Household Executives OHCE group learn about living with the right stuff

whipped potatoes with gravy, California blend vegetables, fruit dessert Thursday – Beef stroganoff, steamed broccoli, mixed fruit, hot roll, orange glazed cake Friday – Brunch casserole, fried Household Executives OHCE potatoes, chilled pears, biscuit, group met at 2 p.m. in the home vanilla pudding of Elizabeth Smith for the May meeting.

President Carolyn Gasaway called the meeting to order and led the group in the flag salute.

The 11 members answered roll with “What is your right stuff?” Devotion was given from the book of Luke by Saturday, May 28, the Mrs. Doug Haltom (of Waynoka); Smith. descendants of Charles and Alma Krystal Haltom, Richard Burkhalter Minutes of the April meeting (Bay) Haltom met at the Waynoka and Kinsley (of Oklahoma City); were read by Secretary Nicki rd School Commons area for their 33 RaShel Mauck (of Cincinnati, Chaffee and approved as presented. annual reunion.

Ohio); Steve Haltom and Logan The treasurer’s report was presented After a delicious carry-in dinner, (of Waynoka); Annette Ralston by Eleanor Ring. the afternoon was spent visiting (of Alva); Daphne Smith, Hannah Members attending the OHCE and taking pictures. Children of McDaniel, Skyler and Michael (all Week reception welcoming Susan Virginia Ross were hosts for the of Elk City); Kim White (of Vici); Holliday as our new FSC leader: day.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haltom (of Ring, Chaffee, Carol Anderson, Those attending were Clarence Vinita); Mr. and Mrs. Pat Meek, Rose Blunk, Hornvick, Evelyn Harmon, Nancy Harmon Taylor Michelle Pettus (all of Enid); Mr. Kramp and Gasaway. (both of Oklahoma City); Diane and Mrs. Dale Ross (of Dacoma); Harmon Norris (of Haysville, Terry Ross (of Alva); Donna Kansas); Darrel Pearson, Mr. Eggleston (of Waynoka); Marva and Mrs. Brant Pearson (all of Wallis (of Alva) and one guest, Oologah); Mr. and Mrs. Larry Jewel LeDou (of Alva).

Pearson (of Clinton); Mr. and Mrs. We will meet at the same time The Golbek-Shearer reunion Dennis Pearson (of Dacoma); and place next year with Mr. and was held at the Alva Senior Citizen Janet Johnson (of Tulsa); Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Pearson as host.

Center on Sunday May 29. On Saturday evening a supper was held at the Alva Moose Lodge for all who wanted to attend and visit.

The reunion started back in 1950 when grandparents Ernest and Hattie Shearer celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the home of ing as a prosecutor on the Mexican better job.”

Rueben and Thelma Golbek. There border and now as a border-state “There was no attack on a Latino were 17 children born to this family governor, Martinez said Trump’s or a woman governor,” Lewandows- of Shearers. Three of the Shearer plan to build a wall and force Mex- ki said on Fox. “What this was, was sisters, Irene, Hazel and Thelma, ico to pay for it was unrealistic and laying out the economic perspective married three Golbek brothers, irresponsible, according to multiple of what the state of New Mexico Edd, Otto and Reuben, who came people in attendance.” was doing, and he’s saying we need from a family of 12.

Team Trump believes Martinez to do a better job.”

These families carried on this has continued to criticize him in priIt was that -- plus a threat to reunion for 25 years and then the vate since those remarks. And when Martinez to get in line. next generation, Betty (Golbek) Trump traveled to Albuquerque, afTrump confirmed as much at his Riggins and Elsie (Golbek) Shipley, ter having clinched the Republican news conference Tuesday. Asked nomination, Martinez told reporters why he went after Martinez, Trump she was “really busy” and did not said, “She was not nice. And I was have time to attend. fine -- just a little bit of a jab. But So Trump slammed Martinez she wasn’t nice, and you think I’m for, among other things, the state going to change? I’m not changing, of the economy and a rise in food including with her.” stamp usage in New Mexico. “We Perhaps Martinez will change ful effect the prospect of release have got to get your governor to get her tone after Trump wins New has on changing behavior, it helps going,” he said. “She’s got to do a Mexico’s primary on June 7. Per- you realize how badly we are anhaps not. As far as Trump is con- alyzing the effects of the current cerned, attacking Martinez, to the system on the outcomes we want (unknown) degree that it angers His- for society. And when you analyze panic voters in general, could affect the economic effects of our current his fortunes far outside the boundar- system, it becomes clear where it ies of New Mexico. But Trump ap- is failing. parently felt it was more important How is giving a former inmate now to crack down on Republican $200 and not much else – no suitresistance, at least on GOP politicos able place to live, no help finding who openly attack him, than it was work, no help adjusting to life outto ignore Martinez’s opposition. side prison walls – preparing him It’s not the way things are done for a productive life? Society imthese days. But the person in Trump- poses a stigma on former prisoners World looked back to a time when that makes all of that harder. All powerful party bosses would oc- of this decreases the probability of casionally make an example of an success. off-the-reservation official just to There are five key areas where inspire others to stay in line. That’s we could make a significant differstill necessary, the person said, and ence in improving the chance that that’s what Donald Trump is doing. individuals released from prison can make a successful transition to mainstream society.

First, we need to enhance educational opportunities for people inside prison and just out of it.

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President Gasaway appointed a committee to work on bylaw changes. The committee will consist of Kramp, Ring, and Lola Heaton.

A report was given on the May 2 Spring OHCE meeting. Those who attended were Chaffee, Helen Thiesing, Thamazin Harrison, Heaton, Kramp, Blunk, Hornvick (guest), Gasaway, Barbara Bouziden and Marilyn Brown.

Each OHCE group is asked to bring two dozen cookies for 4-H camp to the OSU Extension office by 8 a.m. on Monday, June 13. Theising has volunteered for Household Executives.

The next Household Executives meeting will be June 15 at 2 p.m. in the Fireside Room. Hostess will be Donna Schwerdfeger with co

hostess Ring. Lesson will be given

by Leta Guinn.

Leader Training will be June 23 at 5:30 p.m. at the courthouse.

Volunteers are needed to sit at the Cherokee Strip Museum on Saturday. Meals on Wheels has been done by Brown. Fair exhibits were discussed.

Blunk presented the lesson on “Living with the right stuff.”

The focus was on safety, food safety, changing batteries in smoke detectors, and appliance replacement for efficiency.

Healthy fruit kabobs and pink lemonade were served to the following members: Anderson, Colene Barham, Blunk, Chaffee, Gasaway, Harrison, Kramp, Ring, Smith and Thiesing.

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did it for 30 years. Betty and her family then continued for a while but has now resigned so the next generation will have to take over.

Those attending from out of town were Rosemary Chapman and Jim Yackey (of Wichita, Kansas); Letha, Shawn and Chloe Cox (of McCook, Nebraska); Jeremy, Ellen and Annie Schneider (of Seiling); Mike and Susan Schneider (of Fargo); Johnnie Wallace (of Anchorage, Alaska); Eric, Requel, Ethan, Andrew and Emily Golbek (of Tulsa); Dana Golbek (of Kingfisher); J.J., Lisa, Channing, Princess Presley and Easton Riggins (of Clearwater, Kansas); Gary, Jennifer, Makennah, Garrett and Miles Tyree (of LaMar, Colorado); Gerald Golbek (of

Norton, Kansas); Johnny Golbek (of Woodward); Doug Haltom and family (of Waynoka); Verl, Audra Lynette Phillips, Rich Woodward and Lorna Crabb (all of Waynoka); Eva, Aaron and Christy McRee (of Yukon); Antuanella Bartow (of Westminster, Maryland).

Those attending from Alva were Jerry and Tonya Brown; Jeffrey Lee and Leslie Brandt; Forrest Golbek and Edd Golbek; Elsie and Marvin Shipley; Carolyn and Gerald Brown; Kara Stoner; Michael Willhite; Natalie Stoner; Judy and David Vore; Fred and Sherry Riggins; April, Derick, Sylus, Clyce and Princess Myah Graves; Shane, Alicia, Trinady and Miss Olivia Smith; Jeannie Smith and Betty Riggins.

Inmates portunity to pursue a college education; it will only improve their chance to succeed when released.

Second, we should remove unfair barriers to employment. Many jobs now require professional certification, like being a barber in Connecticut or a truck driver in Texas, and state certification boards often bar former prisoners.

We should eliminate those blanket prohibitions.

Third, we should support transitional assistance efforts across the country. For example, the New York-based Center for Employment Opportunities provides work in four states for people as soon as they are released, and couples those opportunities with skills programs, training and job placement.

Efforts like these have proven records of success and should be deployed nationwide.

Fourth, we need to help the formerly incarcerated have access to secure and stable housing. Currently, many states ban former prisoners from living in assisted housing.

We should instead give individual housing authorities discretion so they can protect the safety of residents but also offer housing to people leaving prison who are ready to start new, productive lives.

And finally, we should help

people take advantage of health care coverage for which they are already eligible. Twenty-eight states expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, and while most people just out of prison are eligible for it, too many are unaware or need assistance enrolling.

Of course, these investments cost money, but come with a significant return. Because efforts to help people make a successful transition back to mainstream society both reduce recidivism and equip former prisoners to be effective parts of the work force, it will help our economy over the long term.

Solving this problem begins with people outside prison recognizing the humanity of people inside prison. As one man incarcerated at San Quentin said to me: “Nobody is just the crime they committed. We are all much more than the worst thing we have done.”

People in prison are part of America, as are those who have been released. They are part of our society. And we have a powerful stake in their success.

Robert E. Rubin, the Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999, is a co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Alva couple charged with child neglect again

By Marione Martin On Feb. 19, 2015, Twana Jean Smart and Timothy Douglas Smart of Alva were charged with felony child neglect following the death of Kalib Smart, their disabled adopted son who was 17. Those charges are still pending in Woods County.

Their next court appearance is set for June 14 at 10 a.m.

On Saturday, May 25, 2016, the Smarts were each charged with an additional felony count of child neglect involving another disabled adopted son, age 17, listed as ES in court records. Twana is now 52 and Timothy is now 56.

Court records show that Special Agent Trevor Ridgeway of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation began the investigation leading to the most recent charges on Nov. 13, 2015, at the request of Woods County Assistant District Attorney Westline Ritter. ES is described as a handicapped child who was adopted at age two by the Smarts. ES was born at 36 weeks old with exposure to amphetamine and tobacco. He was not verbal, partially mobile and limited to soft liquid type foods and tube feedings for nutrition.

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numerous people including school teachers, physical therapists, DHS employees and law enforcement officers who had contact with the child or had been in the Smart home.

When Ridgeway visited the Smart residence at 6:20 p.m. he found ES was already in bed and was told he had been in bed since 2 p.m. Ridgeway described the bedroom as having “a horrible odor” believed to be caused by spoiled, spilled formula on the walls, bed and floor that did not appear to have been cleaned for a substantial amount of time. The boy was in a metal cage/crib style bed.

One school teacher told Ridgeway she made about 40 referrals to DHS regarding ES due to poor hygiene and physical injuries. The hygiene issues were matted hair, dirty fingernails, matted eyes, an odor similar to cat urine and balding spots. She also said it was common for his wheelchair to be filthy. She said it was so bad the school employees took the chair to the car wash to clean it.

One teacher quoted Twana as saying “if you saw how much

money I got you would adopt some kids like him too.” Another teacher said Twana told her she did not want ES to learn to walk.

Several of those interviewed described hostility from Twana when they questioned her care of ES or suggested more therapy.

Alva Public School records showed numerous absences from school. During the sixth-grade school year, ES had 11 unexcused absences and 27 excused absences.

During the seventh-grade school year ES had 71 excused absences.

During the eighth-grade school year ES had 61.5 unexcused absences and nine excused absences.

The felony child neglect charges against the Smarts allege that between 2004 and 2015, they failed to provide adequate food, sanitation, hygiene, medical health care and special care made necessary by the physical and mental health of the child when the Smarts were responsible for the child’s health, safety or welfare.

The crime of felony child neglect is punishable by imprisonment up to life, or by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or both such fine and imprisonment.

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at Beaver Public Schools, she soon returned to Northwestern for her master’s degree. She taught for nearly seven years in grades 3-6 for Beaver Public Schools and she was an adjunct instructor at Northwestern’s Woodward campus for two years before returning to Northwestern fulltime in 2012.

Her certification areas include: Early Childhood (PK-3), Elementary (1-8), and Reading Specialist (PK-12).

She is currently working toward her doctorate degree in reading and literacy from Capella University and hopes to finish in the summer of 2016.

Oswald wants to provide future teachers with a strong foundation to teach reading and writing. She believes when children have a strong literacy foundation they will be successful in school and life. When Oswald found out the students nominate and choose the Teacher of the Year it was both humbling and touching for

her since this is her first time receiving the award.

“I do it all for the students,” Oswald said. “I love teaching here at Northwestern.”

Oswald has a strong passion for teaching and keeps pictures of her and her students in her office as a reminder. She enjoyed teaching elementary students for years, but she appreciates how easy it is to build relationships with her current students at Northwestern.

“The younger students move up in a grade and they outgrow you, but I can keep in touch with my students here at Northwestern even after graduation. I still get emails asking for advice or just wanting to keep in touch.”

For more information A young pool-goer at the Alva City Pool takes advantage of the sunny about opportunities within weather. Photo by Stephanie Lambert Northwestern’s Division of Education contact Oswald at 580327-8451 or jdoswald@nwosu. edu.

Explosion in shed in Erick leaves 1 man dead, cause sought ERICK, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in the western Oklahoma town of Erick say an explosion in a shed near the center of the town has left one man dead.

Police Chief Patrick Strange told KFOR that the man’s body was The Alva City Pool is enjoyed by all ages for numerous events – even sent to the state medical examiner’s football. Photo by Stephanie Lambert. office for an autopsy and positive identification.

Strange said the cause of the late Thursday night blast is not known, but that it does not appear to be drug-related or the result of foul play.

Erick is in western Oklahoma about seven miles from the Texas This youngster enjoys the slide at the Alva City Pool, which opened state line.

Memorial Day weekend. Photo by Stephanie Lambert.

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Tyler Freeburg (No. 11) of Thomas pushes past Bailey Patton (No. 22) from Ringwood along the baseline to try and get the up-and-under layup. Photo by Leslie Nation

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Four players were recognized as Girls Basketball Player of The Year by 101 Classic Bowl XXVIII committee members. From left are Leland Searcy, Taylor Hedrick (Seiling), Jaden Hobbs (Alva), Taylor Cell (Fairview), Hillary Hurst (Woodward), and Justin Bowers. Each of these girls will further their playing time at the university level: Hedrick at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Hobbs at Oklahoma State University, Cell at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and Hurst at Oral Roberts University. Photo by Katie Strehl

Tevin Long (No. 12) represented the Alva High School at the K101 Classic Bowl boys basketball game on Thursday in Game 2 for the East. Photo by Leslie Nation

Brandon Kirk, representing Weatherford High School, competed in the Slam Dunk Contest during the halftime of game two of the K101 Classic Bowl on Thursday. Kirk finished in second place. Photo by Leslie Nation

Braden Schenk (No. 23) of Cashion goes up to get the block as Avery Bagenstos (No. 55) from Cherokee tries to get the quick bump underneath. Photo

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Sarah Garvie of Burlington High School edges out Jaden Hobbs of Alva High School and wins the Tevin Long pulls up for a contested three-pointer at the left wing. Dade Graham from Mooreland won the Slam 3-point shooting contest at 101 Classic Bowl XXVIII Long finished the game with 14 points, but it wasn’t enough as the Dunk Contest at the K101 Classic. Photo by Leslie during the girls basketball Red vs White games on May 31. Photo by Katie Strehl Red team won 80-85. Photo by Leslie Nation Nation

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Jaden Hobbs of Alva High School takes care of the ball during the 101 Classic Bowl XXVIII Girls’ Basketball games Tuesday in Woodward. Photo by Katie Strehl

Mario Marquez, Alva High School, cheers with the Honor Cheer Squad during the 101 Classic Bowl XXVIII at the Red vs White girls basketball competition on Tuesday. Photo by Katie Strehl

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Kole Konrade (No. 2) of Ashland High School drives hard to the bucket to get the layup underneath. Photo by Leslie Nation

Diesselhorst ready to rebuild 101 Classic

By Leslie Nation News of the announcement of Northwestern Oklahoma State’s women’s head basketball coach has already spread around Alva, and the change has been met with both welcome and not a little curiosity to what the future holds for the program.

As the Kiwanis Club met on Wednesday at Champ’s to introduce the new head coach in an informal setting, Tasha Diesselhorst has continued to cement that this change is a good one.

In her last six seasons, the former head coach of the girls’ basketball program at Pond Creek-Hunter led the Lady Panthers to a record of 152-23 with a state championship in 2014 and runner-up to finish her final season with the school.

Growing up with a family full of coaches, Diesselhorst has become very familiar with that part of the game.

“One of the biggest influences in my life was growing up around coaches and watching their influence through young people,” said Diesselhorst.

As matter of fact, Diesselhorst went on to announce that her aunt, Kim Kramer – a former coach at Woodward who won several state championships – would be joining Diesselhorst on the basketball court as the new assistant coach at Northwestern.

Diesselhorst graduated from Medford High School as a Lady Cardinal playing for both her father and mother – Randy and Robin Turney – who were her head coach and assistant coach respectively.

“Having your dad as your head basketball coach is interesting, but what most people didn’t know is that my mom was my assistant coach as well,” said Diesselhorst.

“You add her into the mix and most of the time it was Dad yelling at me, and then Mom yelling at Dad for yelling at me.”

Diesselhorst described the experience as equal parts challenging and rewarding that helped her develop a mental toughness in certain situations.

“I knew that Dad was not going to take it easy on me,” said Diesselhorst.

After graduating from Medford, Diesselhorst attended Oklahoma Christian University where she continued her basketball career and majored in physical education with a minor in English.

“One of the big reasons, and one of the major influences to go to Oklahoma Christian was the men’s basketball coach Dan Hays a Northwestern alum,” said Diesselhorst. “I was able, not only to learn from my coaches in the women’s program, but I learned a lot from Coach Hays too. He was a huge influence on me as a player and now as a coach.”

While at Oklahoma Christian, Diesselhorst also had another significant influence in the physical education department, Max Dobson, who made a comment that Diesselhorst remembers to this day.

“One day we were sitting in class and Dr. Dobson looked at me and said, ‘You remind me of somebody.’ I said ‘Who do I remind you of?’ And he said, ‘We had another young lady that played basketball here and was a P.E. major with an English minor, and you remind a whole lot of her.’”

That other young lady has become a household name with the University of Oklahoma women’s basketball program: Sherri Coale.

“I thought that’s a pretty big comparison, and I don’t by any

means think I’m Sherri Coale, but when he said that to me I thought it would be pretty cool to someday do the things that she does,” said Diesselhorst.

During Diesselhorst playing career at Oklahoma Christian, she came face-to-face with another big name to Sooner fans of the women’s basketball program Courtney Paris during her OU debut. Diesselhorst was in the lineup to guard Paris in the paint and she remembers the instructions that her head coach Stephanie Findley gave her: “Don’t take a charge. Just get out of the way.”

Many Sooner fans will be familiar with the 6-foot-4, 250-pound center from San Jose, California, who went seventh overall in the WNBA draft to the Sacramento Monarchs in 2009. Paris now plays for the Tulsa Shock/Dallas Wings since 2012.

After finishing up at Oklahoma Christian, Diesselhorst was inspired

by Dobson’s comment to make that step into coaching, but she never thought that she would have taken that step to Pond Creek-Hunter High School.

“Having graduated from Medford, if you would have told me I would be coaching at Pond Creek I would have said that you were crazy because we did not like Pond Creek-Hunter when I was in high school,” said Diesselhorst. “They were big big rivals and still are.”

But when Diesselhorst chose to go in for an interview to lead the girls’ basketball program she chose to look at it as an experience and and see what happened. About an hour after the interview, Diesselhorst was forced to really look into taking the job as they informed her that “it’s yours if you want it.”

Her very first year as head coach

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Tasha Diesselhorts speaks to the Alva Kiwanis Club Wednesday.

Photo by Jim Richey of the Lady Panthers, they finished with a record of 4-19.

“I lost more games that year than I lost in my career in high school,” said Diesselhorst. “I lost 16 games at Medford.”

The very next year, Diesselhorst and the Lady Panthers pushed those four wins to 11.

Over the next seven years, the Lady Panthers continued to see success as they were 49-0 against conference opponents to get seven straight conference titles. Further proof that Diesselhorst is not unfamiliar with rebuilding.

“Inheriting this program at Alva, I’ve been told there’s been some down times right now, and people have asked me how I’m going to respond,” said Diesselhorst. “I’ve been there. I know this is a different level, but I’ve kind of been through it.

“At Pond Creek, it was something that I prided myself in that we built that program up, and that’s

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• Girls Basketball Player of the Year: Jaden Hobbs of Alva, Hillary Hurst of Woodward, Taylor Cell of Fairview, Taylor Hedrick of Seiling (four-way tie) • Girls Basketball Coach of the Year: Dusty Horn of Alva, Kinzie Didier of Woodward, Mike Barton of Fairview, Brady Hamar of Seiling (four-way tie) • Girls Basketball Scholarship: Sydney Hutchison of Fairview • Boys Basketball Player of the Year: Jaedon Whitfield of Boise City • Boys Basketball Coach of the Year: Britton Gabriele of Boise City • Boys Basketball Scholarship: Clay Moyer of Fargo-Gage • West Football Coach of the Year: Tyson Bullard of Shattuck • East Football Coach of the Year: Frank Howard of Mooreland and Joey Reinart of Chisholm • West Defensive Player of the Year: Braxton Bruce of Shattuck • East Defensive Player of the Year: Jake Curless of Chisholm • East Offensive Player of the Year: Kyler Hensley of Mooreland • West Offensive Player of the Year: Dayton Metcalf of Hooker • Drew Williams Memorial Scholarship: Colton Budy of Waynoka

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Rangers ready for rodeo college finals

By Ted Harbin A year ago, steer wrestler Jacob Edler let the national title slip out of his grasp on the final run of 2015 College National Finals Rodeo.

“I had a 9-second lead going into the short round last year,” said Edler, a senior at Northwestern Oklahoma State University from Statesville, Iowa. “After missing that steer, I was in disbelief.”

He didn’t allow that episode to define him, though. In fact, it’s been a motivating factor in his championship reign through the 2015-16 regular season. Edler won the Central Plains Region title in dominating fashion. He’ll carry that momentum into the college finals, set for June 12-18 in Casper, Wyoming.

“My goal for the college finals this year is to pick up off the table what I let down last year,” he said.

“My goal is to win a national championship. This is my last year of college rodeo, so I’m going to let it all hang out.”

It’s a formula that has worked well for the young cowboy.

“Last year I fell five points short of winning the region,” Edler said.

“That was my biggest goal. This year I got my good horse back, and I tried to do good at every single rodeo I went to.”

Edler is one of four Northwestern men who have qualified for the college finals. He will be joined by fellow bulldogger J.D. Struxness of Appleton, Minnesota, who finished second in the region; bareback rider Austin Graham of Jay, Oklahoma, who finished third; and Bryson Sechirst of Apache, Oklahoma, who won the regional title in tie-down roping.

While tremendous talent is one key factor in being successful, having that work ethic is what paid off.

In addition to the four Northwestern men heading to Casper, the region-winning women will field a full team of four cowgirls: region goat-tying champion Shayna Miller of Faith, South Dakota; barrel racer Sara Bynum of Beggs, Oklahoma, who finished third in the circuit; and two more goat-tiers in Tearnee Nelson of Faith and Laremi Allred of Kanarraville, Utah.

“I’ve never made the short round out there, and I’d like to at least make the short round this year,” said Miller, now making her third trip to Casper. “The ultimate goal is to win the whole thing. I know what it takes to win it. If I put in the work, I think I can get it done.”

That stands also for the women in their effort to bring the team title back to Alva.

“I think we can do it,” Miller said. “The other girls on the team haven’t been to the college finals before, but they’re tough competitors. I’ve competed with them all year, so I know they can do it.”

Rodeo is such a different mindset than many team sports, much

like wrestling. Each individual success can help the program. While the Northwestern women will field a full team, the four Rangers men are just two cowboys shy of a full roster. All have college finals experience.

They also have lessons they have learned while competing for Northwestern all season under the tutelage of rodeo coach Stockton Graves.

“He is the main reason for my mind game,” Sechrist said of Graves, a seven-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier in steer wrestling. “I used to get so down on myself if I didn’t do well. I’d go talk to him, and he’d get my mind right.”

That type of encouragement goes a long way.

“Stockton has been a huge influence on my bulldogging,” Edler said. “I’ve gotten sharper just by hanging out with Stockton. You also have other guys that are hanging around there and consistently coming to practice. J.D. Struxness and I are rodeoing together this year, so we push ourselves to the limit every day.

“That’s what’s set me over the edge. Every single day J.D. and I were in the practice pen making sure we were getting better.”

The teams have shown that consistently through the regular season.

They hope it carries over into the final week.

“We’ve got some great guys going to Casper,” Seachrist said. “We all have a little more experience, so I think that can help us a lot.”

It should.

“For us to have a chance to win the men’s title, we’re all going to have to go in there and fill our goals,” Edler said. “J.D. and I are going to have to win first and second in bulldogging. Austin rides bareback horses really consistently.

Bryson in the most talented 24-yearold calf roper that’s walking the face of the Earth right now. I know he can win first.

“I think if we can all go out there, make the short round and take care of business, our chances are extremely good for winning the team deal.”

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Bailey Forell transfers to NWOSU basketball

By Lynn L. Martin One of the starters on the 2015 Ladybugs state champion basketball team has returned to her hometown of Alva to transfer to the Lady Rangers basketball program after a junior college stint at Highland Community College in northeastern Kansas.

Even though Bailey Forell started every game at Highland, she wasn’t real happy there.

“It’s like the smallest town in the world,” she said. “Two gas stations and that is it!”

We asked, “Were you sort of lonely up there?”

“Yeah,” Forell said.

A bit of a culture shock was a downer also. Only two of the girls on the team came from a rural smalltown culture while the rest of the team was comprised of players from urban areas such as Kansas City, Missouri, and Shawnee, Oklahoma.

“We had one player from a small Texas town, but she was more like the urban types,” Forell said.

In querying more, we asked, “What caused you to turn around and come back to Northwestern? Was the displeasure social, athletic or educational?”

“Probably socially and athletically,” Forell said. “I felt like I only got along with a few of the girls I was playing with because we came from such different backgrounds and areas. Our coach made us be together constantly and we eventually grew tired of having to be around each other all the time.”

When asked about her role on the team, she said, “I think I did what the coach wanted from me, which was much like what I did at Alva High School. I started every game being a shooting guard and a strong defensive player. He didn’t expect a ton from me, but he sure did expect defense!”

Next we asked, “How did the competitiveness or style of play compare to what you were used to at Alva High School?”

Forell said, “It was pretty much about the same. We still ran a lot, but you can tell there’s better people at that level. And the coach was a lot

harder on us!”

Coach Tasha Diesselhorst?

When asked about the new ladies basketball coach at Northwestern, Tasha Diesselhorst, Forell said, “I’ve met her before when she was at Pond Creek. We actually scrimmaged them over Christmas break one time.”

“Do you think you’ll get to start up here?” we asked.

“I think we’ll have to wait and see,” Forell said. “(Diesselhorst) doesn’t really know what talent she has either. Some of the people who are signed for the Lady Rangers she didn’t recruit. So she doesn’t really know all she’s got yet.”

We asked Forell if she will be losing any eligibility by transferring,

and she said, “No. Because I am transferring from the junior college level, there is no upward restrictions when going to D3, D2 or even D1.”

What about the level of play at the junior college level compared to Northwestern?

“I know it will be a lot tougher,” Forell said. “JuCo is more about getting you ready for this. So it’s like another step up. It will be tougher! It will be more physically demanding, and you’ll see more athleticism.”

Forell has signed up for 17 academic hours and is taking a prehealth curriculum, hoping to become a chiropractor.

Her parents are Guy and Kelly Forell of Alva.

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The Alva Boomerangs won the Diamond 12U Tournament in Woodward on Saturday, May 21. The Boomerangs beat the Woodward Barons 12-2 for the Championship. Pictured are (back row, left to right) Jerrod Reed (coach), Austin Reed, Dominic Minjares, Donald Blalock, Kaden Slater, Kory Faulkner, Logan Nusser and Don Blalock (coach); (front row, left to right) Dalton Marteney, Andrew Barton, A.J. Minjares, Colby Mackey, Kelton O’Neil and Daren Slater (coach).

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Two charged with Hardtner blacksmith felony child neglect exhibits at Graceful Arts After similar charges last year

By Marione Martin Two people who were charged with child neglect in January 2015 in Woods County and received deferred sentences are now facing additional child neglect charges.

According to the affidavit in the case filed by District Attorney’s Investigator Steve Tanio, he was told on May 27, 2016, by Tammy Kidwell that during the previous afternoon her adult daughter Amanda Wallace was admitted to Share Medical Center emergency room as the result of a drug overdose.

Kidwell said two or three weeks earlier, Wallace had been found unconscious at the Alva’s Market grocery store and had been transported to Share Medical where it was discovered she had an overdose amount of methamphetamine and other narcotics. Kidwell said at that time she travelled to Alva and obtained custody of her nineyear-old male grandchild from Wallace.

Kidwell said she spoke with Wallace’s common-law husband, Patrick Brigman, who stated Wallace had gone out in the afternoon to obtain more drugs for herself and Brigman but when she returned she had already used some of the meth and all she had were “some scrapings.” Kidwell said Brigman told her this resulted in an argument and that Wallace had to be admitted to the hospital.

According to Tanio’s affidavit, on May 27 he talked to Woods County Undersheriff Keith Dale, who said that on May 27 he had determined that Wallace was transported by ambulance to the Share emergency room from her residence at 904 Seventh St. He learned from her treating physician that Wallace had tested positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine and MDMA, all controlled dangerous substances (CDS), and diagnosed her condition as the result of a drug overdose.

Dale also told Tanio he obtained records from Wallace’s May 17, 2016, admission to the emergency room when she was found unresponsive at the WalMart parking lot with her two minor children. On that date the records indicate she tested positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine and MDMA. On May 27 Tanio, along with

officers from the Alva Police Department and the Woods County Sheriff’s Office, executed a search warrant on the Brigman and Wallace residence. Inside were Brigman and his son, age two. Tanio’s statement described the entire interior of the residence as unclean with clothing, trash, human and dog feces on the floor.

The child was totally nude and was allowed to roam around the entire house. The kitchen area was extremely dirty with used diapers on the floor and food on both the floor and the cabinets.

The affidavit says “the residence appeared extremely unsanitary and unhealthy for human occupancy.”

Tanio conducted a postMiranda interview with Brigman.

During the interview Brigman told Tanio that Wallace was using methamphetamine on a regular basis and was unfit to be a parent.

Brigman also admitted he had “snorted a line of meth” within the last week. He also admitted to Tanio that his home was “a mess” and “it wasn’t right” for his son to be living there in such conditions.

Brigman agreed to a urine test at the sheriff’s office. The result was positive for the presence of methamphetamine.

In the January 2015 charges, Brigman was charged with three felonies: (1) child neglect, (2) possession of controlled dangerous substance in the presence of a minor or within 1,000 feet of a school and (3) maintain place for keeping or selling controlled substance. In October 2015, he pleaded guilty to the first two charges and received a five year deferred sentence.

On January 20, 2015, Wallace was charged with the same three felony counts. In October she also entered a guilty plea to the first two counts and was sentenced to five years deferred.

On May 31, 2016, Patrick Dean Brigman, 44, of Alva was charged with one count of felony child neglect. He was released on a personal recognizance bond with a $10,000 liability.

On May 31, 2016, Amanda Lee Wallace, 28, of Alva was charged with two counts of felony child neglect. She was also released on a personal recognizance bond with a $10,000 liability.

Both will make their next appearance in court on July 12 at 10 a.m.

Felony child neglect is punishable by imprisonment up to life, or by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Jury set for trial of man in death of his father and brother LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A jury has been seated for the first-degree murder trial of a Lawton man charged with killing his father and 14-yearold brother.

The jury was seated Friday and opening statements in the trial of 20-year-old Thorsten Rushing are to begin Monday.

Rushing has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the January 2014 shooting deaths of 50-year-old Uwe Rushing and 14-year-old Stefan Rushing.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Two co-defendants have pleaded guilty to murder in the case and are serving life in prison. Two other co-defendants are in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy and being accessories after the crime.

Witnesses at a preliminary hearing said Rushing may have been motivated by money from his father’s life insurance policy.

By Lynn L. Martin Pake McNally, age 30 of Hardtner, Kansas, just returned home after a 12-year hiatus of living all over.

He is now attempting to make a living for him and his wife creating found-object and blacksmith/ anvil art.

“I take bits and pieces of old machinery, objects you would typically find in the scrap-iron pile beside an old farmer’s shop,” said McNally. “I make statues, robots, horses and lots of custom lamps out of that old iron. I then put in light bulbs and wire them up. It’s art with a purpose.”

McNally said he has a pretty Nally Metal Design on Facebook, large fan base starting in Colora- or read their blog at McNallyMetal. do and then all over the midwest. wordpress.com.

Probably Michigan is the greatest distance he has sold a custom piece.

When asked how he’s been able to make a career out of his art, McNally replied, “It’s tough, but we’re doing it. My wife is really understanding. I’ve had a lot of luck in making good contacts and creating custom commissioned pieces.”

McNally has been doing the found-object sculpture for about five years, and the more traditional blacksmith and anvil iron art for about three years.

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Eat Better Move More Free program aims to enhance lives of older adults

By Marione Martin Four words describe a new free program aimed at older adults, caregivers and family members: Eat Better Move More. The program begins at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 8, and continues each Wednesday through July 27 at the Alva Public Library, 504 Fourth St. Although the program is free,

you need to be registered to attend.

To register call Tina Ruding, Education Specialist, Northwest OHAI Center of Healthy Aging, at 580-297-5137 or email her at tinaruding@ouhsc.edu.

Participants are encouraged to bring pen and paper for taking notes. OHAI will provide takehome materials for all information covered in class.

The 12-week program is designed to fit the interests and needs of older adults who want to maintain or improve their quality of life. Each week will focus on

a different aspect of nutrition and physical activity.

The class is designed for individuals and caregivers who have chronic health programs, targeting older adults, caregivers and family members.

Those who attend can expect to walk away with tools for: • Improving your meals with better nutrition • Simple and fun ways to introduce movement and exercise into everyday routines • Developing a plan that will enhance the quality of your life.

Oklahoma budget cuts more than expected for higher education

By Kathryn McNutt, The Oklahoman Shrinking state support for higher education is harming Oklahoma’s future, college officials warn.

“States that prosper are states that invest in education,” University of Central Oklahoma President Don Betz said. “The quality of life, the quality of economic development and the quality of education all go together.”

The fiscal year 2017 state budget appropriates $810 million for higher education – $67 million less than the current budget, which is $112 million less than the previous year.

Since 2008, state support for Oklahoma’s 25 public colleges and universities has declined $241 million. State appropriations – half of higher education’s total budget in 2007 – now make up 35 percent.

“You find yourself with diminished support from the state and fewer resources to deliver the quality education that the state wants to have for workforce development, for citizen development and basically for society’s future,” Betz said.

15.9 Percent Cut College presidents and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education argued throughout the legislative session that continued cuts in state funding endanger the ability to produce a quality workforce and attract good jobs to Oklahoma.

Their arguments fell on deaf ears. Higher education was cut 15.9 percent for the fiscal year that begins July 1, one of the biggest cuts in the state budget.

“Now, more than ever, our state needs an educated workforce with the critical thinking and knowledge

base to attract business and boost our economy. The new budget represents a severe blow to higher education’s ability to serve and support Oklahoma’s economy,” Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis said.

“We will be forced to hire fewer faculty and cut back on certain academic programs, coming at a time when many of our programs are growing and experiencing great industry demand. Engineering is one example,” Hargis said.

A reduction was expected because of the state’s financial crisis, but Hargis said he was surprised lawmakers cut so much.

Financial Position Deep cuts to higher education and transportation were required “to avoid truly unacceptable funding levels for K-12 schools and hospitals,” said Preston Doerflinger, state finance secretary.

“Transportation and higher education have superior financial positions compared to the rest of government and can absorb reductions far better than common education and health care could,” Doerflinger said.

Despite reductions in state appropriations, total revenue has grown at most colleges and universities, said John Estus, a spokesman for the state Office of Management and Enterprise Services, who provided data from the office.

For example, UCO received fairly flat state funding over the past five years, but with increases in two other categories – tuition and fees, and other revenue – the university’s total revenue went from $143.8 million in fiscal year 2012 to $194.6 million this fiscal year, according to the data.

In addition, Estus said, most colleges and universities maintain

“healthy balances” in their revolving funds. State regents’ policy requires each institution to keep 8.3 percent of their total budget in reserve for emergencies.

“Few other, if any, state entities have such a policy or maintain such strong reserves,” he said.

Tuition Increases The fiscal year 2017 budget puts “too big of a load” on higher education, Hargis said, and requires colleges and universities to make tough decisions regarding tuition.

“OSU has worked hard to hold down the cost for students and remains one of the best values in the country,” he said. “OSU’s average tuition increase over the past seven years has been 2.4 percent, while state appropriations over that same period dropped 11.5 percent, even though enrollment increased by more than 3,700 students.”

Tuition increases will be submitted to the state regents for approval next month.

Chancellor Glen Johnson said keeping tuition affordable for Oklahoma students is critical.

During the legislative session, he argued that any cut to higher education should be minimized so the system can continue to meet its college degree completion and workforce goals.

“Higher education continues to be the best investment our policy leaders can make to ensure a stronger economy and brighter future for our state,” Johnson said.

“It’s a cause that, more than anything we can do, will determined the future direction of Oklahoma.”

Competitive Struggles The University of Oklahoma struggles to be competitive in the higher education market, Provost

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Woods County Communications phone log Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:31 p.m. Need officer, mother not coming onto property, harassment charges two months ago, respondent there.

3:11 p.m. Accident on Lane/281, two vehicles, no airbags, no injuries, nothing leaking, fender bender one each.

3:12 p.m. Two vehicle accident on 281/Lane, no injuries.

4:55 p.m. GC in tornado watch til 9 p.m.

5:13 p.m. Alva Fire Department to Canyon Hill Drive for hydrogen sulfur.

5:28 p.m. Caller with ticket question, contact Alva Police Department.

10:11 p.m. 911 call, deer in the road, three vehicles hit it, on Ridgeview right in front of a house.

11:16 p.m. Tank battery fire at Blaine and 132.

Thursday, May 26, 2016 12:32 a.m. 911 call, individual fell at location.

9:57 a.m. Caller advised front door busted on Choctaw, need report.

11:05 a.m. Guy crashed at entrance to Little Sahara State Park (LSSP), shoulder broken.

11:07 a.m. LSSP notified about accident on dunes.

11:59 a.m. Horses out on 281 south.

12:13 p.m. Two horses out westbound from Greensburg.

2:55 p.m. Individual having seizure on Seventh, convulsing and coughing.

4:57 p.m. Individual with head injury on E. Broadway in Pond

Creek, applied oxygen.

5:37 p.m. Individual to St. Anthony in Oklahoma City for drug overdose.

10:38 p.m. GC to apartments behind baseball field in Pond Creek for individual with shortness of breath.

10:46 p.m. 911 call, transformer sparking from Hopeton to Alva.

11:40 p.m. 911 call, lost keys in Waynoka, caller talks a lot.

Friday, May 27, 2016 6:43 a.m. Deputy wanting to know who’s at Alva Police Department.

10:56 a.m. Trying to call Waynoka City Hall about tree limb, gave number.

11:02 a.m. Semi broke down on Highway 11/132, with grain trailer, notified Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

11:05 a.m. Heart patient having chest pains at location.

12:23 p.m. Skunk with four babies on 600 block of Center by alley, left animal control a message.

12:28 p.m. 911 call, individual fell and hurt ankle on Waynoka Street.

12:52 p.m. Caller advised mother got call about warrant for her arrest, called individual.

1:02 p.m. 911 call, ambulance to Dewey Road, individual overheated, moving but unresponsive.

1:14 p.m. Non-emergency number, dog on Barnes Street, no collar, has fleas, no see taken care of, be here today friendly, left message with dog catcher.

1:54 p.m. For dog catcher, on Seiling, white bird dog missing, female, bright orange tag, got out last night, knows commands.

2:07 p.m. 911 call, individual having seizure at Subway.

3:39 p.m. 911 call, 15 year old at shop no feeling in hands, conscious, not delusional, still responding, outside shop, overheated, nauseous, riding four-wheelers, trying to keep cool in shop, looked very flushed, breathing heavy.

4:41 p.m. Baby possum on Church Street.

5:33 p.m. Pile of hay on 1200 block of Main.

6:09 p.m. Wreck by O’Reilly’s, no injuries, notified officer.

7:02 p.m. Brush pile controlled burn on northeast side of road on 880 and Greer.

8:03 p.m. Between Flynn and Choctaw by alley, giant hole washed out, notified street department.

8:16 p.m. Report of a kid on railroad tracks at co-op by elevator B, notified officer.

8:18 p.m. Dog running heading towards Ampride, 3-4 month old puppy, tan with black muzzle, notified officer.

10:11 p.m. Anadarko Police Department with transfer to jail.

11:41 p.m. 911 call, domestic at south campground at LSSP, white Dodge four door.

Saturday, May 28, 2016 10:10 a.m. Report of a guy from Kiowa going to Walmart in a black Ford Explorer has warrants in Enid.

1:15 p.m. Caller with question on pool.

3:18 p.m. Caller referring PO against individual.

3:41 p.m. Domestic behind bar at RV park, one male one female, no weapons.

3:45 p.m. 911 call, ambulance, son hit, bleeding.

4:26 p.m. Welfare check in Waynoka, huge explosion and smoke by El Charro and by Elm Street.

5:40 p.m. 911 call, individual on Maple Street vomiting blood.

5:57 p.m. Individual with chest pain on Church Street.

5:59 p.m. 911 call, caller advised dog roaming on Seventh Street tried to bite his mom, notified officer.

7:50 p.m. 911 call, transfer to

sheriff’s office, 30 cows out on 64/ County Road 340.

7:50 p.m. Caller reporting of three rattlesnakes.

Sunday, May 29, 2016 3:01 a.m. 911 call, 15 year old on bicycle on highway between Walmart and Angry Bull on 281 S., notified officer.

8:40 a.m. Individual cutting himself.

9:13 a.m. Chevy pickup broke down on Oklahoma and Fourth, man laying under, has yellow sticker.

11:18 a.m. 911 call, call about accident on 64 west of Nash.

11:28 p.m. Caller asking for address to Walmart.

Monday, May 30, 2016 9:42 a.m. Caller needs info on dogs at pound.

10:16 a.m. Individual on Santa Fe had allergic reaction, collapsed but didn’t pass out, changed mind about ambulance, notified deputy to check.

12:32 p.m. 911 call, baby on phone.

1:18 p.m. Alfalfa County EMS coming through Alva in 8 minutes.

4:36 p.m. Stolen bike on Fourth Street.

5:25 p.m. Brush pile controlled burn on Lane Boulevard.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 12:51 a.m. 911 call, caller advised boyfriend is threatening to kick her out.

4:42 a.m. Caller letting us know winds just hit.

5:33 a.m. At furniture antique shop, windows blown out and furniture out.

5:42 a.m. BNSF advised on County Road 320-Waynoka crossing malfunction, they know and someone is on the way.

6:00 a.m. Avard out of electric, OG&E notified.

6:01 a.m. Caller letting us know that window is shattered out.

6:14 a.m. Power outage in City of Waynoka on 200 block of E. Waynoka.

6:29 a.m. On U.S. Highway 281 N./State Highway 11 going to Capron, very flooded, head north.

6:47 p.m. A bunch of lines down

in Waynoka, gonna be a while.

8:55 a.m. UPS asking where can ship in Alva?

10:46 a.m. Army office in Enid, transfer to Alva Police Department.

1:13 p.m. Suicidal individual in Alva, got into trouble.

5:17 p.m. 911 call, theft report on Center, two-wheel bike pedal.

5:32 p.m. Wrong number, “Is this the Pizza Hut?” 9:17 p.m. Controlled burn in Wakita on 830/Haskel.

9:20 p.m. Caller about hit and run on Sunday.

10:15 p.m. Person on phone asking why we called him.

10:45 p.m. 911 call, outlet for air conditioner.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 8:27 a.m. Waynoka Police Department about fingerprints on individual.

9:03 a.m. Non-emergency transfer to Share Convalescent Home, will call back.

12:40 p.m. St. Mary’s transfer, do not put hold on individual, warrant valid, need to contact.

1:39 p.m. Waynoka Police Department is in search of a K-9 unit that is equipped and set up.

The call center also handled the following calls: abandoned calls – 6, accidental calls – 11, pocket dial – 6, wrong number – 4, hang ups –11, for individual – 6, need a number – 3, left message – 6, other offices – 6, child with phone – 2, disconnected cell – 5, no answer – 9, call back – 12, transfer – 15, questions – 18, electric – 3, water – 2, animal control – 8, cows out – 10, general animal calls – 20, for jail – 6, for officer/deputy – 6, other towns – 20, other counties – 16, sheriff – 39, police – 26, OHP – 1, thefts – 4, reports – 9, DL check – 8, vehicle info – 5, warrant check – 3, welfare check – 3, business/residential alarms – 1, 911 calls – 20, general info – 149, smoke calls – 2, fire dept. – 5, fires – 3, control burns – 12, ambulance – 30, hospital calls – 3, general med calls – 25, locksmith – 1, wrecker – 1, accidents – 10, BNSF – 1, ODOT – 1, weather – 4, road conditions – 3, for times – 10.

Woods County court filings According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Woods County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper.

Felony Filings Twana Jean Smart, 52, Alva: Child neglect ($265.50).

Timothy Douglas Smart, 56,

Alva: Child neglect ($265.50).

Patrick Dean Brigman, 44, Alva: Child neglect ($300.50).

Amanda Lee Wallace, 28, Alva: Two counts of child neglect ($614.40).

Civil Filings Devine Water LLC vs. Justin H. Borum: Money judgment for an amount $10,001 or more ($229.66).

Portfolio Recovery Assoc. vs.

Brittany Lee: Money judgment for an amount $10,000 or less ($216.66).

Portfolio Recovery Assoc. vs.

Mary K. Ernst: Money judgment for an amount $10,000 or less ($216.66).

Marriage Licenses Issued Timothy Daniel Kornele, age 33, of Alva and Tiffani Elane Kilgore, age 28, of Alva: Marriage license (counselling) ($5).

Traffic Filings Gaigeane Michel Evans, 32, Cherokee: Operating motor vehicle without valid driver’s license ($339.90).

The following individuals were cited for failure to wear seatbelt ($20): Thomas Jacob Bailey, 32, Pryor (passenger not wearing seatbelt); Hayden Elias Desuyo Richmond, 24, Enid (driver not wearing seatbelt).

Woods County Sheriff’s Office phone log Saturday, May 28, 2016 Friday, May 27, 2016 9:58 a.m. Man called for inmate 7:00 p.m. Man called about information. misplaced wallet.

12:05 p.m. Man called for in7:20 p.m. Woman called about mate information. inmate information.

2:21 p.m. Woman called for inmate information.

Sunday, May 29, 2016 4:42 p.m. Woman called for information.

Monday, May 30, 2016 9:54 p.m. Woman called for inmate information.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 1:54 a.m. Woman called for

warrant check.

6:50 p.m. Woman called about bond information.

7:00 p.m. Woman called for warrant check.

7:58 p.m. Woman called about inmate information.

8:46 p.m. Woman called about inmate information.

9:26 p.m. Dispatch called about cattle out.

9:59 p.m. Man called about cattle information.

10:22 p.m. Man called about inmate information.

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Community Calendar Sunday 2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030.

Monday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities.

Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request.

1 p.m. Alva Duplicate Bridge will meet at the Runnymede Hotel.

6:30 p.m. Alva City Council meets the first and third Mondays of the month in the council chambers of City Hall.

7 p.m. Alva Masonic Lodge #105 will meet.

7 p.m. Narcotics Anonymous meets at the First United Methodist Church. Call 917-855-9086 for information.

7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 1027 8th (Wesley House) in Alva every Monday and Thursday.

Tuesday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities.

Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request.

9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Attention Veterans - every Tuesday an Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran Service Representative will meet with you at the Woods County Courthouse, 407 Government St.,

Woods County real estate transactions Real Estate Transfers Book 1243 Page 1057: Loren Gene Korell, as Successor Trustee of the Korell Family Revocable Trust dated January 13, 2010, unto State of Oklahoma by and through the Department of Transportation of the State of Oklahoma: a strip, peace, or parcel of land lying in part of the S/2 of the SE/4 of Section 21, Township 27N, Range 14, WIM: Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 13: Gary L. Rebel unto First Assembly of God Church: South 25 feet of Lot 3 and all of Lot 4 in Block 3 of Elm Grove in Waynoka: Joint Tenancy Quit Claim Deed.

Book 1244 Page 14: Daniel J. Ball, Successor Trustee of the Trust Agreement of Agnes D. Ball dated February 24, 2000, unto Daniel J. Ball: Undivided ¼ of the SE/4 of Section 1, Township 24N, Range 13, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 1244 Page 15: Daniel J. Ball, Successor Trustee of the Trust Agreement of Agnes D. Ball dated February 24, 2000, unto John F. Ball: Undivided ¼ of the SE/4 of Section 1, Township 24N, Range 13, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 1244 Page 16: Daniel J. Ball, Successor Trustee of the Trust Agreement of Agnes D. Ball dated February 24, 2000, unto Maureen B. McIntyre: Undivided ¼ of the SE/4 of Section 1, Township 24N, Range 13, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 1244 Page 17: Daniel J. Ball, Successor Trustee of the Trust Agreement of Agnes D. Ball dated February 24, 2000, unto Carol B. Coe: Undivided ¼ of the SE/4 of Section 1, Township 24N, Range 13, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 1244 Page 24: Anthony Blake Fogle unto Fredrick L. Wagner & Nola M. Wagner: Lot 5 in Block 10 of Hatfield Addition to Town, now City of Alva: General Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 45: Marva Stark Parsons & Rudy G. Parsons unto Gary D. Goucher: N/2 of SE/4 of Section 17, Township 25N,

Range 15, WIM: Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 47: William M. Stark and Clarissa Sue Stark unto Gary D. Goucher: N/2 of SE/4 of Section 17, Township 25N, Range 15, WIM: Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 73: Keith Solomon and Elizabeth Solomon unto Ryan Koetter: Lots 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 in Block 8 of the Original Town, now City of Waynoka: General Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 74: Herbert Dean Smith and Katherine Ann Hall, Anita Lynn Smith Helms, and Lisa Coley Smith Perkins and Ed Perkins unto John Lawrence Vickers II and Christine Marie Vickers: all of the parts of Lots 28 and 29 in Block 4 of Indian Hills Subdivision to City of Alva: General Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 133: Leonard W. Blackwill and Michele R. Blackwill unto Jordan A. Ross and Eric S. Ross: Surface rights only of the NW/4 of the NW/4 of Section 30, Township 27N, Range 15, WIM: Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 148: Marilyn A. Myers unto Lance W. Gassett and Sara A. Cross: Lots 3 and 4 in Block 56 of the Original Towns, now City of Alva: Corrective Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 189: Elvin D. Sample and Betty R. Sample unto Robert Newman and Jenell Newman: Lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 in Block 60 of the Original Town of Dacoma: General Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 331: George Bush and Sally Bush unto Brodie W. Bush: Lot 5 in Block 56 of the Original Town, now City of Alva: Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 340: Gregory F. Scioli unto Brad Helm and Mary

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2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030.

6 p.m. Bankit monthly board meeting will be at Grace Investment Co., 525 Barnes, Alva.

6:30 p.m. Peace by Piece Quilt Guild meets the first Tuesday of each month at Graceful Arts Gallery in Alva.

6:30 p.m. Peace by Piece Quilt Guild will meet at the Graceful Arts meeting room.

6:30 p.m. Celebrate Recovery meets every Tuesday at the Bible Baptist Church, 4th & Choctaw,

Alva. The purpose is to help people dealing with alcoholism, divorce, sexual abuse, domestic violence, drug addiction, sexual addiction, food addiction, co-dependency, gambling addiction, anger, grief and more.

Wednesday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities.

Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request.

Noon Alva Kiwanis Club meets at Champs Restaurant.

2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030.

LEGAL NOTICE

HEIRS, DEVISEES AND LEGATEES AND FOR FINAL DECREE OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Resa Harris and Kathi Harvey, CoPersonal Representatives of the estate of Tyla Jill Brown, deceased, has Bled in the above Court and cause, their Final Account and Petition for Order Allowing Final Account, Determination of Heirs, Devisees and Legatees and for Final Decree of Distribution, and that Tuesday, the 28th day of June, 2016, at 1:30 o’clock p.m., in the District Court Room, City of Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma, has been fixed as the time and place for hearing thereof, when any person interested in said estate may appear and contest the same as provided by law.

Dated this 2nd day of June, 2016. /s/ Mickey J. Hadwiger JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT Dal L. Houston, OBA #17065 BENSON & HOUSTON, P.L.L.C. Attorney for Estate P.O. Box 488 Alva, Oklahoma 73717 (580) 327-1197

(Published in the Alva ReviewCourier Sunday, June 5, 2016 and, Sunday, June 12, 2016.)

Sealed bids for ALVA REGIONAL AIRPORT (AVK) T-HANGAR to be constructed for the City of Alva, Oklahoma will be received at the City Clerk’s office, 415 4th St., Alva, Oklahoma 73717 until Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 10:00am, at which time the bids shall be publicly opened and read aloud. Sealed bids submitted prior to the bid opening should be sent to City of Alva Attn.: City Business Manager, 415 4th Street, Alva, Oklahoma 73717.

The project includes the furnishing and delivery of a pre-engineered nested 8 bay metal T-hangar with 47’-6” by 14’-0” (nominal) bi-fold doors. The hangar shall designed to conform to requirements of a Group III Aircraft Hangar, Type II (000) Construction, per NFPA 409 – Standard on Aircraft Hangars and NFPA 220 – Standard on Types of Building Construction and the 2012 International Building Code. As a separate schedule, bidder may also quote cost for erection of the T-hangar.

Hangar site work, aprons, foundations, and utilities shall be constructed by others. T-Hangar should be the design of a manufacturer who is regularly engaged in the fabrication of aircraft hangar buildings and hangar doors. The hangar package should be supplied as a complete system and furnished by a manufacturer who provides hangar doors and hangar buildings as an integral hangar building package. All materials shall be new, unused, and free from defect. As part of the bid submittal, the Bidder shall provide shop drawings for the proposed hangar showing anchor bolt locations and details, foundation loads, and proposed materials.

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(Published in the Alva ReviewCourier Sunday, May 29, 2016, and Sunday, June 5, 2016.)

THE DISTRICT COURT OF WOODS COUNTY STATE OF OKLAHOMA In the Matter of the Estate of WILLIAM F. CROWLEY, Deceased.

No. PB-2016-27 NOTICE TO CREDITORS All creditors having claims against William F. Crowley, deceased, are required to present the same, with a description of all security interest and other collateral, if any, held by each creditor with respect to such claim to the named Personal Representative at the office of Rick Cunningham, Attorney at Law, 409 College, P.O. Box 433, Alva, LEGAL NOTICE (Published in the Alva Review- Oklahoma 73717, attorney for said Courier Sunday, June 5, 2016, and Personal Representative, on or before the following presentment date: July 26, Sunday, June 12, 2016.)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND 2016, or the same will be forever barred.

Dated this 25th day of May, 2016.

FOR WOODS COUNTY s/Rick Cunningham STATE OF OKLAHOMA Personal Representative In the Matter of the Estate of Tyla Jill Rick Cunningham, OBA #12629 Brown, Deceased.

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RUBES

Alva Review-Courier

By Leigh Rubin

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Ali’s hometown of From Page 11 Budget Louisville mourns its favorite son

By Bruce Schreiner and Claire Galofaro LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Rahaman Ali stood in a little house on Grand Avenue and dabbed his eyes as he shook hand after hand.

The visitors had come from as far away as Georgia and as near as down the street. They came despite the pouring rain to pay tribute to his brother, The Greatest, Muhammad Ali. “God bless you all,” the 72-yearold Rahaman said to each.

As the world mourned Muhammad Ali, his death held special meaning here in Louisville, where the boxing great was the city’s favorite son.

“He was one of the most honorable, kindest men to live on this planet,” his brother said while greeting mourners at their childhood home, recently renovated and turned into a museum.

Cars lined both sides of the street for blocks. The guests piled flowers and boxing gloves around the marker designating it a historical site. They were young and old, black and white, friends and fans.

Another makeshift memorial grew outside the Muhammad Ali Center downtown, a museum built in tribute to Ali’s core values: respect, confidence, conviction, dedication, charity, spirituality.

“Muhammad Ali belongs to the world,” Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said at a memorial service Saturday morning outside Metro Hall. “But he only has one hometown.”

Rahaman recalled what Ali was like as a boy named Cassius

From Page 9

Marcellus Clay Jr., long before he became the most famous man in the world, the Louisville Lip, celebrated as much for his grace and his words as his lightning-fast feet and knockout punch.

In their little pink house in Louisville’s west end, the brothers liked to wrestle and play cards and shoot hoops.

“He was a really sweet, kind, loving, giving, affectionate, wonderful person,” Rahaman said, wearing a cap that read “Ali,” the last letter formed by the silhouette of a boxer ready to pounce.

When he was 12 years old, Ali had a bicycle that was stolen and he told a police officer he wanted to “whoop” whoever took it, Fischer said at the memorial service. The officer told him he’d have to learn how to box first.

Daniel Wilson was one year behind Ali at Central High School and remembered he was so committed to his conditioning that he didn’t get on the school bus like everybody else. Instead, he ran along beside it, three miles all the way to school each morning.

“The kids on the bus would be laughing and Ali would be laughing too,” he recalled Saturday morning at the Grand Avenue home where he went to pay his respects to an old friend.

Ruby Hyde arrived at the memorial holding an old blackand-white framed photo of a young Ali. She’d been a water girl at his amateur bouts as a teenager in Louisville, and seen even then that there was something special, something cerebral, about the way he fought.

Rebuild

what I look to do here is to get it started and going in the right direction immediately.”

In Diesselhorst’s first year at Northwestern she looks to set the bar high for both her new players – six or seven have already signed – and her 10 returning players from last season.

“My girls (at Pond Creek) have always told me that I am a perfectionist as a coach. That they can’t do anything right. That I want it to be perfect,” said Diesselhorst. “And they’re probably right. To some extent I am a perfectionist and want things to be done the right way.”

Diesselhorst went on to quote a very successful coach that anyone familiar with women’s basketball in the NCAA will recognize, Geno Auriemma the head coach of the University of Connecticut with 11 national titles under his belt.

“I heard Geno (Auriemma) one time in a press conference say that ‘if you seek perfection every day, then along the way you’ll find success.’ That doesn’t mean we’ll be perfect every day or every practice, but if we’re aiming towards that then we’ll find ourselves in successful ways.”

Not only does Diesselhorst look for a high standard for her team, but she has a firm belief that success as a coach is translated into how hard the players compete on the court.

“The biggest compliment to me is that when I walk off the court, is

not so much that we won, or how well we shot the ball or played defense. If someone will tell me that my kids played hard then that is the biggest compliment I can take away from that. That they competed and they played hard for me.”

Lastly, Diesselhorst plans to have a different mantra for the Lady Rangers as they break their huddle with “Family” instead of the traditional “Team.”

“It was an acronym that I always wrote on the board on the first day that I had my girls, and if you break down ‘Family’ I told them that it stood for ‘Forget About Me, I Love You,’” said Diesselhorst. “To me that means you look at the person next to you and say ‘It’s not about me, it’s about this person. It’s not about me and what I can do, it’s about working hard for my teammates and working hard for my team and we’re in this together.’”

Years later, he came back to the old neighborhood as a heavyweight champion, driving a Cadillac with the top down.

“All the kids jumped in and he rode them around the block,” she remembered.

He never forgot where he came from, she said.

“He’s done so much for Louisville. He’s given us so much,” said Kitt Liston, who as girl growing up in Louisville admired Ali’s unblinking fight for justice and peace. “He’s truly a native son.

He’s ours.”

Liston’s voice trembled as she recounted running into him at a baseball game a few years ago.

“I got to tell him how much I cared about him. He put that big ol’ paw out and just shook my hand,” she said. “He just had time for everybody.”

The mayor ordered the city’s flags flown at half-staff.

Outside Metro Hall, Fischer pointed west, toward Ali’s childhood home, about three miles away in one of the city’s poorest zip codes.

“There can only be one Muhammad Ali, but his journey from Grand Avenue to global icon serves as a reminder that there are young people with the potential for greatness in the houses and neighborhoods all over our city, our nation, our world,” he said.

Fischer told mourners to teach all children Ali’s legacy: that a kid from Kentucky can grow up to be The Greatest.

“That’s how we become champions,” he said. “Muhammad Ali has shown us the way.”

Kyle Harper said.

OU pays its faculty about 85 percent of the average at peer institutions in the region, he said.

“Continuing budget cuts from the state really hurt our university’s mission. It forces us to make cuts that impede our ability to provide a truly top-tier institution of higher education ... to keep brilliant students and researchers here and attract 21st century industries to the state,” Harper said.

A total of 57 faculty and 88 staff are retiring from OU in one year under an incentive program designed to save $10 million.

“We’ve lost some very valuable people, a lot of experience and a lot of accomplishment that brought value to our state,” Harper said.

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Estate

Helm: tract of land in the NW/4 of Section 11, Township 24N, Range 16, WIM: Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 344: Samantha Kilmer unto Damien Starks: Lots 1 and 2 in Block 7 of East View Addition to City of Alva: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 1244 Page 366: The McKinley Revocable Trust dated November 3, 1999, unto Terry R. Lohmann: Surface only of a tract of land out of the NW/4 of Section 27, Township 27N, Range 14, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 1244 Page 391: Dempsey L. Roten and Linda A. Roten unto Jay Cooper and Tami Cooper: South 100 feet of Lot 8 in Block 1 of Country Club Heights Addition to City of Alva: General Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 1244 Page 399: Cayenne N. Criswell aka Cayenne Nichole Criswell unto Caleb B. Criswell: Lot 12 in Block 5 of Mabel McGrath’s Subdivision to City of Alva: Quit Claim Deed.

Mortgages Book 1244 Page 25: Fredrick L. Wagner and Nola M. Wagner to In preparing to rebuild the Community Bank: Lot 5 in Block women’s basketball program, 10 of Hatfield Addition to Town, Diesselhorst and her staff work now City of Alva: $51,200. to bring in young talent that can complement the returning players from last year. Diesselhorst looks to bring in players that come from winning programs and know how to get the job done. One player that many locals will recognize is the return of Bailey Forell who has been very familiar winning as a part of the Alva High School Ladybugs with two state championships and one runner-up.

Another player is the former starting point guard of the Fairview Lady Yellow Jackets, Taylor Cell who just finished her final season as a Class 2A state champion.

Whatever next season holds, Diesselhorst and the Lady Rangers will be working hard during the off season to help turn things around.

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The remaining faculty and staff will stretch to do the best they can, but it will be impossible to cover everything they did, he said.

At the same time OU has received nearly 15,000 freshmen applications for fall, breaking the record of 12,800.

UCO’s Betz is concerned about the long-term future of higher education.

“There is a continuing lack of appreciation for the role that public education plays among some people in our state,” Betz said.

“What patterns are we establishing? Is there any remote chance that the decreases and reductions that we’ve experience will ever be restored? I have little or no faith that will ever be the case.”

Book 1244 Page 78: John Lawrence Vickers II and Christine Marie Vickers to Quicken Loans Inc.: all of the parts of Lots 28 and 29 in Block 4 of Indian Hills Subdivision to City of Alva: $147,283.

Book 1244 Page 134: Jordan A. Ross and Eric S. Ross to Primelending PC: Surface rights only of the NW/4 of the NW/4 of Section 30, Township 27N, Range 15, WIM: $304,950.

Book 1244 Page 372: Earnest D. Rhodes and Amy Rhodes to Alva State Bank & Trust Company: Surface estate only in the NW/4 of Section 19, Township 29N, Range 14, WIM; Surface estate only in the NE/4 of Section 7, Township 28N, Range 14, WIM; N/2 of the SE/4 of Section 33, Township 29N, Range 14, WIM; and W/2 of the NW/4 of Section 24, Township 29N, Range 15, WIM: $20,000.

Book 1244 Page 382: Nolan D. Kopriva to Community Bank: Lot 12 in Block 2 of Taul Addition to Town of Waynoka: Maximum obligation limit $17,250.

Book 1244 Page 392: Jay Cooper and Tami Cooper to Alva State Bank & Trust Company: South 100 feet of Lot 8 in Block 1 of Country Club Heights Addition to City of Alva: $26,000.

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