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By Alvin Engelke
There will a benefit auction Saturday, January 3, 2004 starting at 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. Proceeds go to help maintain the facility. There will be all sorts of goodies, cheese, pepperoni, etc. It would be an ideal time to come and swap yarns about the big bucks, floods, snows and other stories.
The regular business meeting of the Creston Community will be held Tuesday, January 6 at 7 P. M. at the Community Building. Membership dues at $1/head are now due and payable.
"Ebb" Swisher age 83, passed away after an extended illness. An old Eureka Pipe Line Co. man, he was a well-known musician who played a lot of fine music at Creston.
Ray Cunningham is a patient in a Parkersburg hospital.
Roger Godfrey suffered a heart attack.
Mr. Dexterity still hasn't received his deer antlers to make up his potion. One small antler was obtained but as one woman said, "That one wouldn't be big enough to do any good."
Euell Russell was calling on C. Glen Arthur and Mr. & Mrs. Don Rhodes.
Now there was this comely damsel who had a big date and she got so excited she wore mismatched shoes. Seems she worried for a long time that this would get reported. Perhaps she had cause for concern after all.
The local area continues to receive small amounts of snow.
A number of area residents attended the meeting Dominion Transmission held at Parkersburg to discuss the situation resulting from the explosion and fire at the Hastings Extraction station at Pine Grove in Wetzel County. Dominion had most of the natural gas in the area shut in for six weeks although their wells continued to produce. $650,000 worth of gas was going through the facility each day prior to the fire. The company reported that a new column was being built in Calgary, Alberta and will be flown to Pittsburgh on a plane that will be obtained in Europe and then it will take three days to get from the airport to the site. They indicated that the plant should be up and running in February although some gas is now sent around the plant. The spokesperson said that they were not at liberty to report what happened that caused the fire and explosion on October 31. The shut in has had far reaching financial ramifications.
Junior Jackson, a Lincoln County lawyer who is one of the fellows running for governor, indicated that, if elected, he would raise state taxes. Others have suggested fiscal responsibility.
Auction Saturday January 3, 2004, starting at 6:00 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. Cheese, items, pepperoni, tools, knickknacks, food items, lamps, grab bags, 50/50, etc. Bobby Ray Starcher 890-03. Details call Donna Sue at 275-3202.
Round bales of hay for sale. Contact Alvin Engelke at 275-3578.
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