| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
There were about a dozen workers out Saturday morning for the adopt a highway cleanup at Creston. After having a breakfast of Little Creek eggs and County Fair sausage the crew cleaned up 14 bags of trash along W. Va. Route 5. The group found some garter snakes, a very much used telephone, an old chromed bumper and the usual garbage that gets thrown out along the state's highways.
Peonies are already in bloom which is not so good since they will be gone before Decoration Day. Also the USDA's multiflora rose is in bloom.
Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Norman were calling on Rod Lynch.
Charles and Euell Russell were consulting their podiatrist.
Jack Boggs mowed Rev. S. E. Cooper Jr. and Euell Russell's lawns.
Matt Copen was seen squiring a comely damsel around Sunday afternoon.
Jerry Crank was up and mowed around his camp on the West Fork.
Someone had an RV overheat on the Blankenship hill Saturday evening and traffic had to go around by Ground Hog. It had rained earlier and since the road crew had just worked the road it was slick.
The Wirt road crew mowed the grass along Creston area highways.
Jane and Alvin Engelke went to hear President Bush speak at Parkersburg South High School. His speech stressed the need for quality education so that graduates can qualify for higher education and jobs that require literacy, math and thinking skills.
Jane was interviewed by The Parkersburg News and she stressed that education was important citing that the classes she had at Wirt County High School and especially Mrs. Eileen Shaver prepared her to run her own business. Jane stated, "Bottom line, education is an important key to the success of West Virginia and our country."
Betty Bish had to work during the time of the speech across the street at Rax and she noted that the folks at the eatery didn't appreciate the anti-Bush demonstrators who set up shop outside and that the opposition was not based on party lines. Her thighness's pig mobile was on hand too.
Joe Cunningham helped his mother put out her garden.
The folks who worked the polls at the Burning Springs precinct got home around dawn after being up all night county votes for delegates to the national convention, etc. In spite of some heated county and school board races, the turnout was not that spectacular. At Burning Springs, Jerry Brookover received more votes as a candidate to the Democratic convention than did John Kerry for president and George Bush received more than either.
The price of local crude rose to $38/bbl.
Bob Phillips was out and about in a fancy new chariot but he has to be very careful with it since it belongs to the comely Jane.
It is understood that some big deals are in the works in a neighboring county. Seems some big investors are looking for oil wells to buy. Also, it was understood that Dave Freshwater drilled in his well up at Orma.
Martin Twist was to start at deep well at Linden but, it was understood, that there was no functional table in the rig.
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