| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big Creston ATV Poker run is Saturday July 23. A fine route has been laid out with some water holes for those who want to stop and play while making the round. There are lots of prizes and new tee shirts have been ordered. In addition the Creston cookbooks are now available. For details call 275-3907. Signups start at noon.
Georgia Lott, age 80, of Stocking Run passed away. She had many friends in the Creston area.
Connie Lou Thaxton, age 56, passed away. She was the daughter of the late Wilbur Marks. The Marks family formerly lived on Ann's Run.
Longtime Jackson County merchant Edwin Parsons passed away. He had many relatives in the Creston area. At one time he sold Studebaker automobiles.
Pat Shaw, Tusky's wife has the beautiful flowerbed, not Mary. The Creston news writer knew better but wrote the wrong name last time. Sorry about that.
Hunter F. Pell's pear tree has the best crop it has borne in years. It is an early pear, the only one like that in the area.
The Creston area received quite a bit of rain and the tree frogs (toads) were all out celebrating.
A number of big bucks, including at least one 10 point have been seen in the velvet.
Nancy Engelke had hip surgery and is now at Western Hills undergoing therapy. She is sharing a room with Mary Browning who is the daughter of the late Mildred Nutter Rose. Also at Western Hills is Vandall Meadows. Among those visiting him Sunday evening was Olga Ferrell of Brooksville. Nancy is way ahead of her last hip surgery on her road to recovery. She wanted everyone to know that she was thankful for all the prayers, flowers, cards and visitors. She noted that if anyone needed orthopaedic surgery one should call her for a recommendation of a physician.
Suellen Butcher was calling on Mr. & Mrs. R. W. Arthur. Suellen has a computer that she would like to sell.
Maylynn Radcliff will celebrate her 14th birthday this weekend by having a Survivor Birthday party. She has invited 11 of her friends to come and try to be the survivor of a weekend on the Umstead. There will be many challenges to overcome. The one who outwits, outplays and outlasts all others will be the winner of Survivor Umstead.
Prizes will be given on Sunday and cake and ice cream will end the birthday weekend. Maylynn is the granddaughter of Danny & Joyce Radcliff. Good luck to all contestants and happy birthday Maylynn.
Jane Engelke attended the Miss Ohio USA pageant Saturday evening in Columbus where her friend Stacy Offenberger won the crown.
Some nice fish have been harvested recently from the Little Kanawha both locally and down at the Wells Lock below Elizabeth.
Ida Wager attended postmaster's training in Clarksburg one day last week.
Anna Engelke and the FunChester group have been vacationing at a beach in Massachusetts. They all report having a great time.
Local residents have been concerned about the recent terror attacks in London as some feel these were a test run for worse moves in this country as there were connections. To make matters worse the explosives likely came from Bosnia where the former first couple backed the Muslim government that is tied to the terror groups but that side offered bigger profits in the drug and white slave trades for those who were well connected. On top of that a general in the Chinese communist Peoples Liberation Army stated that if America did not appease them they would send nuclear warheads our way on the rockets that were built with technology given in exchange for campaign contributions.
With high oil and natural gas the same communist government is now trying to purchase one of America's major oil companies. Now wouldn't that be nice, they could take our oil over there to build and the operate the war weapons to destroy us. That would be in the same league as the junk dealers who were selling the Japs scrap metal during World War II.
Progress is being made on the slide repair down near the old Tom Alec Hopkins place as the lagging is being put between the piling, etc. Over the weekend someone backed a vehicle almost over the bank near there.
M. C. Pursley was attending to business in Creston.
Local residents are looking forward to the Wirt County Fair.
Charles Russell's Direct Tee Vee bill arrived late. It seems that even with 9 digit zip codes the letter went to Creston Iowa where it had been delivered to a post office box.
Amanda Tingler was visiting Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Wager and then they all went to the Abel & McCracken family reunion on Lost Run Road near Grafton.
Dorothy Graham is a patient in a Parkersburg hospital undergoing tests. While it was first surmised that she might have cancer it was determined that a blood vessel going to one kidney was blocked (and might have been for years) and a stint was inserted. She is now scheduled to come home soon.
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