| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big workday at the Creston Community Building will be Saturday, February 25. Bring tools, ambition and a covered dish. The plan is to install all the new windows (made just like the old ones) that Badger Lumber made for the building.
Rev. Paul Williams filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. church. He and the Marks family provided special music. Sunday School Supt. Gae Belt announced that there would be an Easter program for the younger (& young at heart) set the Saturday night before Easter.
Bessie Arthur and Charles Russell both reported seeing robins during the balmy days when the temperature went up in the 70s. Then the wind came, it snowed and the mercury slid to the zero range. Some water in domestic piping had a phase change. The titmice and chickadees were busy at birdfeeders during the cold snap.
Laura Cogar was visiting the FunChester Group. They had coffee & desert at Perkins in Winchester, Virginia.
Saturday evening, Anna Engelke & Jess Potter attended a comedy program by Wanda Sykeys at the Warner Theater while on a spontaneous trip to Washington, Dee Cee.
Oil field thieves stole a big yellow service rig from Teddy, the Gas Typhoon, while the rig was working on a well. Then they went to Gilmer County and took a string of rods from Bob Matthey (Bee Bob Energy, Lippizan, etc.). The last reported visit was on Leatherbark. They went to Sterling Drilling (Prime) and Promotion's yard and made off with a truck loaded with tools, etc. A few years back all the equipment went to Mexico. Who knows where this last batch of stuff went.
A Mohammedan preacher (imam) in the Gaza strip said, concerning the rather bland cartoons that were made of Mohammad, his prophet, "We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible." Apparently most of the big media in America is being like Neville Chamberlain and asking for "Peace in Our Time" and refuse to publish the pictures which are readily available on the internet and elsewhere. If one is looking for clues to end times with lots of false doctrine, the World Council of Churches came out in support of the radical Moslem position on a number of items over the weekend. Some years ago a reformed Pharisee wrote, "And their word will eat as doth a canker . . .But evil men and seducers shall wax worse & worse . . . For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine."
Donna Sue Ferrell was attending to business in Glenville. She decided that the folks that she met with were a pretty tough bunch as the little 3 year old boy could rub snuff with the best of them.
Todd Rhodes who is situate near historic Nineveh in Iraq wrote, "I ask that you continue to keep all of us in your prayers and also the families and people we are trying to help. It is a shame that you hear very little about all of the good and positive things that are going on. These are good people and the few that oppose freedom and democracy seem to get all the attention." Of course some folks, even in this country, want our enemies to win. Just recently, Albert Gore Jr. gave a big speech in Saudi Arabia at a forum sponsored by Osama Bin Laden's family and told them how bad America and American troops were. Al Gore has yet to release his military records from the Viet Nam era likely because he "got in trouble" for meeting and scheming with enemy representatives in Paris while in the service.
The folks down at the Mouth of the Elk River continue to "legislate". Brooks McCabe, better known as
"The Little Elf" has a new plan to eradicate (read consolidate) the counties. It is called Metro Government. Wirt County residents would do well to keep in mind that some years back someone somewhere put Wirt County in two state "metro" area. Perhaps the Little Elf thinks he can make West Virginia be like the City of Miami, which merged, with Dade County Florida and then he can get rich (richer) cleaning up on real estate. Then he can have enough money so he can go live with the "beautiful people" elsewhere just like W. W. "Wally" Barron did.
Alvin & Nancy Engelke were attending to business in White Pine.
The price of local crude oil is now $56/bbl. It was reported that in Kansas gasoline is now less than $2/gallon although the lowest locally has been $2.16 (actually $2.159).
It is been several years since there were any quail to hunt in Creston but some remember when. Some of the main stream (lame stream) media would have one shoot the birds with "bullets" which might make a challenge recovering any useable meat after hitting one. One local fellow said, "What is all this noise about someone getting shot while hunting?" Over the years there have been numerous hunting accidents in Creston. Perhaps the bumper sticker "Id rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than ride (in a car over a bridge) with Ted Kennedy" pretty well sums things up. | 
