| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big Creston Community auction will be held Saturday, June 3, starting at 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. Bobby Ray Starcher will bring down some of his food goodies and donate his services for the sale which will have all sorts of things that have been donated.
Lots of folks came back to the Creston area for Decoration Day to place flowers on the graves of loved ones. However, it was noted that in some graveyards many many final resting places had no flowers, not even plastic ones. The Shimer family held their reunion at the Creston Community Building and visited the cemeteries.
Creston area roads were hot with four wheelers, dirt bikes and such. Almost without exception the folks out enjoying the scenery were riding like they had sense, which is, of course, a good thing.
Anna Engelke & the FunChester group went camping at Ohio Pyle in southern Pennsylvania.
Rev. Juanita Lockhart filled her regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. church even though she suffered two spiral fractures of her humerus which were the result of standing on the bed to change a light bulb. She noted that Rev. Donald Stilgenbauer will bring the message on June 4 as part of the parish wide pulpit exchange.
Ryan P. Marks graduated from Wirt County High School. Every one wishes him the best in life. There was a party for him Friday evening at the Burning Springs community building.
Hallie Cunningham, who has been poorly, is now back home.
Juanita Bell is staying with her sister "Beanie" Veon at Williamstown.
Richard McFall was attending to business in Creston recently. He is working on a big oil & gas deal.
Jane Engelke went with her husband Wilbur Schenerlein and his family to Nashville for the weekend on the occasion of Wilbur's niece's graduation there. Cosmo and Phu Phu spent the weekend in Creston.
Several area residents attended grandparents day at the graded school in Elizabeth. Things went well except that rain brought the activities to an early end. Shayla Barker assisted in the river history booth for the second year.
The comely Melinda Wolverton and F. B. Barr were attending to business in Creston one day last week.
Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Bushong were calling on Creston over the weekend. They were checking on their oil interests and doing a little family history study as she is a great-great granddaughter of Jonathan dePue. She determined that the Creston news writer is her fifth cousin.
With the exception of Friday with the down pours, which, by the way, caused local streams to be in violation of EPA turbidity rules, it has been excellent haymaking weather and quite a bit of hay has been cut and harvested.
The price of local Penn grade crude rose $1.50/bbl over the weekend to $67.25/bbl. Those who feared high gasoline prices for Decoration Day weekend can now worry about something else as prices, at least locally, did not take a spike.
There continues to be talk about the Wastech purchase of 44,000 acres of minerals in West Virginia. One fellow noted that he was advised that a Mexican cartel had $17 billion (that is spelled with a B) to invest in energy in West Virginia. That certainly is significant for a third world country that is overrunning American with their poor and causing the windbags in Washington to make absolute fools of themselves.
Nancy Engelke attended the Little Miss Wood Festival Pageant Saturday evening at Mt. Zion. Some of the contestants were very happy that she came.
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