| By Alvin Engelke
 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The LK Shrine ATV poker run will be held on the Jack dePue farm at Creston on Saturday, July 7. The Creston Community Building ATV poker run will be held on July 21. For ATV fun, pretty scenery, etc. both are events to take in.
Mr. & Mrs. "Hoss" Donley, she the former Tara Settles, the Comely Red Head, are parents of a baby girl, Savannah Elise Donnelly who arrived June 27 and weighed 8 lb. 4 oz.
There will be no services Sunday, July 8 at the Burning Springs M. E. Church so local church members and attendees can attend the parish picnic at Sportsman's Park in Elizabeth. For the picnic one should arrive at the park before 10 A. M. for services, singing and communion and the meal will be served at noon. It will be a covered dish meal and all are welcome. Keith Belt, the lay speaker from Bell Chapel, brought the message July 1 at Burning Springs.
Wanda Belle Marchuk, age 75, passed away after suffering a heart attack. Heart surgery was attempted but to no avail. Although retired from a plant up in Ohio she had been working helping elderly people for senior citizens.
Collesa K Yates, age 57 of Parkersburg, passed away. She was the daughter of the late Eudora Dooley and worked at K-Mart.
Dora Newell, age 72, of Stocking Run passed away. She was the widow of Fred Newell.
Maxine "Toots" Pennington, age 88 of Nitro, passed away June 24. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Dorr Blankenship and Eugene Pennington. She is survived by her daughter, Kay Lanier of Fayetteville, North Carolina and her son, Sgt. James Blankenship, USA, retired, of Chestnut Run.
Harold Richards, age 79 of Cabot Station, passed away. He was the son of Russell and Blanche Maze Richards. He was an active participant in the flea market scene and was active in civic and charitable causes. In his younger years he worked up in Ohio.
Wilbur Harrison Schenerlein IV was an overnight guest of Alvin & Nancy Engelke. He also attended Sunday school and church at Burning Springs.
Brandon Ferrell and family went to the French Creek game farm to see the animals. He reported having a great time and asked that his visit there be duly reported.
The Creston area finally received a significant rain which made mud in the gardens but did not make streams muddy. The rain caused one local gardener's kohl rabbis to split open.
The Creston Post Office held a customer appreciation day on Friday, June 30, complete with cookies and coffee. Helping Ida that day at the office were Emma and Lindsey Miller whose great-grandmother, Emma Lynch & great aunt, Mildred Lynch had both been postmasters. Also their grandfather, Randall Lynch had, for many years, been the assistant.
Several area residents attended the firemen's ice cream social and parade in Elizabeth. Charles Russell was one of the folks who threw out candy to the children who lined the parade route. Rev. Paul Williams was one of the equestrians in the parade. Mae Carter checked on Creston area residents and Rev. & Mrs. Lewis Villers were on hand to visit with local folks.
Joe & Eva G. Pennington returned from their vacation in Tennessee and she underwent surgery.
One of the "presidential" candidates said the worldwide war on terror was just a bumper sticker slogan. One can be sure that the folks in Glasgow Scotland and London may disagree with him now. Hamas, one of the mid-east terror groups, did a new Tee Vee program showing the Israelites killing the Arab Mickey Mouse because he wouldn't sell the Promised Land to the Jews. It is clear that the terror war will go on until America and any allies that might join in decide to take decisive actions that terrorists with Stone Age mentalities will comprehend. Being nice obviously does not work at all as the terrorists see such as a sign of weakness and a lack of will.
Reflecting the $70/bbl world market price, local crude rose $1 to $65.75.
Amy N. Ferrell was attending to business at Glenville State College. Amy is an employee of Wendy's and a recent Wirt High School graduate & is contemplating furthering her education.
While some still go on about the so called man-made global warming scare which seems to be a scheme to raise taxes and hire more bureaucrats, the scare has now been challenged by that awful thing called facts. It seems that there are alternating ice ages and 12,000-year interglacials and it has now been 12,000 years since the last ice age ended. Also before each ice age there is a 20-year warming period with wild weather. Folks up in Canada are taking note of the facts and data and Greenland, which Albert Gore, Jr. said was melting, has recently set record low temperatures - how inconvenient.
Alvin Engelke would like for all feline lovers to know that he has several beautiful kittens that need new loving homes.
First there was Chinese toothpaste with antifreeze and now there is fake Colgate toothpaste on the market that has bacterial contaminants. It would seem that there are lots of different angles to the terror war and, for sure, there are lots of players, one of whom is the Chinese People's Liberation Army. As more of America's food supply comes from Cathay the concern for contamination and sabotage will only increase. Before that there was poison in the pet food, etc.
Not so long back the Little Elf, who is a state senator from the Mouth of the Elk, and runs a real estate business, part of which is funded big time by the taxpayers, was in Parkersburg telling of the wonders of his new government plans to eliminate counties and local government and establish new, modern governance that will give the oligarchy an iron grip forever on local residents. | 
