 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Dora O'Dell is home after being a hospital patient.
Euell Russell was consulting both his regular physician and his podiatrist. He received a good report & is now able to resume his routine activities.
Nancy Engelke and daughter Jane attended the Strawberry Festival pageant in Buckhannon. Lena Huynh who works part time at Jane's store Elizabeth Michaels won the teen contest. Lena is also president of the Parkersburg High School student body.
Thieves have been busy in the Creston area. They raided the Freddie Bush/Joe Ferrell pulpwood operation and made off with a considerable quantity of diesel fuel. In addition they drained the hydraulic fluid out of the equipment and left the filters, etc. loose. One local resident noted that the thieves had best hope that the law finds them before Freddie does.
Mary Reno recently underwent surgery and, apparently, nothing bad was found. Her family has been visiting her.
Austin Westfall is scheduled to have his tonsils removed.
On the local scene the snow went away and the hairy bitter cress has started to bloom. Folks have been sewing lettuce and planting onion sets.
The director of the Wyoming County Senior Citizens, Bob Graham, who was drawing a salary of over $400,000/annum is scheduled to get out of the federal slammer soon. However, his company is still listed as the provider of home health services for Creston area residents. That may be what the Big Boss meant when he said W. Va. was "open for business".
Mrs. Stephanie Timmermyer who is head of the DEP announced that she would be stepping down later this year. She also stated that she had bought in on Al Gore's global warming hoax and now state funds would be wasted on monitoring all the carbon dioxide we breathe out. Of course the limiting factor for corn growth in the summertime on a still day is a lack of CO2 to be used by the plants.
Prominent Calhoun timberman Peck Jones announced that he has a new log skidder. He said he paid cash so that no one could take it away from him.
Brian Carr who used to be in the area looking for oil and gas leases reported that he now has a bunch of oil & gas wells that are doing great. He said he owed Mark Walker a debt of gratitude for telling him how to get going in the well business.
The price of local Penn grade crude rose to $104.25/bbl over the weekend. It was noted at the Ohio Oil & Gas meeting that for the first time since petroleum products became significant in the world's economy, the production of both oil and natural gas is declining world wide in spite of new drilling. The production is Saudi Arabia remains constant and only Canada with the oil sands project coming on line will likely be able to increase oil production to meet the increasing demand. The laws of supply and demand are working and now, as should be obvious, the days of "cheap oil" are now over and will join other memories like nickel coffee, dime beer & three cent first class postage stamps.
Speaking of stamps the postal "service" plans to raise the price of stamps to "postal patrons" who are us peons. According to a Charleston postal operative, postal customers are those who get price breaks and get their letters sent first class for about a dime discount on each letter.
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