 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston Community Benefit Auction was a big success with lots of folks carrying home bargains & items that they couldn't live without. Bobby Ray Starcher sold the items along with cheese, pepperoni, candy & such. The next auction will be September 6.
The newlyweds, Jimmy & Wanda Tucker, after their nuptials traveled to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia and Winchester Virginia.
The news in the Creston area has been hard rains and flood. Locally a lot of hay was ruined and roads were blocked. Telephones ceased working, etc. The flooding was widespread and many round bales were sent down to New Orleans.
Phyllis Reed Whipkey, former Calhoun County Clerk, passed away. She was the person who hired the late Anna Mae Parsons to work in the County Clerk's office.
Chester "Burrhead" Ludwig passed away after a round with cancer. He had been very active in preserving the history, especially the one-room school records, of the area.
Jack Boggs was consulting at an Elizabeth tonsorial parlour.
Ted Grim who lives in Erie Pennsylvania took the comely Debbie McCracken on a four-wheeler ride but he ended up getting her in the ditch and a muddy one at that. Ted was adamant that he was not operating a motor vehicle whilst impaired.
Kylee Sue Blair won the Toddler Miss Wood Festival for her age group.
Those visiting C. Glen Arthur included Donna Sue Ferrell, Anna Reno and Austin Westfall.
It was understood that B. Hussein Obama attended the recent Bilderberger secret meeting held in a posh hotel near Washington, D. C. The Rockefellers, Rothschilds and other world billionaires and power brokers meet regularly to plan how to control policies, elections and such worldwide. The Clintons had been attending meetings for several years. The fellow who "fixed" the pardon for Mark Rich, known locally as the former owner of Ravenswood Aluminum, and known elsewhere as a world trader in bulk commodities (such as crude oil) is the key man to pick Obammy's VP.
Alvin Engelke has two very cute and lovable kittens to give away to good homes.
The WVU president who could pass for a bar bouncer announced that he would step down later and that folks should stop talking about the bogus degree that he gave to The Big Boss, his governor buddy's, daughter.
The District 3 bridge crew has been busy fixing holes in the deck of the Creston bridge. Traffic is restricted to one lane.
Earlier there was heavy bloom on the blackberries and now it looks like elderberries will be loaded as well.
A number of area residents attended the Wood Festival.
Rev. Carlos Nutter filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. church.
After some of the Hebrew children made a comment about the intolerable situation concerning Iran's nuclear program and Achmedidingdong's promise to liberate Jerusalem for the Moslems, the world price of crude took the biggest jump ever to over $139/bbl.
A leaseman for Cabot said that Marathon Petroleum is paying $1200/acre lease bonuses in Randolph County.
At the apparent request of Chesapeake, Columbia Gas Transmission, without warning, shut in other operators and advised them that Cobb Station at Clendennin was operating at capacity. Chesapeake also stated that they planned on drilling just under 4,000 new wells and that they have a new big play, the Bakken shale out in Montana and North Dakota.
The price of local Penn grade crude jumped $10.25/bbl Saturday to $130.75/bbl. Gasolene and all products related to energy, including food and fertilize, have gone up too. Many feel that some, in positions of power, want to wreck the U. S. economy so that they can gain more power. The proposed 'environmental tax" would provide trillions for the United Nations to "help the planet" but would, of course, provide big salaries for connected folks who could then use their power to destroy America. The proposed taxes would not apply to China and India where the most pollution and the largest numbers of people live.
Some while back Albert Gore Jr. noted that the internal combustion engine was the worst thing ever and the idea was to make motor fuel so high ordinary folks couldn't afford to buy it. One might say those with such a mind have been quite successful so far.
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