 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big Creston Halloween party is scheduled for October 25 at the Community Building. For donations, suggestions as to what to wear, etc. contact Donna Sue at 275-3202. Usually there is what one might call a "very cosmopolitan crowd" at the affair. There will be hay rides for the younger set (as well as the 'young at heart') and good things to eat, blood pudding, sleeping beauty type apples, and goodness knows what else.
Speaking of Halloween and scary things a Kenyan born celebrity who grew up in Indonesia was spotted on a hay bale under a corn shock near the head of Beaver Dam.
Rev. Carlos Nutter filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
Eva G. Pennington was consulting the physicians at the Cleveland Clinic. Her family was visiting her over the weekend.
Jacques Frost made a professional call in Creston Sunday morning. With fall in full swing the government sponsored Asiatic beetles have been invading residences, churches and other structures. Leaves are beautiful in many places, deer are thick and squirrels are plentiful. There is also a bountiful crop of walnuts & butternuts.
Microsoft announced that they had patented an automatic censorship device when audio is being broadcast. This way the powers that be, especially those who do not tolerate variance from the "party line" can silence all opposition. Such matters are made clean in the book 1984 and Animal Farm.
Teddy Parsons had a game camera mounted out near his deer feeder. While some fine trophy bucks were recorded on film the "star" was a great big bear. Probably it would be best if Goldilocks stayed out of the woods.
Charles Menefee has been visiting Mr. & Mrs. Don Rhodes & daughter. Mia Rhodes & one of the Deel family took the truck to Elizabeth and Don sent Charlie on the four-wheeler to find them. Truck and ATV intersected on Route 5 down about the old Johnson place before one turns up Burning Springs Run. Among other things the grill in the truck has some "modifications". The status of the ATV was unknown.
Euell Russell was consulting with his tonsorial artist whist Charles Russell was visiting his podiatrist.
Mr. & Mrs. Denver McFarland were calling on Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ferrell.
The Canada Fisherman and a wood harvesting buddy were attending to business in Creston over the weekend. They were planning on burning wood to make sure that they made a carbon footprint.
Dr. Patrick Michaels, a professor at the U. of Virginia spoke recently in Pittsburgh and noted that there has been global cooling for the past few years and that the 1930s remain the warmest since temperature records were kept. He also noted that 5,000 years ago trees grew along the Arctic Ocean and the polar bears survived along with the Esquimeaux. Noting what is being taught in schools some departments of educations would be better labeled as propaganda ministries, especially as concerns the global warming hoax. He noted that if the Kyoto accords could have been implemented the CO2 reduction would have been 0.0007%. The "global warming" plan of the one they call the Messiah would require that carbon dioxide emissions in America would have to be reduced to the level in 1866. Biden's first comment that there would be no more coal burning would be the correct one, nor would there be any natural gas usage either.
Alvin Engelke went on a field trip and symposium held by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists with major emphasis on the Marcellus shale. it was learned that if the shale is 50 feet thick there are recoverable reserves of 117 million cubic feet/acre. In Wirt 50 feet of pay seems at least average and there is also the Huron shale which likewise is being drilled horizontally in Kentucky, southern W. Va., Jackson & Roane Counties.
The consequences of the financial mess caused by the folks at Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and the political pals continues. The loss of value of common stock has been devastating to many. Aubrey McClendon, the chief honcho of Chesapeake formerly owned $2.2 billion worth of the company stock. He held it in a margin account with his broker and when the per share stock price fell to where there were not enough assets to cover the loan his entire stock amount was dumped on the market to realize about $500 million. There has been talk that BP (British Petroleum) might try to take over the company.
Some feel that George Soros, the international currency manipulator and others orchestrated the financial chaos to happen just before the election so they could reap both political and cash profits. Those who refused to allow oversight of perpetrators of the mortgage mess now cry that others eased regulation when the record is clear who did what when.
Lots of folks were in the area Saturday for the special hunting season.
Some folks who have ties to the local area have earned vacations and notice by being listed in various court activities.
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