 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
There will be no services Sunday, August 15 at the Burning Springs M. E. church. Rev. Keith Belt brought the message on August 8.
The Creston Area Neighborhood Watch will have a flea market Saturday, August 21 next door to the Jerry Poling residence on W. Va. 5. For details call Donna Sue at 275-3202 or see Donna Sue or Tammy.
David Mowrey, age 55, passed away in Crane Hill Alabama from an apparent heart attack. He was the son of Cephas (Bill) & Frances Hershman Mowrey. The family formerly lived on the West Fork above Creston.
Ira Lynch's younger brother Joe Lynch passed away after a long valiant battle with cancer.
Verda Bush, widow of Paul (Uncle Pete) Bush, passed away at Roane General Hospital. The daughter of R. B. & Alice Griffin, she and her sister Donna (Aunt Doney) Chambers took turns caring for their mother at her home down Route 5 below Creston (the present O'Dell residence).
Stephanie Boster, a former resident of Ann's Run, received undetermined injuries when the car in which she was riding was hit in the rear and spun by a drunk driver.
Numerous area folks attended and participated in the Wirt County Fair. Suellen Arthur took a blue ribbon for her craftwork, Sierra Dooley won a blue for her chickens and Emma Miller won the senior showmanship award. She also had reserve champion replacement heifer while sister Lyndsey had the grand champion heifer. The well-known auctioneer at the livestock sale at the fair noted that "one could pet the heifers" at a popular store situate at a crossroads.
The local area continues to have rain and storms. Jackie Simmons reported that the wind blew down his sorghum and Annamoriah area residents reported that their corn was broken off by the wind. Both Dean Miller & Jim Bush got some hay up in between storms.
Subpoenas from a federal grand jury have been served on the state highway department and the Dept. of Administration. A spokesperson said the Big Boss, who now wants to be senator & president, was not named but those who know his micro-managing style find it hard to believe that anything went on that he was not a party or privy thereto.
R. W. Arthur was attending to business in Grantsville.
Orrison and J. E. Schrader Sr. were attending to business in Elizabeth & Spencer.
Carol Campbell of Barberton was attending to business in Grantsville & visiting area relatives & friends. She noted that she had a news item but that she did not want it published.
Chuck Richter has been around checking and gathering up his gypsy moth traps (the little green folded paper contraptions). He noted that most of the gypsy moths were found along W. V. 47 and U. S. 50. He noted that over in Doddridge County the horizontal Marcellus drilling by Equitable had done a lot of disturbance to the land and the highways.
Speaking of Equitable (now called EQT) they send one local fellow a 10-year lease that allowed for 1,760-acre units and specified that any litigation would have to be in federal court in western Pennsylvania or in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) circuit courts.
The big eared one's EPA has announced that they are going to "crack down" on 'farm dust' which includes dust from traveling on dirt roads (does W. Va. DOH get a pass?), grain combining, haymaking, disking and harrowing ground for seedbeds, etc. One woman, who knows all about using combines on Soya beans, wheat, barley & corn noted that if one harvested when the crops were wet the elevators would a) dock the farmer for wet grain and b) the grain would spoil. Perhaps the intent is to shut down farm operations.
The "gulf oil spill bill" that presently is in congress has a provision on page 410 that perhaps would shut down drilling on land. It calls for federal regulation of fracturing of oil & gas wells. Of course fully 95% of all wells nowadays would be dry holes were it not for modern fracturing methods. An example would be the Marcellus shale, the second largest gas field in the world - is commercial only because of horizontal drilling and refined fracturing techniques.
As part of the "protect the environment" agenda, one will have to soon be licensed to spray paint anything although those who do lots of painting are not subject to the new law.
Someone set a trailer in the middle of the meadow above the road on what was formerly known as the Bill Merrill/Joe Conley place.
The 'wise ones' in Washington recently passed a federal 'financial reform' bill which may force small banks out of business but protects those large international banks that are "too large to fail". Just so ordinary citizens don't get too nosy the new law specifies that those pesky freedom of information act filings (FOIA) cannot be used against the new agency. Apparently that fills a campaign promise of open and transparent government.
W. Harrison Schenerlein IV took in the Wirt County Fair, attended church at Burning Springs and went with Charles Russell to visit Euell at the Miletree Nursing Home in Green Acres near Spencer.
Local residents need to remember that the Big Boss's $5 million special election is scheduled for Saturday, August 28 although early and absentee voting will be allowed.
The hype over the census has now died down and all the hollow promises of "be counted so you can get your piece of the pie" and other hokum. Of course with the federal government in hock up to their eyeballs to the Chinese Communists, the chance of handouts to the peasants is highly unlikely.
While the number of employed Americans fell again last month (Recovery Summer?) one Chinese factory that makes Apple I-pods, etc. plans to employ 200,000 new employees. Is there not something wrong with this picture? Of course many Creston area residents have yet to be counted in the census that was scheduled for April 1, 2010. These folks want to run factories (Obama Motors), banks, energy, health care, etc.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil fell $1.25/bbl to $75.
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