 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Big Creston ATV Poker Run is scheduled for Saturday the 18th with sign-up at the Community Building starting at 9 A. M. It should be a great ride with "interesting areas" to traverse. There will also be biscuits & gravy for breakfast, Jerry Campbell's pineapple upside down cake and other goodies, door prizes including helmets, 50/50, etc.
Rev. Keith Belt filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
A helicopter flew over the local area just above the treetops. Someone suggested that "an agricultural survey" was being done.
Rosalie White & Connie Boggs were attending to business in Ripley while Jeremy Ferrell was attending to business in Camden-on-Gauley.
Charles Russell & Nancy Engelke were consulting their medical professionals in Spencer. They also called on Euell Russell.
Gary Ferrell & Kathy were calling on relatives & friends in Creston.
Eva Russell was visiting Dorothy Lynch and they were both calling on Charles Russell. Euell noted that they should have come to visit him too.
Folks who live along the West Fork near Creston had a power outage Saturday afternoon.
Gay Park noted that she was feeling "puny' although her ticker rate was good.
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Harper were calling on Mr. & Mrs. R. W. Arthur & Sue Ellen.
Tammy McFarland was consulting her physician. She also reported that Denver is doing better after dealing with complications of having a kidney removed.
Ida Wager who is now the Brooksville postmistress has been inspecting the mail routes.
Local residents have been seeing large flocks of wild turkeys in addition to the deer herd.
Dominion Transmission has instituted condemnation proceedings to increase the size of their storage field in central West Virginia. Many years ago one of their landmen came to the writer's grandmother and told her to sign or otherwise they would take the property from her - they had the backing of the federal government.
Under their new proposal (they paid $1/acre/year back then) owners will be paid $50/acre one time payment for the Gantz sand and this would, of course, include all the natural gas and oil that now is present in the formation. While first saying "It only includes the Gantz" upon further questions it was said, "Oh yes, it does take all the formations 300 feet above and 300 feet below the Gantz too". This would cause one to lose the Big Injun, Squaw, Wier, Berea, Fifty Foot, Thirty Foot, Gordon, Gordon Stray, Fourth & Fifth Sands as well. Apparently someone is concerned that future generations of the Rockefeller family children might have difficulty getting shoes and better vegetables & West Virginia folks should, yet again, chip in and give them our resources for free. Back when, old John Rockefeller had exemptions from the income tax & inheritance tax laws for his family in perpetuity. Our present appointed U. S. Senator's family has worked for years protecting the Rockefeller family fortune - one might assume that it would be time to send someone, not a career politician, to the U. S. Senate to "level the playing field". Several have noted that Mother Hope's (Dominion) storage field 'expansion' will tie up large volumes of Pennsylvania grade crude oil.
Japanese stilt grass is now in bloom so it needs to be yanked out by the roots before millions more of the tiny seeds contaminate the soil.
Mother Hope announced that Hastings Station, the gas stripping plant situate in Wetzel County, will be down for routine maintenance. This means that almost all natural gas produced in the area that goes in to Hope (Dominion), Cabot & Eastern American lines will be shut in.
Ergon announced that their catfish fry will be held Wednesday, September 15 at their terminal situate up the Ohio River above Newport. B D Oil Gathering announced that the pig roast will be Friday, September 24 at their terminal on Mitchell's Lane in Marietta.
The new president of Obama Motors, formerly known as GM will be making $9 million/year which, apparently, is an approved exception to the redistribution of wealth philosophy of the regime.
The West Virginia Trappers Association will hold their 42nd annual convention September 17 through the 19th at the Gilmer County Recreation Center (The old Poor Farm) on Sycamore Run near Glenville. Details can be learned at www.wvtrappers.com
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil rose $2.25/bbl to $70.75.
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