 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Rev. Keith Belt filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. church. Local residents would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy & prosperous New Year.
The main news in the Creston area has been snow and cold weather. For sure Mr. S. Claus and his trusty reindeer will have no problem traversing the area on the snow although, on Thursday, several local folks had trouble navigating upon the public highways as the snow continued to fall. With the snow was more cold weather. Professor Jones who was one of the big powers in the "global warming" debate admitted the other day on BBC Tee Vee that there had been NO warming for the past fifteen years.
Nevertheless, the EPA has come out with new rules for West Virginia power plants and all have made it clear that there will be no more coal fired power plants in America while the communist Chinese complete at least one new one every month without any pollution or "anti-global warming" add ons.
Perhaps the new Congress can clip the EPA wings and quit forcing the citizens to pay vast sums to have electric companies address non-consequential issues where there are real problems - like the federal regulations that force steam from power plants to be wasted in "cooling towers". Back before the 'wise ones' from the lower Potomac swamps got involved, steam from electric generation was used for manufacturing, etc. Then these same 'gentlemen" have the gall to tell us we should use Chinese mercury bulbs "to save energy".
Someone unloaded a bulldozer in Creston and then ran it up the blacktop and then somewhere out on Ground Hog. Next time it is hoped they will be caught and charged. In addition to operating a motor vehicle without insurance, each cleat mark is considered a separate offense.
The pump jack weight thieves struck again, this time stealing the weights from Sterling's (Prime) well on the top of Feather Bed Hill. The culprit drove his truck right up to the well and then someone recognized and identified his tire tracks which made it easy for the local lawmen.
For those who actually do advance planning, the next Creston auction is scheduled for Saturday, January 8 at the Community Building.
Some local residents had some problems over the weekend when one local producer got oil in the gas lines. Nothing caught on fire and the oil was drained from the lines.
The gas line going into the Ira J. Lynch, Sr. resident broke and the neighbor was called to make a repair. Someone thought that a chunk of ice falling from the roof hit & broke the line.
Some of the local deer hunters reported better luck this past week. For sure the snow would have made for easy tracking.
The homosexual lobby won a big victory in Washington with the new rule as to who can be in the military; all this in spite of what the combat folks said. It is proof that a very well funded aggressive group can accomplish almost anything in the political arena, especially when one can call those who oppose the agenda "bigots". One is also reminded of the "chickifacation" of the military as a result of former congress critter Patsy Schroeder and her band of harridans who intimidated the military to be PC rather than an effective fighting force trained to kill people and break things. There are many, of course, including those highly placed in the Big Eared One's regime who loathe the military (as does Her Thighness Madame Hillary) and want it to be as respected & feared as the Andorran Army or the Liechtenstein Navy. As a reference point when President Thomas Jefferson sent the Navy & Marines after the Barberry pirates the sailors didn't have to worry if they might offend someone or public opinion in "lily livered land" but, instead, eliminated the problems & made them "good pirates" by causing them to reach ambient temperature.
The Supremes down at the Mouth of the Elk let everyone know what they thought of the citizens when they ruled that the Mason County Commission could not rescind their vote to approve a toll road in that county when they found that the Department of Highways had lied to them. There is also a big fight over who will have power over what now that the Big Boss has gone off to "work for the Big Eared One & Harry Reed."
The high priest of the Global Warming Church noted the other day that ethanol for motor fuel was a bad idea but the Big Eared One & his congresscritters approved several more $billion in subsidies to be furnished by loans from the communist Chinese & paid off by the taxpayers. It seems that he wants to keep Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) the company that says it is "supermarket to the world" in his corner regardless of the consequences to agriculture, prices of meet, feed or the damage caused by the new "blend" on small engines that were not designed for or by the "green weenies".
It should be noted that the first recorded commercial activity in what is now known as Creston was Gilmore Bailey's corn whiskey business but he did not do so well and was foreclosed upon because, back then, there were not government programs to fund corn likker. This was then America and no one expected the taxpayers to fund them.
Hard Rock, an outfit that has drilled several wells in Roane & Jackson Counties recently completed a horizontal Huron near the Roane/Jackson line that was feeding about 250 mcf/day into the line with a pressure of 1200 lb. Then an amazing thing happened - the pressure rose to 1800 lb and has stayed there. This would mean that the "vaulted" high pressure zone for horizontal wells goes much further south than says the map that some said was produced to be sure that the Rockefeller interests (via the Chase Manhattan Bank) be drilled first.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude dropped to $82.25/bbl while natural gas fetched $3.626/dekatherm.
With the cold weather and snow, cattle and horses have been munching heavily on the hay.
C. Romeo Griffin Sr. fell Sunday morning whilst feeding the birds near the house and broke the distal end of his right ulna. After a trip to the ER at St. Joe's Hospital in P'burg he was feeling less pain and had a ravenous appetite. An appointment with the orthopedic surgeon is to be scheduled, although no surgery is expected now. C Romeo Jr. and fambly were among those calling.
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