 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
April 30 will be litter pickup day in the Creston community. Willing workers should show up at the Jerry Poling place (The guinea crossing) on W. Va. 5 at the end of the dePue straight at 8 A. M. There will be food provided for those who help in the cleanup and all are invited to participate.
The Easter Bunny and Rev. John Watkins both showed up for the Creston Easter party Sunday afternoon. In addition to an egg hunt, a fine meal featuring ham & Ellen Hedges' noodles, etc. Rev. Watkins read the Easter account from the Bible. One young fellow noted that he had done better finding mushrooms than he did in the egg hunt. Several area residents also attended sunrise services which celebrated the Resurrection.
While other areas had bad tornadoes and such the Creston area had more rain and some wind. The road from Creston to Spencer was under water and gardening & such is pretty much on hold. Meadows & pastures are growing while lawns shoot back up after being cut.
The next Creston auction will be Saturday, May 7, starting at 6 P. M. at the Community Building.
Brandon & Jeremy Ferrell were among those visiting Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ferrell.
The DOH bridge crew was inspecting the Little Kanawha River bridge at Creston. Also it was reported that there was additional work done to the slide at the Belt cemetery and that travel is restricted there to narrow vehicles.
Adam & Anna Yates who are currently residing in Kuwait City have been vacationing in Transylvania the home of Vlad Tepes, known better by some as Count Dracula. Anna noted that the area was green, a welcome change from the brown desert sand of Araby.
Standard & Poors (S&P) the financial rating agency recently lowered the rating of the United States of America which was a first. At the same time the dollar hit a new low and all of this is causing rank inflation which is obvious when one goes grocery shopping. Also this is reflected in the price of crude oil and gasoline. While gasoline is now in the $4/gallon range and going toward the projected $5/gallon, the projection is now $6 gasoline. While there is the usual talk about fraud, price fixing & such the real reasons are quite obvious and the #1 reason is that those around the Big Eared One have made it clear that they want gasoline to be $8/gallon just like Europe so folks cannot afford to drive -- that is part of the fundamental change of America; to cut America down to size.
While drilling in Alaska is forbidden and shut down offshore, the American taxpayers funded a multi-billion dollar upgrade to a Colombian refinery, a multi-billion dollar loan to Brazil for deep ocean drilling to provide oil to China (contracted 200,000 bbl/day for ten years) in spite of words that we "want to buy your oil", and $3billion to New Guinea (famous for head hunters & cannibals) for George Soros's LNG (liquefied natural gas) project to be sent to keep us from using our own natural gas.
Some area residents have been suffering from gastric distress and some are consulting with their physicians.
Red bud, larkspur, wild geraniums and blue bells are in bloom.
The other evening logs were being loaded in the road from the former T. R. Boggs farm on Ground Hog.
One of the big things with the Marcellus shale just north of Parkersburg and running all the way to Pittsburgh is the high amount of ethane present. Ethane is the raw material to make polyethylene and propane is the building block of polypropylene. There had been lots of talk, especially from the political folks, about building a multi-billion dollar ethylene cracker along the upper Ohio River but this apparently is not in the cards. The "plant" was used as a reason to allow "forced pooling" better known as private condemnation of private property for gain by another as pushed by the big boys & their friends in and out of government. Dow Chemical the American leader in hydrocarbon based polymers announced that they are going to use feed stocks from the Eagle Ford (a Texas shale) & the Marcellus to upgrade their operations and build more but all of this is to be in Louisiana and along the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. Dow announced that they had made a deal with Range Resources, one of the big Marcellus players and the holder of many Clay County leases to supply ethane from the Marcellus but it was not made clear how the hydrocarbon would get to the factories in Texas.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil rose to $107/bbl last Friday.
Euell Russell is scheduled for cataract surgery on Monday.
Nancy Belle Wright is on the mend after a bout of pneumonia caused by getting food down the wrong way.
The Creston correspondent hit an "imperfection in the surface of the roadway" and broke a shock/strut on his chariot.
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