 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big item around Creston is deer season. The roads have been thick with trucks and trailers hauling four wheelers, campers and box vans that can be used to haul the venison back to Ohio or wherever. Several guns were "sighted in" on Sunday before the rain started. Some nice bucks have been seen and there are some spike type racks that technically could be called four points. Lands have been posted and folks are at deer camp.
The Annamoriah Cowpoke and his trusted sidekick, Steve, were calling on Bob Basnett at Miletree and also stopped to give Euell the Mule Russell an attitude adjustment. It was reported that they left him in a better humor. Earlier Charles Russell had called on Euell and Ray Gum.
Those visiting Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ferrell & Jeremy included, Missy & Amy Nicole Ferrell, Grace Kefabber, Stymie Plummer, Junior Ferrell, Alan & Crystal Jackson, Mindy, Gracie & Travis.
Otha Arthur Jr. has been doing some family research and is looking for help, pictures, etc. His e-mail is ocarthur@hotmail.com
Some local residents received telephone calls from a polling firm in Fort Collins Colorado on behalf of J. Frank Deem who is seriously considering running against State Senator Donna Boley next year. Frank will soon be 84.
John Perdue, the state treasurer, has always dreamed of being governor and the powers that be always tell him, "Next time will be your turn, now be a good boy and do as you are told." He sold some farm land in Mason County to a sleazy developer who uses federal "stimulus money" to build "low income" housing and the developer apparently "copped a plea" and chose to sing. One might gather that someone needs Perdue out of the way. Another Perdue heads up the big unions who are hosting the Charleston division of the anti-American and anti-capitalist "Occupy Wall Street" international organization and another is a mouthpiece for EQT (Equitable Gas).
The Big Eared One's EPA has made it clear that they are anti agriculture with proposals to ban 'agricultural dust' such as would happen during hay harvest, picking corn or combining small grains, working up ground, etc while the state DEP was always considered a 'voice of reason'. Now that Earl Ray is no longer the acting governor, the state DEP, apparently at the direction of the 'wise ones' down in the swamps along the lower Potomac, have come out with a vengeance against West Virginia farm operations, starting with farms in the Chesapeake Bay drainage but with the understanding that the Gulf of Mexico is to be next. One would conclude that Earl Ray has decided to be an errand boy for the Big Eared One instead of standing up for West Virginia. The first farm visited was accused of not having a CAFO permit even though it was proved that there were no point source runoffs and that the farm was an AFO. An AFO is an animal feeding operation while a CAFO is a Confined Animal Feeding Operation -- sorta line a pig pen or a chicken coop. Some years back Albert Gore, Jr., the global warming hoax guru, said that "America should get all its food from third world countries". Some may remember the consequences of feeding the family pet dog food from China that was laced with poison. Then there was the 'mad cow' disease problem in England that was linked to garbage from China that was ground up and put in animal feed.
Mary Javins Weaver brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. Mary "Jenny" Belt, Rev. Keith Belt's mother is a patient in the ICU at Charleston Area Medical Center's Kanawha City unit.
The legislature's Marcellus Shale joint committee would up their work with a recommendation for a bill to pass that would help solve the problems with the "wild west" drilling operations, road destruction and more or less unregulated water usage under current law and 'emergency' rules. Of course the Mrs. Sen. Facemyer tried to kill the bill but, so far at least, cooler heads have prevailed although it is not known what Earl Ray plans to do. Back in 1993 the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission stated that the West Virginia regulatory agency had a lack of funding and a shortage of inspectors. A second review, in 2003, noted that there had been no improvement. These studies, of course, were before the Marcellus drilling boom. The statement then was "The OOG [Office of Oil & Gas] does not have enough inspectors or funding to fully meet its statutory mandate." The new Marcellus bill will go a way toward addressing this longstanding problem if the big boys allow it to pass in its present form.
Rod Lynch's comely daughter Renee' Gray noted that she had bagged a seven point with bow & arrow and that she now hoped to get a trophy buck with her rifle.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil fell $1.41/bbl to $95.96 while gas produced locally in October (last month) fetched just $3.275/mcf.
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