 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
With the break in the rainy weather quite a bit of hay was put up in the Creston area as well as elsewhere. Rain over the weekend put a temporary halt to haymaking. There are also now lots of fawns in the area. No doubt the coyotes are licking their chops as they prefer them to lambs & calves.
Christina Miller took some spectacular photographs of a Bald Eagle that was sojourning near Annamoriah. The eagles are majestic birds and it is no wonder it was picked to represent the national spirit. The bird is a reminder that all must stand up to all who would tear America down to make us a third world country.
A graduation party was held at the Brooksville Baptist Church for Lyndsey Miller who graduated from high school via home schooling.
Rev. Keith Belt filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church & served Holy Communion.
The Goodyear Blimp flew over the local area recently.
Mr. & Mrs. Holly Roscoe Greathouse, Jr. & Mrs. & Mrs. Charles White attended graduation exercises at Alderson Broaddus College at Phillipi. June noted that there were some long winded speakers there who obviously liked to hear themselves talk.
Robbie Lynch spent the week visiting his mother Dorothy Lynch and other area friends & relatives. He works in a machine shop in the New Orleans area. He noted that there was lots of good hunting & fishing there.
Phillip Dennis who is working in the oil fields in Pennsylvania was visiting & attending to business in Creston. He noted that he was looking forward to when the Marcellus & Utica wells were being drilled in the local area. A recent map produced by the U. S. Dept. of Interior showed that Wirt & Calhoun Counties were situate in the richest part of the play.
Marshall University journalism "perfesser" Chris Swindell wrote that the U. S. Armed Forces should attack the NRA and its members for wanting to own guns, listening to Sarah Palin and opposing Broadway Joe's gun grab legislation.
The Woodring family held their family reunion at the Creston Community Building and a number of them decided to go visit the Woodring/Merrill cemetery but because of road conditions they were unable to make the journey. However, the Mothman [one of the family members] borrowed a friend's four wheeler and made it to the graveyard.
Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Thomas, Sue Warner, Dana Harper, Elaine Cheuvront, Casper Shuman, Pearl Bollinger, Loretta Bishop, Mr. & Mrs. William J. Ward, Mr. & Mrs. Delbert Bunner & son, Jarrett Justice & Chester Robinson were among those attending to business in Creston.
It is now clear that the Benghazi mess was related to the Big Eared One's supplying of Lybian arms to the opposition in Syria but the problem is that the opposition is Al Qaeda, the same outfit that declared war on America. The terror group is based in Saudi Arabia, the same nation that funded the Big Eared One's education and made the contacts for his political career. The "Syrian rebels" have been slaughtering Christians in Syria and now Sen. McVain, the egomaniac went and met with them & said they were good boys. Apparently that is what "Mavericks" do when they "reach across the aisle".
Closer to home the "gang of 8" wants to bring in more illegal aliens from Mexico, China and God knows where else & the Christian group backing the amnesty bill was found out to be a non-existent entity, just a front for dubious folks.
Cap'n Spock was riding on the Harley "space shuttle" in the Petty place sector when Bambi jumped up and wrapped herself around the spacecraft bending some parts and fracturing the captain's leg. The vehicle was able to make an emergency landing at the Randy Bunner residence to obtain assistance.
The Bilderburg meeting is scheduled in England and they ordered the hotels nearby to run off all media so that the world's power elite could plot & scheme in private.
Bobby Ray Starcher who had congestive heart failure is said to be getting along well.
Several local residents have been having health problems and have been consulting their medical professionals.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil dropped to $91.87/bbl with drip fetching $77.12, Marcellus & Utica light $86.83 & medium $93.37/bbl. Since the big push on horizontal drilling of the Marcellus & Utica plays the regular drilling of vertical wells [now called legacy production] has almost come to a halt. However, there is now new interest in conventional drilling, especially in oil rich areas.
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