 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
A nice crowd was on hand Sunday afternoon for the "Toddler Shower" held at the Creston Community Building for Jeremy Ferrell who hopes to obtain custody of his two year old son.
Rev. Keith Belt filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. He reported that his mother Jenny has been having heart related leg problems.
Charles Russell was calling on Ray Gumm, Parris Parsons & brother Euell at the Miletree Center in Spencer. Parris noted that he had been diagnosed with the shingles.
Nancy Engelke underwent JAG eye surgery at the outpatient clinic at Belpre. Because of bad decisions made down at the Mouth of the Elk many medical facilities were moved across the state line.
Donna Jean Hughes, age 65 of Parkersburg passed away after a long bout with cancer. She was the daughter of the late Olin & Mary Park Bock.
When Uncle Boots Griffin learned that his nephew Cap'n Spock had a broken leg, he invited him up to Ohio for a butt kicking contest.
The Creston area continues to have rain and, as a result, haymaking operations are on hold.
It would appear that Verizon is bringing high speed internet up W. Va. Route 5 and is now at Burning Springs. Considering that Sunday evening the satellite internet went down again, high speed internet would be a great improvement.
Gordon Gee was obliged to resign as the head mogul at Ohio State after being caught making a derogatory comment about Catholics. He had to leave the state school up at Morgantown some years back after slipping up and talking about a plan to relocate [forceably if necessary] most West Virginia citizens in a few cities so "services could be provided easier".
As a result of reports in British newspapers it is now clear that the Big Eared One & his dutiful minions keep tract of all our telephone calls, letters, internet and credit card usages. This is done to "fight terror" but just the other day dear leader said that the Arab Muslin terrorists had been whooped, well except for Benghazi, the Boston Marathon, Fort Hood, the recent shooting in California where the mother is "vacationing in the middle east", etc. The Justice Department said that saying bad things about the Prophet Mohammed is now a crime. It is unfortunate that Jesus does not have the same federal protection. One might want to reread George Orwell readings, Animal Farm & 1984.
Drilling permits for horizontal Marcellus wells continue to be issued, mainly to the north of the local area at present. One outfit was going to buy some leases from one of the "fly by night" brokers but found that the 'broker' hadn't paid the money that was promised and thus really had nothing to sell.
Adam & Anna Yates biked and picnicked on the Mount Vernon bike trail near Alexandria and did an engagement photo shoot for Adam's business.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude rose to $95.93 with drip [mountain high test] fetching $80.48, Marcellus & Utica light $90.61 & medium $97.43/bbl.
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