 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston area received more snow and cold weather. Some church services were cancelled on Sunday although by afternoon most roads had melted off.
One of the Midnight Supply Corp.'s vehicles got hung up and had to have assistance getting out with the stolen goods. So much for maintaining a low profile.
The W. Va. Farm Bureau Mobile Ag Lab is scheduled to be at the Elizabeth graded school this week with an open house between 4 & 5 on Tuesday January 21. The lab explains to youth how much of their daily lives are impacted by agriculture & agricultural products.
Alvin Engelke was consulting with Dr. Rudolph Kevak.
Talk down at the mouth of the Elk continues about the contamination of the water from what was, for practical purposes, an abandoned Pennzoil tank farm along the Elk River where the secondary containment facilities (dikes) were obviously woefully lacking. Back in 2009 federal stimulus money was used to dredge the Elk River so boats could, once again, reach the facility and now the new owners have taken protection under the bankruptcy laws. One of their assets is the Lodge at Glendorn near Bradford, Pennsylvania where rooms start at a paltry $425/night and up.
Joe Menas was attending to business in Creston one day last week.
The national bird, the Bald Eagle, was seen at Creston the other day by passersby. The national bird was feasting on a favorite local meat, venison according to the report from a man & his son who stopped and took pictures. The same bird was also said to have been seen at Enon. It was noted that the bird was in no way fearful of humans. Also, the invasive black buzzards were seen again in Jackson County. Action on the latter report is called for.
The Iranians noted that in the deal with John Heinz-Kerry and Barry they won and now can make the bombs and eradicate Israel. The U. S. Senate came out with a report that had no names but blasted Madame Hillary who is busy running for president for failure to protect the ambassador and others in Lybia and the health care mess only gets worse. Now folks have read that the taxpayers must bail out the insurance companies that went along with the big eared one on the "wonderful plans" that no one cares to purchase. In the meantime more and more sign up for Medicaid, the taxpayer funded welfare program.
The W. Va. folks down in the swamps of the lower Potomac voted for the outrageous budget which includes a deal between the lefties and the" Republican establishment or RINOS" to make it legal to go after the "Tea Party" folks, that is those who believe government is too big, too intrusive and needs cut back to size. Those folks want us do vote for the difference between tweele de dee and tweedle de dum, not a real choice that would upset the apple cart that is long overdue in being spilled all about. Else where folks in Europe note that the Big Eared One plans to rework the entire world next and put America in "its place" as a medium sized power.
It was learned that there is a management shakeup in Antero, the firm that has been drilling dozens & dozens of Marcellus wells, not always paying proper royalties. Also, it was reported that some companies were looking for leases to pick up in the area. The Brazilians purchased the former Borg Warner property in Washington Bottom for the proposed ethane cracker plant. Many, many wells have to be drilled to run the facility.
ENI, the Italian oil company, decided to pull out of the shale gas fields in Poland because of poor results as the Ukraine is said to be better. ENI, Royal Dutch Shell and Rockefeller's Chevron are all there while Exxon Mobil is drilling new fields in Russia.
Some time back Royal Dutch Shell proposed an ethane cracker in Monaca Pennsylvania but the firm has been having financial difficulties and spending is being reined in. The firm's proposed $20 billion gas to liquids plant in Louisiana was cancelled.
On January 28 at 10 P. M. at #10 Spring Street, down at the Mouth of the Elk, ICS CNG will have a grand opening of Charleston's first natural gas filling station. Spring Street is near the Bigley Foodland not far from the interstate.
Some local residents made the news recently.
The Mayor of Deever's Fork allowed as how those who did not drink whiskey should be sick.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil is $92.37/bbl. with drip fetching $76.6, Marcellus & Utica light $83.13 and medium $92.37/bbl.
The Good Agricultural practices & Good Handling Practices program will he held Friday starting at 10 A. M. at Glenville State College and the fee is $25.00. Also preregistration is encouraged through the county agent's office. If one plans to sell produce to schools one must have this training and perhaps if one plans to sell to the public as well. The W. Va. Dept. of Agriculture is presenting the program. There is also a program on Saturday that costs $20.00 per person. The college's number is 304-462-7361.
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