 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Starcher Creston auction will be Saturday June 7, starting at 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. Come and enjoy some good vittles [the Creston special hot dog sauce] and visit with friends & neighbors and meet new folks and pick up some bargains along the way.
The Dobbins auction will be Saturday June 14, starting at 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building. Col. Dobbins brings different items than do the Starchers and there are always items one can use. The local columnist uses his new galvanized bucket watering plants in the garden.
A number of local residents attended the Wood County Farm Bureau's meeting concerning the EPA's proposed new rules which would require permits to plow gardens if water ever stands on the ground and other absurd rules. A meeting sponsored by the Wirt County Farm Bureau will be held Friday, June 13th at 7 P. M. at the Court House in Elizabeth and all landowners are urged to attend. Letters opposing the new "waters of the United States" rules should be addressed to the EPA, Mail code 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Washington, District of Columbia 20460, Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-HA-OW-2011-0880. Recently the EPA made a farmer in Wetzel County tear out a farm pond that was legal but, of course, would not be under the proposed new rules. Draining mudholes, crossing a drain, cutting trees, dragging logs out of the woods, working on oilfield dikes [around oil tanks], having goldfish ponds in one's back yard, etc. would all require 404 permits.
The Big Eared One and his local stoolies announced new rules to curtail the use of coal this side of China & India and the new EPA rules for water permits on the tops of hills, etc. should slow oil & gas operations to a crawl -- just part of the fundamental transformation and the cutting of America "down to size".
Rev. Lee Williams and Rev. Keith Belt both brought messages at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
Local farmers continue to make hay although some fields are "light". Grass in the fertile bottoms along the West Fork is 4 feet tall.
The USDA's multiflora rose is in full bloom. The lying liars said it wouldn't spread from the fence rows but now there are fields full of the oriental pest. Once government programs are started getting rid of them is almost impossible even when no one wants them.
Some local folks had to attend to business in the northern panhandle so they went up Ohio 7 [cross at St. Marys and cross back at New Martinsville] and drove through Sardis, Ohio. There they noticed a sign for Marv's Place. Turns out it is a restaurant in a restored 1894 building that serves tasty food surrounded by history and the locals who are in visiting, drinking coffee, etc. Mandy, the comely & efficient waitress, served a piece of homemade pie that was worth "falling off the wagon" for one on a diabetic diet.
A spokesperson for CNX noted that they planned to drill lots of Marcellus wells in Gilmer County.
The Big Eared One has a new thing out where the armed forces of the United States can now, apparently, take military action against American citizens, a very scary situation. Earlier it had been noted that veterans, Christians who believe in the Bible & support Israel, those who oppose baby killing [abortion], those who support the Bill of Rights are considered to be "public enemies". The recent purge of several hundred top military men is very disconcerting, considering all this. In addition to the BLM having paramilitary "teams", the USDA (Agriculture Dept.), Railroad Retirement Board, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Office of Personnel Management, Consumer Product Safety Commission,, U. S. Fish & Wildlife Agency, Education Department and the Post Office all now have "Military Units". One wonders why.
One local resident found out that two different vehicles in different parts of the state were listed by DMV as having the same license plate. All this came to a head when the other vehicle ran a toll booth in Maryland. Deputy Peck was very helpful in resolution of the problem.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is $102.21/bbl. with drip fetching $78.74, Marcellus & Utica light $93.62 & medium $101.21/bbl.
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