 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big Creston ATV poker run will be Saturday, September 26 at the Creston Community Building. The work day to prepare the route will be Saturday, September 19. Those who would be willing to help should call 304-275-3578 for details.
Lately there has been a lot of highway news. The Wirt crew surface treated (tarred & chipped) the Ann's Run road out to where Roane County claims the line. Of course the Roane section of the road to the Lower Barnes Run Road (CR 9/2) remains an obstacle course.
Although there are petitions to fix the closed Yellow Creek Road it remains shut down near Big Springs and a highway biggie stated that it might be two years before the funds could be obtained to reopen the highway, that contractors had to be hired, etc. It was stated that a pipeline had to be relocated. One individual familiar with such matters noted that a good operator, a piece of excavation equipment and some rock could have the road passable in one day.
The one inch laydown (of blacktop) between the Wirt County line and the Annamoriah bridge is half done and the report is that the Ohio based contractor gathered up the equipment and left after there was a problem with taking loaded blacktop trucks across the Creston bridge on W. Va. 5. As part of the program of allowing infrastructure to decay, the bridge now has problems and many wonder about what the log and oil trucks are now to do. One might assume that the paving job on W. Va. 5 from Leafbank to Grantsville is likewise in limbo.
Those who had any experience with the state road were familiar with the Equipment Division in Buckhannon. Bob Andrew the longtime supervisor was indicted by the feds and then shortly thereafter he had, according to several independent sources, an assisted suicide. As they say, "Dead men tell no tales". It was long understood that someone else really ran the facility and made policy decisions. Well placed sources indicated that the federal investigation fingers several well known names.
A big crowd was on hand Saturday for the Grim(m) reunion. Ted Grimm brought down some of the special hot dogs from Erie Pennsylvania although there was no shortage of food.
Rick Williams brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
Local residents were among the throng that attended the Becky Belt benefit at the Baptist church in Elizabeth. The longtime grade school employee has inoperable cancer. Some of her students even sat on her lap. A hog was purchased at the Wirt County fair just to provide the meat for the event.
The Japanese stilt grass is now starting to bloom so it should be pulled out be the roots before it seeds and creates a monoculture in lawns, flower beds, road banks, meadows, etc. The exotic exudes poison toxins into the soil that kill or inhibit native plants.
Peanut Bunch was able to cut some fine third cutting hay over the weekend on the historic dePue farm.
Alvin Engelke consulted with Dr. Ginger Sims and she worked a miracle. The very next day he was able to hang up his cane and walk unassisted.
The Big Eared One got his Iran deal assuring that they will get the bomb & $150 billion to fund terrorists and the Republican eunuchs went right along with him as they are part of "the cartel". It has been stated that "blood is on their hands". Genesis 12:3 states "And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." One of the Wirt County commissioners placed his antique manure spreader along W. Va. 5 with a sign stating "spreading Obama's nuclear deal". It was learned that military type helicopters came and viewed the scene and "official looking" automobiles stopped and took pictures. It has been often stated that the Big Eared One has a very thin skin.
Work has finally commenced on the rest home at Elizabeth although almost all of the summer went for naught.
Some while back the big talk was the ethane cracker plant to be constructed on the old Borg Warner (Marbon) site at Washington Bottom but then the hucksters said, "Well the price of ethane is so low, you know, hard to justify." One would imagine that that was the first time the low price of the raw material was reason not to build a facility. Some feel that the state was too busy taking care of their buddies by trying to flim flam the citizens with a forced pooling bill to keep W. Va. at #50 with low royalties and legislation that would allow massive fraud and cheating on taxes. Now a company from Siam (Thailand) is planning on building an ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio. Siam, in modern times, is perhaps best known for the child prostitution tourist trade. The W. Va. plant is supposed to be built by a Brazilian firm & the president of that outfit presently is in jail there charged with looting the government oil company that the Big Eared One gave $6 billion and all this reflects that what once was the most powerful and richest nation on the planet cannot now put up a substantial industrial facility which shows the impact of "fundamental transformation" and the problems caused by socialists and communists embedded in government, academia and media.
G. M. (Government Motors) made the news again and announced that a new automobile manufacturing facility had been constructed in China. Our tax dollars at work, apparently for the Chinese Liberation Army.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude dropped to $43.63 with condensate fetching only $20.63 with Marcellus & Utica light bringing $37.63 and medium $43.63.bbl. The big Ergon catfish fry is September 23 at the Marina in St. Marys and the BD Oily Pig Barbecue is September 25 at their facility at Marietta.
The Creston Neighborhood Watch litter cleanup will be Saturday, September 19. Contact Donna Sue at 304-275-3202 for details.
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