 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
A man was checking out Ellen Hedge's roof on Bear Fork of Little Creek when he became dizzy Sunday and fell to the ground. He was life flighted to a Charleston hospital.
71 monsters, hobgoblins, princesses, loathsome critters and otherwise healthy and normal children showed up for the Creston Halloween party. Because of the rain the scary hay ride was canceled.
The Big Eared One and his handlers have made it clear that coal is to be put out of business and electric companies must stop burning the cheapest and most efficient [for the facilities they own] fuel. Back during and after the A-rab oil embargo the feds told power companies that they MUST burn coal & now they are told they must not. Much press has been given that all the power plants will be converted to natural gas. Kristine Gagliardi, an employee of Columbia Pipeline Group noted that there are now lots of pipeline projects to take away the Utica & Marcellus gas that has been produced in nearby counties but, she noted that 95% of the gas is going to export as LNG with only 5% going for power generation. She noted that the electric companies are "way behind" in making substitutions for their coal burning facilities that the green weenies want to shut down. It could be such a thing that the green weenies may get their way and have blackouts during peak times. They can then freeze in the dark as part of the fundamental transformation.
The Creston Veteran's Day celebration will be Sunday, November 8 at the Community Building. The speaker will be Jack Boley, husband of Sen. Donna Boley. He will talk about his experience when the military was testing to see how much radiation from bomb blasts soldiers could withstand. The talk will be a learning experience, to say the least.
There will be a free clothing give away at the Creston Community Building on Saturday November 21 from 8 A. M. until 3 P. M. sponsored by the Creston Area Neighborhood Watch. For details call Amy at 275-3202.
Folks who work for the state road have advised that the Big Eared One has determined that cinders are now "hazardous waste" and can no longer be used to treat roads to allow for safe travel on snow & ice covered roads. No real explanation, of course, has been provided.
It has now been months but nothing has been done to repair the Yellow Creek road so folks, workers, school buses, the mail, police, the ambulance, etc. can avoid the detour via Grantsville. It was reported that some of the state road biggies will not even talk about the situation. Some are of the opinion that one day's work with a few good men would have the road open [even if it didn't meet federal guidelines].
Cabot Oil & Gas is going around trying to lease property for $100/acre in Wirt County with net leases. Their spokespersons advised that the Wirt Oil & Gas Group had "gone out of business". As a point of information the Wirt Group will have an information meeting at the high school in Elizabeth on Saturday, November 14.
The snake oil vendors are going at it full bore telling folks what a wonderful forced pooling bill that George Patterson and his helpers crafted. However, it spite of the fact that Patterson told others that he wrote it, one man said emphatically, "It's not George Patterson's bill!" Patterson is a prominent oil and gas lawyer that represents the big out of state companies that want to get leases on the cheap and do not want to let anyone, even state government, know how much product is produced and how much the firms are paid. The state is now facing a $250 million tax shortfall and the State Tax Dept. said [in essence] "they tell us how much the produce, we don't know" when talking about the natural gas severance tax that the big boys are supposed to pay.
Rev. Lee Williams brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. church and served Holy Communion.
Charles Russell was calling on Ray Gumm, Paris Parsons and brother Euell at the Miletree Center in Spencer.
The leaves locally are at about their peak with the fall colours.
J. P. Marks was calling on Mr. & Mrs. C. Romeo Griffin, Jr. & family. Seems a big willow tree fell near Ann's house so they removed the same but didn't save it for firewood.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude fell to $43.60/bbl. with condensate fetching only $24.60, Marcellus & Utica light $27.60 and medium $43.60/bbl. Gasolene in Jackson County had now dropped to under $1,80/gallon with prices ranging forty cents or more higher elsewhere. It was reported that natural gas took another drop in price. Royalty owners with net leases will soon have to pay the big boys to take their gas to market and in fact folks in Pennsylvania have already received bills for their royalty and EQT wants to have the legislature pass similar laws for West Virginia.
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