 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Rev. Lee Williams brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. Church and served Holy Communion.
The Creston Christmas party will be Saturday December 12 at the Creston Community Building. So that all the covered dishes are not the same one should contact Rosalie White to coordinate food and donations are always appreciated.
Several trophy bucks were harvested and there was some thinning of the herd but many of the trucks pulling trailers and side by side four wheelers have returned home.
Freddie Bush has a monster pile of logs up on Ground Hog.
The Common Core school fiasco continues to be a topic of discussion. It would seem that the much ballyhooed repeal by the answers to no one state bd. of education is considered to just be pure b. s. to fool the rubes both in the legislature and throughout the state who want quality education, not dumbed down youth who cannot read, write, cipher, spell or hold down a job that requires basic rudimentary knowledge.
It is reported that "Farmer Walt" is now promoting "industrial hemp" as the savior of West Virginia. Tobacco, a legal product was for decades a mainstay of W. Va. agriculture until Bill & Hillary Clinton made a deal with donors from Brazil and shut down domestic tobacco production to help their flush foreign friends.
FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) has announced that there will be four (4) more public hearings on the 36" Mountaineer Xpress pipeline that will come very close to Creston as gas is transported to the Gulf of Mexico to be exported as LNG. The closest ones to the local area will be Tuesday December 8 at the Doddridge County Park on Snow Bird Road off US 50 at Smithburg and Wednesday, December 9 at the Assembly Hall at the Cedar Lakes FFA Conference Center south of Ripley. The meetings start at 6 P. M. with a talk from FERC staff followed by discussion. Sign ups for speakers (perhaps limited to 3 minutes each) will start at 5 P. M.. Those who do things on line and are down in the swamps of the Lower Potomac can check out Docket No. PF15-31-000, Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC. When the company had the first series of meetings the Rockefeller family firm tried to get the Calhoun commissioners to give 'em a tax break on their $100 million compressor station at "White Oak" even though one well connected Calhoun native said the location must be in Ritchie County. The new notice says that the compressor station is and will be in Ritchie County. Written comments may be sent to Washington where you know the bureaucrats "listen" to the peasants out in fly over country. It is stated that the right-of-way will be 125 feet wide with a 50' permanent and a 75' construction easement. It should be noted that large landowners and state agencies do not sell rights-of-way but lease the same, often for an annual payment and always with a fixed term. For some years the minimum price has been $1/foot for each inch of pipe, thus the minimum would be $36/foot. This, of course, would not include damage and loss of timber and timber land, cropland loss, damage to aquifers, private roads, fences, etc.
It is interesting to note that the companies are allowed to export the natural gas to supply urgent needs elsewhere but the Big Eared One and Madame Hillary will not allow a pipeline that would bring Canadian oil to Texas refineries to provide work there and eliminate their requirement for the importation of oil from "friendly sands" of the Middle East.
The forced pooling slicksters are still out selling their snake oil. While the lobbyists are expected to be on the big boys payroll it is quite disconcerting when one hears folks who were elected by the citizens spewing the company line when they know better. One might assume that they too are on another payroll sorta like when Mrs. Anthony Wiener, a/k/a Huma, Hillary's gal pal, was on the U. S. State Dept. payroll while working for a firm linked to the Clinton Foundation while also representing the Muslim Brotherhood (or Sisterhood). Always in such cases the taxpayers end up on the short end.
The Moslem terrorists have declared world wide war while fearless leader and the horse faced one claim that "global warming" is about to "kill us all" even though there has been no warming for the last 19 years. The Russian dictator has violated US air space with impunity with his war planes and the Turks actually did something about it and the bed wetters are wringing their hands. For certain we live in very dangerous times. Those who live on the West Fork and other non-urban streams are very thankful to be considered remote and of little or no consequence to the terror armies although the Big Eared One is insisting on bringing in thousands upon thousands of military age Moslem men of unknown background to the country for 'some reason'.
Charles Russell was calling on Ray Gumm, Paris Parsons and brother Euell at the Miletree Center in Spencer.
There continues to be talk about the state road problems and the legislative audit. Some wonder why there was, this year, twice the usual amount of blacktop work. Also talk continues about the state road biggie who had help shooting himself after being indicted.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil rose to $42.04/bbl. with condensate [super drip] fetching $23.04, Marcellus & Utica light $26.04 and medium $42.04/bbl.
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