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By Alvin Engelke
The regular meeting for the Creston Community Building will be Tuesday June 3 at 7 P. M. at the community building in Creston. Trustees are scheduled to be elected. All interested parties are urged to attend and participate in the meeting.
Pauline Cline, Chuck & Hazel Powell were calling at the Creston Community Building and 'couldn't believe all the work that had been done since last year'. Mr. & Mrs. Dale Schrader, daughter and grandchildren, Dave Bingman, Jane Bingman Cooper and Nick Leone were also checking out the improvements at the building. Mike & Joanne, friends of Ted Grim who live in Erie, Pennsylvania stopped by to see the work. They had made a donation earlier and had their picture taken on stage .
There were large numbers of folks in the area to decorate graves. Someone took the donation box, post and all from the McCray (Snyder) cemetery in Creston. Those who noticed or put donations in the box (a mailbox) should contact Darrell Hacker as soon as possible.
Genevieve Richter, age 80, passed away after coming down with kidney problems. She was the daughter of Arthur & Mary Nutter.
Grace I. Monroe Curry, age 65, passed away in a rest home in Parkersburg, She was the daughter of Frank and Ola Hopkins Monroe and had lived at Burning Springs until complications of sugar diabetes got the upper hand.
Harry Cooper of Waterford Ohio passed away after a long illness. He was a prominent educator and the half brother of the late Alma Dooley and Justine Bock. He is survived by his widow, the former Jane Bingman Leone. His father was Grover Cleveland Cooper.
Decoration Day weekend was a big one for family reunions. The Woodrings and the Shimers both gathered at the Creston Community Building. A chunk of dirt got stuck in the foot valve so the folks at the Saturday reunion had to relive old times prior to having running water.
Decoration Day was started as a memorial and as a remembrance for the soldiers killed in the Civil War. Special emphasis has always been given to those who gave their life for their country or those who served in the military.
Local residents are proud of the local heroine, Jessica Lynch, and are more than a little upset with the report written by left winger Robert Scheer of The Los Angeles Times, a left coast paper who claimed that Jessica's rescue was a fabrication and a caper. It would seem that Jayson Blair phenomenon has become widespread in what was once called "the mainstream media". (Blair was a PC reporter at the New York Slimes who got caught "telling whoppers".) Seems one of the problems is that there are several who will pull out all the stops to back socialist regimes, even the ones in Baghdad, Havana, Pyongyang, etc. One of West Virginia's congress critters even went to meet with Saddam not so long back.
State Treasurer John Perdue said he "had changed his mind". Not so long back he said that he would not run for governor in 2004.
Mr. & Mrs. Todd Rhodes and Mr. & Mrs. Tim Rhodes and families were calling in the Creston area over the weekend.
Euell Russell was calling on Don Rhodes.
Rev. Juanita Lockhart filled her regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. church. She and Steve provided special music. Last Wednesday the Dobbins family sang at the church.
The comely Juliett Newhouse was visiting at the Pennington residence on Burning Springs Run.
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Diewert were visiting Mack Menefee, Jr.
There was a large crowd of folks over at the Devil's Tea Table and environs. It was reported that the DNR video taped some of the mudding exploits on the land now controlled by the Heartwood Fund. It was said that, after a confrontation and a broken tail light, two fellows with badges left the area and decided they would write no tickets for anything.
Dominion Transmission announced that Hastings Station would be down for maintenance and repairs for 10 to 12 days starting on June 28.
The Wirt County hydraulic excavator crew has been cleaning pipes and ditches in the Creston area that were plugged and filled by the last major storm & flood.
A Creston resident was attending to business in White Pine and ran across one of Harley Shimer's grandsons who was trying to find the Paris van Camp residence. Some of the Shimers are buried on the hill above the van Camp home.
Jane Wiley was decorating graves in the Creston area and looking after her oil interests. The price of local Penn grade crude rose to $26/bbl. | 
