The Creston Community Building centennial & homecoming will be July 8 at the community building at 2 P. M. Everyone is invited.
A little over a century ago it was determined that Creston needed a new school building as the prior structure was less than satisfactory. In addition to dirt falling on the students in the downstairs room when folks walked upstairs there was no playground. The area that was used belonged to a neighbor and if his wife didn’t care for you, then your children were not allowed to play on the land. This, of course, created an untenable situation for all concerned.
A decision was made to purchase a tract of 2 ½ acres for $1200 which would be at least $36,000 in today’s inflated funds & building a modern new school house. In those days such decisions were made locally and Creston is in Spring Creek District of Wirt County so the Spring Creek Board of Education was in charge. That is local control of education including what is taught. The budget did not allow for sufficient funds to build a new structure so there had to be a special levy for the entire district. Spring Creek District goes all the way across the Sanoma Road to W. Va. 14 at Blue Goose. Of course a new bigger school building at Creston would have been of no benefit for those folks and they would have had no reason to support and pay for such. However, the folks over there did want a new year round passable road from the ferry at Sanoma to the road on Left Reedy at Blue Goose. Local road maintenance was under the jurisdiction of the Spring Creek District road folks and the road levy did not generate sufficient funds to build the knapped rock road that folks wanted. It would require a special road levy on the entire district and that would be of minimal benefit for the residents of Creston. Folks got together and agreed to work to pass both special levies. The Sanoma road was built and the new Creston school was constructed. There was a cost overrun [to use modern terms] and the allotted funds were not enough to finish the school. A team of local folks led by Al Blankenship, whose children attended the Ann’s Run school volunteered and finished the job, pro bono. Mr. Blankenship ended being the supervisor for the construction of the Sanoma road.
The Creston area was hazy as a result of the arson forest fires in Canada. In Parkersburg one could actually smell wood smoke as, apparently, there was more smoke there. At the same time the green weenies want to ban wood fired pizza ovens in New York City [and no doubt elsewhere] to “protect the environment”. A nice rain seemed to clear out the smoke.
Nancy Engelke was undergoing tests in Marietta.
The electric power plant in Pleasants County remains ‘in limbo”. It was involved in the big bribe deal in Ohio by First Energy, the Creston electric company. First Energy paid a bribe of $61 million to Ohio house speaker Larry Householder (and friends) for a law that gave the firm $18 billion [from customers] to help operate their aging nuclear power generating plants. Just recently the Ohio politician who was a close ally of John Kasic ,was cuffed and led off to start his 20 year “vacation”. Who knows what is included in local electric bills?
The USDA [Department of Agriculture] has approved Bill Gate’s “lab grown meat”. Our betters have been telling us that the peasants will no longer be allowed to eat real meat and must eat cockroaches or whatever is allotted us. Under such rules no one would be eating pizza since, with dairy cattle banned there would be no cheese and there would be, obviously, something wrong with Italian sausage, pepperoni, etc. Now Gates is talking about GMO [genetically modified] mosquitos that would bite folks and then either transmit disease or so called vaccines to an unsuspecting population.
The annual report of world energy use came out and 82% of all energy world wide comes from fossil fuels. Banning gas cook stoves to impact the globe is absurd. Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon/Mobil & Chevron have noted that natural gas is not a “short term bridge to greener energy ” but is and will be the main source of energy & raw materials for decades to come. It was also reported that use and demand for natural gas has increased 42% from 2010 to 2020.
Speaking of natural gas, the Henry Hub [Louisiana] price is $2.76 but the price of natural gas produced on Owl Hill was just 56 cents/mcf.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude inched up to $69.64/bbl. with condensate fetching $53.64/bbl. Marcellus & Utica light brought $60.64 and medium $69.64/bbl.
