Creston News

Rev. Craig Blankenship filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church & served Holy Communion.

Ruby Sutton, age 82, of Waverly passed away.  She was born in Creston the daughter of Edward & Delma Pepper Grim.  A memorial service is planned for a later date.

William Russell Bock, age 86, of Vienna passed away after fighting cancer for a decade.  Born at Sanoma he was the son of Lester & Mary Justine Tucker Bock.

John O'Dell, age 81, of Amma passed away.  In addition to his extensive farm operations he had the Amma Exxon and owned General Pipeline Construction.

Phillip Farson, age 65, passed away down in Wayne County.  He had formerly lived at several locations in the local area.  He was a brother of the late Janice Brandeberry.

Both the Wirt & Calhoun road crews continue cutting the tops out of trees along the roadway so the owners of the high dollar rental equipment get paid.  One item used in Wirt County had New Jersey plates while the bucket truck was licensed in Ohio.  Of course, not far from the Calhoun crew were large rocks that had fallen in the "clear zone" and should be removed and in Wirt County one does not have to leave the county seat to find more potholes than one can count.  Back when, an air compressor was used to clean the water from the potholes but now such is "done" with a leaf blower.

The local area had some rain and the Ann's Run road and other local byways were, for a time, under water.

Hairy bittercress is now in bloom along the Richardsonville Road and at Burning Springs as well..

The W. Va. National Guard was called up because the rulers down in the lower Potomac swamps are fearful of the truck convoy that is coming to let folks know that it is now past time to do away with all the rules, mandates, passports concerning the virus that came from the germ warfare lab.  The little Castro wannabe in Canada called the truckers bad names as they brought their families to protest and folks there had to deal with children having fun in bouncy houses, etc. -- typical terrorists, right?  The ruling junta here told their buddy up north to crack down on them and that he did. The fallout made it clear that, on a whim, federal agents can sieze your liquid assets, cancel your rights and make you a "non-person".   Folks should realize that many in government in the US want and crave absolute power and the virus helped that along.  Local folks received in the mail Saturday their China made test kits which is part of a $1.5 billion spending of taxpayer funds.  Dictator Xi needs $$ so he can make more warheads.

Recently it was learned that the Moderna vaccine that was patented 3 years ago has a sequence of nucleotides 19 long that is an exact match for the virus in the area that allows the virus to infect humans.  Anyone still believe that the virus came from a wet market where bats were not sold?  Now surely Dr. Fauci & his presstitutes would  not lie about all this.  Then the CDC [Centers for Disease Control] was caught "fibbing" about the data that was collected.  "Oh, we can't release it; it might be used by [the wrong people] to say what we don't want said."

The "green new deal" folks have opened a full scale attack on fossil fuels as they are saving the planet even though most of the rest of the world [aside from western Europe] is building more coal plants and using oil & gas to fuel their economies.  America went from being the world's energy powerhouse and energy independent for the first time in about 75 years but now we are back buying oil & natural gas from those who do not have our best interests at heart.  The result has made for higher prices for oil and immense profits for those nations that sell oil to America and #3 on the list is V. Putin's Russia for, you see, someway, "that saves the planet".  Also, Fauxcohantas & her friends don't want dirty natural gas from West Virginia, she only uses "clean" gas from Russia where, no doubt environmental practices are "always first".  As a result now, USA and Germany have funded an invasion of Ukraine so that the Russian empire of old can be reconstructed.  Oh, but we have sanctions but sale of oil and the importation of Gucci shoes for the oligarchs is fine.  One can only hope that the present conflict does not become the start of World War III.  Our leader said he would stand toe to toe to Vladimir just like he did with Corn Pop so many decades ago.  John Kerry, the climate czar, sometimes known as Lurch, took a private jet to England where he gave an interview expressing his concern about the emissions caused by warfare and his hope that, after the war was over, that Vladimir would still work to fight "global warming".  Of course, cooler heads in this county realize the folly of the present policies that make America weak & vulnerable and enrichen Russia, Iran, Venezuela and other nice places that do not like us.  The concern now should be geopolitics  -- not even Occasional Cortex or Sandy as she is sometimes called can live without oil & gas [and coal].

Paul Ryan who was formerly speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, is noted for his hatred of President Trump.  Now he is having the folks at Fox News, where he is an executive, promote his old buddy Mike Pence and his advisors.  This is especially obvious on the Hannity program.  The globalists are fearful of losing power to the citizens and such is obvious in various nations.

West Virginia once again is a leader in the production of oil & natural gas [and all the goodies contained therein] with world class oil & gas fields.  However, the fine folks in the legislature take the view that we should beg the oil companies to come and drill our resources on their terms even if we are robbed blind.  The State Senate has two bills for forced pooling & "nontenancy" SB 694 & SB 650 that the big boys "say they need".  Instead of asking for 25% gross royalties, full accounting and the payment of all county ad valorem taxes and state severance taxes, those down at the mouth of the Elk, some maybe ignorant, some gullible & perhaps some greased go and do the bidding of those who do not have the best interest of W. Va. at heart.  We are told that farmers & royalty owners are in support of these bills.  In the legislative game they allow "stakeholder groups" to have input but if you do not play along then you are no longer a "stakeholder".  Sounds fair, doesn't it?  Some years back the head of one of the big drillers said, "I like to work in West Virginia since those folks have no idea what they have."  An analogous situation would be that the Homecoming Queen would be expected to buy the beer & rent the motel room in order to get a date to the prom.  Several down there need to be "retired".

Several local residents have been consulting with their various medical folks.

While the price of crude elsewhere is said to be $100+/bbl. local Pennsylvania grade crude  is $90.59/bbl. with condensate, formerly called Appalachian light sweet, fetching $76.59/bbl. with Marcellus & Utica light bringing $81.59 & medium $90.59/bbl.