Creston News

Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church & served Holy Communion.  There will be no service next week.

Florence Sandy, age 90, passed away at the Worthington nursing home in Parkersburg.  She was the daughter of Kelly Lockhart of Burning Springs and was the widow of Korean War vet Frank Sandy.  Burial was in the Rector cemetery.  Before marrying Frank she was Nellie Merrill’s hired girl back when Ed Merrill ran the Creston ferry and was assisted by Walto Boggs.

There were 212 riders on the Creston poker run.  Jake Mason from Long Bottom Ohio was first followed by Miranda Atkinson from Spencer (Triplett)and Jennifer Morgan from the State of Delaware.  Dee Myere won the 50/50.  All those who rode said they had a great time, beautiful scenery, game, water & mud to play in, etc.  Some got to use their winches to pull others through mud holes in a Roane County “highway”, one tipped on the side in a big gully going down into “Rock Camp and another tipped into one  of the “he man holes” that was covered by green pond scum.  Folks come from far & near to have a good time and the events maintain the community building and pay for Christmas and other parties for the children, Veteran’s Day, homecoming, etc..  The community would like to thank all those who came & rode, those who set up and took down the ride, cut out the trees, worked on the bad places, sent out the cards, filled out all the paperwork, cooked and served the food, set up and cleaned the building, donated the door prizes & the quilt, sold the tee shirts &all the rest.  Never the less, someone went out and changed the direction on a sign, painted over the arrows and painted one in the wrong direction causing some to go to Elizabeth and some to Lucille.  It is sad that there are those would work to cause problems for folks who are just out to have a good time with family and friends.

Ellen Hedge was consulting with the medical folks after getting a sore on her leg.

Renee Lynch Gray retired and celebrated by going on the poker run.  She made a video of some of the road down in Beaver Dam.  Some of that road was washed away during the deluge that happened in the spring.

Cap’n Spock was attending to business with the DMV down at the Mouth of the Elk.  The folks had advised him that it might take days for the paperwork needed to keep his chariot legal to come by snail mail and, in the interim he would not be “legal”.

Many local folks watched “the debate” and it became obvious to those who do not follow the news that the Delaware multi millionaire who always bragged about $$$ is not in charge of anything other than getting ice cream.

Smithville oil man Warren Haught, age 89, passed away.  Recently the Haughts, under the name of Delta Helix, purchased several wells from HG Energy.

There seem to be lots of fawns and several sets of twins.  Others have seen mother turkeys with their ‘children’.

Milkweeds, butterfly weed, black eyed Susans have added a lot of color to the roadsides & fields.

Gov. Jim Justice’s finances have again been in the news as a federal court ordered assets to be sold off to pay debts which, some say, now are in the $1 billion range.  He is said to be a financial wizard who is going to Washington to look after our needs, or maybe the business interests of the Manchin family under the guidance of Larry Puccio who also guides “Big Jim”.

An outfit called First Solar donated $1.5 million to the Biden campaign.  Now, from the “Inflation Reduction Act” a/k/a the Green New Deal, the taxpayers are to give First Solar $10 billion.  One might say that was a very good “investment” although less kind words, like bribes, could be used.

For reasons that are not clear the price of ethane has dropped to less than the price for methane which is $2.68/MMBTU at the Henry Hub down in Louisiana.  EQT which sells its methane for big bucks as LNG [liquified natural gas] paid under $1.50/mcf and Greylock paid just under 33 cents/MMBTU. Obviously, some do well, others, not so much.  Ethane is the feedstock for antifreeze and polyethylene.

The “wise ones” insist that all the children need to be vaccinated with all sorts of shots, many of which apparently, are not even tested and the percentage of autism, learning difficulties, & such increase while, apparently, no autistic Amish children have yet to be found.  Now would public health folks lie?  The answer is, well yes they told all sorts of whoppers about Dr. Fauci’s lab made virus which he promised in 2017 would happen.  Fauci told the truth once.

The Elizabeth/Wirt County fireman’s festival and ice cream social & parade will be July 6 in Elizabeth.  Come early and watch the parade.

The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil is $80.54/bbl. With condensate fetching $62.54/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light bringing $69.54/bbl.  It was noted that in central West Virginia gasolene is less than $3/gallon.