Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
The Creston area continues to have rain and presently the river is up. In eastern W. Va. They continue to have drought.
Harold Gene Cooper, age 86, who lived out on Davidson Ridge, passed away. He was the son of Wilbur & Myrtle Cooper and is survived by his wife Norma. He was a regular at Shade Tree and had fond memories of visiting in Creston as a boy and watching Cap Boice hand pump the gasoline into the measuring device at the top of the pump before running it into the waiting vehicle. There was standing room only at the funeral.
Wild geraniums are beautiful and some folks have been feasting on morels. Poke is almost too big to pick to cook with the milkweeds. The invasive garlic mustard needs to be pulled up by the roots before it seeds. the invasive plant puts toxins in the soil than kill native plants.
There were 12 workers for the Creston Adopt a Highway. There were 10 bags of trash, 2 of aluminum cans as well as car parts, one boot, safety glasses, lens from glasses, and then the glasses, Galaxy gas can, toy hand clacker, croquet ball, a vape, 2 blouses, 1 shirt, a pair of well worn coveralls, a purple bath towel, a clock that still works & a grapefruit drink. Josiah, Eli & Braiden participated and food & refreshments were served at the Community Building after the 1 ½ hour cleanup was finished [before the rain].
Rusty Hutson’s firm is plugging old wells in Calhoun County using taxpayer money “to prevent methane emissions into the atmosphere”.
Gov. Morrisey signed SB 627 which allows the storage of CO2 under state parks in “pore spaces”. This probably relates to a scheme in the northern panhandle where the carbon dioxide is to be placed in a deep brine, not in pores. Elsewhere CO2 is being used to recover oil from oilfields where the gas was “blown off” to quickly recover a small percentage of the native oil.
TEC Fusions, said to be from Tampa, purchased an old industrial site in Pennsylvania to build a data center that is to be fueled by 3 gigabites of energy. It was also reported that the demand for gas fired turbines is so high that the back orders will not be filled by 2028 at the earliest.
Kathleen Cervone fell and hurt her knee.
A local resident had occasion to motor to Matewan and noted that from one part of the state to another there is a 60 cent variance in the price of gasoline. Makes one say, “Hmmm”. Matewan is hopping with four wheelers & side by sides. A Creston native, Marshall Homer Hopkins, was found dead under a tree near there circa 1919.
The EPA has announced that it has cancelled 800 “environmental Justice” grants, whatever those were.
More data continues to come out about all the problems caused by the vaccines that Dr. Fauci promoted. Apparently the Pfizer ones are more lethal than the Moderna jabs and hospitals & doctors were “bribed” to promote such and pediatricians were “rewarded” for encouraging mothers to vaccinate babies using untested drugs. The reason for all the autistic children is now obvious. It is very obvious when an autistic child is in your family.
A local fellow’s cellulitis got pretty bad and he got a trip to the ER. The next day the “magic drugs” kicked in & he was better.
In March 2024 WTI crude was $82.17 bbl. And now it is $58.18 & Brent (North Sea) crude is $61.25. Local Pennsylvania grade crude dipped to $57.29/bbl. With condensate falling to $39.29/bbl. Or under $1/gallon when it is mostly natural gasoline, Marcellus & Utica light fell to $46.29. Bbl. And Y-grade gas liquids from the fractionation plants brought $30.146/bbl. That is what some of the reputable oil & gas operators want to avoid paying royalty and ad valorem and severance taxes on.
