The Creston Bingo game will be Saturday, June 13th at 1 P.M. at the Creston Community Building. Come early for an afternoon of fun, food, challenge and comradery.
The Creston area neighborhood watch will be Monday June 8 at 6 P. M. At the Creston Community Building.
Several local folks were at the Wood Festival and Watson Sheppard, who from time to time, spends time in Creston won his portion of the pretty baby contest.
Cucumber trees, yucca and potatoes are in bloom & quite a bit of first cutting hay has been put up. Sunday there were twin fawns on the Route 5 Annamoriah bridge. One tried to jump off the bridge but both crossed and went under the guard rail down on the former Herb & Ethel Rader farm. One hopes that mother can find her babies.
A big crowd was on hand on Chestnut Run on occasion of the McFee family event concerning the daughter that died from cancer. Donations were to help a family in a similar situation. There was a biggest crayfish contest for the younger visitors and there was real live music with over a dozen musicians including the sheriff. At one time there were two bass fiddles, a dobro, mandolins, guitars, banjos & fiddles. After Johnny Staats arrived the group got into Angeline the Baker and things went from there. There is no substitute for listening to music live sitting a few feet away on a hay bale when the musicians are playing for their own enjoyment.
Jerry Hopkins, age 78, of Elizabeth passed away. He was the son of Bob & Gladys Hall Hopkins and was a longtime employee of W. Va. Paving, active in the fire department, etc. and worked on setting up the 911 mapping for Wirt County.
Spencer is only 15 miles from Creston and considerable business is done there by local residents. Some were surprised when First National Bank became First Neighborhood Bank with headquarters in Parkersburg and now it is learned that the bank was sold to REV Federal Credit Union in Charleston, South Carolina.
The big Ergon Oil Purchasing Catfish Fry will be June 24 from 11 AM until 1 PM at the Marietta Shrine Club on Pennsylvania Avenue (near the fairgrounds) in Marietta. Likely the best fish this side of a skillet full of trout being cooked with ramps & fried potatoes over a wood fire on Williams River early in the season.
Only a few times this season were whip poor wills heard. Such certainly is not a good thing.
Data Centers and AI continue to be a topic of discussion with a report that the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army is spending $1 billion in America to stop such here so Dictator Xi can prevail world wide. Other political things are also of concern, the choosing of an Al Queda man as a congress critter in New Jersey and a possible Nazi senator in Maine. Those who really believe that data centers are bad should turn off their computers and ditch their cell phones and fancy ring door bells and such. One recent argument against data centers said they caused a drought in the southwest. For those who have been in that area, formerly called the Great American Desert, such is an absolute joke.
Sleepy Mills on noting that one of his former employers wore a Trump hat stated that the MAGA hats covered up the scars from the lobotomies done on the wearers.
Renee Gray’s grandson Landon is celebrating his birthday visiting on Ann’s Run and her granddaughter Charlie has now finished her second quilt.
It was noted that in 2024 the Marcellus & Utica oil & gas fields in West Virginia, Ohio & Pennsylvania produced 35 bcf (billion cubic feet)/day and, of course, more since with more wells being permitted. This production has made the huge exports of LNG (liquified natural gas) possible and was/is a significant part of the reason that the Iran war had no significant impact on the United States, much to the chagrin of those who want Itan to win.
John Griffin was calling on Teddy Parsons.
Bill Wigal observed that he is taking heart rehab therapy. The nurses reminded him that it was not the fountain of youth intended to make him young again.
Local Pennsylvania grade crude oil sold last month fetched $94.08/bbl. And natural gas elsewhere is $3.23. The price for local Pennsylvania grade crude fell to $85.54/bbl. With condensate fetching $71.54/bbl. & Marcellus & Utica light bringing $78.54/bbl. In certain parts of West Virginia gasolene has dropped to $3.35/gallon.
