Rev. Craig Blankenship filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. Then Sunday afternoon the folks from the Burning Springs church attended the going away meal held for Craig & his wife who had been the middle school track coach and teacher. The church at Burning Springs is going to miss both of them.
Jerry Bunner who with Denise runs Shade Tree, Creston’s only restaurant, had a birthday celebration on the occasion of his turning 60.
Dalton Joy, a student at Wirt County High School veered into the other lane hitting a truck driven by Marty deVries who had Leon Jurasik as a passenger. Joy was killed while Marty & Leon are sore & bruised, apparently without any permanent injury. There have been lots of bad wrecks in that section downstream from the Slate Creek bridge.
A number of local residents attended the Wood Festival in Grantsville.
The Creston marquee sign has now been relocated after a complaint from a state road biggie. All should be fine now.
The bridge crew was in Creston doing yet another inspection on the bridge crossing the Little Kanawha River & a consulting engineering firm has been hired for a new span.
Penn Line tree trimming crew has been working at Annamoriah cutting limbs back from the electric lines. The other day some Creston residents were without power for a while.
A considerable amount of first cutting hay has been made and, where planted, corn looks good.
Creston residents attended the public hearing/meeting held on the Wirt “comprehensive plan” and the hearing on how to spend the “ARPA” [American Rescue Plan Act] money. The latter meet was run by Jill Upson, a former legislator who was targeted by the far left. It was agreed that any funds should go to building the Wirt County 911 center.
One of the speakers at the Davos Switzerland “Great Reset” meeting that Sen. Broadway Joe attended was a man from Alibaba displaying the firm’s new device that can track each & every citizen telling where one went, how one got there, what one ate & how one impacted the environment. Alibaba is said to be connected to dictator Xi, one of Hunter’s friends.
The wood alcohol [methanol] factory down at Institute is almost ready to be up and running. It uses the methane from natural gas to make the product. Also it was learned that one of the big reasons Nucor Steel located in Mason County for their new $2.7 billion mill was the availability of abundant natural gas even though the green weenies down in the lower Potomac swamps want to ban all fossil fuels. Way back when wood was used for iron & steel making but, really now . . . . .
The new well at the mouth of Sinking Creek on W. Va. 5 in Gilmer County is a lateral drilled by Mike Shaver’s Mountain V Oil & Gas Company.
The Biden Administration authorized the plugging of 277 abandoned [or said to be abandoned] oil & gas wells on federal land. The price is to be $119,000/well or something more than twice the going rate. As they say, everyone has to get a cut, after all it’s only taxpayer money.
The other day the CIA admitted that they have been changing the weather — oh no big deal, ignore it as our betters know best.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude rose to $117.87/bbl. with condensate [super mountain high test] fetching $103.87/bbl. with Marcellus & Utica light bringing $108.87 & medium $117.87/bbl. Natural gas rose to $8.52/mmbtu because of the significant increase in the demand for LNG [liquid natural gas] for the export market..
