Rev. Kevin Gillespie brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. Church and his wife led singing. There will be no service next week [July 17] as there will be a joint service of all the three churches at Pisgah on the Garfield Road at 11 A. M.
Bill Duskey had his tumors removed and is now home. He is awaiting results as to their nature.
A big crowd was on hand Saturday for the Creston homecoming & picnic. Ted Grimm cooked his special hot dogs and folks all brought covered dishes so there was lots of good food including Rosie’s creamed potatoes with peas and two batches of deviled eggs both of which were delicious. Sue White’s grape dessert was great and so it went. Pauline Cline was the oldest one there at 91 1/2 & won a piece of Fenton glassware. Her parents were Allen & Virginia Merrill Vandal. Before moving to Parkersburg & working at Sears, Allen Vandal ran the Creston ferry. Pauline is a retired school teacher after 42 years. Barb Wright, Kathleen Cervone & Hayleigh Paugh decorated the building for the event.
Xander Martin, Debbie McCracken’s grandson who lives in South Carolina spent a few days in Creston. He helped pick up the limbs and sticks that had fallen on the lawn at the Creston Community Building because of a windstorm and then added them, one by one, to a bonfire. He also got to go kayaking and four wheeling. In short, he had a great time whilst in Creston.
Several Wirt County residents attended the [Sen. Donna] Boley breakfast Friday at Parkersburg. The featured speaker was Jeremiah Samples. He pointed out that the way welfare is done, especially in West Virginia does not work and is, in fact, an abject failure & that W. Va. leads the nation in drug deaths among the working age population which many feel is a war technique from China that sends the drugs to Mexico where the cartels bring them in, now with the assistance of the ruling junta who tell the senile one what to read from the teleprompter. In 1999 W. Va. had the lowest overdose (OD) death rate but starting in 2010 West Virginia started leading the nation. In 1999 there were 75 and in 2020 there were 1330 to put matters in perspective. The problem with the “drug treatment facilities” in Wood County was also addressed and it seems that some of the contractors that have lined up to take the federal dollars are from foreign nations. People are brought in from other states and then after 28 days they are turned loose on the streets.
The other day a local resident pulled in at a gas station in Wytheville Virginia to replenish the fuel tank. In the parking lot was a tour bus with Texas tags. Turns out the bus was full of what obviously were illegal aliens that Biden administration is spreading all over the nation. All of them had new cell phones, complements of the American taxpayers.
Bill Butler, age 77, passed away and he was buried on Beech. After the shutdown of industry in Ohio [to ship the jobs to China] he & his family lived in Creston for several years where he worked in the oil fields.
Carla Ashley, age 63, passed away while at Myrtle Beach. She was the daughter of “Mick” & Betty Watson and the grand daughter of Frank & Ola Hopkins Monroe.
Barb Wright & Kathleen Cervone returned home after visiting relatives in Alabama & Florida. Barb was told that she should experience the ocean which she did but not to her liking.
Steve Loudin can see clearly now after having cataract surgery.
“Mayor Pete” the little transportation secretary announced that he will spend $1 billion on anti racist roads noting that, according to someone, roads built in the 1950s impacted black & brown people. Even leftists admitted “racist roads” was a fringe idea but that it was OK to go ahead and spend the money.
The National Education Assoc. (NEA) better known as the teacher’s union announced that their two key agendas are “climate justice” and “environmental racism”. It should be obvious that, if at all possible, one should get children out of the schools that these folks run. West Virginia had the “Hope Scholarship” that would help those without financial resources get their children out of government schools but a teacher’s union judge down at the Mouth of the Elk said that the program was not in step with the constitution or at least as how she read it. Of course there is no bias.
We have now been told that high fuel prices is part of the plan for the “New World Order” and food shortages is a part too. In the Netherlands there have been shootings by the government of farmers who were told they could no longer keep cattle on land that had been in their families for centuries as the World Economic Forum said “we must save the planet” and, of course we must ignore India & China and their blatant pollution. Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka, got on the bandwagon last year and banned the use of fertilizer. Of course there was a major crop failure and now the entire nation is bankrupt. It is called ESG or environmental social governance
In this country Pierre Delecto, a/k/a “Mittens” Romney, is upset that farmers grow crops that require water and that folks in the U. S. like to eat meat and that such is “not good”. This from a fellow who has four (4) mansions, one with an elevator for his automobile.
As a result, apparently, of vaccine use the death rate in “western nations” has increased significantly and the birth rate has taken a 10% drop. Of course Dr. Fauci continues to push his “medicine” from which he likely gets a cut and one is not allowed to speak against him. Those who blindly follow the propaganda may suffer from mass formation psychosis & medical professionals who dare ask questions can have their licenses revoked. The chance of children age 5 to 11 getting the virus Dr. Fauci paid his friends to make is about 0.0008% which, in the real world is zero.
For over a century the nation has had an emergency petroleum reserve to use in the case of war or natural disasters that impacted oil production, shipment & refining. Now the Big Eared One ordered the senile one to release the reserve to “lower the price of gasolene”, a crisis that the junta made. Now, we learn that a million barrels was “sold” to the government of China through Sinopac, an outfit that is part of the Chinese Communist Party and that son Hunter also has ownership in.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is $103.79/bbl. with condensate, formerly called Appalachian light sweet, fetching $89.79/bbl. and Marcellus & Utica light bringing $94.79 & medium $103.79/bbl. Because, in part, of the report of more sabotage damage at the Freeport LNG export terminal and the report of high gas storage, the New York mercantile price of natural gas at Louisiana’s Henry Hub fell to $5.42/mmbtu. The drop is more than the price local producers received not so long back.
At the recent meeting in Wetzel County Toby Rice the CEO of EQT thanked the W. Va. legislature for passing laws that made sure that W. Va. land & mineral owners would never be paid world class royalties for the world class oil & gas formations situate in the state. He also noted that while the firm hedged its natural gas royalties were paid on the spot market. Not so long back EQT’s hedger made a bad bet that cost the firm about $2 billion. His comment raised a lot of questions about accounting, etc. Run that by your CPA.
