Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
This weekend will be the big sternwheel regatta at Marietta. Before the locks & dams were let to go out on the Little Kanawha, lots of paddle wheel boats called regularly at Creston.
The W. Va. Trappers Association will have their annual meeting Sept. 16 & 17 at the Gilmer County Recreation Center [the old poor farm] at Glenville. Back before the green weenies demanded that everyone should wear plastic rather than fur, some local folks made a good living trapping. Now, the same green weenies say we should stop using fossil fuel and stop producing coal, oil & gas. Where do they think plastics come from? Maybe WalMart and Goodwill?
The comely Kim was calling on her mother Wilma Mowrey. –
A survey crew spent at least two days surveying for the proposed new bridge in Creston to replace the span that was built across the Little Kanawha back in 1959. Before that there was a ferry to take W. Va. Route 5 traffic from one side to another.
Pennline has had a crew trimming trees for the power company in the Creston area for quite a while now.
Some local folks got so. me fine second cutting hay put up and then there was more rain — perhaps a record for the area was set this year. This could mean that there will be feet of snow this winter so better get in firewood now.
A local resident met with Lori Mills & Bill Archer at the Mercer County Court House. Both are readers of the Creston news.
The USDA [Dept. of Agriculture], the folks that brought us multiflora rose, announced that they have $250 million in grants to make family farms, ranches & forest owners “more equitable”. The USDA, it was said, must work to face “today’s challenges” which are “climate change” and “equity.”
Those who followed the legislature know that State Sen. Patricia Rucker is a go getter who makes the energizer bunny look like a slouch. She has been chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee and she worked hard to get the Hope Scholarships that are now being fought in the courts by the teacher’s union and she has worked had for charter schools and rights for home schoolers, all things to break the “education monopoly” that has insisted that W. Va. scholars should only get dumbed down education, not a first class education. Corrupt politicians never want an educated and sophisticated population for those cannot be flim flamed.
Well, she did too good of a job and senate president Baldy Blair’s corporate sponsors apparently said, “Enough, we can’t have this!” So, Blair did as he was told and replaced her with a “more pliant” person. Blair said he wanted to work to lower taxes on businesses {Amendment #2] and transfer the taxes to homeowners. Well, he didn’t say the second part but that has been the plan now for many years. Most homeowners do not own or control a W. Va. State Senate president but, as they say, “We have the best money can buy.” Also the shadowy figures that rule W. Va. are upset that the lives of babies are getting attention, especially the lives of babies not yet born. Perhaps those fine folks might want to relocate to some nice liberal enclave where they can associate with and rule like minded folks like Chairman Xi.
J. P. Marks, Thomas Marks & his mother were among those calling at the Creston Space Dock.
The rulers out in California [the land of fruits & nuts] announced a date when no more gasolene powered automobiles would be sold or allowed out there and then, almost before the ink dried, owners of electric cars out there were told that because of the weather and a lack of power capacity they were not allowed to charge their expensive chariots.
It was noted that if we all must go to electric cars [and enrichen communist China], it will require that 478 EV charging stations must be build each day for the next eight (8) years at a cost of $36 billion to meet demand for 1.2 million public ports & 28 million more in home facilities must be constructed. Uncle Scrooge’s money bin would look barer than Mother Hubbard’s cupboard.
The retail customers of the Hope Natural Gas Company, long a part of the Rockefeller Standard Oil empire, were sold to Hearthstone Utilities of Naperville, Illinois. Now, it was reported that the company intends to move its headquarters to Morgantown. The company noted that having the Marcellus & Utica world class gas plays under their feet would make for some excellent opportunities.
Some local folks attended the Arnoldsburg VFD barbecue.
Trillions of dollars have been spent on “green energy” with Solyndra being an example of taxpayer funds being completely wasted and now more of such is on the way. 20 years ago fossil fuels supplied 86% of the world’s energy and now it is 84% with solar & wind doing 5%. In many parts of the world the main energy source is dung [dried of course]. Europe is learning the very hard way when one relies on unreliable sources and unreliable nations. Closer to home the Boston area has now received its 10th load of LNG [this season] which has been coming from Russia. Seems Fauxohantas does not want her wigwam heated with gas produced in the United States even though she grew up in Oklahoma.
The Wirt crew mowed the berm on W. Va. 5 again. For some reason the Roane Crew has yet to get the mowing machine up Tom’s Run, the road to Creston.
Rick Tucker had some company from Ohio.
The Henry Hub [Louisiana] price of natural gas dropped to $8.79/mmbtu but the price for local gas has dropped more reflecting the recession and the lack of facilities to utilize the natural resource, such as fertilizer plants which are badly needed to prevent the obviously planned “food shortage” that is part of the “great reset”.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude fell to $85.87/bbl. with condensate, formerly called Appalachian light sweet, fetching just $71.87/bbl. while Marcellus & Utica light brought $76.87 & medium $85.87.bbl. Gasolene at Holbert’s in Brooksville is $3.74.9/gallon. One has to keep in mind that motor fuels are mostly made from lower quality crude oils. It would be like using walnut, cherry and curly maple veneer logs to make toilet paper & card board boxes.
