Creston news

Rev. Craig Blankenship brought the message at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.

Steve Loudin underwent successful cataract surgery.

Duane O'Dell, son of Ward & Dora O'Dell, age 90, passed away.

Linda Boatright of Creston passed away.  She was the daughter of Crover & Ellen Slider Craddock.

Steven Glen Goff, age 54, of Parkersburg passed away.  He was the son of Lawrence E. Koon & Pearl Goff.  The Fred Goff family formerly lived in Rock Camp.  Burial was at Ground Hog (Mt. Pleasant) on Saturday.

Spring has more or less arrived in Creston with the spring peepers providing music, crocuses & some daffodils making for color & beauty and the turkey buzzards have returned from the sunny south.  Also there are some of the invasive black buzzards, known for picking out the eyes of young calves.  Civic minded local sure shots need to do their civic duty and follow the 3-S policy, that is shoot, shovel & shut up.

Tom Rader was attending to business in Wood County recently.

Local folks attended the basket bingo at the fire station in Elizabeth.

Various local residents have been consulting with their medical advisors.  Some of the problems are related to the longer term problems from Dr. Fauci's gain of function virus that was made in the germ warfare lab in the orient.  As the word gets out about the suppression of medicines that would have treated the virus and word gets out about the problems caused by the vaccines, especially the increased death rates among the vaccinated the ruling junta has made Dr. Fauci disappear - why, don'tcha know an election is coming and all is well now.  Noting that the Pfizer covid vaccine can go into liver cells, invade the nucleus and copy as DNA is "heresy".  Why, you know the government and those doing its work would neveralter the DNA of citizens.  Over in "merry old England" now 90% of the virus deaths are among the fully vaccinated & autopsies of vaccinated folks show lots of unexplained blood clots.  Along those lines there is now discussion about 25 secret labs that, when the Big Eared One ruled, were established over the globe, including Ukraine.  The company, Metabiota, included Hunter's Rosemont Seneca, Nathan Wolf & Grislane Maxwell.

It was reported that the proposed ethane cracker that was to built in Ohio, across from Moundsville, is now "on hold" while the remaining partner, not an American company, looks for a $5 billion group to join.  Now is the time, if there is any leadership down at the Mouth of the Elk, to look for real outfits to build the ethane cracker near Parkersburg as well as start construction of ammonia plants as the price of the fertilizer is said to skyrocket making this year's food much, much higher.  Of course all too many of "our leaders" are looking for quick bucks -- giving away our minerals, making sure taxes are not collected from those who "donate", promoting dope dens and making more gambling facilities.

The Ukraine war has made many things clear even to folks who live "off the beaten track" like in Creston.  Gasolene in Parkersburg, where folks went to visit medical folks jumped 80 cents [or more]/gallon in less than a week and we learned that, in addition to the natural gas purchased from Vladimir to heat Fauxcohontas's wigwam in Boston now we are one of Russia's big oil buyers.  Thus, we finance the war that is destroying Ukraine although things there are murky.  Hillary, George Soros & the US State Dept. folks that pushed the impeachment are all on the same side & some of the Ukraine folks repeat the phrase about being part of the "new world order" and the great reset.  All of this points out the absurdity of the "green new deal" and "global warming".  Because the ruling junta stopped our energy independence & dominance, we are now dependent on foreign entities, many of which have an intense dislike of our intestines. Some say we should get our oil from Iran where they chant "Death to America & Israel."   Were the Keystone pipeline to open we would get 800,000 bbl. of oil/day which is more than we have to buy from "our Russian friends".  The oil from the tar sands in Alberta that was to go to Texas refineries will now go, likely, to help build weapons for Dictator Xi's peoples liberation army, navy, air force, etc.  The green weenies stopped pipelines so gas cannot flow from the Appalachian basin to New England & the Jones Act [from 90 years ago] prevents offloading of American LNG [liquid natural gas] to a domestic facility.  Also, as reported the EPA has issued new rules to shut down, mostly small, oil refineries to further restrict the amount of gasoline available for Americans to use.   One might think that some in our government hate America and that they are doing all that they cn to destroy the nation. Some time back the elites made it clear that high gas prices ($10/gallon) would be ideal as then the peasants, the great unwashed or the smelly Walmart shoppers could not go about as the wished, go on vacations, visit family, go to work, etc.  We could all ride bicycles, walk or ride light rail or stay in our hovels.  When "Mayor Pete"  who is in charge of transportation nationwide, was asked why not do the Keystone pipeline his answer was "We do not want permanent solutions to temporary problems."  John Kerry, the "climate czar" who flies all over the world in a private jet [likely on our dime] to fight global warming said that he hoped that after the war is over that Mr. Putin would work to protect the environment & one of the women on the view was concerned that the war might impact her vacation in Italy.  Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . . . . .

Those who are in the know and don't live in some wonderland have noted that, until at least 2050 the amount of oil & gas needed and used will increase.  . Marcellus & Utica drillers in West Virginia have permitted more wells.  Natural gas has gone to $5.02/mmbtu and local Pennsylvania grade crude rose to $114.68/bbl. with condensate bringing $100.68/bbl. while Marcellus & Utica light was $105.68 & medium $114.68/bbl.  Along those lines SWN (Southwestern) which has several wells in West Virginia noted that by year's end they should have  5 bcf/day in natural gas equivalents [bcf = billion cubic feet].  SWN is right behind EQT in gas production.