A large crowd was on hand Saturday evening for the social event of the season, that is the Creston Halloween party. From small babies to “seasoned senior citizens” folks came from all around for the gala event. There were contest judging’s, food and games for the young & young at heart. It should be noted that no national dignitaries showed up. Perhaps next year there will be some of those. Delegate Erica Moore & Angie Adams, a candidate for the 14th District Delegate [the other end of Wirt County] were the judges.
The Creston Community Veteran’s Day event will be Sunday, November 9 at 2 P. M. At the Creston Community Building. All local veterans, family & friends are invited.
Some local folks motored to Nashport, Ohio for the Ergon Oil Purchasing big catfish fry. The secret recipe calls for a certain blend including pure Pennsylvania grade crude oil to make the tastiest deep fried catfish.
Some local hunters are now seeing bucks on their game cameras and live as the boys are chasing the does. Also some big bear like to lay near the camera. Also some local does have awful looking sores on them.
Eli Ferrell placed in the Cross Country event held in Elizabeth Saturday and will now go to the statewide event. He attends the Little Kanawha Christian Academy in Brooksville.
The comely Kim was visiting Wilma Mowrey.
Debbie Griffin underwent cataract surgery.
Some, on occasion, have to attend to business down at the Mouth of the Elk. From Creston one goes up Garfield Road and Turkey Fork to Ripley & I-77. For now over a year there are potholes on I-77 between Fairplain and the Kentuck exit (Divide Hill). Some time back [months ago] it was suggested that retired Calhoun road man Dusty Wolverton could show someone how to build patches that last. Dusty laughed when it was again suggested that he show someone how to do the job. Seems Engineer Evans’s sacred Core Maintenance Manual doesn’t require proper fixing of “imperfections in the surface of the roadway.” Also on the Turkey Fork road there are two bad dips and a section with broken pavement & there are no warning signs. The worst dip is at Garfield where the new blacktop was paved over a bad culvert near where Ralph Bain lived and the other dip is in a curve not far from Odaville. The broken pavement is near the head of the hollow and requires driving on the wrong side of the road.
The Wirt road crew used the long arm mowers to trim back the road banks now that the wildflowers are pretty much gone. Makes the highway look good.
Jacques Frost was calling in Creston. Some pepper plants & flowers were not killed but he will be back. There is a bumper crop of walnuts. If folks were really hungry and needed money there is opportunity for the asking. One local resident noted she had taken 30 bushels of walnuts from her lawn.
It was announced that there is now a lithium recovery plant in the Haynesville shale area in Texas. There are also two in Pennsylvania. Anyone home in the W. Va. Economic development office?
The Creston Area Neighborhood Watch had a litter pick up on W. Va. 5. The crew got six bags of trash, some tires & an inner tube.
EQT the big Pittsburgh based gas company announced that the firm plans to increase the throughput on the MVP (Mountain Valley Pipeline) from 2bcf/day [billion cubic feet] to 2.6 bcf/day.
A lawyer for the “Green Weenies” who sue the energy producing companies for “global warming” admitted that the main effect of there suits is increased legal costs for the nuisance suits but the net effect is a “de facto carbon tax”.
Jim Justice, the coal baronet and now U. S. Senator is in the news again. He was sued over his 400 lots in the failed real estate development in Raleigh County and now the IRS has laid a $8 million lien on Big Jim and the little wife and the State slapped the Greenbrier with a lien for $1.36 million for sales taxes that were collected and not turned over to the state in a timely matter.
The proposal that the legislature would allow forced pooling for coal mining has made it clear and obvious that such would be forced subsidence destroying water wells, springs and damaging homes and other buildings as the land falls in behind the longwall.
There will be a public hearing on November 3 at 6 P. M. At the PSC (Public Service Commission) office in Charleston concerning Mother Hope’s proposed new rate increases. For each gas meter selling into the Rockefeller system there will be a minimum monthly fee of $700 plus a 30% retainage or line loss. Also domestic rates are to go up as well. To put matters in perspective the price of natural gas on the NYMEX is $3.397/MMBTU and August sold locally [at Creston] fetched just $2.03/MMBTU, a mere fraction of the price received several years ago. Speaking of Rockefellers seems one of their funds was funding Antifa or similar groups.
W. Va. Producers who have compressors on the Mother Hope lines must report the compressors by October 31 or else.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil was $60.50/bbl. With condensate fetching $42.50/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light bringing $49.50/bbl. It is interesting to note that as crude oil prices go down gasolene prices go up. A recent 20 cent jump in Parkersburg is notable. This would be an increase of $8.40/bbl. Of course, paraffin based Pennsylvania grade crude is used for lubricants, cosmetics and such, not gasoline as is done with low grade asphalt based crudes.
