The next Creston bingo game will be April 4 at the Community Building. The doors will open at noon and the games will start after all have filled their bellies and visited with those there.
The Creston Community Easter Party will be Sunday, March 29 in the afternoon at the Community Building. Bring a covered dish for the meal at 3 P. M. There is a chance that a famous rabbit may make an appearance.
The spring Creston ATV Poker Run will be April 25 at the Community Building. Workers are needed on April 18 to lay out the route, cut down trees, fill in holes, etc. & then on April 24 there is a need for workers to mark the route.
Keeping up with axe murders is something one can do without but Creston did have its share of excitement. Bessie Arthur noted a fire involving an electric pole that had rotted out and fell into a sycamore tree. She called for help and John, Jeremy & Eli got the fire that by then had burned leaves & grass between the road & Little Creek and had jumped the road to the hillside under control. The Grantsville VFD came and extinguished the flames and the electric company fixed the failed electric pole. Not so long back First Energy (Mon Power) had told elected leaders that there was no plan to upgrade service for new businesses and now it is obvious that there must not be a plan to do routine maintenance since the pole had rotted off at ground level. “Hey PSC, anybody home?”
An obviously healthy white oak tree fell & demolished the school bus stop on W. Va. Across from the junction with the Sanoma road.
Jim Blair, age 86, of Brooksville passed away after a long illness. Formerly he participated in Creston area evets & his son lives at Annamoriah.
As many as 20 DOH (State Road) men and others were in Creston looking at the bridge across the Little Kanawha. Also there are now new stakes with ribbons near the damaged structure. A big thank you for whoever “set a fire under someone”.
Folks who live on the Boice Hill road that goes from Creston down the river and up the hill to Ground Hog & the Umstead note that the road is falling into the river and may soon become impassable.
Local workmen who had lots of overtime last year were pleasantly surprised when they filed their income tax forms as there was no tax on overtime [the details are somewhat complex but the results were real]. This was part of the “Big Beautiful Bill”.
For some reason some new parents are not aware of the program where babies born in 2025 & 2026 qualify for a $1,000 investment account that can be added to by parents, parents employers, etc. Someone claimed “there are better deals” but was unable to justify their claim.
Creston had been having warm weather but then there was a big snow with cold weather and then the snow melted and warm weather returned.
Some Creston folks went with the Knotts Church folks for the bowling excursion Sunday afternoon in Parkersburg.
Mary Newton was visiting at the Creston Space Dock.
The U. S. Postal Service is asking for a rate increase to raise the cost of letters to either 90 or 95 cents. Older residents remember when they mailed letters for 3 cents showing just how rampant inflation has been over the years. Presently a “first class” letter costs 78 cents. While local mail service is great, such cannot be said elsewhere and, obviously, leadership is not a term used at higher levels in the system.
Leon Jurasik, Arrow & the deVries family were participants in a Parkersburg Easter Parade.
A green KIA appears to have been abandoned at the wide spot where one goes up the Creston hill on W. Va. 5
Nscale Global Holdings Limited is said to have acquired the proposed AI center complex in Mason County that is now facing opposition, likely really backed by the communist Chinese who do now want America to compete [and win] the artificial intelligence race. In Ohio folks are gathering petitions for a constitutional amendment to ban data centers. Our “leaders” seem to want to ignore the proposed project in Wirt & Calhoun counties that would have a data center complex along with a gas fired power plant fueled by Marcellus & Utica gas wells drilled in the neighborhood. Why not?
It was announced as part of a $550 billion trade agreement with Japan that Next Era Energy is to build a $17 billion gas fired power plant in SW Pennsylvania. A former “head” of W. Va.’s economic development program was a hack who needed to get in the years to shore up his $80,000 retirement. Obviously those sort of folks would not/could not be bothered with real projects that would benefit the state for decades.
Antero, the Denver based firm that acquired HG Energy announced that they have big plans to deal with NGL rich wet gas wells as well as dry gas wells that can fuel new power plants.
Back when the Marcellus shale boom started several folks tried to get “the geniuses” down at the Mouth of the Elk to promote the building of ammonia & urea plants in West Virginia to provide the necessary fertilizers for agriculture. Of course these proposals lacked “glamour” and no one listened. Now with travel in the middle east {and the Ukraine was} there are major interruptions in the supply chain which will make necessary fertilizer very expensive. One half of the world’s urea supply and 30% of the world’s ammonia pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
As a result of the Iran war and the interruption of oil shipments from the sands of Araby & the Persian desert the price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil rose to $97.32/bbl. With condensate fetching $75.32/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light bringing $86.32/bbl. While we do not get oil from that area, petroleum & petroleum products are traded globally and thus prices everywhere are impacted. The NYMEX price of natural gas was $3.065/MMBTU but it was reported the same molecules in Asia cost over $26.00. The Iranian mullahs did damage to gas liquefaction [for export] facilities in the Arab oil sheikdoms that will take quite some time to repair. Now, the US is a major exporter of LNG (liquified natural gas) so this should bring up the wholesale price of natural gas for the Appalachian region. A considerable volume of natural gas is sold under agreements from the 1890s that have fixed prices that were reasonable THEN.
