Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
The Creston Easter party will be Sunday April 13 at 2 P. M. At the Creston Community Building. There will be an Easter egg hunt for the children and there will be a covered dish meal. For details call Barb at 304-275-0006.
The big Creston ATV spring poker run will be Saturday April 26 with a route through the mud holes, streams, etc. Helpers are needed for the layout (on April 19 at 8:30 A. M. At the Community Building) and bon Friday, April 25 as well as workers for the actual day of the run. Call Alvin at 304-275-3578.
Connie Boggs, age 68, passed away after an extended bout with cancer. She had been the Creston mail carrier for several years. Burial was at the K of P in Elizabeth.
Wilma Mowrey has been on the sick list and even got to visit the emergency room [thrill, thrill].
Steve Loudin underwent gall bladder surgery and is now going around not carrying a “large” stone. His sister came to stay with him while he recovered.
City Net workers have been installing wires (or fiber cable) in Creston. The telephone company has offered local residents rates much cheaper than what the PSC forced local folks to pay. Makes one wonder.
The Creston area had high water with some local roads under water.
Some local folks have enjoyed following the findings of the DOGE team tasked with eliminating fraud in the bloated federal government that presently answers to no one. A current example involves the FEMA response to the fires in Los Angeles California where there were 270,000 applications for taxpayer assistance when just 10,000 homes were destroyed. Apparently there were demonstrations in Parkersburg & at the Mouth of the Elk about the RIF (reduction in force) of high paid government employees and objections to financial review of “sacred” federal programs even though it was shown that many over 150 years old were “still in the system”. Heaven forbid that the fraudsters have to pay back their ill gotten lucre & then get to spend time in a nice federal facility. There are also complaints about the proposed tariffs — says will cause inflation and make folks pay more. Most Creston folks don’t wear Gucci shoes, English tweeds, drink French wine & champagne, eat Danish cheese, Caspian caviar, drive Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Maseratis or Volvos so the impact should be minimal. Older folks remember some decades ago the Ford Foundation said that mature countries send manufacturing away to “developing countries” and have “service industries”. The nitwits that ruled us never studied economics and took the bad advice and now drastic moves must be taken. There are three ways to generate wealth, one mines it, one grows it or one makes it. Such was true when Abraham left Ur and nothing has changed. Everything else amounts to transfer payments. Back when Al Gore Jr. said that we should get all our food from third world countries and recently it was learned that the US taxpayers spent $1 billion to promote the shrimp business in foreign nations and the US was to give $5 biillion (a loan, you know) so French company Total could compete in the liquified natural gas business.
The meetings with Hope Natural Gas Company concerning the abandonment or sale of 1100 miles of natural gas gathering lines have been cancelled. To start with Mother Hope said they would give the lines to anyone but now, it seems, there is an $18 million deal with Rusty Hutson’s Diversified Energy.
The red buds are at their peak and the ornamental pears along I-77 are spectacular. One of the best areas for viewing red buds is I-79 near Sutton although it seems Dimbulb still works for the state road as big equipment has been used to what trees & shrubs along US 19, the interstates and state routes. It is obvious that the road folks have more money than they know what to do with.
The 6th US Circuit court ruled that up in Ohio Antero took $10 million in improper deductions from royalties due to landowners.
It was announced that a $10 billion data center and power plant will be built in Indiana County Pennsylvania that will require 750 million cubic feet/day of Marcellus & Utica natural gas to run. Is anybody awake down at the Mouth of the Elk? Perhaps those there are more concerned about “turf wars” and tinkling contests.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude dropped to $60.99/bbl. With condensate fetching just $42.99/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light bringing $49.99/bbl. Of course Pennsylvania grade crude is used to make high dollar products while condensate is high in natural gasolene and fetches just over $1/gallon. It is interesting to note that while the price of crude oil has dropped, gasolene has gone up 30 cent/gallon or more. Some might think that such was done to try to make or “leader look bad”. Those are the same folks who told us that Joe wasn’t senile and that there was not an invasion of 20 million illegal aliens. Meanwhile natural gas futures rose to $4.14.
