 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big Creston ATV poker run is set for July 12. The regular business meeting for the community will be held on July 1 at the Community Building at 7 P. M.
Rev. Carlos Nutter filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. church. On June 29 there will be a service at 7 P. M. with the congregations from Bell Chapel and New Home. Of course, all others are welcome too.
Mabel Scites, age 98, of Burning Springs passed away. Among other things, she was the former postmaster of Burning Springs. She was active in church and civic activities both in Burning Springs and in Elizabeth. Only a few months back she was able to attend church at Burning Springs.
Buddy Cain, age 80, passed away in Parkersburg. He formerly played music at Creston.
Glennis E. "Buck" Kirby of Big Springs was killed when his tractor overturned. He had, some while back, done quite a bit of carpenter work for the late Rev. Samuel Edgar Cooper, Jr.
While there are boxes available in the cluster boxes that the wizards from Clarksburg placed to replace the Creston post office, they refuse to rent them or allow folks to use them. When the main road to Grantsville was blocked with water, there was no mail delivery as the contract hauler "wasn't allowed to deviate from the established route." Of course there were other roads open to Grantsville but, "rules are rules".
Several Calhoun & Wirt residents attended the W. Va. State Folk Festival in Glenville. Calhoun's Lester McCumbers never played better music and a former Armadillo Farm woman won the fiddle contest. There was a lot of fine music and the Cedarville brown beans and the Gilmer County Farm Bureau chicken certainly was fine eating.
Nancy & Alvin Engelke, daughter Jane & husband and their son W. Harrison Schenerlein IV visited Nancy's father, 100-year-old Harold Martin in Melbourne Florida. Mr. Martin had a great time visiting with his great-grandson.
On the way down Alvin stopped at the Florida visitor center wearing a Creston ATV Poker Run shirt. While in the bathroom he was asked, "Where is Creston?" Turned out the fellow who asked was wearing an Arvilla Pipe Line shirt and lived in Williamstown. It seems that a group of Wirt County lasses were to perform their twirling at Disney World. One fellow said, "I wonder if we'll run onto anyone we know on our trip?"
It seemed that corn was just burning up in South Carolina while the cotton, peanuts and tobacco looked fine. Of course, gasoline is cheaper in the southern states than in West Virginia.
Anna Engelke & Adam Yates visited the Baltimore Zoo, the Maryland Science Museum and the Body World Exhibit.
The Hopkins reunion will be held from noon til 5 on Saturday, July 5 at Fort Borman Park in Parkersburg. For details call Doris Westbrook at 464-5826 or premiere@citynet.net.
Gaylen Duskey, Bill Johnson, Angela Adams & Alvin Engelke attended the state Republican convention at Flatwoods. One of the main items was approving the party platform. The comely Sara Beecher saw to it that all those who were in attendance had plenty of fine things to eat. Donna Gosney & Jim Reed were reelected as National Committee woman and committeeman.
The price of local Penn grade crude rose $2.25/bbl to $127/bbl. There is now a national debate asking why certain ones in congress have blocked the drilling for oil in several areas of the nation, including Alaska, and on the continental shelf. George Will allowed as how some in government want a shortage so that they can set up an agency to ration fuel just like they did in World War II. Then food will become costlier and then they, can, again ration pork, beef and other foods. For certain the believers in Karl Marx's failed theories do not give up easily.
Someone is operating a timber job down on the old Tom Alec Hopkins place but they do not have a sign.
The statewide frenzy of leasing for oil and gas continues. Both base royalty rates and bonus payments continue to escalate. Retired judge George Scott, who was active in the Tawney case indicated that one should layer one's leasing, first down to the Marcellus shale, then the Marcellus shale as a separate lease and then the deep rights. Of course coal bed methane (CBM) and potential gas storage are not be in leases for oil and gas.
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