 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The big Creston ATV Poker Run is scheduled for July 12 starting at the Creston Community Building. It should be a fun route over roads that most have never seen. Bring grandma & grandpa and don't forget to have helmets for the younger ones. There will be door prizes, 50/50, displays and goodies prepared by the area's premier cooks.
Rev. Carlos Nutter filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church and celebrated Holy Communion.
Gay Park has been a patient in a Parkersburg hospital.
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Pennington returned after their vacation in Tennessee. Joe had a heart attack while gone and now has a stint.
The local area continues to have rain, rain and more rain. The waterline project seems to crawl on and hay harvest has seen mixed results with a few dry bales, much wet hay and soaked haymakers. Meanwhile the amphibians have been having a jubilee.
Richard McFall & crew have been doing quite well reworking the wells he purchased from Russell Lee Cline.
Scheny Schenerlein & Alvin Engelke were attending to business in Jenkinjones recently.
Anna Engelke, Adam, Keith & Matt spent the fourth at Joel Hartshorn's place in Martinsburg. On Saturday Anna & Adam visited Brenda & Edward Yates at Adam's grandpa's cabin near Franklin in Pendleton County.
Alvin & Nancy Engelke attended the Hopkins reunion at Fort Borman Park in Parkersburg. The new park is beautiful with an unsurpassed view of Parkersburg, Belpre and the rivers. To make it better the cost of the shelter is free. Even with $4 gas it is worth a trip to go to see the park when one is in the area.
Charles & Euell Russell, Mr. & Mrs. Ira J. Lynch, Sr., Mr. & Mrs. Joe Pennington and a host of others took in the ice cream social at the fire station in Elizabeth.
The Russell brothers attended the fireworks display in Spencer on the night of the fourth. Also attending to business there was Kevin "Weasel" Wease.
The Wirt road crew is ditching the road going from Creston toward Spencer. It badly needs surface treated again or blacktop but the Big Boss says there is no money for such. The Calhoun crew did haul some hot mix to fix the Richardsonville road down toward the Meadows Settlement from the mouth of Big Rowell.
Dominion reported that the Firm Transport (FT) fee will be about 45 cents/MCF and Dominion Field Services said there would be a dime service charge added on for gas marketed through them. A major meeting is scheduled for July 22 to go over the new ten year contracts that Dominion Transmission now requires to use their system to sell and market natural gas. There is a lot of concern about their financial requirements for those wishing to sell natural gas.
A spokesperson for the company said that gas from Marcellus shale wells cannot go into the "wet system" as the BTU is "only 1075" and gas going into the wet system must be 1100 or greater. With the lower BTU gas going in all the gas would be blended so as to be marketable without "treating" and DOM could not make so much money taking out all the propane, butane, mountain high-test, etc.
While slicksters continue to get leases on the cheap in Wirt County & tell the locals "what good deals they made" and elsewhere it was learned that Chesapeake paid a bonus of $10,000/acre for shale acreage near Shreveport Louisiana that is equivalent to the local Marcellus shale.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude rose to $137.50/bbl. Some of the jitters in the oil market reflect the activities of the Iranian crazies who, it seems, are busy making bombs. Saddam Insane's uranium (tons & tons of it) has now been removed from Iraq and it will be used by Canada to generate electric. Obviously, he did have a nuclear program - sorry about being caught in your fibs Valerie & Mr. Wilson.
The political scene continues to be fascinating and when one thinks he's "heard it all" something else comes along. The recent "top this one" was the acknowledgement by party faithful that the birth certificate that was up on the B. Hussein Obama web site showing he was born in Hawaii was a fake. Of course, to the kool aide drinkers nothing matters when one is "The Messiah".
The Loudin family spent the weekend at their cabin on the former Hunter F. Pell place and Tommy Gay Wright was at his home down on the W. T. Petty place.
Morris Tanner and Renee Gray were visiting friends and family, respectively, in the area.
Rick Starcher who had been driving over the road has accepted employment with Gas Search which recently was bought out by Cabot Oil & Gas.
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