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By Alvin Engelke
Warmer weather has made it to the Creston area and most of the snow is now gone. Robins and buzzards are in the area and buds are swelling. Also the jonquils and daffodils are coming up although another cold spell is expected.
Rev. Juanita Lockhart filled her regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
Eddie Norman who works as a river boat pilot recently took some advanced training on river navigation at Paducah, Kentucky.
Performers at the Creston Sing included the Country Cousins, Walter Kerby, Buddy Cain & assoc., The Marks Family, Cooter, Sis, Ryan, Aaron & Carl, J. D. Sutton, The New Day Gospel Group, Jack & Mary Ann Dobbins and Edi. Terry Forshey won the nuts & bolts guess, Ruby Sutton won the rubber band guess and Levi Ferrell won the skittle number guess. The next sing is scheduled for April 12. Walter Kerby provided the music for the cake walks. Someone used a video camera to record the first one.
The Creston Community Association met on March 4 and it was decided the ATV run would be held on April 26 with a rain date on May 10. A fine route has been worked out and most riders will see places they never dreamed existed. The date for the spring litter pickup will be set at the April meeting.
Folks at the meeting and those at the sing were well pleased with the new look in the kitchen. Work has now started on painting the front room and volunteers are needed to scrape & paint. Two new signs have been made for the building and Ted Grim fetched down a new cook stove for the kitchen and a flag pole.
Area residents continue to clean up the debris from the ice storm although there is a long way to go. The Snyder (or McCray) graveyard is an example of the damage. The bottoms went out of area roads and one of the Creston route carriers could not make it over the Asa Haney hill.
When the ice storm started the Old Furniture Salesman was offered a "timbering job" that paid big bucks, at least for him but he quickly excused himself and hasn't been seen since.
Jane & Nancy Engelke and Wirt County Fair Queen Danielle Burns attended the Strawberry Festival Teen & Queen pageant in Buckhannon over the weekend.
Al Tichnel and a friend from Parkersburg were rabbit hunting on the Wm. Stalnaker place at Annamoriah when they lost two young beagle dogs with collars. If anyone finds them they are requested to either contact Al on Deaver's Fork or Bill Stalnaker at Annamoriah.
Francis "Frank" Schoolcraft, age 62, passed away in Parkersburg. Years ago the Schoolcraft family lived up Bear Fork before moving to the mouth of Straight Creek where Frank grew up.
Alvin Engelke attended the visitation and funeral of Atty. Wm. C. Garrett who passed away at age 57 after getting a brain tumor. He represented the county supervisors who were illegally transferred by Gaston and his hacks and had them restored to their positions.
Randy and Chrissy Tucker of Lorain, Ohio were visiting Ricky Tucker and daughters, Sherry Dooley, Terry & Trinity Arthur. Chrissy is a writer for the Lorain city pager, an internet paper. They are looking for a good cheap place to purchase.
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ray Cunningham spent the week visiting her sister in Atlanta, Georgia.
The folks down at the Mouth of Elk River passed a bill so the poor out of state coal companies could haul monster loads on what remains of the state's highway system. It would seem that some want West Virginia to keep up with Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Some sort of a "stopgap" workmen's comp bill came along at 15 minutes til midnight but the late night caper backfired. The powers that be are still trying to figger out what Plan B will be.
The price of local crude oil rose to $34.25 although the price elsewhere in the world is much higher. The increase reflects the almost certain war with the terrorists who, we now learn, have drone planes that can be used to spread chemical and biological warfare agents. It was learned the Osama's right hand man who was recently caught is a look alike for a porn star. When the folks who have been asking him questions (in Arabic) since he claims not to be able to understand English anymore mentioned in an aside that he looked like the porn star he cut loose with a torrent of camel jockey cuss words that kept the translators hopping to explain. It seems that a large amount of the opposition to taking out Saddam is organized by those worldwide who share his political views of socialism and anti-Semitism. His Baath party holds Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini in high regard as do the folks, like the woman in the Mao suit, who used Benito's plan for socialized medicine in America.
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