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Sept. 5 Coal Truck Press Conference, Followed by Memorial Service
Mark Your Calendars Now for The Flooded Out Film Festival
Coal Truck Press Conference And Memorial Service
On Thursday Sept. 5 please join us at a press conference on overweight coal trucks at 3:15 p.m. in the People’s Room of the Secretary of State’s office in the State Capitol building. (E-mail vivian@ohvec.org if you need directions.) We'll ask the governor to heed the voice of the people: Maintain and enforce the current coal truck weight limits!
After the press conference, we'll travel to Hernshaw on Rt. 94 (known as Bloody 94) for a 5:30 p.m. quiet remembrance service with the Justice family, to mark the passing of one year since a fatal coal truck accident took the lives of Jimmy Nelson and Mary Justice. For more information, call Coal River Mountain Watch at 304-854-2182
Reminder -- Picnic With Labor On Labor Day, Tell Gov. Wise – Don’t Raise The Truck Weight Limit
Join some great folks, eat good food and rally on the overweight coal truck issue this Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 2). Come join the United Mine Workers of America at their annual Labor Day rally and picnic in Racine at John Slack Park. UMWA President Cecil Roberts will speak at 1 p.m. No doubt, he'll talk about overweight coal trucks. Governor Wise and Senator Rockefeller have indicated they'll be at the picnic. Let's remind the Governor: Enforce the current coal truck weight limits. Don't raise those limits!
Directions to John Slack Park: From Charleston, take the Marmet exit on 64/77 South. Follow 94 across the mountain, turn left at the stop sign onto Rt. 3 and the park is just down the road on the right. For more information call Julie or Linda at 304-346-5891.
A small airplane pilot will circle his craft above the Marshall University v. Appalachian State football game today, Saturday at 7 p.m. He'll tow a “Stop Mt. Top Removal” banner for all to see. This is our "rain check" from the Massey picnic protest at Magic Island, where thunderstorms grounded our “Massey: Stop the Sludge” banner.
Mark Calendars Now for Film Fest
Join us October 10 for the Flooded Out Film Festival, Capitol Theater, 123 Summers St., Charleston, WV. The Festival marks the two-year anniversary of the 306 million gallon Massey Energy Co. coal sludge disaster in Inez, Ky.
Films include: "Coal Bucket Outlaw," "Mountain Memories," "The Buffalo Creek Flood-An Act of Man," and three shorts by Charleston filmmaker Bob Gates: "All Shaken Up," "Flood Stories," and "Trip to Kayford Mountain." For more information call OVEC at 304-522-0246.
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