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Correction for Thursday Event (Rt. 94, not 93)
Must Visit Web Site – Take Action on the Floods
Coal Truck Press Conference and Memorial Service on Rt. 94
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 (CORRECTION—last action alert I wrote Rt. 93. The correct Rt. number is Rt. 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.
Sept. 7,10 AM – 5 PM Multicultural Festival in Huntington
This Saturday, come to the Multicultural Festival in downtown Huntington. Be sure to stop by the OVEC table. We still have a couple of time slots open for folks to work our table, so call the office at 304-522-0246 is you’d like to volunteer.
More Art for OVEC
If you missed the River Goddess exhibition at Taylor Books, most of the art quilt wall hangings by Winter Ross are now at Court Street Gallery in Fayetteville. OVEC receives a percentage of any sales. See some of Winter's work online here.
Must Visit Website - Take Action on the Floods
Be sure to check out Penny Loeb's website about the 2001 and 2002 floods. Take action on the floods from Penny's web page. The Governor is hedging about whether to adopt the recommendations of his Flood Task Force. Tell him to accept those recommendations. Follow the "news" items on Penny’s site. We'll have more on the flood task force in our upcoming newsletter.
Today! Take Action for the Forests
Please click this link, "Urgent: Sept. 3 Take Action For Forests," and please make the calls as described. This really only takes a few minutes. The Capitol switchboard is (ask for your Senators and Representatives) 202-224-3121, but the circuits are very busy! So, you can call directly:
Sen. Byrd: 202-224-3954 Charleston phone: 304-342-5855
Sen. Rockefeller: 202-224-6472 Charleston phone: 304-347-5372
Rep. Capito: 202-225-2711 Charleston phone: 304-925-5964
Rep. Mollohan: 202-225-4172 Morgantown phone: 304-292-3019
Rep. Rahall: 202-225-3452 Huntington phone: 304-522-6425
Trash for Cash?
Here's a reminder about a little ongoing OVEC fundraiser: We get $1.50 for each empty ink jet printer cartridge you send to a recycler. Once your ink jet cartridge runs dry, pop it in a pre-addressed mailing bag (available free from the OVEC office -- call, e-mail or stop by to get one). No stamps required. You get rid of what would otherwise be trash and we get cash. Cool!
Music for the Mountains
Andrew McKnight has written a song about mountaintop removal called "Company Town." You can hear it here. You'll have to scroll down to find it. Then you have to fill in a (free) registration form.
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