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September 2006
Contents

Massey Energy Court-Ordered to Provide Water in Mingo Co.
Healing Mountains
Back to Work for Our Enchanted Forests, with Love
 Lawsuits Muddy Water Project
MTR Trial Reset for October
Memorial Service in Forested Cemetery Amidst the Devastation of Mountaintop Removal Mining
After 13 Years, Work Finally Underway on Lick Creek Water Project

Attorney Responds to Coal Company Frivolous Lawsuit

"Like Walking Onto Another Planet" - MTR Horrors Described

Local Grandpa Walking to DC for Marsh Fork Kids
Dont Consolidate In Mingo Build a New School for Marsh Fork Kids
For the Sake of the Kids, Blankenship Should Give Back Some of His Millions
The MOP, OVECs Contribution to Mountain Justice Summer 2006
United Nations Sustainability Commission Hit with MTR Realities
Welcome to OVECs Newest Organizer
T H A N K S !
Are You Ready for Some ... Coal Ball? FOC (says) Yes!
Editorial: Stop Complaining, Go to the Polls and Vote!
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Our Voting System is Not Secure
Blankenship Has Too Much Influence
Awards Presented at OVEC's Annual Meeting on, Naturally, Earth Day
stopmountaintopremoval.org
Don Blankenship Responds to Vanity Fair Article
Ex-Maid Alleges Blankenship Bullied Her Out of Job
Massey CEOs Pay Vastly Exceeds Salaries of Peers, Reports Find
Open Letter to Don Nehlens Publisher
Blair Draft EIS Under Review
No Rain Check for the Man with Endless Blank Checks for Politicians
Inspirational, Educational Gifts for Others and Even Yourself
Hey King Coal! You missed some! Right ... over ... there


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Winds of Change Newsletter, September 2006     See sidebar for table of contents

T H A N K S !

OVEC would like to offer its gratitude to the staff of the Cedar Lakes Conference Center for all the ways they accommodated our many requests and needs for Healing Mountains, the joint Summit for the Mountains / Heartwood Forest Council. We highly recommend their services to any organization planning a conference. What a wonderful group of people with whom to work. Thanks Cedar Lakes staff!


An extra special thanks to a teen supporter from NYC who helped fund the Mingo Organizing Project. She wrote: I heard about your program and problem through my father. I have realized that not all of America is the way it is in movies and books. There are many things wrong in our country, and not having clean water is one that needs to be fixed. Now. Having your homes destroyed also needs to be fixed! That is why Im donating 2,500 dollars (from my bat mitzvah) to your cause. I want to show my support.


A Huge Heap of Healed-up Mountain Thanks to:

The numerous co-sponsors of Healing Mountains and the groups that worked on making the conference a huge success.

Dr. Ken Hechler
Bob Hamburg and Spring
Creek Tofu
Ruth and Mel Meyer
Maryanne Graham
Tonya Adkins
Andy Mahler
Christina Wulf
Devin Ceartas
Steve Chaplin
Kevin Pentz
Colleen Unroe
Vernon Haltom
Bill Price
Bill McCabe
Elisa Young
Connie Lewis
Dave Cooper
Cindy Rank
Ernie Reed
Monty Fowler
Taylor Barnhill,
Lauren McGrath

Greg Carroll
Chuck Wyrostok
Caroline Douglas
Teri Blanton
Mary Hufford
Barnes Nugent
Mary Anne Hitt
Lennie Kohm
Ed Wiley
Jeff Combs
Larry Bush
Pete Ramey
Anne League
Donnetta Blankenship and family
Jack Spadaro
John Blair
Judy Bonds
Julie Archer
Maria Gunnoe
Bob Gates
Penny Loeb
Janice Nease
Sarah Haltom
Betsy Taylor
John Hennen
Chris Irwin
Joe Lovett
Brian Wright
Jeff Stant
Aimee Erickson
Don Gasper
Mari-Lynn Evans
Allen Johnson
Bob Sloan
Catherine Pancake
Jeff Barrie
Winter Ross
Robert Tohe
Denny Haldeman
Bob Fener
Mark Donham
Kristie Hanson
Alan Tweddle
Christine Risch
Abe Mwaura
Ann Pancake
Greg Buck
Jill Morrison
The Voodoo Katz

Kathryn Stone for her reliable support.

Regina Hendrix, Kenny King for their relentless work on Blair Mountain.

Larry Gibson and his persistent efforts to stop mountaintop removal.

David Duke for his help at the OVEC office.

Eric Fout for his loyal, steady support of OVEC.

Dan Kash for his dedication to OVEC.

Michael Morrison for his leadership.

Winnie Fox for being a great role model and hosting so many OVEC volunteers and friends.

Jeff and Victoria Bosley, Thomas Kincaid, John Taylor, LaShonda Bare, and Elinore Taylor for their service to OVECs board of directors.

The Bank Street Group, especially Sal and Ann.

The Miller / Caudill family for always being willing to show the world what is up.

Ronda Harper.

Brent Rowley, Cabell Hodges, Jennifer Jackson, Willie Dodson, Monica Brown and Tyler Pannell for their Mingo Organizing Project work.

Mel Tyree for thinking of the future.

Jack Frazier for all the clippings and to-do notes.

The great folks in Bandytown, Marnie and Twilight areas for the hard work you are all doing to preserve your home towns.

Caroline and Taylor at SouthWings for tirelessly and cheerfully helping us to get airborne.

Jim and Jean Foster
Joan Linville 
John Schwam
Antrim Caskey
CB of Blair
Chrystal Gunnoe
Donetta Blankenship
Amy and Josh Runyon
Christina Blankenship
Vickie Wolf
Mimi Pickering
Ralph Oppenheimer and the
Cabell County Library
Lynda Ann Ewen
Sarah Kidder
Stephanie McSpirit
Ben Stout
Mary Ellen Cassidy
Alisa Nance
Stephen Perry
Angela Quackenbush
Walter and Carol Young
Carm and Ernie Brown
Rev. Larry and Brenda
Brown
The BI Sammons family
Dustin Steele
Don Garvin
Mary Ellen OFarrellLeon and Lucille Miller
Anita and Stanley Miller
Burt Lauderdale
Beth Raps
Hillary Hosta
Maureen OConnell
Si Galperin
Steve White
Susan Sobkoviak
Kathy Stoltz
Mayor Richie Robb
Carol Warren
Dan Kurland
Sue Price
John Welbourn
Helaine Rodkin
RB
Chuck Wyrostok
Mary Wildfire
Jim Kotcon
Rick Carrico
Adam Brown
Heath Harris
Wess Harris
Todd Garland and Carol
Warren
Sylvester Dustbusters
Giles Ashford
Peter Britton
Steve Fesenmaier
Sister JoeEllen Sbrissa
Sister Ruth Kuhn
Sister Diana Oleskevich
Mark Schmerling and Rima
Versie Sims
Gerald Winegrad
Jeannie Kirkhope
Terry and Wilma Steele
Greg Wood
Dwight Siemiaczko

Congratulations

Congrats to Jack Spadaro for winning the 2006 Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award

Congrats to Elisa Young for winning a 2006 Women of Peace Award from the Womens Peacepower Foundation.

Congrats to OVEC organizer Abe Mwaura for his Generation Next Award, from the State Journal, for up and coming young professionals.

 

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