Congratulations!

• To OVEC board member Elinore Taylor, her sister Nancy and Clarice Kumlien, both OVEC members. All were featured in the new MetroValley magazine in "10 Beautiful Women," an article about women who are "some of the most exceptional women of our time."

• To Elisa Young of Racine, Ohio, for wining a 2006 Women of Peace Award, for her work in exposing the toll from the full cycle of coal.

• To Dave Cooper of Lexington, Ky., for a 2006 Sierra Club Special Service Award.

• To Bill Blizzard, the late leader of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, and Ken Hechler, a former congressman and WV secretary of state, for their induction into the WV Labor History Association’s Hall of Fame.

• To Concord University Professor Delilah O’Haynes, whose collection of poetry and photography, The Character of Mountains, has been nominated for the Appalachian Book of the Year award, given by the Appalachian Writers Association. Ms. O’Haynes attended the writers’ tour of mountaintop removal sites, and is also dedicating a portion of proceeds from the sale of her book to OVEC. Congratulations and thank you!