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Two long-standing statewide events are being combined to create the newly named West Virginia Leadership Summit at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown, WV on April 18th and 19th. The premiere Leadership Summit combines the highly successful WV Leadership Conference, hosted for 10 years by the West Virginia Roundtable, and Generaltion West Virginia’s equally successful 5-year old Young Leaders’ Conference.
The Summit will feature keynote speaker, William C. Taylor, co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company magazine, as well as established leaders of business, industry, government, education, private enterprise and philanthroy such as WV Governor Earl Ray Tomblin; Susan Brewer, CEO of Steptoe & Johnson law firm; William “Pat” Getty, president of Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation; Kim Knopf, President/CEO of Innovative Mattress Solutions; Nenry Harmon, President/CEO/Chairman of Triana Energy. The Summit will include a series of workshop sessions as well.
Registration information can be found at www.wvleadership.org.
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This fall, representatives of West Virginia’s mining industry will gather at the 2012 Miners’ Celebration to recognize everyone who contributes to the enterprise. The conference will be held October 4-5 at Tamarack in Beckley.
“West Virginia’s mining industry depends upon thousands of individuals in many different roles,” said Dr. Tony Szwilski, chairman of the conference planning committee and director of Marshall University’s Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and Applied Sciences. “Every one of these people—whether they are miners, safety engineers, environmental professionals, equipment suppliers, community leaders or teachers—contributes to each ton of coal produced.
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Planning is now underway for the 40th Annual King Coal Festival in Williamson later this summer. The Action in Mingo (AIM) group is continuing a series of meetings with the goal of creating an amazing four-day event marking the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the birth of the King Coal Festival.
The next scheduled meeting for the AIM group will be May 18, at 5 p.m. in the Williamson City Council chambers. For more information on joining the group, contact Mae Stallard at 304-235-5560.
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The WV Coal Mining Institute, the WVCA and the Central Appalachian Section of SME will be held at the Stonewall Jackson Resort May 3-5, 2012. Registration information has been sent out via e-mail with detailed information. If you did not receive please let us know and it will be resent.
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The West Virginia Eleventh Annual CEDAR Golf Classic will be held on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at the Twisted Gun Golf Course in Wharncliffe, West Virginia. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. with golf beginning at 10 a.m. promptly. Contact Bud Clapp at
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Planning is continuing for this year’s WV Coal Association/Friends of Coal State Journal insert. This special publication will print in late-July. It is a great opportunity to get the message out that coal is and will remain the economic bedrock of the state’s economy. This past year’s edition included production, employment, coal severance data, membership profiles, editorial features and other key information.
We are in the process of developing an editorial plan for this publication. If you have a story idea, would like to submit something for consideration or would like to reserve advertising space, please check out the following editorial calendar.
- Deadline for materials: May 25 (This is for all articles, photos, graphs, cover, etc)
- Ad Space Deadline: June 1. (Please contact sales at the State Journal)
- Deadline for ads: June 8 (Coordinate through the State Journal)
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Approval Process: June 8-15 (Last minute changes) - Publication Prints: July 23
- Publication Distributed: July 27
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The elections this November will be the most important in history for the mining industry. Control of the White House and both houses of Congress are in play and the implications for the future of mining are far-reaching.
With this much at stake, we want to encourage your distribution of NMA’s Mine the Vote program information to your employees, vendors and other business partners to help educate and mobilize mining community voters this fall. It is vital that our supporters are fully engaged and equipped with the tools and information to make sure mining’s voice is heard on November 6.
We have re-designed and enhanced our Mine the Vote online platform to achieve these goals by allowing our supporters to:
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The Friends of Coal is once again joining with the West Virginia Radio Corporation and MetroNews to sponsor the WV Scholars Program. Friends of Coal will be the title sponsor of the scholarship program. The program is a full, four-year scholarship covering the cost of tuition, fees, room and board at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Valued at $125,000, the scholarship will be awarded to one lucky student from West Virginia who is currently a member of the junior class in high school.
You can apply for the scholarship by going to www.wvmetronews.com and click on the “Apply Now” button for the complete program details.
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Despite coal production slowing and severance taxes heading downward, state sales tax revenues are surprisingly high, according to West Virginia Deputy Revenue Secretary Mark Muchow. He says withholding taxes are up more than nine percent and personal income tax and sales tax revenues were both above where state officials estimated they would be for the month. Muchow says he expects coal production to continue to slow through 2012 and into the next fiscal year. The state's general revenue fund had an $8.6 million shortfall in March, but according to Muchow the state is still on track for a sizable surplus this year. For more click here
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