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The 21st West Virginia Coal Festival is set for June 17 thru June 21 in downtown Madison. This year’s event will feature top-notch entertainers, a parade, miner’s memorial service, mine equipment exhibits, fireworks, carnival, beauty pageant and many other events.
Entertainment line-up: June 19, Matt Stillwell & 7 Bridges; June 20, Rick Huckaby & LITTLE TEXAS; and, June 21, Autumn Blair & Katie Ohh.
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Jack Owens and his "Days of Gold" tour with Kellie Pickler will headline this year's Friends of Coal Auto Fair, which is set for July 18 - 20th at the Paul Cline Memorial Sports Complex in Beckley. The Fair will again feature the car show, carnival rides, food, vendors, live music, special performance and surprise guests with upwards of 50,000 people from all over the country attending. Visit the website: www.friendsofcoalautofair.com<http://www.friendsofcoalautofair.com> for ticket, sponsorship, schedule and general information on this three-day weekend
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The Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary will be hosting its first golf tournament on Friday, June 20th at the White Oak Country Club, 1206 Summerlee Road, Oak Hill, WV. For more information and/or registration information contact:
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WVCA Member Gary Hartsog and Alpha Engineering Services will hold their annual Underground Surveying and Mapping Seminars on Thursday and Friday, June 12th & 13th, 2014 at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley, WV.
Topics will include:
- The safety of your surveying crews
- Latest MSHA Plan and other court decisions
- Latest MSHA Electronic Surveying Instrument Litigation Decisions
- Are check surveys needed in an electronic world?
- How to adjust workings to check survey results?
- Ethics
- Minimum Legal Standards
These Seminars are suitable for Continuing Education Credit acceptable to many PE or PS Boards (please contact Gary or Alpha Engineering regarding specific States). The Seminars are also suitable for training and/or continuing education for entry- and staff-level engineers and surveyors, CAD map-makers, underground surveyors, and those with interest in how mine maps are made, updated and presented in the 21st Century.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Gary at 304-255-4131. Also, he asks you to check their Web Page for more detail and registration information at www.alphaengineer.com. Please feel free to pass this on to others who might have an interest.
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The Association has taped the next two episodes of “The Coal Seam. The first episode, which will run through the month of June, features a report of the Governor’s signing of HB4346 in Logan. We also taped an episode of The Coal Seam with WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey discussing the climate regulations and their impact on the state and nation. The show with AG Morrisey will be broadcast during the month of July. The Coal Seam is hosted by WVCA Senior VP Chris Hamilton and can be viewed on the West Virginia Library Channel network, your local public access channel (Suddenlink Channel 17), or on either of these links: http://www.librarycommission.wv.gov/programs/ltn/videoserver/Pages/coalseam.aspx and/or our webpage at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjs-uw35-LiT_6lRc7Bh9yxCjC9Hv2xHW&feature=mh_lolz
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