Representatives of the West Virginia Coal Association and the Friends of Coal will be busy through the next few months. Continuing our outreach efforts around the state, the Friends of Coal has already scheduled the following events:
· (July 2-4) The Freedom Festival in Logan, WV – the city’s annual street fair. This follows on the heels of successful efforts at the Hatfield-McCoy Days in Williamson and the Coal Festival in Madison as reported in this past week’s Coal Bits.
· (July 9) West Virginia Coal Association President Bill Raney will speak to the Martinsburg Chamber of Commerce.
· (July 17) The Friends of Coal Auto Fair in Beckley and the Mark Plants’ Football Camp in Charleston.
· (August 2-3) As noted, the Friends of Coal, Faces of Coal, Citizens for Coal, the Logan Coal Vendors and others are joining with the Coalition for Mountaintop Mining and the Eastern States Coal Association to send 200-300 coal miners and their families to DC for an informational effort to educate members of Congress about the vital importance of eastern coal.
· (August 13-20) We are finalizing our participation schedule for this year’s State Fair of West Virginia in Lewisburg.
This is just a partial list of events the Friends of Coal plans to attend. If you would like to schedule a representative of the Friends of Coal or the West Virginia Coal Association for your event, please contact us at 304.342.4153. Our schedules are filling fast and we very much want to meet with your group to provide an accurate portrait of our state’s coal industry.