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 bud.clapp@nscorp.com for more information.

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.

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.

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 18^th and 19^th.  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.

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.