Alpha Natural Resources is sponsoring the “Scramble for Scouting Golf Classic” on September 22, 2014 at Berry Hills Country Club to raise funds for the Boy Scouts of America Buckskin Council’s mentoring and outdoor education programs.  MORE THAN EVER, AMERICAN FAMILIES NEED SCOUTING’S POSITIVE INFLUENCE.  There are a number of raffle/auction items you can win at this event:  Hole-in-One Contest for a BMW X3 28i; foursomes at about every golf course in the area; airline tickets within the Continental U.S.; golf accessories, just to name a few.   There are two flights: 8 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., shotgun starts.  Lunch will be provided for both flights at noon.  A registration form is available from sdavison@wvcoal.com.

In recognition of the state’s leading industries, West Virginia University’s Football Program is proud to offer all industry employees and families discount tickets to the inaugural ENERGY INDUTRY DAY.  The November 1^st (TCU) is the featured games with special ticket prices for single game, and groups of 20-49, 50-99 and more than 100 tickets. Contact:  Sheldon Adams (304.293.8632) of the Mountaineer Athletic Club or e-mail:  smadams@mail.wvu.edu.

The Department of Mining & Industrial Extension in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources will be holding their 100^th Anniversary of Mining Extension at WVU on Thursday, September 11 at 1:30 p.m.  The celebration will be held at WVU Academy for Mine Training and Energy Technologies, 2870 Little Indian Creek Road, Core, WV

Contact Pat Huggins at pat.huggins@mail.wvu.edu for further information.

A very special episode of The Coal Seam television show is now airing. The show was filmed on location at the July Coal Rally in Pittsburgh. The show includes vignettes of the rally, which included Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia, Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor of Ohio.  Gov. John Kasich was also on hand via a video he sent.  WVCA President Bill Raney and Senior Vice President Chris Hamilton also addressed the crowd of thousands of coal miners there to protest the EPA’s GHG regulations that are shutting down coal-fired power plants and killing thousands of jobs.

The episode will be broadcast through most of September.  It is available on the state Library Television Network as well as your local cable system’s public access channel. Locally it is on Suddenlink Channel 17

The on-line Friends of Coal petition to protect America’s coal jobs has already generated almost 9,000 comments through our convenient online tool.  The online tool allows you to file your comments calling on EPA to rescind its job-killing regulations that are halting the construction of new coal-fired power plants and essentially forcing the closure of existing plants.  The comments are sent directly to the EPA’s official e-mail address.

If you have not already done so, please visit the online petition and add your support. You can do so at www.friendsofcoal.org/soundoff.  Thanks for the tremendous effort so far and please have your family, friends and colleagues do it as soon as they can.