A little more than a month remains to submit story ideas or get ad space for the annual WV Coal Association/Friends of Coal State Journal insert.

We are in the process of developing an editorial plan for this publication. We are very interested in photos and story ideas from our membership.  We would very much like to build several member profiles into the 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:

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 Generation 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 philanthropy 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; Henry 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.

Peter’s Creek Coal Asociation will holds it’s 26th Anniversary of the annual PCCA Golf Outing and Dinner at Edgewood Country Club in Charleston on Thursday, June 28th.

Contact Deron Upton at (314) 342-7591 or Flick Goldsmith (304) 343-0500 or e-mail:

drunyon2@archcoal.com

“Further Along the Road to Zero” is this year’s topic for the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce’s Coal Symposium scheduled for August 13-15 at the Quality Hotel and Conference Center (formerly Holiday Inn) in Bluefield, WV.

A limited number of tabletop exhibit spaces are available and PDH credits may be earned.

Golf will also be a option on Monday, August 13 at the Fincastle Country Club.

For more information contact the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce at (304) 327-7184 or e-mail:info@bluefieldchamber.com

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.