Everyone who sent a contribution to OVEC as a memorial to honor both Toby Marsh, an OVEC member who will be sadly missed, and Madonna Adkins. Cindy Rank wrote that Toby was a true friend to the environment.

Everyone who renewed their membership or recently joined OVEC. Your support helps keep us in action.

All helping us continue organizing in Boone County, despite the efforts to shut us down. We are standing our ground and we stand united as citizens who choose to live where our families before us lived.

Everyone in Prenter who is organizing for safe, clean drinking water.

Artists working from afar: Deb Whalen, CD Collins, Lauryn Shapter, Constance Merriman and many others.

Providing great space and technology for OVEC’s SpeakOut and Media Justice Trainings: Mentola Jackson of the Mingo County Action for Youth Center.

Mingo County OVEC news Archivist: Donetta Blankenship.

Spearheading the petition for Safe Water and a Stronger DEP: Donna Branham.

Designing and distributing our Intern Ask: Dana Kuhnline.

Hosting the meeting with the health researcher: Owen Stout.

Writing letters to the editor: so many of you (more folks needed!).

Coming to the Speak Out training all the way from Florida and supporting Mingo County Organizing: Bud Fultz.

Coordinating prep for the Appalachian Studies Conference: Wilma Steele and Chris Worth.

Questioning the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority on coal-to-liquid: Walter and Carol Young.

All the members of the Sludge Safety Project Learning Committee.

Phone banking: Michael Morison, Chuck Nelson, Danny Chiotos and Larry Gibson

Writing appeal letters: Trevor Swan and Heather Sprouse

Cemeteries protection bill: John McFerrin, Regina Hendrix, Bill Price, Lois Armstrong and Larry Gibson.

More work on cemetery protections: Anita Miller and Versie Sims.

Mailings: Ronda Harper, Michael Morrison and David Duke.

Campaign planning effort: everyone involved (and still standing).

Planning the legislative flyovers: Michael Morrison, David Duke, SouthWings.

DEP oversight legislative effort: State Workers Union (UE 170).

Fighting the Gauley Knob (Ansted-area) mountaintop removal permit: So many good folks!

Editing: Mary Wildfire, Greg Wood and Laura Bannon.

Collecting signatures on the DEP petition: so many of you!

Global warming watch dogs: Mel Tyree, Allan Tweddle, Mary Wildfire and everyone who is working on cutting energy consumption.

Marshall University Teach-In on Climate Change: several professors.

Help with security and related matters: Jeff Bosley and Victoria Bosley

Helpful suggestions: Brenda McCoy, Donetta Blankenship, LP.

Hosting visitors to Kayford Mountain: Larry Gibson and Chuck Nelson.

For making and showing the new film Rise Up West Virginia: B. J. Gudmundsson (who used her own money to produce this great DVD! Contact OVEC to buy a copy.)

Thanks to our much loved legal team: Attorneys – Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment, Earthjustice, Public Justice. Co-Plaintiffs – Coal River Mountain Watch and WV Highlands Conservancy.

Thanks to all not mentioned here who are doing things to help make West Virginia’s future brighter.

And we’d never thought we’d say this, but thanks to the Friends of Coal for boosting awareness of and enrollment in OVEC’s Kroger Cares program.

On Feb. 7, a capacity crowd packed Taylor Books in Charleston to speak with Vanity Fair journalist Michael Shnayerson and some of the protagonists in his book Coal River. Michael’s book has garnered favorable reviews in newspapers across the country and is a welcome addition to the growing list of books and movies helping to spread the word about the national disgrace of mountaintop removal coal mining.