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West Virginia VOAD Receives the Governor’s Service Award

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VisionLink would like to congratulate the Member Agencies of the West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) on receiving the Governor’s Service Award. The award honors WV VOAD’s dedication to service and acknowledges their commitment to volunteerism throughout West Virginia.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

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In the United States, for example, products are made by women from The Enterprising Kitchen and WomanCraft in Chicago, Women's Bean Project in Denver, Appalachian by Design in West Virginia, Thistle Farms in Nashville and Rosie's Place in Boston. Photo Credit: Recycled Plastic Beach Tote from Global Girlfriend site.

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ILoveMountains.org Blogger's Challenge (You Can Help If You Aren't a Blogger Too!)

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From the iLoveMountains.org web site: "Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques. Primarily, mountaintop removal is occurring in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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It’s called mountaintop removal and it is the most common mining in West Virginia and Appalachia generally. Some people see these sites today and do not know they resulted from mining. Another kind of mining made today’s news. It is just what the name implies.

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Women Rise Up Against War: Rae Abileah of CODEPINK

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Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site. The phenomenal woman with the giant CODEPINK truck, Sam Zanne Joi, and I traveled through the deep South and Southwest, weaving our way through little towns in the Appalachian mountains with names like War, West Virginia, and Truth and Consequences, Texas.

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