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Edwight’s history unfairly neglected
In the March 6 edition of The Register-Herald, Representative Rahall was blowing about the National Park Service being awarded $6.88 million to preserve mining structures in Nuttallburg. Particular emphasis was given to the conveyor with its rope-and-button system to move the coal from the top of the mountain down to the tipple — “It’s the only example of a rope-and-button conveyor in Appalachia.”
Edwight had a conveyor with a rope-and-button system until a few months ago when it was pushed over and demolished by the DEP using Abandoned Mine Land funds.
It seems as though Edwight is not allowed to have anything, not even an incline operation, of historical significance (or any other kind of significance).
In the interest of fairness, the Edwight conveyor, complete with its rope-and-button system, should be re-erected or the Nuttallburg conveyor should be torn down.
And then, in the next day’s edition of The Register-Herald, was a story about the restoration of three historic West Virginia coal camp towns.
Deacon Tom Cox of Stotesbury was quoted: “These coal towns are deteriorating and disappearing. These are what built West Virginia and that’s a shame. This community (Stotesbury) is disappearing and we want to try to save it. That’s why we want to preserve it — because of history.”
Where is Edwight’s savior? Where are Edwight’s federal monies for its historical restoration?
It’s all blowing in the wind. The only time that the community of Edwight is mentioned anymore is in connection with a strip mine permit.
Rahall brays about securing money for the New River Gorge area, but he sure doesn’t work to preserve the Coal River area from its despoilers.
Richard A. Bradford
Edwight
Taxpayers oppose funding abortions
I am incensed by President Obama’s attack on the unborn as he tries to ram through an insane so-called health care bill that, among other outrageous things, provides government funding of abortion. How can the people of Washington be so foolish as to push through a bill that the American people have so clearly shown fierce opposition to? Never before have the people of this country been so angry about a piece of legislation.
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Tell Congress to just say no to this abortion mandate and to the 2,000-page takeover of your life.
Joanne Swanner
Princeton
