WVCA Member Gary Hartsog and Alpha Engineering Services will hold their annual Underground Surveying and Mapping Seminars on Thursday and Friday, June 12th & 13th, 2014 at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley, WV.
Topics will include:
· The safety of your surveying crews
· Latest MSHA Plan and other court decisions
· Latest MSHA Electronic Surveying Instrument Litigation Decisions
· Are check surveys needed in an electronic world?
· How to adjust workings to check survey results?
· Ethics
· Minimum Legal Standards
These Seminars are suitable for Continuing Education Credit acceptable to many PE or PS Boards (please contact Gary or Alpha Engineering regarding specific States). The Seminars are also suitable for training and/or continuing education for entry- and staff-level engineers and surveyors, CAD map-makers, underground surveyors, and those with interest in how mine maps are made, updated and presented in the 21st Century.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Gary at 304-255-4131. Also, he asks you to check their Web Page for more detail and registration information at www.alphaengineer.com. Please feel free to pass this on to others who might have an interest.
We have been informed by the Department of Motor Vehicles that a FOC motorcycle license plate has been approved and will be available for application shortly. We will keep you posted on this exciting news. This will be the FIRST specialty plate for motorcycles in WV.
The Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary will be hosting its first golf tournament on Friday, June 20th at the White Oak Country Club, 1206 Summerlee Road, Oak Hill, WV. For more information and/or registration information contact: dcorcoran@beavercoal.com
The 21st West Virginia Coal Festival is set for June 17 thru June 21 in downtown Madison. This year’s event will feature top-notch entertainers, a parade, miner’s memorial service, mine equipment exhibits, fireworks, carnival, beauty pageant and many other events.
Entertainment line-up: June 19, Matt Stillwell & 7 Bridges; June 20, Rick Huckaby & LITTLE TEXAS; and, June 21, Autumn Blair & Katie Ohh.
The 2014 Joint Spring Meeting of the WV Coal Association, WV Coal Mining Institute and the CAS/SME will be held on May 7-9 at the Embassy Suites in Charleston, WV. The agenda and registration information can be obtained from the WVCA offices by e-mailing: sdavison@wvcoal.com. The Hall of Fame induction will be on Thursday evening