I am so thrilled for my friend Maria, but more so. the awareness and publicity it is bringing to the plight (or blight) of Mountain Top Removal in Appalachia. Through it all, she retained a sense of humor. When we were lobbying Congress in DC, she wore a tee shirt I threatened to nab when she took it off. It said, "Save an Endangered Hillbilly - Stop Mountaintop Removal!" No one deserves the honor more than this native of Bob White, WV! Debra More world wide press: Open your email window fully - or watch the wraps Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124025714886236163.html San Francisco Chronicle Coal miner's daughter save mountaintops http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/18/MNRS1733KL.DTL Associated Press Mountaintop mining activist wins global award http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h_oGvzi4nDjqpu5zqVkCvqWii- DwD97LQDP80 BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/sci_nat_the_goldman _prize_2009/html/2.stm Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/mother-gunnoe-mountaintop_b_18868 7.html Front page of the Charleston Gazette http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200904190017 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090421-0, 04/21/2009 Tested on: 4/22/2009 7:34:40 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

Debra, I would bet if you made T-shirts with that slogan on it and sold them, you would sell out right real quick. There are more people than not here in the mountain state who are against MTR. I, for one would like to have a few. Anita Mc. ________________________________ From: Debra Rookard <drookard@carolina.rr.com> To: wvlogan@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:34:39 AM Subject: [WVLOGAN] Maria Gunnoe wins 2009 Nobel Prize for the Environment I am so thrilled for my friend Maria, but more so. the awareness and publicity it is bringing to the plight (or blight) of Mountain Top Removal in Appalachia. Through it all, she retained a sense of humor. When we were lobbying Congress in DC, she wore a tee shirt I threatened to nab when she took it off. It said, "Save an Endangered Hillbilly - Stop Mountaintop Removal!" No one deserves the honor more than this native of Bob White, WV! Debra More world wide press: Open your email window fully - or watch the wraps Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124025714886236163.html San Francisco Chronicle Coal miner's daughter save mountaintops http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/18/MNRS1733KL.DTL Associated Press Mountaintop mining activist wins global award http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h_oGvzi4nDjqpu5zqVkCvqWii- DwD97LQDP80 BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/sci_nat_the_goldman _prize_2009/html/2.stm Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/mother-gunnoe-mountaintop_b_18868 7.html Front page of the Charleston Gazette http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200904190017 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090421-0, 04/21/2009 Tested on: 4/22/2009 7:34:40 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks for the extra urls, Debra. G ________________________________ From: Debra Rookard <drookard@carolina.rr.com> To: wvlogan@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:34:39 AM Subject: [WVLOGAN] Maria Gunnoe wins 2009 Nobel Prize for the Environment I am so thrilled for my friend Maria, but more so. the awareness and publicity it is bringing to the plight (or blight) of Mountain Top Removal in Appalachia. Through it all, she retained a sense of humor. When we were lobbying Congress in DC, she wore a tee shirt I threatened to nab when she took it off. It said, "Save an Endangered Hillbilly - Stop Mountaintop Removal!" No one deserves the honor more than this native of Bob White, WV! Debra More world wide press: Open your email window fully - or watch the wraps Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124025714886236163.html San Francisco Chronicle Coal miner's daughter save mountaintops http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/18/MNRS1733KL.DTL Associated Press Mountaintop mining activist wins global award http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h_oGvzi4nDjqpu5zqVkCvqWii- DwD97LQDP80 BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/sci_nat_the_goldman _prize_2009/html/2.stm Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/mother-gunnoe-mountaintop_b_18868 7.html Front page of the Charleston Gazette http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200904190017 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090421-0, 04/21/2009 Tested on: 4/22/2009 7:34:40 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message