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A1 LOG ONTO WWW.LOGANBANNER.COM FOR ARCHIVE • GAMES • FeaTURES • E-EDITION • POLLS & MORE THE LOGAN BANNER OPINION WEATHER SPORTS ONLINE Immigration Partly sunny today. Holliday excited Busy? Find us reform .... Page A4 High of 84. Low of about Herd football online, anytime at: 67 .... Page A8 season .... Page B1 loganbanner.com Vol. 126, Number 67 SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013 1.00 Sunday 160 Boone County miners to lose jobs Fred Pace sorry for the families that this is Adjustment and Retraining Noti- Asbury, vice president of Spartan. benefits they will receive if they Civitas News Service going to hurt.” fication Act Notice” from Alpha “Shutting down a mine and are part of the reduction in force. Commissioners received no- Natural Resources. sending good people home is “We just keep getting battered MADISON — Boone County tice Friday that a total of 160 The company sited “current the last thing we want to do, but by the current market situation and West Virginia’s coal indus- mine employees will be losing adverse market conditions” for due to tough coal market con- in the coal industry and the try received more bad news their jobs. its plans to idle its entire Al- ditions, we’re having to adjust stricter EPA standards,” Brown Friday when the Boone County A total of 17 employees at In- legiance Mine, Cook Mine and our operations,” said Samantha said. “This will mean a loss in Commission was notified that dependence Coal Company, Inc. Justice No. 1 Mine, which are Davison, a corporate communi- revenue for the county, but the 160 coal mining jobs would be and 143 employees at Spartan all located in Seth, and to re- cations spokeswoman for Alpha worst thing about this is the lost in August. Mining Company will lose their duce its production at the Lib- Natural Resources. harm it will do to these families. “This is terrible news,” said jobs on Aug. 6, 2013, or within erty Processing Plant on Rob- Davison said company officials Good jobs are hard to come by in Boone County Commission the two-week period after that inson Creek Road in Madison. will be meeting with employees this area, so the loss of any jobs President Mickey Brown. “I feel date, according to the “Worker The letter was from L. David next week to go over the pay and is horrible news.” Man charged with kicking nurse Martha Sparks cal Center to be treated Society Editor for alleged injuries sus- tained in the fight. While A local man was charged being treated, Bumgarner with several violations, in- reportedly became aggres- cluding battery on a health sive with the nurse who care provider. was treating him. He all- Terry Joe Bumgarner, 50, ededly not only kicked the of Pecks Mill, was a report- nurse, but also the officer edly a suspect in a multiple who arrested him. person altercation on June Bumgarner was charged 5. Logan County Sheriff with disorderly conduct, Deputies responded to the public intoxication, bat- call and located Bumgarner tery of a correction officer, in the roadway. Officers no- assault of health provider, ticed that he had “red and battery on a health care glassy eyes and that his provider and obstructing. speech was slurred.” His bail was set at $5,000. Bumgarner was arrested In other magistrate court after he reportedly refused news: commands to stay on a • William Chad Meade, porch while officers inves- 32, was booked on May 18 Photo courtesy WVDEP tigated the fight. He was by the West Virginia State Pictured are, from left, Eddie Adkins of the Buffalo creek Watershed Association, WVDEP Cabinet Secretary Randy arrested and transported Huffman and Perry Harvey, Johnny Doss and Arthur Brunty of the Buffalo Creek Watershed Association. Unable to to Logan Regional Medi- See CHARGED | A5 attend the presentation was board member Dave Crawford. Buffalo Creek group honored Commission partnering Bob Fala that in some way are making a efforts have helped secure fund- in free diabetes classes Outdoors Columnist major difference and continue to ing for the installation of more Martha Sparks do so along the creek. than 150 rock and log restora- Society Editor The highly active Buffalo Creek “Logan County’s Buffalo Creek tion structures on the stream. Watershed Association has been Watershed Association is a model The structures not only help cre- The Logan County Commission is providing lunch for granted the top award for their example of how concerted grass- ate riffles and pools for a more three free diabetes education classes during the month massive environmental improve- roots efforts by dedicated West natural fish habitat, but also help of June. Hosting the classes will be Traci Gillispie RN ments along the creek, as they say. Virginians can make a difference improve water quality by flushing and Gina Clark LPN with the West Virginia Medical In- West Virginia Dept. of Envi- in the state. Not yet 10 years sediment from Buffalo Creek, still stitute’s Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) program. ronmental Protection (WVDEP) old, the Buffalo Creek Watershed recovering from the effects of pre- “I think probably one of the biggest problems where the Cabinet Secretary Randy Huff- Association has already helped law mining and to a certain ex- county is concerned… as far as health… is diabetes,” Danny man, fresh off a tour of the area transform Buffalo Creek from a tent, the 1972 Buffalo Creek dam Godby, president of the Logan County Commission, said. and stream restoration dedication litter-infested creek with virtu- disaster that claimed the lives of “We felt as a commission that these classes would educate, ceremony a few weeks back, re- ally no fish habitat into an invit- 125 people and left thousands as far as proper eating and habits to try to destroy as much cently bestowed the plaque to the ing stream with improved water homeless. One of the Associa- as possible this dreaded disease. I’ve had family members local group board members at a quality and plenty of trout fishing tion’s founding members, Perry with diabetes and it is a dreadful disease.” ceremony held in the capitol city. Harvey, fished for trout on Buf- Receiving the Cabinet Secre- opportunities for area anglers. Although the EDC program is funded through Medi- tary’s award on behalf of the well The local watershed associa- falo Creek the day before a coal care, the classes are free to anyone who has diabetes or is known Logan County waterway tion has worked extensively with slurry dam failed, sending 132 a caretaker of a person with diabetes. were Eddie Adkins, Perry Harvey, state agencies, local business and million gallons of water raging “Medicare is funding a special project called Every- Johnny Doss and Arthur Brunty. concerned citizens to bring Buf- through the hollow. body with Diabetes Counts,” Clark said. “West Virginia Articles here there and yonder falo Creek back to life and increase Continued goals of the wa- was chosen because of its high rate of diabetes. In West in the recent past have highlight- recreational opportunities on the tershed association include to Virginia, Logan, Boone, Lincoln and Wayne Counties are 16-mile Logan County stream educate school children about ed the efforts of the group from See CLASSES | A5 the pages of Wonderful West Vir- that empties into the Guyandotte litter control on Buffalo Creek; ginia magazine to those of the River at Man. From cleanup proj- get more local communities homegrown Logan Banner, which ects along the creek, to the annual involved in cleanup projects; has been around since well before Youth Fishing Day, which attracts construct more access points the Hatfield-McCoy feuding days. hundreds of youngsters for an after- and handicap platforms on the McKinley: New coal-ash Without further ado, here are noon of fun on the water, the Buf- stream; secure funding for addi- the Cabinet Secretary’s words falo Creek Watershed Association tional restoration structures on from the presentation event. continues to serve as a catalyst for the creek; and to make Buffalo bill tackles EPA concerns They speak for themselves. Or the preservation of Buffalo Creek. Creek the best trout stream in Vicki Smith year is different: The latest better yet, they speak for all those The watershed association’s southern West Virginia.” The Associated Press version of the Coal Residu- als Reuse and Management MORGANTOWN — Act (H.R. 2218) was craft- For two years, one of the ed with input from the U.S. two professional engineers Environmental Protection in Congress has pushed Agency, which McKinley NSA revelations force question: What do we want? a bill to let states regu- said is “not opposing” the Adam Geller Torn between our desires for get to evaluate that when government late fly ash from coal-fired draft that cleared a House AP National Writer privacy and protection, we’re now is more public about its conduct.” power plants, a move U.S. subcommittee Thursday. forced to decide what we really want. The NSA, officials acknowledged Rep. David McKinley says “We’ve listened and re- NEW YORK — For more than a “We are living in an age of surveil- this week, has been collecting phone would benefit coal and acted,” he said, “and we’ve decade now, Americans have made lance,” said Neil Richards, a pro- records of hundreds of millions of power companies and the listened again.” peace with the uneasy knowledge that fessor at Washington University’s U.S. phone customers. In another construction industry he’s EPA officials told The someone — government, business or School of Law in St. Louis who stud- program, it collects audio, video, worked in since the 1960s.

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