Coal mining forum held in Letcher County
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Updated: 7:49 PM Jun 15, 2009
Coal mining forum held in Letcher County
Officials from all three Southeastern Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges held a forum Monday in Letcher County to discuss improvements to the coal industry.
Posted: 7:49 PM Jun 15, 2009
Reporter: MacKenzie Bates
Email Address: mackenzie.bates@wymtnews.com
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Officials from all three Southeastern Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges held a forum Monday in Letcher County to discuss improvements to the coal industry.

Pine Mountain Grill in Whitesburg hosted the event.

One mine operator wants to see the schools help new miners get better educated for the job.

Leaders also discussed equipment operations as well as getting feedback from several coal companies.


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Posted by: Anonymous on Jun 16, 2009 at 05:29 PM

time its over u will be glad to see a ssi check,jobs r gone.
Posted by: Bill on Jun 16, 2009 at 07:51 AM

Did Obama send down a rep. to tell us how to get on SSI, so we can become PostOffice Democrats too.

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