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The Lonesome Pine Youth Services Board and the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth Staff would like to thank all those who came to celebrate with us on our special day.  The  "Picnic in the Park" was a huge success!  There were over 200 in attendance! Thanks to everyone that helped in any way, and to all who could not attend but  sent kind words of encouragement, we could not have made it this far without you.   

We look forward to serving the youth and families of Virginia for years to come.

 

Starting in the early 1890s, the coal industry of Pennsylvania moved into the mountains of Virginia.  Over the course of the coming century, the towns established by these coal companies to ensure a dependable supply of miners rose and fell with the national economy.  Once rails were laid deep into the Appalachian hollows and coke ovens built, production began in earnest starting a boom that would last well into the 1920s.  With the boom, came unionism, and with unionism, came the potential for conflict.  Having witnessed the incredible violence that placed “Bloody Harlan” in the public consciousness during the 1920s, the Virginia coal operators seemingly sought to “out-union the union” by providing every necessity and many luxuries to those employees who lived in their towns.  At the same time, such an environment was fraught with opportunities to exploit workers and their families.  Along with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal came labor-friendly legislation in the form of the National Labor Relations Act, which put corporations and workers on level ground for the first time in American history.  After World War II, the long decline began and the company owned towns began to either be sold off to individuals or razed.  Now, more than a century after the first of these towns was built, many of them still stand as historical monuments to the old practices while still housing yet another generation filled with the same hopes of their predecessors.
 

Click on these links to go to Coalfield.com to read about recent grants awarded to the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth and other news concerning the community:
  

$50,000.00 ARC to focus on  Music for young people:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16077147&BRD=1283&PAG=461&dept_id=158544&rfi=8
 

$400,000.00 Youthbuild:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16033375&BRD=1283&PAG=461&dept_id=158544&rfi=8 
 

News about Brushy Fork Trans. :

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16104122&BRD=1283&PAG=461&dept_id=158544  

Donate to LPOY by searching the web. Click www.goodsearch.com  Enter Lonesome Pine Office on Youth as your charity and help needy kids with school supplies! 

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