March On Washington

From Staff Reports
Cumberland Times-News

August 23, 2006 11:49 am

— Ed Wiley walks along state Route 51 in Oldtown Tuesday afternoon.
Wiley, the grandfather of a Marsh Fork Elementary (W.Va.) student, left Charleston, W.Va., en route to Washington Aug. 2 with hopes of meeting with Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and a representative of the Mine, Safety and Health Administration.
Wiley is trying to raise awareness about issues at the school, which sits beside one coal silo and where a proposal for a second was recently denied.
Wiley, who is also trying to raise funds for a new school, is representing the campaign Pennies of Promise and plans to arrive in Washington on Sept. 12.
For more information, log onto penniesofpromise.org.

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