This article originally provided by The Register-Herald

September 14, 2006

Long trek

The Associated Press

Ed Wiley, left, who walked from West Virginia to Washington, meets with Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. in Byrd’s Senate office on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday. The Raleigh County grandfather made the 455-mile trip to draw attention to a coal refuse pond and preparation plant near Marsh Fork Elementary School.

Ed Wiley, left, who walked from West Virginia to Washington, meets with Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. in Byrd’s Senate office on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday. The Raleigh County grandfather made the 455-mile trip to draw attention to a coal refuse pond and preparation plant near Marsh Fork Elementary School.
Ed Wiley, left, who walked from West Virginia to Washington, meets with Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. in Byrd’s Senate office on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday. The Raleigh County grandfather made the 455-mile trip to draw attention to a coal refuse pond and preparation plant near Marsh Fork Elementary School.
HARRY HAMBURG / The Associated Press


 

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