Ashbourne Farms Booklet

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Ashbourne Farms

join Summer Auerbach, Owsley Brown III and Victoire Reynal, Augusta and Gill Holland, Laura and Michael Jones, Dace and Ben Maki, William Mapother, Mike and Elizabeth Mays and Austin and Layla Musselman in inviting you to invest in an expanded campaign to finally put an end to

Friday July 16th from 7-10pm light, local supper prepared by Chef Jay Denham

Special musical guests

Ashbourne Farms and Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Barn Party Program Friday, July 16, 2010

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Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a statewide grassroots, social justice organization. We believe that people can work together to build a better future, challenge and change injustice, and improve the quality of life for all Kentuckians. On behalf of our nearly 7,000 members, including those of you here, we thank you for attending this event.

The members you have seen and heard tonight offer a snapshot of the determination and momentum that is generating new power across Kentucky during this critical moment of transition.

This program offers more information about some of the biggest opportunities and challenges we’re facing in the Commonwealth, viewed from and informed by our members’ perspectives.

We’re working to position Kentucky as a leader in the new energy economy and immediately end the most destructive coal mining practices. With your help, we will get there.

Learn more at www.kftc.org.

CARL SHOUPE I was blessed to be born and raised in Lynch, Kentucky. I’ve lived here in Harlan County all my life except when I was serving as a Marine in Vietnam. I enjoy telling folks that I live on the banks of Looney Creek, just down the road from where I was born.

I’m a third generation coal miner. My granddad worked underground over near Evarts. They used mules to haul the coal out in his day. My dad worked a bunch of different mines around here. After he settled down, he worked for U.S. Steel here at Lynch; worked for them for 32 years.

Many of us are working to create a better future for our children and grandchildren – and we've got lots of possibilities and real ideas about how to do that. We've got a bright future if we want it.

I followed him into the mines, but before long a rock fall ended my mining career. Later, I spent about 15 years working for the UMWA as an international organizer; worked from Canada to Australia but mostly here in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.

My son – a fourth generation coal miner – works in the mines today. He’s a top-notch coal miner, one of the best in his company. But coal mining’s not like it used to be, and everyone knows it’s on the way out. I can’t see much of a future in mining for my grandchildren. I’m not looking for my grandsons to be fifth generation coal miners.

I believe that today, right now, we have the best chance we’ve had in generations to create a new economy here in Eastern Kentucky with more jobs, better jobs, and healthy communities. It’s time to start a transition to a new energy economy here in Kentucky, and I’m determined to help make it happen.

It's well documented that Appalachia was the energy leader of the 20th century. There's no reason we can't be the leader of the next energy economy.

Our people should be building solar panels and wind turbines. We’ve earned the right to have a place at the front of the new energy economy, but to take our place there we’ve got to make better choices.

This community of Benham and Lynch could be an example for all of Appalachia. We’ve lived through good times and bad times, but we’ve made it. Now, many of us are working to create a better future for our children and grandchildren – and we’ve got lots of possibilities and real ideas about how to do that. We’ve got a bright future if we want it.

But that bright future is threatened by the worst elements and old habits of the coal industry. They want to open up five new mines up and down this holler that would likely destroy our water, our roads, our day-to-day way of life, and our hopes for the future. Coal mining is going to be around for a while yet here in the mountains. It’s part of our history and our present. But the industry is about played out, and we can’t let it rob us of our future. We’ve got to make better choices, build something new for the future. We can move on, but first we’ve got to save the mountains of Central Appalachia.

TONA BARKLEY I grew up in far western Kentucky, in Paducah, and I live now just north of Frankfort. I retired a few years ago from KET where I worked in communications. I paint and quilt and play old time music with my husband. Our band is called “Yeller Dog and the Barktones.”

I wasn’t that involved in public issues for much of my life, but I am now. I’m involved because I’ve got more time and because I got more informed. I’m active now, because I believe we have the chance to create new energy and new jobs right here in Kentucky, for Kentuckians.

I'm involved today because I see we're heading in a hurry towards a major global crisis if we don't start making some better choices.

I'm involved because I owe it to my grandchildren.

This year I ran for a seat on the board of directors of my local electric cooperative. I didn’t win, but I hope I helped create some momentum in a new direction. I ran because I’m tired of people blocking progress. I want to be part of developing new solutions, to begin a transition to new energy, new power.

The co-ops are doing a little bit to promote energy conservation, but not nearly enough. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative could plan and execute a major campaign to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy. If we made the right choices and invested in the right places, we could create thousands of new jobs, save megawatts of wasted energy, save money for customers, improve our health, improve our homes, and help protect our environment, all at the same time. I can’t see a reason not to do that.

We simply have to stop investing in old, dirty energy. We don’t need to build new coal-burning power plants, we need alternatives to coal and we need them immediately. I think we’re seeing the beginning of the end for big coal, and they know it. They’re fighting as hard as they can, attacking people personally for telling the truth about coal and coal companies.

It's important for places that rely on coal jobs today to be at the front of the transition to the new energy jobs of the future. Coal miners and coal communities need better options.

I started small, with a small, motivated group of people from my community. I’ve been amazed at what a few of us working together can accomplish. The problems we face are big and the stakes are high, but I’m convinced that Kentucky can make better choices and build a better future for all of us. That’s why I’m here.

Renewing East Kentucky In the first half of the 20th century, rural electric cooperatives formed to provide an important service to Kentucky residents that other for-profit utilities failed to provide: affordable and reliable power to rural residents. Sixteen of these local co-ops in Kentucky banded together to form the East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) which generates the power that each co-op distributes. These co-ops were founded on a set of shared principles including “democratic member control” and “concern for community.”

In theory, each co-op member is an owner in the cooperative and thus has a voice and vote in the election of the board of directors and in decisions that are made. In practice, many co-ops don’t allow members to attend board meetings. It is often prohibitively difficult for members to run for and get elected to their board of directors. Yet, the co-ops make decisions that impact every member and that determine each service region’s energy future. The coops serve the most rural and poverty-stricken areas of the state.

The Moment EKPC could be making choices right now that would better position the cooperatives for coming changes and help members offset rising energy costs. It is estimated that cost-effective investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency could create nearly 9,000 jobs throughout the co-op service region and save money compared to other options. Despite already being 97% coal-dependent for electricity, EKPC has instead proposed to build another coalburning power plant in Clark County. If built, the proposed plant would burn toxic waste coal and coal extracted by mountaintop removal mining, emit unhealthy levels of pollutants such as mercury and sulfur dioxide, and generate more than a half million tons of coal ash each year, which EKPC plans to dump into tributaries of the Kentucky River.

The plant would make EKPC’s more than 500,000 members even more vulnerable to the sky-rocketing costs of coalburning electricity.

The Work With the goals of promoting democracy and better, cleaner, and more affordable energy choices, KFTC members aim to renew the rural electric co-ops. We are working toward a vision of co-ops that are truly democratically run; where members are encouraged to be informed and have a sincere voice and vote in the decisions the co-ops make; where the right energy choices are being made that protect co-op members and all Kentuckians; and where good, local clean energy jobs are created to improve the sustainability of the local economies.

KFTC members have a plan to get there. Along with stopping the Smith plant by challenging permits and financing, members are building a movement around clean energy solutions. Members are running for their boards, and others are meeting with their existing board reps and other decision-makers to promote a plan of energy efficiency, weatherization, and renewable energy programs in the co-ops. And, by reducing the dependence on coal burning, our plan would also improve air quality and water quality in the service area.

K.A. OWENS I grew up in Louisville – born and raised here. But I spent a lot of summers on the family farm in Bullitt County – the farm my great grandparents bought and where my father was raised. At that time my Grandmother and Grand Aunt still lived on the farm.

My Grand Uncle worked the land, grew corn and tobacco and raised hogs, chickens and cattle. He was one of the last farmers in the area to use horses for farming. They were practically self-sufficient on that farm. Besides the crops and animals, my Grandmother and Grand Aunt raised a vegetable garden behind the house – it looked like a field it was so big – to provide food for the table all year long.

I learned a lot spending time there, I wish I’d learned more, especially from my uncle. He had the old skills. He used to say, “watch me, now,” teaching me how to do things but also warning me to take care not to get hurt.

Kentucky loses something when we lose these farms, a selfsufficient work culture that was really valuable. Each of those farms was a family business. But a lot of people are trying to recapture some of what was best about that culture, learning from some of the old ways, adding some better new ways. One area that’s happening is with new, sustainable, energy.

I believe we can create a modern, new power economy right here in Kentucky that will generate clean energy and thousands of new jobs.

I believe we can create it, and I'm just as convinced that we have to.

As the chairperson of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, I helped organize the Kentucky Sustainable Energy Alliance to help speed the transition to a new energy economy. If we invest in energy efficient housing, energy efficient equipment and appliances, retrofitting homes and adding solar power, and building energy efficient communities, we can create thousands of new jobs and new family businesses. At the same time, we can work to see that the benefits reach everyone in our community, that our energy is affordable, and that new jobs go to those who need them most.

A sustainable energy economy would have a different set of goals than the old power economy. We will have more energy jobs than we have today, an adequate supply of energy, and energy production that isn’t so destructive to our health, our communities, or our environment. These are the things we should be investing in, not just maximizing profit for the largest companies in the world.

And while we’re investing in the new energy economy, we’ve got to clean up and fix the problems of the old energy economy. Here in Kentucky, that means reducing the true cost of coal, stopping mountaintop removal and protecting our people from the poisons that come from burning coal.

We are coming to the end of the type of energy economy we both enjoyed and suffered from in the past.

We can’t keep going on the way we have been, the numbers just don’t add up. Another world is possible and necessary and we must create it.

Creating An Energy Policy That Sustains Kentucky Families The top priority identified by the largest number of Kentuckians in a recent national survey about energy choices was “transitioning to renewable energy sources.” Kentucky utilizes renewable energy to provide only 3% of our electricity, burning coal for most of it. Kentucky has immense potential from energy efficiency and renewable energy, but fossil-fuel perpetuating energy policies limit our ability to capitalize on them. One study found that the state of Kentucky annually spends $115 million more to support the coal industry over the revenue received from the economic activity generated by the industry.

Energy policy across the nation is changing. Twenty nine states – up from none ten years ago – including West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio and Illinois have passed renewable portfolio standards. These standards have proven to be the single most effective legislative tool for jump-starting a clean energy economy and creating jobs, yet the Kentucky General Assembly has refused to adopt such a policy.

At a time when the price of coal is rising and carbon costs will likely be added to fuel prices, Kentucky’s state energy policies leave families very vulnerable and risk missing out on our state’s opportunity to be a leader of a national new energy economy.

The Moment National policy changes are turning the market tides towards renewable energy. An infusion of resources from the federal stimulus package over the last two years has grown Kentucky’s clean energy sector. Sectors of the workforce are being retooled with the skills they will need in a new energy economy.

And, in the last three years, Kentucky has passed its first ever sustainable energy incentives. But the policies in place in Kentucky are not significant enough to substantially develop the clean energy sector – the work has only begun.

The Work Promoting and passing sound energy policy to accomplish these aims will require vision, leadership and partnerships across many sectors. With this in mind, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth and our allies formed the Kentucky Sustainable Energy Alliance (KySEA). A first of its kind, KySEA promotes energy policies that will benefit Kentucky’s economic recovery and improve the health and well-being of our families, communities and environment. It is comprised of statewide organizations, for-profit businesses, faith-based groups, affordable housing providers, and a range of other community organizations.

KySEA had its first major success after only a few months of work when legislators introduced a bill that remains the gold standard for Kentucky energy policy. The state had never before considered legislation solely devoted to sustainable energy. Through both our ongoing grassroots work and through the alliance, KFTC will focus on educating legislators and all Kentuckians about our renewable energy potential and the energy policies we’ll need to capitalize on it.

NATHAN HALL I was born and raised in Floyd County. Both sides of my family have been in this area of Eastern Kentucky since the late 1700s. My ancestors were homesteaders, small farmers, loggers, coal miners, and more. As a result, I feel like the history of this region is embedded in my genes.

As a young person, I didn’t really understand or appreciate that history and my undeniable connection to this place. I only saw the unpleasant side – the environmental destruction and lack of opportunities. It left me feeling like I had to get out to escape. But once I was away I began to appreciate all the unique and beautiful things about this place. I did a 180-degree turnabout and began to feel that my role should be to spend my energy on new options for this region. I’m determined to be

My project will start small, but it will provide new jobs. It will be an example of what is possible here.

part of creating a better future here.

If you look at it you can see that this region has been in constant transition. Transition hasn’t always been to the benefit of the people who live here, but it’s always been going on. We also have to recognize that we’ve reached peak coal in this region. We may have more coal in the ground, but it’s going to be harder and more expensive to mine it.

Plenty of areas around the world have gone through the same thing – the Ruhr Valley in Germany, Wales in the UK, and other places that used to be heavily dependent on mining. This is not a uniquely Appalachian phenomenon, it’s common to all extraction-dependent regions. We have to transition in an intelligent, respectful way to something sustainable and good for the land and the people.

I believe Kentucky can be a leader in a new energy economy. It's important to do something that utilizes the skill sets of the existing workforce and integrate those folks into what can be a long-term shift to sustainable energy sources while also restoring and repurposing our damaged lands.

That’s why I’m starting with a small biodiesel project that will convert waste cooking oil into clean-burning biodiesel. In the near future I hope to work on larger projects that will remediate thousands of acres of surface mined land by breaking up compaction, replacing the aggressive exotics with native trees and grasses, harvesting these for bioenergy, returning biochar to the land to sequester carbon and build soils, and pave the way for an eventual transition back to native hardwood forest.

My project will start small, but it will provide new jobs. It will be an example of what is possible here. And that’s just the beginning. As we get these ground-level projects going, the region will become more attractive to other kinds of economic development, including new energy systems.

As we begin the transition to the next economy, we should shift coal production to underground mines that cause less destruction and employ more people. We have to acknowledge and take into account that some types of extraction, like mountaintop removal, are just too destructive and disrespectful to creation and to the lives of the people who are forced to live with it. It’s just not worth the cost.

Transitioning to a Diverse, Sustainable Economy Economic transition in Kentucky and in mountain communities long dominated by the coal industry is at hand.

Businesses emblematic of this economic transition are popping up across the state. In recent decades, Kentucky’s economic development has focused almost solely on attracting large-scale industry. Yet, small business startups have been proven as the primary means to successfully diversify and grow an economic base. It is important, then, that Kentucky must move instead towards increased investment in entrepreneurship and small business development, particularly by targeting investments to young people and early stage entrepreneurs.

In eastern Kentucky, a successful economic transition will require community-based solutions and new investment strategies. Impacted by the boom and bust economic cycles associated with a mono economy and by limited financing options, small business start-ups lag the national average by more than 30%. Despite common assumptions, the coal industry employs only 7% of the region’s labor force today. Instead, the most rapidly growing employment sectors are services and retail. Given the persistent poverty present in eastern Kentucky, an economic strategy oriented around the coal industry or any mono economic development will not yield prosperity.

The Moment Kentucky’s energy and economic landscape is in the midst of radical change. People are talking about the possibilities for the future and the imminent end of coal. The opportunities we have right now to transition Kentucky, especially mountain communities, to a sustainable economy didn’t exist twenty years ago and they may not exist two decades from now. A proposal to invest millions into energy efficiency and renewable energy work through east Kentucky’s rural electric cooperatives, for example, could to quickly bring to scale a whole new energy sector. Other scalable activities beyond the energy sector also exist. Our investment choices today will dictate the success of this transition tomorrow.

The Work Through the Appalachian Transition Initiative, KFTC and our allies are working to phase in a diverse, sustainable economy with safe, living wage jobs, and renewable sources of energy.

Our members are living examples of the transition we aim to effect – starting small businesses across the state powering their homes and businesses with renewable energy, running for and being elected to public office.

Many are leaders in their hometowns in eastern Kentucky, fostering dialogue about these issues in a highly polarized and fearful climate.

There’s no silver bullet that will give us the answer to how we get to a stable, healthy diversified economy. More than that, we don’t want to replace the mono economy of coal with a mono economy of anything else. KFTC is focusing our current efforts on changing the conditions that have led to where we are now and on promoting the business, social and political choices that are going to get us where we aim to be.

JESSICA DEIS It's heartbreaking to think that they would dump this coal waste – waste they know contains toxic metals and dangerous chemicals – in neighborhoods and near schools and playgrounds.

I have three kids, from six months to nine years old. They are my focus and they are what motivates me to make my community safer, cleaner, healthier.

I grew up in eastern North Carolina and I’ve lived or visited places all up and down the east coast. About eight years ago, I visited a friend here in Louisville and it immediately felt like home. I loved the diversity of the city life and the opportunities. I just loved the community.

We moved here as soon as the opportunity arose.

I believe that we can build a new energy system here in Kentucky and across the country, completely based on renewable energy, in the next 20 years. We could have wind farms on mountains instead of strip mines, solar roadways and other forms of clean, safe, new power.

If everyone would put their focus on creating new power, instead of trying to figure out different ways to use the old energy sources, I know we could make the switch.

I first got really interested in coal issues when I went to “I Love Mountains Day” in Frankfort in 2009. Since then I started learning about all the different aspects of the life cycle of coal from the mining to the burning to the ash disposal. Then I heard about this proposal for a new coal ash dump just miles from my home.

It’s heartbreaking to think that they would dump this coal waste – waste they know contains toxic metals and dangerous chemicals – in neighborhoods and near schools and playgrounds. It feels like it’s such a disservice to our kids. I wonder if the people who approve these toxic ash dumps would send their kids to school next door to them.

I know that this is not the best we can do. There has to be a better way. We simply can’t go on this way. We have to make better choices and change the way we get energy and provide jobs for workers. People have always been scared of change. They say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Well, this is definitely broken, and it needs fixing.

Accounting for the True Costs of Coal Each step in the life cycle of coal – extraction, processing, transportation, burning and waste storage – occurs in large volumes in Kentucky. More than 120 million tons of coal is extracted annually, processed and transported here. Ninety-two percent of our electricity is generated from burning coal at one of 21 in-state power plants. And the second largest number of coal ash impoundments in the nation is housed in Kentucky.

Many of the costs along this life cycle are externalized – they are not paid by the coal industry or reflected in the cost of electricity. They are paid in personal and public health costs, lost school and work days, decreased property values, increased water treatment costs, diminished tourism and economic development opportunities, and many other direct and indirect ways.

The disposal of coal ash provides one example of expensive externalized costs of coal. The waste is classified as hazardous to human health – people living near coal ash impoundments face up to a 1 in 50 risk of getting cancer and risk liver, kidney, and lung damage from exposure to it.

Coal ash is commonly dumped on-site at power plants in man-made ponds with little or no containment methods.

In Kentucky, at least 9 million tons of the waste is added every year in 44 known impoundments. Seven of Kentucky’s impoundments are characterized by the EPA as “high hazard,” meaning if a breach occurred, it would likely cause human death.

The Moment Coal ash disposal remains largely unregulated. But that may change. The U.S. EPA has proposed coal ash safety standards that, if adopted later this year, could require utilities to protect the public from coal ash toxins. This issue currently is being played out in Louisville. Residents of middle and south-end neighborhoods are actively opposing a proposed 60-acre coal ash landfill under consideration for the LG&E Cane Run power plant. Eventually reaching a height of 14 stories, the proposed impoundment is located adjacent to many homes.

The Work KFTC believes we must transition away from coal as a primary energy source and phase in a new sustainable economy with renewable sources of energy. This would mean an end to coal’s many externalized costs, including ash. In the short-term, though, the industry should properly contain and monitor the coal ash that currently exists.

KFTC members are working at the local and the national levels to make sure this happens.

BEV MAY I’m the fourth generation of my family to live on Wilson Creek, here in Maytown, in Floyd County, Kentucky. After high school I followed the same path right out of the region that a lot of working class kids from around here followed. I lived in Seattle for a few years, where I met so many people who didn’t have a sense of who they were, their culture, or their community. It dawned on me that I’d left something very precious that I thought I wanted to get away from. I moved back home, but I knew if I wanted a future in Eastern Kentucky, I’d have to work for it.

Today, over twenty years later, I’m more excited about the future than I have been since I got back home. I believe that right now, we have the best chance we’ve had in decades to build a new economy here in Eastern Kentucky. We have the chance to create thousands of new jobs in energy efficiency, in renewable energy production, in land restoration, and in a rebirth of small-scale agriculture.

Today, over twenty years later, I'm more excited about the future than I have been since I got back home. I believe that right now, we have the best chance we've had in decades to build a new economy here in Eastern Kentucky.

If you drive around Eastern Kentucky, you see hundreds of summer gardens. Each of those gardens contains the seeds that could be expanded into a small farm and family business. We have a wealth of knowledge and a resilient and self-sufficient culture.

Each of those little gardens also represents a personal connection to the land and a connection to past generations. People in the mountains cherish our land and all that goes with it. If we’re going to build a new, sustainable economy, we have to stop the destruction of our land.

Mountaintop removal coal mining has to stop and it has to stop now. It's poisoning our water, destroying our health, changing the landscape, destroying homes and making communities unlivable. Our ability to live here depends on stopping mountaintop removal. It's immoral to steal the future of a people, and that's what mountaintop removal is doing.

The people of eastern Kentucky have the resourcefulness and the energy and the creativity to make a better future for ourselves. All we need is a chance.

Ending Mountaintop Removal Forever Mountaintop removal (MTR) is a destructive coal mining practice that blasts off the tops of mountains, leveling them to expose thin coal seams. After the coal is retrieved, the mining waste is dumped into the valleys and streams, creating valley fills, often above where families and communities are located.

Kentucky suffers the largest direct impacts from mountaintop removal of any central Appalachian state. More than 2,500 miles of eastern Kentucky streams are permanently damaged or destroyed with this type of radical coal mining as the primary cause. Carcinogens and heavy metals leach into these streams, into private wells and consequently into rivers that serve as public drinking water sources for mountain communities and Kentucky’s most populous cities. Since MTR mining began two decades ago, jobs for miners have declined by 50% and 574,000 acres of hardwood-forested land in eastern Kentucky has been destroyed.

Many of MTR’s costs remain externalized, paid by miners and residents living near mining operations instead of the coal industry. In fact, a group of distinguished scientists has deemed the human health and environmental consequences of mountaintop removal and valley fills so great that they called for an immediate halt to the practice.

The Moment Over the last decade, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth and other groups in the Appalachian region have waged grassroots efforts to stop mountaintop removal and valley fills. These efforts have yielded a groundswell of support nationwide, led by coalfield residents speaking out against this practice and for a better future in Appalachia. Legislation to protect mountains and streams is now before both chambers of Congress. Over the last year, federal agencies have taken unprecedented steps towards enforcement of existing laws that would go a long way toward eliminating the most serious consequences of mountaintop removal and valley fills. However, the verdict is still out on whether these latest promises will produce real results.

The Work We know a permanent end to mountaintop removal and valley fills is within our grasp. To finally end this most destructive and disrespectful practice we are expanding our outreach and organizing, creating real economic and energy options and alternatives for coalfield workers and communities, educating the public through major communications and media campaign, and pressing public officials to provide authentic leadership and make better choices.

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This city and the work of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth would not have as much character, be nearly as beautiful or delicious without the support of these businesses and people. To build the Kentucky we want, it takes dedication to supporting local business and leadership.

Thank you to these local partners for their commitment to our work and their investment in the future of our city and state.

Ashbourne Farms Blue Dog Bakery Capriole Farmstead Goat Cheeses Creation Gardens Ecosteward Farm to Fork Catering Field Day Family Farm Heine Brother’s Coffee Heitzman Bakery Jay Denham JD Country Milk Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese Magnanimus Wine Group Mike’s Ice New Albanian Brewing Company Old Town Liquors Wiltshire Pantry Steve Clare Jason Cohen Steve Cooley Ward Deters Woode Hanna Shannon Lawson Larry Raley Mike Schroeder Joan Shelley

Hounddog Press Kertis Creative Summer Auerbach Owsley Brown III and Victoire Reynal Augusta and GIll Holland Laura and Michael Jones Dace and Ben Maki William Mapother Mike and Elizabeth Mays Austin and Layla Musselman Tona Barkley Teri Blanton Jessica Deis Nathan Hall Beverly May K.A. Owens Carl Shoupe

Action for Justice P.O. Box 1450 London, KY 40743 (606) 878-2161

visit www.kftc.org