Every year prior to the Cheat River Festival, Friends of the Cheat has a drawing contest that is open to all students K-12. The drawings are to represent the mission statement of FOC to "Restore, Preserve, and Promote the outstanding natural qualities of the Cheat River watershed. This year we recieved about 36 drawings, of which 4 were chosen as the winners.
To celebrate Earth Day 2009 Friends of the Cheat had about 10 volunteers come out on Saturday April 18th to take part in their Adopt a Highway clean-up. 28 bags of garbage was collected on the strip of Highway that starts in Albright & goes north on Rt 26 for about 3 miles. The second event that fell in line with Earth day was a native tree planting event on Briery Mountain Wildlife Management Area on April 21st,22nd, & 24th. This project was a cooperative effort between Friends of the Cheat, Camp Dawson, and the Mountaineer Treeways Program.