News from our region

OSTRAVA – The children must not feel any crisis, and this principle applies even more to those from “Barborka” (i.e. St. Barbara Civil Association). Therefore, the St. Barbara Civil Association prepares, together with the Mother’s Committee, shared events and new contributions to particularly help the neediest people. Apart from the traditional supports for education, the St. Barbara Civil Association wants to help mothers with covering the increasing health care costs.... more

Ostrava (3 December 2009) – On Friday, the OKD Foundation will officially start its first public collection. It will sell little ceramic carps, manufactured in the St. Alexander Charity’s workshop, to the employees of OKD and other companies. Proceeds will be distributed between the St. Barbara Civil Association, which takes care of miner’s orphans, and the “Child with Diabetes”, an Ostrava-based association, which takes care of children suffering from diabetes.... more

(Ostrava, October 22) – Projects of non-profit organisations that were of benefit to their environment, as well as people who help to improve the lives of others, deserve both financial rewards in the form of grants, but also public acknowledgement and esteem. This is the main motto of the first year of the competition for the OKD Foundation Prizes, announced by the Foundation today.... more

KARVINÁ – The designation of the recultivation project called 'Křemenec area recultivation' derives from the name of the area locally known as 'Na Křemenci' (The Quartzite Site) at the boundary separating the communities of Karviná-Doly, Doubrava and Orlová. Within the area to the northwards of the state highway I/59 Ostrava – Karviná, adjoining the premises of what used to be the Doubrava Mine, there is a subsidence valley where a system of sludge ponds was built during the 1980s to serve as a wastewater treatment station for all the wastewaters coming from the Doubrava mining site.... more

ORLOVÁ – What do you think of when you hear the word “Figura”? Skiers may presumably think of a ski resort Figura under the Praděd Mountain, or rather the name of the owner of the property. However, a site of the same name also lies in Orlová, near road No. I/59 that connects Ostrava and Karviná. In the past there used to be a romantic park with a lake and an island dominated by a majestic water sprite right in its centre, or rather a stone sculpture of a water sprite. The lake, established at a tributary of the Doubravský Stream, attracted people living nearby to take a stroll and relax there. But alas!... more

KARVINÁ – When you are going by road from Orlová to Karviná, you cannot miss an interesting site on the right hand side – a considerably leaning structure. People smilingly compare it to the leaning tower in the Italian town of Pisa. It is the Church of St. Peter of Alcantara built in 1736 in the Baroque style. It leans visibly by 6.8° to the South from the vertical axis and stands in the centre of the original town of Karviná, today Doly.... more

OSTRAVA/NOVÝ JIČÍN AREA – Companies from OKD, RPG RE and OKD, Doprava Holdings got involved in helping people and municipalities in the Nový Jičín and Jeseník areas as well as in other parts of the Czech Republic, which were hit by devastating floods.... more

ORLOVÁ – The mining colonies of Liberdova and Červená between Orlová and Karviná-Mines presently exist only in eyewitnesses’ minds. Due to the mining performed in the near mines,  there was subsidence there, and the local houses were collapsing and in the end, they were pulled down. The water stream of Lazecká Stružka, which used to flow through the colonies, overflew. But even before the flooding, the miners launched a rescue.... more

OSTRAVA – Should we have gold or diamond mines, oilfields or other mineral resources, we would have a wonderful time in our country – this is the way in which many people associate such treasures of the earth with the luxurious life, brimful of happiness. Yes, the discovery and mining of mineral resources usually caused a respective locality... more

OSTRAVA – The seventeenth Mining Yearbook, published by the Czech Mining Authority in collaboration with the Employers` Association of Mining and Oil Industries with a circulation of 1.1 thousand copies, has just appeared in Ostrava. Despite the recent depression, mining continues to rank among the important sectors of the national economy.... more