 The holidays are here, and with that we spoke with Main Street Director Minta Trimble about the importance of shopping local this holiday season. It's really extremely important to shop local, especially during the holidays, because small business owners, they depend on that as a source of income. When you're spending your money here, you can guarantee that probably around 67 cents of a dollar stays in that local economy, whether it's back into the grocery stores, whether they buy things with a downtown merchant or at another store. But when you shop at a small business, especially that money is filtered right back into the economy, so it stimulates everything for the growth of that town and secures, you know, the livelihood of the small businesses. In spirit and support of shopping local this season, the City of Pikeville will also hold its Small Business Saturday event. Trimble mentions some activities included and how you could win money and prizes. We have really tried to make shopping, especially on Small Business Saturday, which is November the 27th, an experience to come downtown. We're going to be set up at our shop downtown tent. It's going to be on 2nd Street. We're giving out 100 red bags. Those red bags have inside a $10 downtown dollar certificate that you can take to any business downtown and be able to spend that. And then if you bring your receipts back to the downtown tent for the money that you spent, you could be entering a drawing for $100, draw them three different times, and a top spender gets $200. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute, we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting-edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. Also happening this Saturday and through the month of December will be a Bear Scavenger Hunt, which will allow you to get free hot chocolate if you find 12 bears within local businesses. Trimble also adds how you can participate in the Wishlist program. If you're in a business and you want someone to know that you really love that item, they have a little wish list that they'll make for you and they'll call that special someone that might want to purchase you something. So we're trying to help the customer make sure they get what they want and then yet also be able to shop downtown to get that item. So we're doing a lot of little things, but we mainly are kicking off everything this Saturday at 10 o'clock. 10 to 5 is our Red Bag Day. And then we start also Saturday with our storybook walk. And that is going to be pages of a book that's going to be in the windows of different businesses and you walk around with your children. And at the end of the walk, they get a special treat bag. Pikeville's small business Saturday begins November 27th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reporting from Pikeville, Kentucky, for Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Korjol.