 The Appalachian Wireless, 30th anniversary holiday sale is going on now from now until the end of the year. Visit us in store or reserve online for an unbelievable sale and give away. We know what you want for the holidays because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Williamson's historic field house will see some big changes in the coming months. Beginning this December, Williamson Parks and Recreation will begin the process of improving many of its areas along with adding a few new features. On Thursday, we spoke with Williamson Parks and Recreation Director Jared Dean about the coming improvements. So we took myself and the board, we took an aggressive approach this year with planning out some projects and different ways that we could upgrade the field house. One, be more economic for us for our utility bills, but also more pleasing for our community and the kids and the families and everything. So we decided to do an LED light package in the facility. And so we have brand new LED lights all around this facility. We're working through contracts and financing for a state of the art HVAC system as well. And then we're also remodeling the bathroom facilities. That's been the one that folks have been asking for the most. Along with remodeling the bathrooms and locker rooms, Dean also states that the improvements will contribute to Williamson's legacy. We've got a really good plan for some history photos that will be displayed throughout the field house that folks can see the history of Williamson, the history of the field house and what events and what activities that have happened here in the field house. So we're going to document that on the walls here. So I think once we're completed with this project, which I'm hoping is going to be by the end of first quarter of next year. And while Dean hopes patrons and visitors appreciate the new changes, he also hopes it will contribute to Williamson's economy with new opportunities. Sports tourism is huge. When you think of a basketball tournament and a company is bringing in 25 to 30 teams, well that's a lot of hotel, that's a lot of lodging, that's a lot of eating, shopping if it's available. So there's an economic impact that parks could play into the economy here in Mingo County and that's our goal, just to be a part of that and to contribute to the community. But I think with the upgrades that we're doing, it's going to lend a lot of our local events and local parties and the college graduation or high school proms with this new HVAC system and the new remodel. I think that we're going to be able to capture a lot of those events back here at the field house. Even with having the HVAC, we'll become a 12 month year operation instead of just a spring, fall, maybe a little bit of winter months operation. So with that being said, we'll be able to condition the space to have events throughout the whole year. We'll be able to do some summer programs for the kids also. Renovations to Williamson's historic field house are expected to be completed by the first quarter of next year. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Corjol.