 Prestonsburg Tourism is currently seeking a new executive director following the departure of the current director, Samantha Johnson. Johnson said she is grateful to have worked alongside many people who have the same love and appreciation for the city. Applications are now open and will be reviewed on Friday, February 23rd. Yeah, so Prestonsburg Tourism is eager to find a new executive director here. I've had just the journey of a lifetime here in Prestonsburg working alongside the community over the last five and a half years and now transitioning into a new role in Virginia and this is just the most incredible place to work with the most wonderful people and departments and partners and attractions and we're very very fortunate and so we are accepting applications for the executive director position and looking for a new leader to guide us to even greater heights here and so we will be having applications open until the first review on February 23rd and then hopefully having someone in place by the end of March so we are very eagerly searching for for a good and strong applicant. Appalachian Community Care offers outpatient medication assisted treatment for addiction counseling and behavioral play therapy for children accepting Medicare and all major insurance recovery is hard regret is harder Appalachian Community Care Pikeville-Wightsburg 606-432-5660 find them on Facebook. The Tourism Board is looking for someone who knows how to showcase everything Prestonsburg has to offer. To apply for the position go to Prestonsburgky.org slash careers. We are a destination marketing organization so our role is to destination or to market Prestonsburg for for all of the country really so you know while we do have a have a footprint here in Prestonsburg our goal is to get a brand-new visitor and with that a brand-new dollar in this comer and into this community so you know a lot of times people locally don't see our commercials because they're running a hundred miles in a way so whoever comes into this position one of their job responsibilities is to find the right visitor profile for each event that we have or for each season that we have or whatever it might be to fill in those gaps along the way and working very very closely with organizers that create events or programs on their own and then also a number of events that our office has has taken the lead on as well. Reporting for mountaintop news I'm Nick Column