 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. First frontier Appalachian trails had its first private line owner lease signing at the Johnson County Fiscal Corps on Thursday, September 15th. This is the first big step in creating a trail system that will span 18 counties. Well, today was a very important day for us, for our organization, as this is the first private property owner to sign a use agreement with us. We've worked with several counties so far in securing use of county roads, no county roads, but this is the first private property owner for us. And it's a very important day. We've worked long and hard to get to this point. And we just feel like this is really going to open the door and we're going to see a lot more people coming on board now. Rice's motivation for signing the agreement was the hope of attracting more tourism to Johnson County. It just makes me think, I just wish everybody could see this because there are so many beautiful places out there that people don't have a clue. I just now saw a place just about a month ago. I've never seen it before. With the agreement in place, the property owner is no longer legally responsible for those who ride the trails. It takes a lot of building to help us. We know people are going to ride the trails. I mean, our property is a very isolated property. And, you know, in the future, I can see that we might be able to get a barn on it. There's some oil wells. So, you know, I can see that there's some things that we might do out there to develop it. But I think other people should do it. If we don't step up and help these organizations bring in tourism, and that's what it's about. I mean, we have got to bring in some tourism dollars. First frontier Appalachian trails hopes that more private landowners will follow Rice and sign leasing agreements with them so they can fulfill their goal of creating a trail that spans 18 counties. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.