 Ring in the new year with amazing savings from Appalachian Wireless. Get the Galaxy S7 for just $49.99 when you sign a renew a two-year service agreement. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. For over a century, the Kentucky Youth Assembly has been providing a three-day learning program in which students serve as part of a model state government. For the first time ever, a Belfry Middle School student was selected as this year's KYA Conference for Governor. To me, it wasn't me. You know, I was just a pawn. And everybody else, I couldn't have done it without my campaign team, without my school behind me and everybody else that was there. Ryan Varney, an eighth grader at Belfry Middle School, says this has been a dream of his for the past couple of years and he hopes it sparks the interest of those behind him. I always wanted, you know, to be on that ballot, you know, to be running and this year I finally get to. It's just awesome to represent Belfry Middle School and to be the first one, you know, out of hopefully many to come. Even though Varney hasn't been governor for long, he has already participated in his first duty as an elected official. One of my platforms was trying to get an AED, which is an Automated External Defibrillator in every school. And just recently Chuck Johnson and the ARH donated an AED to Southside and they reached out to me to kind of be an advocate for it. While he does have a knack for it, Varney says he has no aspirations in the political field for the future, but says he's only in the eighth grade, so he has time to think about it. Reporting in Belfry for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.