 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, 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 North Lake Drive in Prestonsburg. The Economic Development Administration recently announced an award of $1.2 million to aid the Mountain Association in disaster recovery following the 2022 floods. This funding will allow them to expand their free business consulting for disaster-impacted businesses and continue offering 0% interest flood recovery loans. So there were a lot of federal agencies that showed up right away after the flooding last year, notably FEMA and SBA, and people were able to apply for those funds. But there's other federal money out there that isn't going to come to an area like this unless we go after it and pursue it and get it. And that was the case with this money from the Economic Development Administration. So we developed a proposal. We have worked with EDA in the past. They've been really good partners to work with. And in this proposal, we looked not just at the recovery from last year's flooding, but also the ongoing effects of climate in our region. In addition to offering free business consulting, the funding will also aid the association in hiring a disaster recovery coordinator. The really important things that we'll be able to do with this funding is to hire a disaster response coordinator. And they will be coordinating our efforts across our organization internally. We do small business financing. We do technical assistance. We do training. We have a whole program around energy adaptations, clean energy that is really important to helping businesses be more resilient. The coordinator will also work with all of our allies, partners and networks across the region to enhance the ability of these different organizations to synergize their efforts. To learn more about the project, visit mtassociation.org. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.