 Tech the halls with Appalachian Wireless offering you up to $850 off select devices extended through Christmas Eve with no activation fee up to $850 off the latest and greatest devices. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. On Friday, December 15th, Kentucky State Police post 9 held their annual shop with a trooper event at the Pikeville Walmart. Dozens of children were treated to a breakfast at the store and then paired up with an officer to go on a Christmas shopping spree. Despite the great amount of effort put into planning the event, the troopers say it's all worth it. Such a great event, you know, it's a tradition. They've been doing it for, I know, over 20 years. I was the first one here this morning. So, you know, getting everything set up so to still see them come in. I was watching them run down the aisle smiling. They were all happy this morning. Know that they're going to go shopping. It makes all the work throughout the year that all the troopers do just this work that, you know, there's a lot of fundraising goes into this, a lot of donations from the community. So there's a lot of work that goes into a one day event. And, you know, all the troopers pitch in as far as, you know, working the fundraisers and, you know, going out and collecting donations. And all that work comes to a one day event. It's just such a great event to see those kids and get to see them come out here and have fun. And the troopers just the same, you know, they come out and it's a good day for them to kind of let their guard down a little bit and interact with the kids and just have a great time. Post 9 is thankful for their community partners who help make the event possible. Now they're looking forward to next Christmas. It's a huge team effort. You know, like I said, myself and the other troopers, we go out and we do the fundraising, we do the donations, collecting donations. But, you know, Walmart, they hosted for us. They had cookies and sausage biscuits and juice and milk ready for the kids when they got here this morning. Santa and the Grinch were, Walmart provided those and had them out here for the kids this morning. Then you've also, you know, the McDonald's here on Cassidy Boulevard will feed all the kids lunch force, free of charge. And then the bakery there on Redbird Lane, the High North Bakery, gives all the dinner rows and save a lot, donates all the food baskets that people throughout the year have paid for those food baskets at the store to make sure the kids go home with some kind of Christmas dinner. Reporting from Outantop News, I'm Nick Colm.