 Thanks for checking this video out. Your mountaintop news video is coming up in just a minute. Did you know that it's going to be watched thousands of times, shared a bunch of times, likes, comments, you name it, it's going to be there? Why isn't your ad here? Call me. The Veterans of Foreign Wars conference got set for takeoff in Pikeville early Friday morning. We spoke with Larry Miller of the Appalachian Wireless Arena for more information about this weekend long event. We've managed to draw the VFW conference into the area. It's the first time since its inception in the 1800s that it's been on this side of Kentucky. Very proud of that myself and Nathan Seco and Darren and a few of us went down and we offered and they came so we're very proud to have the event here this year and probably next year. The Hilo ride behind us, as you can tell it's a Vietnam era Huey and a lot of the veterans are going to be taking a ride. We've come up for the first time since Vietnam this morning on the Huey and immediately after we're going to do an awareness ride with the motorcycles and head over into Del Barton, West Virginia and then back. So if you see a few of us events this morning, just wave, we'll be waving back and proud to be here. Proud to have all these veterans in our area and have everyone show their pride and come on out. While the VFW conference is geared towards celebrating the service of our veterans, Miller says there will be plenty of entertainment for everyone to enjoy in downtown this weekend. It'll be going all weekend. So today started everything and then everything else commenced at about four today, dinners, conferences, classes. So everything will be coming up throughout the weekend. Tomorrow is the main VFW conference. It'll be going from about nine in the morning until about five in the evening. And then we have entertainment, live entertainment for everyone on Main Street at the stage. And we'll be doing that this evening at five, bluegrass music. And then I think Johnny Pop Day is going to come on out and local artists. I don't think they're ready for Johnny Pop. Main conference will be at the arena. Hospitality rooms if you're coming in for the conference are at the Hampton. So remember Hampton will be providing shuttle services throughout the evening and tomorrow through all hotels in the area and getting you back and forth to the arena. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joshua Sloan.