 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 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. October is National Crime Prevention Month, which aims to remind residents that they are all responsible for ensuring their communities are safe and crime-free. We spoke to Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt about how the community can help reduce crime. That's all about solving crime, is neighborhoods and neighbors taking a little interest in looking after their neighbor. And that's who calls us the majority of the time, is a neighbor saying that there's some unusual activity at the next door or down the road. And we've been pretty innovative in creating some ways that makes it easier for people to contact the Sheriff's Department. We created the Text-A-Tip, which is very handy. It's a way to do it silently where nobody really don't have to know what you're doing or who you are when you text a deputy. Obviously 9-1-1 to start with if it's a dire emergency in those ways. And then you can always even report anonymous. We have anonymous tip line that you can call and it's a machine. Now that's not what we encourage you to do if it's something that requires an immediate response. But if it's something that can wait hours or a day or two, drug tips and crime information, that's a good tool for us. In addition to making a tip, there are steps you can take to help deter crime. There's several steps you can take. Obviously, we encourage people to not put on social media that they're going to be out of town, going to be gone for a day or two or a weekend or whatever. And then do a little thing, make sure somebody checks your mail, that they don't let the mail overload the box, and that somebody can get that for you so that people driving through the area can see that somebody is taking care of the mail, that there's activity around the home that people are there or present or coming back. And letting your neighbor know that you're going to be gone for a day or two if you're going to leave. And also, you can call, obviously, the sheriff's office and just say, listen, I'm going to be gone for a week. I want extra patrol, make sure somebody drives through the neighborhood and just checks on their house. There's several steps that you can take to help decrease or reduce the risk. And I would encourage you to do that.