 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reid Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reid at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. On Thursday, February 23, A.R.H. and University of Kentucky are partnering to host a heart-healthy cooking class at the Pike County Extension Office beginning at 5 p.m. The class will be taught by A.R.H. Regional Community Management Director, Lakin Chapman. It is free to sign up and participants will leave with the knowledge needed to better their diet. February is Heart Month, so we decided that for this month that we would do a cooking demonstration class. I feel like it's super easy to be able to learn some quick, easy meals stuff, but not all of them are always very healthy for everybody. So we wanted to be able to cook a very quick, simple meal that would also be considered heart-healthy, as well as a heart-healthy dessert. So we will not also be cooking a entree tomorrow, but we will also be showing how to cook two dessert options. Chapman highlights the importance of heart-healthy eating as many in the East Kentucky region either have or are predisposed to cardiovascular issues. Those wishing to sign up can contact Chapman via email at lchapman2atarh.org or call 606-369-8899. Unfortunately, within East Kentucky, we do have a very high risk within heart disease. So it's something that we really wanted to tackle, what are the main things to be able to kind of make sure that your heart is healthy is by the way that you eat. And unfortunately within our areas, some of the people within our areas just don't eat as healthy as they probably should. So that's one of our main missions within ARH to be able to give the community those opportunities to learn how to cook those meals. At the event, we will be showing everybody how doing a demonstration on how to cook the meal. And then once everybody leaves, they will be leaving with a culinary kit which will have supplies in order to prep the meal as well as a Food City gift card to be able to go and purchase all the ingredients to be able to cook the meal as well as recipe cards for the entree and then two desserts that we'll be teaching. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.