 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. SOAR will be hosting the Appalachian Nursing Academy in July, but applications are open now. This program, directed toward high school juniors and seniors, will be taking place on UPIKE's campus where 30 applicants will receive a $1,500 scholarship and free lodging for those two weeks. Applications are being accepted until March 31st at soar-ky.org. We're inviting 30 rising high school juniors and seniors to attend this two-week long overnight program where we'll have various programs, lectures, educational sessions, other fun activities, mentorships. We'll bring in different people to give motivational talks where the 30 students will be allowed to learn more about healthcare, specifically nursing, and all of the skills and requirements that go into having a career in that field. The application just opened on the SOAR website. If you go to the SOAR website under the Healthy Communities tab, you can find out more information about the program, including further details and the link to the application. The application will close on March 31st at the end of the month. If you apply, you'll need, we have a short application asking for basic details about yourself, some short answer questions. We'll need a copy of your unofficial transcripts and then one letter of recommendation. Once the two weeks are over, the students who participated will also be given a year-long mentorship. The program aims to show the broad spectrum of opportunity in the medical field in East Kentucky. I know sometimes because healthcare is so broad and the path to getting into the nursing field or any other healthcare field can be a little intimidating, so we want to use this mentorship program as an opportunity to really help those students along and follow them as they continue on their career paths. I think it's a great opportunity if you have any interest in healthcare at all or if it's something you're considering about as a high school student as you're looking forward to your future and to what you want to do with your life. And it also shows you just how many opportunities are available to students from this area, from any of the 54 SOAR counties, how many jobs are available to them and healthcare and how affordable it can be as well.