 Belfry Volunteer Fire Department takes this time to invite you and your family to the 41st annual Thunder in the Valley Saturday, July 2nd. Fireworks start at 10.05pm. This event will be held at Belfry High School. Come enjoy Thunder in the Valley. Also, Belfry Fire Department takes a moment to take all the sponsors that help make this event possible. Pikeville Main Street, the Appalachian Center for the Arts and the City of Pikeville are holding an Arts Elevated Art Contest for kids K-12 in Pikeville and Pike County. We are having them draw a picture of how the mountains can move them, embrace them, love them, just anything that inspires them to draw the mountains and how they affect them. The prompt for the drawing contest is let the mountains move you, but kids are encouraged to draw how the mountains move them. They can depict how the mountains inspire them, how the mountains love them, or any number of ways the mountains make them feel. We are going to select 20 artwork pieces from all that are turned in by July the 8th. We will pick those and those will be hung in the city park at eye level for the children. We will have prizes for the top three. Everyone that is chosen for the 20 will receive a gift certificate to you, me and Pottery downtown here in Pikeville to come out and have a Pottery session with an adult. This is a wonderful opportunity to display the kids of Pike County and their artwork. Art is deeply rooted in all traditions and is an excellent way of expressing how one feels. Being surrounded by gorgeous mountains, there is plenty to draw inspiration from. I think this gives all kids of Pikeville and Pike County an opportunity to shine and to show their artistic and creative side to what leads them to love Pikeville and call Pikeville their home. The artwork must be submitted to City Hall on the corner of Main Street by 5pm on Friday, July the 8th. For more information, contact MentaTrimble at Menta.Trimble at pikevilleky.gov. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsea Dean.