 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. A rising senior at Floyd Central High School, Todd Prater, has created Operation Drago's Comfort. The program helps provide officers with a comforting gift for children they may encounter during their duties. So I started this project a few weeks ago when I decided that I needed to finally catch up with my Roger Scholars scholarship and I thought about how I wanted to help the county. I have been for years with my Project Essentials for Santa and I thought about the officers that had passed away and I thought about Drago and how they used to do a project for the Sheriff's Office where they had teddy bears and every cruiser and I thought I might want to start that again. So I had to raise money somehow for the teddy bears. So I decided to sell dog treats in memory of Drago to raise money to buy those teddy bears for the cops to give out to children in traumatic situations. Prater sold over 1,000 dog treats and was able to purchase 124 teddy bears for the Floyd County Sheriff's Department. He hopes his work will inspire others his age to get involved in the community. Young people need to step up to show that there's a new generation of people that brings hope. And in the time of this world we need people that have hope. We need people to bring that up and help rebuild communities that have fallen and we don't want just elderly people and people in their older ages to be everyone stepping up. We need to see younger people stepping up as well. Operation Drago's Comfort was inspired by Drago's love for children and Prater hopes these teddy bears can help ease some of the stress that accompanies an interaction with an officer. The importance of the teddy bears are children in traumatic situations whether it's a wreck or if an officer has to get a child out of a home. Children are scared. Younger children don't know exactly what's going on. They don't know how to respond or react to it. And just something as small as a teddy bear can keep a child calm in any situation. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.