 Floyd County officials, business owners, and community members will be gathering on Friday at the Mountain Arts Center to participate in a dance competition to raise money for the Floyd County homeless shelter. So this is the Dance for the Shelter event. It's going to be held at the Mountain Arts Center Friday, November 1st at 7 p.m. It's a competition kind of like Dancing with the Stars, but we're raising money for the homeless shelter of Floyd County. It's the second year this is going on. It was a wonderful event last year, so much support for the arts and for the homeless center. So we meet our partner and kind of it's like, OK, have you ever danced before? No, never danced ever! So my partner this year had never danced before and he actually had some songs that he liked, which was really fun. So he actually had a lot to do with the creative and that in picking the song this year, and it is a good one and everyone is going to want to see it. So they asked me to be part of it, Mickey McGuire is the one who headed it up, and he asked if I would be willing to be part of this event. And of course I would, because it's Dancing with the Stars, and it's also dancing for such a wonderful cause and giving back to our community, which is what I'm all about. I was asked to try to help the Floyd County homeless shelter get some money to get started. And they had been working for almost four years and not able to generate sufficient funds to open the shelter. So last year we did it the first year and when they asked me what to do, I came up with the Dancing for Shelter. Homelessness is different here in a rural community than it is in a big city. In a big city they have parks and they have shelters and they have food banks and people line up and they're easily counted. You can easily go downtown and go to some of the places where the homeless hang out and maybe count 50, 60 people. In Floyd County we tend to be culturally different and people that are homeless are embarrassed about it. They don't want to be identified as homeless and that's part of our problem is because they're invisible. You may be standing next to one in a grocery store line that's buying one or two things. You may be standing in line at a fast food restaurant for him to have his person that's buying their only meal of the day. But the money that we raised from this event is the last fundraiser of the year and it's the money that all the money we have to operate on for a whole year. So this is our big fundraiser. This is so important to us and it's so important. Last year we were blessed. They had 1,047 seats at the mic and we sold 1,047 tickets. So it was a packed house. It was a sell out. So it'll be a great show. Isn't every team going to win this year? We're going to win. Dick is a hard worker. I'm a hard worker. But most of us are going to have fun. But we've worked well together. We worked hard. We got a late start. I think most of the other dancers knew about a month and had started a month before us. So we're kind of bringing up the rear here but we're giving it our best shot and we're going to have a good time. I am burning up Facebook. I am burning up all those people say they're my friends. I'm going to see if they're my friend, okay? I'm sending it out there. So yes, I am definitely encouraging people to come out. Just come out and join us. We look forward to it and thank you. Well, several years ago I had the misfortune, we'll say, of having cancer. So I'm a cancer survivor and, you know, you just accept life for what it is and go on. And I hope I can be an inspiration to others to just go out and live life to the fullest day after day and hopefully enjoy life as you can enjoy life. I have got a great appreciation for the art since I started into this. Anybody that wants to learn dancing, go out and learn it at a young age because when you get by age it's an experience you'll never forget. We as local business owners and people involved in community need to take care of our local people. We shouldn't depend on other people from other areas. I think if you want to see a wonderful evening of entertainment, some of it probably be comedy and some of it probably will be tragedy. But whatever you come and see you will enjoy it. Just come out and support a good cause. Thank you.