 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. Josh Vernon, a local architect with over 20 years of experience, has been appointed to the Pikeville Historic Preservation Board. The Historic Preservation Board works to maintain historic architecture and repair historic buildings throughout the city. Mr. Ellswick called and we've been doing work with the city for about six years or more on various architectural projects and he just had a conversation with me and asked if I would be willing to serve on the board. The main purpose of the Historic Preservation Board is to assess proposed changes to any historic facilities or facilities that have historic value to the city of Pikeville and to assess and make recommendations on how those proposed renovations or proposed changes and how appropriate they are and make recommendations for how things should be done to give appropriate respect for historic architecture. Several buildings throughout Pikeville were built over 100 years ago and require specific knowledge of antique architecture to maintain and repair. Pikeville is they have a really invigorating downtown area and there's a lot of rich historic architecture. Some of that has fallen into disrepair or is whether from weather damage or from just time and buildings being used are in need of repair for them to be able to be used and so it's it's the important thing is is that when projects are proposed to utilize historic architecture that that those proposals be evaluated based on not taking away the value that that historic architecture brings to the city and making recommendations for how it can be done well. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.