 A check presentation on Friday morning at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in downtown Pikeville was certainly caused for celebration, but for many of these heroes, including East Kentucky barbell owner Jacob Goble, the organization behind the ceremony and the veterans themselves deserve the most recognition. As far as the organization goes, our 501C3 non-profit, 100% of the funds go back to the veterans, not just veterans, it's primarily veterans in Kentucky, it's all Kentucky The president of the organization's checkery started in about 14-15 years ago roughly, but all the volunteers are all vets everywhere on this, I mean I help the East Kentucky region with the organization, get things done like this plan, get events from this area involved, but what they do is they take guys to Alaska for a week on salmon fishing trips during the salmon run, they go down to Florida a couple times a year for fishing trips and hunting trips, Tennessee for fishing and hunting trips, Lake Erie they take guys up to Lake Erie, that's a big event for them too, they go up there in the summer for a week and they do enough to get guys out on Lake Erie and go fishing, I mean it's to get guys involved, you know anyway, the minimum veterans and get that community involved, get them outside, get them moving, get them doing things. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute, we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting-edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. The event for which the check was awarded was a locally held arm wrestling and powerlifting event put on by the Wounded Warriors organization with help from the city of Pikeville and according to Pikeville City Commissioner Steve Hartsock, events like these may well become a regular occurrence. Bucky Acton has come to me a few weeks ago and he approached me about this idea. That man and I got together and we had a conversation with city manager Phil Dellswick. Well I was just so impressed with the way Phillip and the other city commissioners and Mayor Carter jumped on board with this and Bucky and them they just put on a great performance down here. It was well attended. It was a great day to have it and I'd like to thank our Pikeville Fire Department for letting us use their facility. And it was just a great event and what a great cause to do it for the Wounded Heroes program is great. It helps so many people and that's what we wanted the city of Pikeville to be a part of. And we want people to come to Pikeville to enjoy such events as this. So I think this is just the start of something here. We're on to something or about getting our that we can make this an annual event. GOBLE also encourages anybody who is interested in becoming involved with the Wounded Warriors organization or anyone who would simply like to donate to their cause to find more information online. If anybody wants to donate to them, just to donate to them. You can do that too and they would really be appreciative of that. You kind of donate and you do that year round. It doesn't have to be just for an event like this. It can be, you can donate to them year round. You can find them online. They've got a Facebook account, you know, social media just like everybody else does nowadays. You can find them on their Kentucky Wounded Heroes. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joshua Slung.