 TheBasementShop.com is the premier spot for the beefiest bases, acoustics, drum kits, even ukuleles, with a wide variety of new and used musical instruments and accessories from D-Drum, Luna, Dean, Specter, Warwick, Sadowski. Head over to TheBasementShop.com to find the gear you need to rock out. TheBasementShop.com. A cleanup day was held at the Pikeville Pond on Saturday, March 11th, where 15 people came together to pick up trash and other debris lining the banks of the pond. From the aesthetic perspective of it, that's important, especially if you're thinking of a tourism. You know, it's the first impression people see and you don't want it to be just litter and trash and garbage because that sticks with people and they won't be back. I wouldn't be back if I wasn't from an area and you see that. And of course there's environmental issues associated with it too. The Pikeville Pond is teaming with life from ducks and geese to various types of fish whose lives are in danger because of the trash and the waterway. And with the weather becoming nicer and nicer, many will be coming out to enjoy some fishing on the pond. Yeah, like you said about the fishing, you know, spring is the, that's the hot month, April is the hot month. That's when bass are spawning. So a lot of your bass fishermen and a lot of people come from out of the area to Pikeville Pond to bass fish. So of course, cleaning this up will just make that more appealing to them to come back, you know, they'll be fishing in a clean waterway. But again, yeah, with the ducks and stuff that's in the area, you know, litter, cigarette butts, especially, you know, it looks like a little piece of bread. You know, they're all the times, you know, picking them up, spitting them out. It's just not what you want to sit and watch happen. The Pikeville Pond provides joy and entertainment to people in the area and is home to many different kinds of wildlife. By keeping the pond clean and throwing away all garbage in the designated garbage bins, the quality of life for both pond goers and the wildlife living there will steadily improve. For mountaintop news, I'm Kelsey Dean.