 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. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 12 and District 9 partnered together April 17th for the U.S. 23 safety rally kicking off Highway Safety Awareness Week. Transportation workers spoke about upcoming projects along U.S. 23 and crew safety in work zones. The importance of work zone awareness week is to bring awareness to the work zone, the upcoming season of work zones. We're transitioning from wintertime into summertime and you want to see a lot more road works. The pavement plans are back open and the jobs are starting back up again. We're trying to make it a better product for the person out there, the taxpayer. So more patience goes a long way when you're out there working and going through there. So just be mindful that we're out here doing a job. We're like anybody else. We don't want to be held up either. But at the end of the day, when we get it done, it's going to be better for everybody, more safer, better roads. We're fixing those potholes that, you know, you might be running through every day and complain about. So we're trying to out there to fix it up and make it better for everybody. Pons also gave safety tips for those traveling during the construction season. So some good safety tips when we're going through work zone is like I was saying, being aware, watch, watch for blind spots. Don't be distracted. Don't be on your phones. You know, you have to be more aware when you're going through work zone. You got closer areas as you're going through there. Give more following distance and just be more patient in general. If someone needs to get in, you know, maybe let them in. Give them some room, give trucks some more rooms and give yourself more stopping distance. Put the phone down. Try not to be distracted and try to stay focused when you're out there on the roadways. And watch for changes because everything's changing. We can control work zone, but we can't control everybody out there on the work zone. Everybody's different. Everybody's individuals and we all have different, you know, views and different ways we do things. So just try to be courteous and be patient. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.