 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. On Thursday, April 6, Kentucky State Police paid a visit to Mr. Gaddy's for an Easter basket giveaway. Families in the area brought their kids to have a good time eating Gaddy's buffet and receiving candy and toys. The event was done in partnership with a Ray of Hope nonprofit organization. Yes, it's an Easter basket giveaway where we partnered with the Ray of Hope, which is a nonprofit charitable organization based out of Lawrence County. And we've been doing this, I've been doing it with them three years. They were doing it years before that, but we took a little break because of COVID and then got it back going after COVID and kind of died down. So yeah, it's a great event. Kids come out here. We work at the Family Resource Center to find kids that would be most deserving and can benefit most of the program. So when the kids come out, Gaddy's agrees to feed them so that, you know, they've hosted us here. They're feeding all the kids. They usually give them a game card to go play some games afterwards. And then we give them all an Easter basket and they get to come up. We have an Easter bunny here. They get to take pictures with them, take pictures with me. And then we've got a little drawing where we've got some toys and if their name gets drawn, they can go out and pick up a toy out of the basket. The event wouldn't be possible without donations coming to KSP and their community partners. Each child left with something in their hands and a smile on their face. It's not always you get to have this kind of interaction with the police. So anytime they can come out and we can laugh and have a good time, it's great. You know, and all of our community partners really come together for this. Like I said, Ray Hope, Gettys was hosting it for us. And then Walmart also donates money and baskets sometimes to be able to have all the baskets and have enough for the kids. We're not able to do it without donations from community partners, but there's no actual fundraising event just for this. Most of our fundraising goes for like our shop of the trooper, Trooper Island. So with events like this, you know, it's donations from different businesses or different people within the community. Reporting from Mountaintop News, I'm Nick Column.