 With forward pay from Appalachian Wireless, you'll avoid contracts and credit checks while taking advantage of some awesome perks like unlimited talk, text, and three gigs of data for just $44.99 or with five gigs for a mere $59.99. Forward pay, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. The University of Pikeville will mark its 127th year this week as U-Pike students celebrate homecoming. This year's celebration will be historic as the university formally installs its 21st president, Dr. Burton J. Webb, Friday in Booth Auditorium. Homecoming week kicked off Monday with the U-Pike women's volleyball game and will wrap up Saturday with an action-packed day full of events. Everyone's welcome to come to campus for the events of the Founders' Day and Homecoming Weekend. Certainly we've got a lot of alumni in the area. We'd love to see as many of them come back for Friday and Saturday's events. I think that there will be a real sense of energy on campus and it's just a nice time to remind yourself what it was like when you were a student and it's a good place to be. Wednesday was designated as Day of Service on campus. We have students and faculty and staff out all over the city and the region actually working on service projects. Some of them are as simple but important as writing thank you notes to first responders and then other things are also simple, cleaning up in places where they need help planting flowers and doing things like that. While most students and faculty members were out in the city and county working on projects, others stayed on campus to try to spread a message. We're raising awareness for domestic violence and handing out ribbons and statistics and letting people take a pledge against domestic violence. People aren't aware that this happens frequently and I feel like it doesn't get enough awareness raised for it. For a list and schedule of U-Pikes Homecoming events, visit the website on your screen. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.