 Pikeville Medical Center, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates and Donate Life Kentucky celebrated the gift of Life Thursday evening with their annual Tree of Life ceremony honoring Oregon donors. We do this every year as a partnership with Between Donate Life Kentucky slash CODA and PMC and the reason that we do this ceremony every year is to truly honor and you know provide remembering and the opportunity to just come together and celebrate the legacy that Oregon donors provide to those who are recipients in years past and to just you know provide support to those in the community who are walking that transplant journey. Tech the halls with Appalachian Wireless offering you up to eight hundred fifty dollars off sunlight devices extended through Christmas Eve with no activation fee up to eight hundred fifty dollars off the latest and greatest devices we are you we are Appalachian Wireless. Currently over 100,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list with another person being added every 10 minutes. We really just want everyone who has been touched by donation and who has been organ donors in the past year or just in years past to understand that you know you have a community rallying around you supporting you through this walk and you know if you're on the transplant journey know that people are you know still in the giving spirit they want to save others they want to provide that gift of life. There's so many people here in our eastern Kentucky community who are in great need of life-saving transplants and this is just a way to celebrate those who are providing hope and life to continue on to those people who need it. Reporting for Mountain Top News I'm Breonna Robinson.