 The Appalachian Wireless, 30th anniversary holiday sale is going on now from now until the end of the year. Visit us in store or reserve online for an unbelievable sale and give away. We know what you want for the holidays because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Thursday, state and local leaders gathered for the 6th annual Colerun Community Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. After the ceremony, Mountain Top had the opportunity to speak with Colerun Mayor Andrew H. Scott about the event. Primarily what we are doing tonight here is our 6th annual Tree Lighting Ceremony for Christmas. We do this every year. We invite the community to come in, we provide food. Sometimes Santa stops by, sometimes we have other guests as well as we did tonight. But we are just blessed as a community to be able to get together as friends and family members and loved ones and our work family too. The people here at City Hall worked very hard on this event for about a week trying to get everything ready. We are just blessed to be able to get together, to enjoy each other's company. It has been a rough 20-some months for all of us and it is good to get back to normal and get out and be with our family and our friends. In conjunction with the ceremony, local leaders took a moment to recognize and bring attention to local organizations, helping children and families in need this season. I think the consensus among the speakers we had tonight was that we pay our blessing forward. That we look to those who are less fortunate. We have an event coming up next week in addition to the one that we talked about here earlier where we are going to provide presents and clothing for homeless children. There are a lot of homeless children in the school systems, in the Pye County school systems. It is not talked a lot about. If we don't actually get out there and reach out our hand, reach out a helping hand to those who need a step up and we help them step up the step ladder, if we don't do that, what good are we to our friends and our neighbors? So what we are trying to do is we are trying to help those who need help and be the best versions of ourselves that we can be here in the City of Coal Run. And that includes reaching out to help those who have fallen or to help those who just need a leg up to get a little bit higher. If you would like to donate or make a cash donation, you can contact the Coal Run Community Center at 606-437-6032. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Porgyl.