 Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with signup or renewal of a two-year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. It seems like any time we log on to social media, we see some type of bear siding. While this time of year is prominent for that type of siding, officials say the bear population has seen a slight uptick, but that's okay. This time of year you have the wake-up period, they need more energy, they're foraging more, they travel more, and then you're also leading right into the breeding season. However, with the increase in population comes the increase in probability of colliding with a bear in a vehicle. Just last night, a black bear was killed at the mouth of stone, close to Belfry in Pike County. Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officials say that only makes the 20th bear to have been hit by a vehicle in that county since the first siding in 1987. Officials say there's a quick fix, though, to make sure bears stay away from civilization for the most part. Anything around a house, scraps that people throw out, if you look outside and see a bear eating it, you just remove the food. If the bear eats it all and comes back once and doesn't find something else, they will leave. If you remove the attractant, you usually remove the bear. So we encourage folks to have bear-proof garbage bins. If you're a business, if you can fence your dumpster to keep a bear out, that not only solves your problem, but it keeps from affecting hundreds of other people. Polaxico warns that most of the time people are harming bears without even realizing it. Most bears are truly secretive and shy. Occasionally they're tolerant of people, it doesn't mean they're aggressive. Well we have had to deal with some bears that people have been feeding and I mean hand feeding. Once you feed a bear or a deer or any other wildlife like that, it's easy to tame them down and they lose their fear of people. It doesn't mean that they're more aggressive towards people, it just means that it puts bears in places that they're really not supposed to be. Polaxico adds it's important to make your presence known around bears. Most of the time, bears will go the other direction when meeting a human. Working in Prestonsburg, I'm Shelby Steele for EKB News.