 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Following the historic 2022 flooding, the ISEM IGA was destroyed, leaving owner Gwendolyn Christian to make the tough decision to rebuild or close the store permanently. With the help of IGA, GoFundMe and a priest, the store was reopened. Today, the USDA Rural Development Kentucky State Director, Dr. Crew, presented a grant for $272,826 for a roof-mounted solar system and energy-efficient freezer systems. So we, as a family, had to decide what are we going to do, or we're going to go back in, or we're going to take that debt load again. But with our community and our family and all of our employees, we just said, hey, we've got to come back, we've got to make it better for our community. So we started to get ready to open the store, found out about the REAP grant from the USDA, and that they may help us with their equipment. If we bought a certain motor, that was energy-efficient, and so that's what we done. We looked for equipment that would be energy-efficient so that they would help us with the REAP grant, and we went forward from there. So far, the energy-efficient freezers and solar systems is saving the store over $3,000 a month in energy costs. So today we're here in Isom, Kentucky, at the Isom IGA with Gwen Christenstor, who we're celebrating the solar panels that she's put on a roof, and the energy-efficient coolers. When they rebuilt, they put in all energy-efficient lighting and coolers, and USDA Rural Development through our REAP program, the Rural Energy for America program, was able to pay for a substantial sum of that money. In addition to the Isom IGA, Tim Shortt received a $122,776 grant to install LED lighting and a solar system, and Fleming Neon received $36,900 grant to replace a utility vehicle lost in the flooding. For more information on the REAP program, go to rd.usda.gov. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.