 This trustee August is hotter than ever at Appalachian Wireless, as they are slashing all normal contract pricing on all smartphones by 50% when you sign up for service. Better service, bigger saving, serving you for the last 25 years at Appalachian Wireless. What started out as one pair of shoes soon turned into hundreds. Three years ago, the Lane family noticed a great need for shoes in Floyd County. One need they were determined to fill. My 12 year old son, that was about nine at the time, a classmate of his got a worn out pair of shoes on. He told his mother, it's my wife Christine, that he would like to get the little boy a pair of shoes. With the help of Betsy Lane Free Will Baptist and others throughout the community, hundreds of children in Floyd County are now able to head back to school with a new pair of shoes. We give socks away. There's a man here making balloons. We've got all kinds of free stuff, free school supplies. We do face painting, painting the nails in a photo booth. But we just really try to make it just such a fun day for these children. Most of our donations come from John Hunt or Sheriff and being held in a golf scramble for us. They raised $12,400 for us and then we do a lot of fundraising. We sell dinners and, you know, we sell a lot of things throughout the year trying to raise money preparing for it. Most of the time, Kentucky State Troopers look very intimidating. However, one trooper possibly changed a life forever. I responded to a call in the Floyd County area. There was two children that was involved in that call and they remembered me. And I wasn't here with a uniform on or anything and I asked them how they remembered me. So she had a little brother that said, you guys gave us some new shoes at Operation School Shoes. And you also told us that you love this. And I think what I got out of that message from her is that they didn't hear that a lot. I went inside and was in the residence, you know, and the kids were showing me their new shoes that they got. So it was a, it was very, very blessed moment. More than 650 students received free shoes at Saturday's event. Reporting in Betsy Lane for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.