 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reid Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reid at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. On Thursday, September 7th, the Martin County Solar Project conference and job fair took place at the Collier Center in Inez. Martin County residents flocked to the venue to learn more about solar panel installation in the area and browse jobs related to the project. Martin County Judge Executive Lon Lafferty was in attendance to call for everyone's support. It's an exciting day for us here at Martin County with the opening of the Martin County Solar Project. This is a project obviously that is a culmination of many years of hard work. It's something that we here in Eastern Kentucky are very excited about. As most people throughout this country know, the folks of Appalachia have been at the forefront in energy development for our entire history. Whether that goes back to originally our virgin timber, our natural gas industry and of course the coal industry. So we see this as a natural evolution as far as energy production and helping to supply the needs of not only our area but the entire nation. Lafferty fully supports the integration of solar energy in coal country. The idea of seeking new energy sources while creating new jobs is a welcome change. We do have a lot of pride in ourselves here. The Appalachian people again are some of the most fearless and loyal people in the entire world. We're all about family, about faith and about country and about hard work and so there's a lot of pride that runs in these Appalachian veins and we think that the idea of moving solar to the mountains to help again to help supply the needs of this nation that's something that we've been doing for the last 150 years. As Mr. Edelin said, you know, we helped to win two world wars last century with our energy. So we look forward to moving forward. Reporting from Out in Top News, I'm Nick Collum.