 Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with sign up 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. American Metalworks and Big Sandy Community and Technical College today joined the Kentucky Labor Cabinet at the Mayo Campus in Paintsville to announce a new apprenticeship program. The first of its kind in the region, the Computer Numerical Control Program will enable area apprentices to begin a four year program. The program will require 2,000 on the job training hours and 144 classroom hours per year. By coming to work for a place like us where they can work beside a trained person or a journeyman and get a skill and get paid for doing that, it introduces them to a field that they just don't have a chance to otherwise. American Metalworks was started in 2016 and is a small business manufacturer of parts for aerospace, automotive, biomedical, defense and manufacturing industries. In our country today everyone talks about the absence of a middle class. Well, middle class didn't go to China, didn't go to Mexico, Taiwan, and these other places offshore. But what occurred was that we stopped making things. We stopped building things. We stopped working on things. And so we're at a time in our country today where that's going to be our focus. Denny and James took a chance to create some opportunities for work here in eastern Kentucky, which is so sorely needed. At the completion of the training program, the apprentice receives a nationally recognized certification. Reporting at Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Paintsville, I'm Shelby Still for EKB News.