 On Tuesday, September 20th, AARP donated a total of $45,000 to four organizations helping elderly residents impacted by the July flash floods. The groups receiving the money are Big Sandy Area Development District, God's Pantry Food Bank East, Apple Red Legal Aid, and Kentucky River Area Development District. We're just excited to be here today. AARP has been very active in helping seniors across the state with disasters. We've been in West Kentucky. Congress will come and visit with me in January. We visited seniors that had lost homes, had lost everything they had, and who would have thought seven months later I'd be in Eastern Kentucky bringing funding to help the seniors. You know, we love our seniors and we know there has just been so much to happen here with so many needs. Whitaker feels as though the elderly people of East Kentucky deserve the money for the recent hardships they've endured. She is more than happy to be able to donate a large sum to help the community recover. Our focus is on those over the age of 50. And you know, we heard of the needs that how many senior had lost their homes, they've lost their cars, and we just felt like this is where our efforts needed to be with over the age of 50. I'm very appreciative of the staff of these two area development districts for their hard work, and I know they're going to take the funding and use it in a great way to help seniors or they wouldn't be getting it. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.