 Kentucky State Police will be hosting its fifth annual Cover the Cruiser fundraising event for the Special Olympics Kentucky Wednesday, April 24th. The fundraiser will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pikeville Wal-Mart and for a minimum donation of one dollar, a custom sticker will be placed on the cruiser. This fundraiser will start the Kentucky State Police always participating in the torch run for the Special Olympics. Well, during COVID-19, the torch run was canceled, so we had to come up with something else to take that place so we can't recover the cruiser. All the proceeds and funding that we raise are go to the Special Olympics to purchase, you know, medals or whatever they may need for their event or for the athletes that take place in the event. Outpatient medication-assisted treatment for addiction, adult and youth behavioral counseling and now psychiatric services accepting Medicare and all major insurance recovery is hard regret is harder Appalachian Community Care LLC in Pikeville and Weizberg call 606-432-5660 find us on Facebook. Since launch and cover the cruiser in 2020, KSP has raised over $56,000 with nearly $9,000 raised in 2023. If you come down to Pikeville Wal-Mart, we'll have these sticker type cards that you can purchase for a minimum of one dollar and then you write your name on it and our goal is to cover the entire cruiser that day so that we can bring awareness to the Special Olympics, more people know about it and also to raise funds for them to be able to have the Olympics. If you actually have ever seen it or been involved with in any way, just a smile on their faces as they get out there and they compete in these games and they win the medals it's just it's really truly heartwarming and it's just something to see. For more information about Cover the Cruiser or to make a donation, visit socky.org backslash Cover the Cruiser. Reporting for Mountaintop News, I'm Brianna Robinson.