 At Audiology Associates at Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Throughout 2022, Eastern Kentucky was faced with natural disasters and tragedies. Despite facing these challenges, SOAR was able to assist with flood recovery, launch startups, and secure more than $3.4 million in investments for businesses throughout Appalachia. 2022 was a year of record accomplishments, but also so many challenges from the flooding in the region and dealing still with the pandemic. But as always, the people of Eastern Kentucky persevere, they press on, they get up when they're knocked down and really proud of what this organization and our team accomplished. SOAR also hosted two healthcare career pathway fairs, which hosted over 12,000 students, hosted the Appalachian Nursing Academy, launched six eBooks, and launched the SOAR Student Support Fund which has distributed over $100,000. Our SOAR Innovation Team, which is a partnership with Kentucky Innovation inside the Cabinet for Economic Development, served 780 startups across Kentucky's 54 Appalachian counties, launched 17 startups, and advanced 59 more startups. So that resulted in 65-plus jobs and over $3.4 million in new investments in the region. So we like to celebrate those as milestones for every small startup that starts, that's a dream come true. That's a life changed and in many cases it is a breaking of the cycle of what is generational poverty. SOAR plans to continue their work in 2023 to create opportunity in Appalachia and build capacity within communities. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.