 This just in August is hotter than ever at Appalachian Wireless as they are slashing all normal contract pricing on all smartphones by 50% when you sign up for service. Better service, bigger saving, serving you for the last 25 years at Appalachian Wireless. In the past couple weeks students from kindergarten to college have returned to school and in Pikeville the very first class at the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Optometry has begun its four-year journey and officials at the school say they are excited to welcome the first class. This inaugural class is a class of very talented individuals. We had a very high grade point average that they applied to us with so we're very proud of the quality of the class. We're very proud that of the 64 students currently in the class 27% meet our definition of access that is their students who have come from other rural areas across the country. Construction is in the final stages on the 55 million dollar health professions education building that will house the Optometry School when completed in December. The U Pike Kentucky College of Optometry is the 22nd in the nation and the first in Kentucky. Dr. Bazzelli explains that the students who are enrolled have a much bigger impact on the community than undergraduate students just out of high school. These individuals who I brought into the Optometry School they're really not students they finished their undergraduate curriculum they come in with families they shop in the area they live in the area they will buy cars in the area they buy their clothes in the area. With no other colleges of optometry in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia officials say the Kentucky College of Optometry in Pikeville will be the most accessible one in the southeast. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB news I'm Shannon Deskins.