 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. The Appalachian Regional Commission awarded Tech Center $1,500,000 Monday, October 7th to assist in the development and implementation of their trade school in Inaz, Kentucky. Tech Center is a skilled trades training school. We are a licensed state proprietary school for teaching heavy equipment operation, industrial maintenance, mechanics and electrical just to start and we will grow from there. But it's fast track training. You're in and out within one year. No general education requirements to go along with that. It's just straight industry focused curriculum. This award is part of ARC's partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Initiative, which supports 52 projects in 181 coal impacted counties. This is the largest single power awards package today since the initiative launched in 2015. The importance of this grant and any grant that funds this type of school is we are now in a skilled trades deficit in the United States and especially around here. The vast majority of what businesses we do have that are well-paying jobs are skilled trades. Heavy equipment operator being one of those. I spoke with four different companies when I was on a TPM collaborative with the East with the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and out of that collaborative came a demand for over 500 jobs in the next four years, 333 of those which will be heavy equipment operators. So there's no training like this anywhere in the state of Kentucky, not this focused industry driven training. And I think it's pertinent to the folks here to be able to find vital jobs that sustain them and their families. Tech Center will begin enrollment within the next few weeks and will be providing tuition assistance to those who qualify. For more information, visit techcenterinc.org. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.