 At Appalachian Wireless, all smartphones are 50-100% off retail pricing for back-to-school. This includes all smartphones so don't be tardy. Don't miss the bus. Get to Appalachian Wireless today. To your agreement required, exclude outright purchase and advantage plans, while supplies last. Kentucky State Police, Post 9, hosted a safe school program training course Tuesday for all Belfrey area schools. This is the first time the Belfrey area has participated in this type of training. After Tuesday, all schools in Pike County will have completed the training. The importance of it I think kind of goes along with what we kind of have to deal with in society right now. It seems kind of like maybe about every 60 to 90 days we have some sort of active shooter situation. A lot of times it is in schools, I think just last year, 2016, 2017, the FBI documented 50 of them just in one year. The first day of school in Pike County has been set for next Tuesday, August 14th. Faculty and staff are hoping an active shooter scenario never happens but are glad to be prepared. We wanted to have a proactive stance on it. We don't want to wait until something happens. We want to go ahead and get things in place, procedures, policies, rules that we want to go by to prevent something like this from happening. The training is an all-day event. All teachers, faculty and staff were welcome to engage in the course. We have a PowerPoint and then also a scenario-based training that gives the teachers kind of three options to kind of handle the situation. But we also stress that the training that they've had up to this point or whatever school policies that they've got in place, that will take priority over anything. Kentucky State Police are hoping to get every school in the post-9 area trained in the Safe School Program course. In Bell Free, Shelby Porter, EKB News.