 Tuesday, March 15th, the Pike County Fiscal Corps added a new member to the Trail Advisory Committee. Benji Hurley from Freeburn will add knowledge of existing trails to the committee as the county continues to work on growing the Hillbilly trail system. We're going to try to work the trail system to where we started on the southeastern side of the county and then also start it on the West Virginia border. Freeburn, Blackberry, and then try to grow the trail system and bring it to meet in the middle. Expanding the trail system, it will increase tourism within the county and increase economic growth. We think there's a significant amount of opportunity for all the county. We've seen, is it going to replace coal jobs? No. But it is a piece of a long-term strategy to try to diversify the economy, bring new business, new industry to Pike County. We're seeing people develop lodging, restaurants, and those tourism dollars when they come in and stay here. At Pikeville Medical Center, we believe that together we can make a difference in the fight against cancer. We are proud to have patients who have experienced successful outcomes over many years. As always, we believe in the power of faith. Pikeville Medical Center, where cancer can be defeated. The goal is to connect the Hillbilly trail system to the Spearhead trail system and the Hatfield and Macquarie trail system. So we think we can have more trail miles in Pike County than the Spearhead trail system and the Hatfield and Macquarie trail system combined, just here in this county. It's going to take some time. It's been talked about for years. We've made more progress in the last three years and 20 years before that. The main source of constructing the trails has come from volunteers helping to clean the county and build the trails. There is one land company that we have had numerous meetings with. That land company has put us in contact with the less seas who hold mining rights on several of these properties. We're making contact with the less seas to try to see how we can get across some of this property's key in terms of getting the trail system that we've identified from one side of the county to the other. So that's ongoing work in progress. For more information and to learn about upcoming events, visit Hillbilly Trail System on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.