 Many large gatherings and events have been canceled or rescheduled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Prestonsburg mayor, Les Stapleton, the city's annual Fourth of July event will continue as planned. Our guys have put a lot of effort into it last year and we actually ordered our fireworks in October. Some of our fireworks were specially made for the city of Prestonsburg. So we can't store them because we don't know how quickly they would degrade which cause a mess, so we're gonna shoot them. And we encourage people to come out but we encourage them also to use caution when they come out. Stay in your family units. We strongly urge people to wear a mask if they're outside of the family unit and there's a lot of people in the immediate area. We encourage them strongly to wear a mask. A lot of times we've had people just sort of running in and out of groups. I'm not so sure it's a good idea this year. We have to be conscious of everyone's safety, not just mine, not just yours, not just the next guy, but everyone's safety. And every decision we make, like have the fireworks, like have the carnival, is it the right decision? You second guess yourself on a regular basis. But you have to move forward and we're trying our best to stay within the guidelines of anything that's been put out as restrictions or anything and we are. But we are gonna move forward. We're gonna try to open up and get people stuff to do. Well, a lot of people don't realize when some people are isolated like this, you know, depression sets in. We have seen an increase in some overdoses. We have seen some suicides and suicides attempts and this is the type of stuff that just people getting outside and you don't have to interact, just being around other people can help. And that's why we feel, that's one of the reasons we feel we need to move forward is we've been locked up long enough that we need to start getting out with caution now, with caution and get people out into the world again. Basically re-socialize people. Carnival will be moving on the second, I think it is. Maybe the first, but probably the second and they'll be setting up. It's gonna be sort of separate smaller kids rides and bigger kids rides and there's gonna be social distancing. Your temperature will be taken when you enter the park area. If you have a temperature of 100.4 or above, we will ask you to not come into the park. That's the CDC, that's the temperature they say, that's the line marker right there. So we're gonna do everything we can to keep people safe. The rides we wipe down, they will be hand sanitizing stations. We're gonna do everything we can to make this event as safe as we can. And we'll have a couple of people walking around, you know, telling people to try to spread out a little bit because what we don't wanna be is we don't wanna be that group that, oh yeah, well, two weeks ago, that's what happened. We don't wanna be that group. So we're gonna do everything we can to keep that from happening. See, there's a shot from the top of a mountain. And then these big shots that we have, the 16-inch shots that we have, they go a lot higher than normal fireworks. So they actually have to make a call to the FAA to look when we're shooting these fireworks at this level and stuff. So people will avoid flying through there. Low-flying aircraft could be in danger. And you can see, I'll be at the Mountain Arch Center. You can see I'll be up down 23 between the two mountains. I mean, you'll be able to see this show. Hey, come out and join us safely. Come out and join us. Reporting from Archer Park in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, I'm Jeremy Justice with your Mountain Top News.