 The voices of hope and caring were heard at the landmark nursing home in Elkhorn City Tuesday night. The Pikeville Rotary Club was on a mission to spread Christmas joy by visiting Pott County nursing homes, delivering gifts and good tidings by singing Christmas carols for the residents who have been bearing the brunt of this COVID-19 pandemic. We got together in three weeks time all these guys made phone calls and got the donations and we've probably raised over $12,000 in three weeks just to make this happen for these residents. So coming out and giving these gifts to them and just seeing the smile on their faces when we can sing a small simple Christmas carol to them and it's just made it all worthwhile. It's been a huge effort but I think I think we gave the blessing that we wanted to give. Just to reiterate just how great our community has been, how great the Pikeville Rotary Club has been with Eva's idea and the snowball reaction that we've got has been overwhelming. But just coming here even though we don't get to see the joy they get from these packages, walking around singing to them, seeing them sing along, smile and wave, blow kisses, it's worth it. It's going to be a great Christmas. Even with the temperatures dipping around 30 degrees, members of the Pikeville Rotary Club said that donating to such a great cause kept them warm throughout the frigid night. Yeah and when you get here and you start singing and like again just to reiterate, you see their faces and you see the reactions and the joy that you bring. You don't think about anything else. It really nothing else kind of everything kind of fades away and how rough 2020 has been on everybody and especially these folks due to the COVID-19 and the shutdowns and the sickness and you know families can't be here and some of them don't have family to come anyway so it's just it's heartwarming. It's a blessing and I'll never forget it. This project was especially touching for Stewart as she wanted to help out the residents while honoring her dad. I think everybody had gotten a blessing out of this event in some way or another whether it was donating in memory of a family member or if it was just just knowing that these nursing home residents needs a needs a little pick me up right now you know and how important that is and just sharing the blessings of Christmas and what our savior has done for us. The Rotary Club will be visiting signature healthcare nursing home in Pikeville December 16th around 2 p.m. and then stopping by part view nursing home later in the evening to spread love and joy to their residents. Yeah I mean we've been put on this earth to be servants and the Pikeville Rotary Club does a fantastic job of serving the community and it's just it's been fantastic just being a part of it and I invite anybody who wants to be a part of this in the field is to come on out and join us tomorrow. Reporting for mountaintop news, I'm Jeremy Justice.