 This trustee August is hotter than ever at Appalachian Wireless, as they are slashing all normal contract pricing on all smartphones by 50% when you sign up for service. Better service, bigger saving, serving you for the last 25 years at Appalachian Wireless. For many of us, it's all about the food, games, and live music. But for local churches, sports teams, and civic organizations, festival season is all about money in the coffers. And with so many people in the same place at the same time, the festivals, such as the Jenkins Homecoming Days Festival underway now, is the most lucrative time for fundraising, especially in lean financial times in the mountains. In a small town like what we have here, the coal is gone and we're trying to rebuild. And the festivals help the churches because it's not there anymore. The funding is just not there. It helps churches. It helps schools. The budgets are short and the schools, you know, less money than what we used to have for sports programs. So we got to look elsewhere to get our funds. So programs like this, the festivals like this is essential for what we've got going on at our schools. And so we need it, we depend upon it, and we got to have that money. We got to have people coming in and supporting our school programs. This is a great way to do that. Many of the booths at the various festivals are run by volunteers, so it's a community effort to raise the much needed funds for the different groups represented at the festivals. This is the best moneymaker because everybody pulls together, everybody works hard, everybody benefits from a festival like Jenkins has theirs now, and everybody here is either a church member, a bulge member, coaches, or helping their teens. The school doesn't get funding like it used to, so they have to work in the city like this to get the money for extras that they have. It is probably the biggest fundraiser that we'll have on good years. We've got to have a good product, you know, but it's really good for community service as well as getting, you know, being out there and being seeing people, people knowing about the school and getting to know the people who are at the school, that's good as well. But yeah, as far as finances go, you know, this is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year. So we depend on it, we count on it on a yearly basis. And over the next few weeks, there will be plenty of opportunities to support local organizations. Reporting in Jenkins for EKB News, I'm Chris Anderson.