 Belfry Volunteer Fire Department takes this time to invite you and your family to the 41st annual Thunder in the Valley Saturday, July 2nd. Fireworks start at 10.05pm. This event will be held at Belfry High School. Come enjoy Thunder in the Valley. Also, Belfry Fire Department takes a moment to take all the sponsors that help make this event possible. Members of the Bluegrass Whitewater Association and the Viking Canoe Club held a river cleanup on the Russell Fork River starting at the Ratliff Hole Campgrounds on Saturday, June 25th. The turnout for the event was not as large as expected due to low river levels, but many turned out to help clean up the river around Elkhorn City and Hayside, Virginia. Well, yeah, the problem is that there's been almost no rainfall and we had requested a release from the Corps of Engineers and we've worked with them, you know, for years on releases and stuff like that and they've always, you know, if they've got the water, they'll give it to us. Unfortunately, while they're waiting for the water to fill up for summer pool, they have not been given, you know, have enough water to release. So it's going to be a pretty tough cleanup because there's a lot of areas that we're going to be dragging boats and stuff like that and just walking through just stuff you don't really want to walk through. Water levels were too low to haul heavy water crafts for transporting large amounts of garbage, but the groups made do with what they had. There were handfuls of kayaks as well as canoes for hauling bags of garbage. Well, I think it's important, you know, we come into the, we come into the communities, you know, like that in here, it's really mainly in October in the fall we come in, you know, people see that the car is going by with the boats and stuff like that. We want them to know that, you know, we're not just here to take advantage of this beautiful area, we also want to let them know that we're giving back, you know, it just doesn't disappear, you know, a big water event doesn't make the cans disintegrate, you know, they go downstream, you know, and the people upstream are doing the same thing and if people see us out here picking us up, except it lets them know that this is an important resource. The cleanup groups hope to have this same event earlier in the spring of next year in order to circumvent water-level problems. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Deane.