 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Hogue Masonic Lodge has partnered with the Town of Wise to host the 9th annual Chillin' and Grillin' in the Glades, July 16th and 17th. The festival will crown the Virginia State Barbecue Champion, the Virginia State Champion State Cook, and feature live music, a cornhole tournament, and more. And we feel like it's important to do this to provide something to the community to do. I've gotten involved with competitive barbecue probably 15, 20 years ago and from judging. And I wanted to bring that back here to where I live. There was no contest. It was really close. Closest contest is a couple hours, two or three hours away. And I wanted just to bring my love of barbecue and share that with everybody here as far as letting them get involved in it as well. The weekend will also include a kid's steak cookoff, a dessert contest, and craft and food vendors. The 34 barbecue teams and 40 steak teams from all over the United States will be competing for the Virginia State Champion title, guaranteeing a chance to compete at the Jack Daniels World Invitational Barbecue Championship and the American Royale. And it's really paid a lot of dividends for the town. It's a tremendous tourism asset for this weekend. Several of the hotels are completely booked up, so it provides plenty of people to spend their money in our town, in our county to help our revenue from that way. And it's a good thing to give people something to do to get out and enjoy themselves. We've got plenty of music for people. We've got kids. Thanks for the kids to do. People can shop at the craft vendors or give them some great foods, delicious food that we have here from their food vendors. Plenty of barbecue will be here, of course, because it's a barbecue and music festival. The event is free and open to the public. For more information and a full schedule of events, go to chillinandgrillinintheglades.com. For Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.