 Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with signup or renewal of a two-year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. As many people are leaving the area to find jobs, they are leaving behind loved ones, including their elderly relatives. In order to make sure the elderly are not forgotten, the Floyd County Sheriff's Office will be implementing a new program. Check on a senior today. Sheriff John Hunt made the announcement today during a meeting of the Big Sandy Council on elder maltreatment. It will really target Floyd County Seniors who really don't have nobody to check on them every day of their life or every other day or every week. So what we wanna do is be that person. Sheriff John Hunt is replicating another program used in Round County. The Round County Sheriff's Office started the coast program just before Christmas when two senior citizens died under preventable circumstances. Both of them had passed and been in their residence for several days, I mean, for a couple of weeks before anybody checked on them. So in seeing that, we wanted to try to do something to see if we could prevent that type of thing from happening again. The program allows volunteers with the Sheriff's Office to call elderly residents to check on them. If the senior doesn't answer two consecutive phone calls, the Sheriff's Department will send someone to check on them. Reporting in Prestonsburg for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.