Yeah.

It serves both roles, and it is a community event.

This is our ninth year, so we've been doing this a while.

We relocated during Hurricane Helene to South Iredell High School with support from Iredell-Statesville Schools, and we'll be in the gym this year.

But we'll do our walk at the end out front, so we're going to walk out front.

So if you're there for youth sports or if you want to go before homecoming dance, come by and look for the big balloons out front because we'll have two hot air balloons tethered to kind of guide the way, but we've been doing this for nine years, and you're right, it provides a lot of resources from the community for people that may need help that are searching for it.

It also is to hear stories about recovery from people that have walked the walk and the journey, and it never ends.

don't see the signs they're there and I think sometimes we don't want to see them you know we don't want to see them but they're there