Rhea County

Yeah, so we work regionally, just as an example.

And we've spent a good bit of time working with Cleveland Chamber as well as with the Economic Development and Chamber organization that's up in Ray County.

We worked with the Cleveland Chamber on the recruitment of SK Foods, which has just opened a pretty significant facility up there.

They'll hire 800 people.

So we do the camp...

In Ray County and Bledsoe County.

Ray County is where the ranch is located outside Dayton.

So that's kind of like serving our county.

And then Bledsoe County just came because if you know Bledsoe County, you just, it's like, if you know, you know, they just needed it.

Here's why we're doing this camp.

Here's what it's all about.

And so they, yes, we give them literature as well as the Ray County coalition, right? always come to camp and they're in charge of letting them know all these different kinds of services that are available in their county for all the things, you know, whether it's rehab services or domestic violence services or whatever, all the kind of social services, not DHS, but like just, you know, the services that are available to the community for free and reduced.

Yeah.

Now, as executive director of the Metropolitan Wildlife, your service area, do you include Ray County? So how many counties? Five counties.

Five counties.

Okay.

It's not against the state law.

And I was asking them, well, how come these other counties, you know, Blount County, Hamblin County, Ray County, all these places we go, how come they can and we can't? They said, well, we're not going to break the law.

Well, it turns out it's not against the state law.

So anyway, I've gone down this path to get some attention, some focus on how this is a great opportunity for our local youth to play here in town and for everybody else to come here and spend money instead of us leaving the county and spending our money someplace else.