mayor carose truly made martinsburg a better place to work and live. i have had the honor to live and work closely with mayor carose. we had a field hearing in martinsburg and i remember the mayor being there and welcoming us. i've seen him on many ribbon cuttings and openings. i've been to his drugstore to be served at the counter. he is just a wonderful, wonderful man. one of my proudest moments with him is when we successfully secured the funds for the infrastructure improvement, like the trolley street expansion project. george helped create the martinsburg initiative most recently which is a program i have spoken about before on the senate floor. this initiative is spearheaded by the martinsburg police department, the berkeley county schools and shepherd university as well as a wide array of local partners such as the boys and girls clubs of the eastern panhandle. the goal of the program is to stem the horrible opioid addiction problem by identifying and trying to eliminate the basic causes of drug abuse in at-risk families. the mayor has been ded