Well, he is doing his job. The majority of the article is very Rah Rah upbeat. But down toward the bottom it mentions the vaccination requirement and he does regret young people not being there to exhibit their animals.
At the end of the article he puts a positive light on things:
“We wish we weren’t living in a COVID world,” Mourning said. “But we are going to do our best to adapt and overcome.”
Yeah, I saw that.
I’ve never met him and I haven’t seen that side of the family in a very long time. His in-laws, now deceased, used to own Casa Luna Restaurant on Central.
His mother-in-law and my dad are first cousins.
My dad has a lot of relatives still in the area.