Only a chump would believe otherwise.
"I'm bettin Rueda is a liar."
That's what my money is on too. There is way too much PR and too many events and too much talk involving the VFD in all rural communities for him to have missed it.
Our little town quadruples in population the Saturdays of the VFD fund raisers.
And when we pay for the brownie at the dessert table, it's a twenty dollar bill that goes into the till, with change refused.