I beg your pardon. With all the best wishes to the Vidalia Riverfront’s effort to save themselves with “every governmental agency” available, I think the story should be about the other privately owned businesses that fought and saved themselves “only through the grace of God and the herculean efforts of their local employees.”

We send all good wishes to the Vidalia Riverfront and certainly wish them continued success, but how about those of us who worked daylight until dawn, in total terror, scared to leave our businesses at night for fear of what we would find the next morning, only to begin again the next day, for about almost nine weeks, without a dime of government money?

These are the people who are the “story of the year,” our local employees.

I admit I am prejudiced. My husband is the owner of J.M. Jones Lumber Company, and we were constantly talking to the other privately owned businesses, praying and sweating out those excruciating days with them.

So, proudly, here’s to the “Top Story of the Year,” our local employees.

 

Sherry Scarbrough Jones

Natchez resident