While the campaign has whittled my bike riding time down to just 6 hours per week, it has also offered me the opportunity to attend some community events. This past Saturday, after knocking 90 doors in the City of Radford, my campaign Field Director and I attended the Mt Tabor Ruritan Fish Fry.

Before joining the long line of hungry patrons, we walked and talked and enjoyed the atmosphere.

The pastoral scene,

the local music,

the opposition to the Mountain Valley Pipeline,

and finally, the fish, fries, and coleslaw, served up by hardworking Ruritans.

I’m tellin’ ya, that fried fish was yummy!

All you can eat for $8, in a lovely Virginia setting.  Not a bad way to spend the evening.

The Mt Tabor Ruritan Club has been serving the Blacksburg and surrounding communities since July 16, 1965.

 Ruritan National’s purpose is to create a better understanding among people, and through volunteer community service, make America’s communities better places in which to live and work

The word Ruritan is a combination of the Latin words for open country “ruri” and small town “tan,” interpreted as pertaining to rural and small town life