- July 3, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The Perry County Chamber of Commerce used its 2021 dinner to celebrate a return to normalcy, and to remember the tribulations everyone endured through the pandemic over the past year.
The dinner held June 18 at the Perry County Fairgrounds in Newport was the first such dinner the chamber held since 2019. Last year’s annual dinner, usually held at Little Buffalo State Park, was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Early in the evening, Bill Roberts — owner of IBS Development and beef ranch Perry Land and Cattle with wife Martha Roberts — built on a renewed sense of optimism. He told a story about how he came to see and side with a neighbor’s point of view when he first moved to Perry County more than 30 years ago.
Roberts said it convinced him that different people can be good neighbors, friends and work toward common goals.
“Perry has some real opportunity now,” he said, “but we won’t get there unless we work together.”
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