Two Morin Reasons to Believe

Calvin Coolidge 

The Poet Laureate of Freehold has implored a legion of fans for years to show a little faith, there's magic in the night.  You might forgive us, the hard-edged, hyper-critical denizens of the State of Concrete Gardens if these days we are having more than a little bit of trouble keeping the faith.  Perhaps you woke up this morning struggling to find some reason to believe.  Might I offer you one?

Better yet, might I offer you two? 

Federico's On Main Pizza & Restaurant has been a fixture in Belmar, New Jersey for more than twenty years.  Everyone knows just how hard the COVID-19 pandemic has thus far hit the restaurant business all across this country.  It has already exacted a toll on New Jersey's restaurants and it shall likely get considerably darker before we finally see a new day's dawn.  Absent the ability to put customers into their dining rooms and/or at their bars, far too many establishments will likely not make it to dawn. 

Bryan Morin and Michael Morin own Federico's, which as a full-service dining room in addition to offering take-out and delivery.  With its dining room shuttered, for present purposes Federico's has a number of employees who cannot do what the Morins pay them to do, for reasons wholly beyond their control.  

Rather than lay off the men and women who work for them, Bryan Morin and Michael Morin have stepped up for them.  During the week of March 16, 2020, Bryan Morin went to his bank and took out a $50,000 line of credit, which he and Michael shall use to pay their employees for the next two months, regardless of what happens.  

The Missus shall make a trip to Lake Como at some point this week (tomorrow, I think) to go over some things with our contractor, John, as he nears the completion of the simply gorgeous renovation of our little piece of Paradise by the Sea.  We have already decided that irrespective of the day she makes her trek, our dinner that evening shall be from Federico's.  

The Morins have stepped up for  the people who depend upon them.  The Kennys shall step up for the Morins.  

#NEVERPANICEVER

-AK