Governor Glenn Youngkin said it was a full circle moment getting to address the VMI graduates after several of the cadets took part in his inauguration parade.
Dean Martin talked about how the community has supported his family s Sunnyway Foods for 65 years.
McCauley was shopping at Sunnyway in December when Martin, a G-A graduate, asked him about the status of the project. McCauley recalled he said didn t know because GAEF did not want to ask the community for money during a pandemic, then Dean said, I wanna get it built and the Martin family became the second major sponsor. There s a lot of bad news, we need some good news. Thank you for allowing us to be part of this, Martin said at the ceremony.
Martin, who now also is on the GAEF board, reached out to Greg Weaver at Antrim Way Honda.