Four years ago, at 14, she became a professional dog handler.
Lily Brenner, now 18, most recently showed her cardigan Welsh corgi, Melody, and Pembroke Welsh corgi, Lager, at an all-breed dog show. She also showed her Pembroke corgi, Dante, in the best of breed class at the show.
“You work with your dog, you travel with them, you train them, so it s really fun to be just experienced going to places (to) show,” Brenner said. “It s just something I enjoy doing, and I hope to keep doing it.”
All of Brenner’s dogs are co-owned. Lager is co-owned with Patience Sassone of New Hampshire, and Dante is co-owned with WindDancer Corgis.
After 10 months of limited in-person gatherings or online programming, church congregants like the rest of society feel pandemic fatigue. We are hopeful that the availability of COVID-19 vaccines will allow our society and churches to return to normal. But a return to normalcy will take time.
Unfortunately, many of our Christian brothers and sisters living in low- and middle-income countries, where I have worked for more than 25 years to stop the spread of infectious diseases, will not receive vaccines until 2022 or later. In countries like the US where the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began last December, experts predict it will be fall before vaccination coverage reaches 70–90 percent and herd immunity can hopefully be achieved. Only then can society begin to resume more normal activities. The next several months will be a transition period when vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals mingle in our communities, but it is not yet safe to return to normal life.