The Superior Express -

If you had planned to attend the previously scheduled Formoso Fun Day, change your plans. The event will not be held this year. Organizers hope the event can be rescheduled for the spring.

At the current time, COVID-19 has the Jewell County community reeling. Lavernia Peters, mayor and former Formoso postmaster, estimates at least a third of the community’s 98 residents have been infected with COVID including the two people who were heading up the fun day committee. One of those is thought to be recovering at home. The other was in Missouri and not able to return to Formoso.

Organizers had hoped to not only provide a fun time for the community’s residents and friends but also raise money for the continued improvement of the community’s park.

Park improvement projects include laying mulch under the new playground equipment and the installation of basketball goals on the sides of the tennis court.

At this time the future is so uncertain, it is hard for the Formoso residents to plan. Thursday morning when we learned of the fun day cancellation, it was reported another Formoso resident had tested positive that morning. It didn’t appear the spread of COVID was slowing down.

Peters said she was among the virus victims and had stayed home for three and half weeks while recovering.