Letter: Austin May has deep McHenry County roots

To the Editor:I am writing to support Austin May for our County Board District 5 seat.Full disclosure, Austin and I are “shirttail cousins.” We both were born in McHenry County, our families, who immigrated from Germany in the mid 1800s, were farmers and had big families. Many of us are still connected to farmland and many have been builders, contributing to McHenry County’s growth and prosperity.Austin’s great-grandfather, Frank May, was a silo builder. His concrete silos topped by a molded cement diamond are still scattered around the county as a monument to the many family dairy farms that fed McHenry County neighbors for decades.Austin follows in the tradition of a builder, connected to the land and his farm background, working side by side with both parties, while having seen a great deal of the world as a Peace Corps volunteer, as a student in China, a contract worker for the federal government in Washington, D.C., and as a captain in the Army Reserves deployed to Kuwait.The old