As the State-mandated closing of all restaurants eased up over Memorial Day, business owners scrambled to come up with solutions for this topsy turvy summer season, knowing full well that indoor seating would be either eliminated or reduced dramatically in their desire to serve safely. For Skip Telgard, owner of The Blue Bird and The Early Bird in Leland, opened 80 years ago by his grandfather and ever since beloved fixtures in the county, the solution materialized through a phone call from the State Liquor Control Commission.

