Weather forecasts not COVID-19 caused the cancellation of this year’s popular National Day of the American Cowboy festivities planned for the Bandera County Courthouse grounds for Saturday, July 25. Bandera Business Association officials who sponsor the Day of the Cowboy celebration in Bandera had hoped to keep the Old Westthemed event on schedule early last week with safeguards implemented to fight the deadly viral outbreak but then changed their mind as weather forecasts predicted that a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico would become a hurricane and move inland across South Texas, causing heavy rains potentially in the Bandera area. “We ...