Weekend coming and goings

This past weekend was pretty good for me and pretty disappointing as well. But I guess life is like that sometimes.

First I got to play in a golf tournament in Meridian with an old college friend. We were invited to play for a team that was raising money for Relay for Life. I actually played pretty well and enjoyed my visit with my old college friend. I then got home in time to take my wife to the movie. We saw Soul Surfer. What a great movie. Not a single cuss word, no sexual overtones and a great inspiring message. And the film work was outstanding as well. I highly recommend you go see this movie. You will be moved and you will probably cry so take some tissues with you.

Sunday we heard a great message from Brother Michael Smith. We are looking at the road to the cross. Then more golf as my son asked me to come to Co-Lin and play with him. Yes he beat me, but that was to be expected. Then it was back home to take the youth to a concert at the Multi Purpose building. We saw and heard from 33 Miles, Jonny Diaz and Finding Favor. All three bands were fantastic. If you missed it you missed a great night in Lawrence County.

So what was disappointing about the weekend? The fact that most of you missed this great concert. One of the biggest complaints in Monticello and Lawrence County is that there is nothing for the young people to do. Here was a great night of music and fellowship and hardly anyone showed up. Here is something that was a positive event, uplifting for the whole family and only a handful of people show up. When local events are not supported it makes the people who put them on very hesitant to put on another. I know that some had a previous commitment and that is understandable. But with a county of nearly 13,000 people and less then 200 shows up for national recording acts, it's hard to say there is nothing to do.

A big thank you to those of you who did show up and those of you that put this together, it was great. I know I was there.

P.S. my spell check is not working, sorry if there are any words spelled wrong.

Recycling

Ok I have a question for you. I will also put up a poll about this. But here goes. Would you be willing to recycle your paper, aluminum cans, and plastic. You would not have to separate it and it would only cost you one to two dollars more per month on your garbage bill. This would be in cities and towns only. It would also create an industry in Southwest Mississippi that would create 25 to 30 jobs.

Feel free to comment. Thanks.

Meet the Canidates

The Daily Leader hosted a meet the candidates event last night. They talked about how they could help with campaigns, advertising in the paper and more. They also discussed hosting a forum in the near future. All in all it was a informative meeting. I would like to thank the Daily Leader staff for hosting this event.

At the conclusion I had the opportunity to meet Bill Boerner and Micheal Smith. Let me say what a nice conservation we all had. I believe that this will be a great race and one in which we will focus on the issues. In four elections I have never ran a negative campaign and have no plans of doing so now. I say all this to encourage you the voters to seek out where we the candidates stand on the issues that are of importance to you. I have four main areas of importance, they are education, economic development (jobs), transportation and crime. However I know there are other things that are important also. And I would love to know what is important to you. I hate that I did not get the chance to meet Mrs. Sally Doty but she left before we had the chance to talk. I am sure that we will get that chance in the very near future.

Again please seek us out on issues that are important to you. You can leave a comment here if you would like. Just click on the comments section below and I will get it, and I will respond.