I think it is time for the community to start really working collaboratively. When the (IVGID) board of trustees hired me they asked me to get involved in the community - and I'm passionate about being involved in the community.

We're a special district that does more than most. We are further along in the community involvement process than most communities around the lake, and this is a chance for us to have a voice in what happens around the lake over the next 20 years.

In this process we have to look at where this community is going. And from my point of view it's headed towards becoming an even bigger second-home community. But we need to bring in someone here that has experience - experience in city planning, experience in performing the kind of analysis that shows us where we can go - what's realistic.

At a time when drug cartels are flooding our streets with marijuana, and gang warfare is rampant, it's impossible for the Board of Supervisors to give its blessing to the use of a drug that is forbidden by federal law.

Hopefully we'll have the same student turnout that we had the last time ESPN came for the Louisiana-Lafayette game.

It was my first time hitting in a long time, and I just tried to get out there and put the bat on the ball.