Spreuken over Leven

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

It's a pretty common thing with an orchestra. When I was living in the Village and going to see the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, that's what they did.

We're well on our way to making this a successful district and a good place to live.

About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.

I think they put so much pressure on themselves to live up to their expectations, and we played like that [for a while]. We were tight. We learned the world didn't end because we lost to a good team. Now we can put that loss behind us. Once we got one, two and another [score], it was like we had forgotten who we were and now, we remember.