It has been a good summer.  Our community has looked outstanding to visitors.  As the summer winds down, I commend the college kids who have worked on the street department and have done an excellent job. 
School has started in our community and I hope that everybody watches the street crossings as young kids are heading to school in the morning.  Also, please pay attention to the school buses out on our highways that are picking kids up in the morning and letting them off in the afternoon.
A few weeks ago we had a television crew here in Rising Sun to help promote our community to the outside world which has not yet discovered us. We hope that this will help with tourism and be a boost to our business community.  If all goes well with the review, it should be shown on Cincinnati’s Channel 64 on October 4 at 11:00 pm promoting our Navy Bean Fall Festival and our community. 
The Rising Sun America in Bloom Committee and I will be at the America in Bloom Symposium representing our community. We do hope that we will do excellent in this community competition.  It would be a great boost for this small community.  Everybody has done a fantastic job and the town looked fantastic all summer long, especially while the AIB judges were in town.
I read in a local paper a letter to the editor about our riverfront and the Phase 4 project.  Yes, it has been delayed by Kentucky but I am fighting to get this project started.  This is the way the federal law is written and we have no control over that   I would hopefully like to see more details in 2010 on this and I am sure a resolution is forthcoming.
While traveling from Rising Sun to Aurora, you may have seen the work on the Laughery Creek Bridge has started.  This is part of the resurfacing and the road widening that was supposed to be completed so hopefully we will have more details later on this.
We do hope that they have learned from past mistakes at the Arnold’s Creek Bridge below town and that this project will move a little quicker.  We are working on a letter to be sent to the Governor, INDOT, and our representatives for this local area wanting to know details of when State Route 56 will be completed between Aurora and Rising Sun. 
As always I ask everybody to keep our men and women in the armed services in their prayers and ask God to watch over our great community and this great country.