You can thank Melissa and John Fulton for their outstanding work on this. Together with a few volunteers, they direct and produce this booth year after year and continually win awards of this caliber. The awards come with cash prizes which help offset the construction costs of the displays, too. The time and effort they volunteer for this is pretty incredible and, once again, this booth is beautiful.

take a wrong turn in the wrong part of the County, and got do not go a hiking now with buds near bloom. Stay in your Motel room and watch CNN and go gambling with our local Despots.

And be nice to those guys with two teeth that all look like happy chipmunks, as they might be rabid.

just like the tourists who go to Jamaica or Mexico and never see the poverty in the shanty towns just the resorts and high living. We should try to put a positive spin on the County since tourism is important to our economy until we get some new businesses and some jobs we need the tourists and their dollars.

CobbMt, it used to be that Disneyland was an oasis in an absolute sea of lousy motels with hookers and drug addicts and total lowlifes. The area immediately surrounding the Magic Kingdom was no place anyone wanted to be, yet just inside the walled garden was this tranquil, wonderful place. The neighbors, Disneyland and local government took action and now you can safely walk down the street, surrounded by clean sidewalks and lodging properties ranging from high-rise hotels to classic, kitschy motels from the 1950s that have been lovingly brought back to life.

The result is that Anaheim is hugely popular with visitors. Rather than people just going to Disneyland and then running for their lives, these people experience local restaurants, lodging properties and gift shops.

This is the same opportunity we have here in Lake County. Look at the life Tony & Ken have brought into Indian Beach or how positive an experience it is to go to the Edgewater thanks to Sandra and her partner.

It takes a lot of individuals to work together to create a place where you want to bring your family and friends but everyone has to participate in this, it can't just be those Same Three People (STP) who do all the work. Eventually, they just get burned out and move somewhere with a more cohesive team. But you can't spend your time looking for the problems unless you're going to be part of the solution.

So, what are you planning to do tomorrow that will make Lake County a better place to live? After all we all bring life to the room - some by arriving, others by leaving.