CenLamar | Est. 2006

Today’s paper has a great article about the efforts underway to rehabilitate Bringhurst Golf Course, a project that I was originally interested in months before the Mayor’s election (and one I am really happy to return to as a member of the administration). The “Save the Brink” project, spearheaded by Michael, father Scott and cousin Frank, has received $100 pledges from approximately 65 individuals, as well as $55,000-60,000 in larger-scale contributions. Bringhurst, originally known as Mashie Golf Course, is one of the three oldest par three courses in the nation, perhaps the longest continually-operated, though I’ll have to get back…

Granted, I may be a little biased, but yesterday’s Summit on Sustainability in Downtown Alexandria exceeded my expectations. Around 200 people from all walks of life and from all corners of the State (though, obviously, the majority of participants were from the Central Louisiana area) gathered to discuss a wide range of issues related to the concept of sustainability. Commissioner Foster Campbell said that this may have been the very first time that the public, along with elected officials, gathered to learn and talk about this particular set of issues. (To be fair, the good people at CPEX held a…