- "They told me I needed to reduce the size of the police force.

- "They told me to cancel the order on the ladder truck for the fire department.

- "And they told me not to talk about annexation."

• Sewer and water, and street projects
• Aesthetics: Citing work by the City Street Department and the Garden Club.
• The spring and Fall Cleanups
• The roadside park
• The City Parks basketball court at the Fairgrounds

• The city's new 911 building. (The Adair County 911 Center, built by Adair Fiscal Court.)
• Growth on Highway 61, north and south
• The $27 million expansion at Lindsey Wilson College
• The prospect of Lindsey Wilson taking over Pinewood Country Club

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."