Alva Review-Courier -

I just now finished reading Sunday's (Alva Review-Courier) story about the Alva tourism committee agenda. When I got to the last paragraph, I instantly was struck by a lot of questions and history memories. At my age sometimes 'instantly' means overnight.

The request for $58,000 made me remember when that was a whale of money. I also remembered a couple of years ago when the committee had a motion to hire someone for about $70,000 to entice a lot of organizations to have their meetings in Alva. I think that motion did not pass. Apparently someone had a particular person in mind for that job, b...