Editor's note: Nora Walker, a senior at Bullard High School, has joined Opinion Talk as a guest blogger for the next few months. Here is her first posting:

Summer is over and students have gone back to school, . . practice, sports and homework. We have less time to go to the movies, hang out with friends and especially go to public meetings.

The Rios Company, representing Lance Kashian Co., which manages the River Park operations, has begun holding community meetings so the public and the teens can voice their opinions on the curfew issue at the popular shopping center.

I attended the one last week. I felt it was was a poor turn out and did not accomplish much. We filled out an information card and marked if we would like to speak. Time is going to pass and unless these meetings are advertised more, the turn out will be less and less.

This topic is going to get swept under the rug and forgotten, by adults and teens alike. I would have liked to have seen these meetings held before the announcement of a River park curfew. Then maybe there would not have been such an uproar; people would not be upset, and it would have involved the community.

But then my summer would not have been so exciting.