Horizons only part of the journey for this Guy

What do you do when you've owned several farms and some forestry, got an M.Ag.Sci, been a farm consultant and managed a large subdivision on the trendy edge of Palmerston North?
Murray Guy has done all that and is semi-retired. He said it was now time for some community service.
He was elected to one of the four Palmerston North seats on Horizons Regional Council in 2007, and was deputy chairman of its catchment operations committee and on its audit, risk and investment committee.
Looking for more, he trained as a commissioner and chaired resource consent and One Plan hearings for the council.
In October, Palmerston North voters re-elected him to the council, and his fellow councillors voted him chairman for the next three years.
He also chairs its holdings committee, which recently sold $9 million worth of shares in the Port of Napier and owns 23 per cent of Wellington's Centreport.
Efficiency is Mr Guy's middle name. He hopes to both run the council and have some time for himself - but admits he's been doing 10-hour days since he became chairman.
And that may continue. He's planning to attend many of the council's eight committees, and chair its full council and strategy and policy meetings.
His top aim is to meld all 12 councillors into a tight working unit, and he said that was going well. He'll expect other councillors to do some stepping up too, and plans to rotate the job of chairing workshops when they have enough experience.
Mr Guy grew up on a dairy farm in the Bombay hills. He wanted to stick with farming as a career and in 1968 went to Massey University and did a Bachelor of Agricultural Science.
He then worked in agricultural research for several years, as a hill country agronomist, "working in revegetation of hill country with new pasture species and also revegetating erosion scars in slips".
During that time he married Michelle, a teacher, and upgraded his degree to Masters level. In 1980, not long after they has started their family of three children, they bought 120ha at Oroua and he became a self-employed sheep and beef farmer.
When Rogernomics made times tough in the mid 1980s, he supplemented the farm income by working as a consultant, helping other farmers restructure. He also got interested in forestry.
In 1990 he and his wife bought a 20ha lifestyle block at Kairanga, near Palmerston North. But that's not the sum total of his land interests.
At the same time he also bought 310ha of sand country near Bulls, most of it now forested. It's leased, and milling has been going on since 1993.
Then there's a 130ha hill country property on the Pahiatua Track, also leased. And he finished a 100-section subdivision on the outskirts of Palmerston North five years ago, and is now embarked on another one - Kingsdale Park.