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WELLBORN NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH MEETING
Dwight Stansel is a native son of Wellborn. He graduated from Wellborn school which stood where the WVFD Training Center is (Blake Lowe Building). Dwight chuckles and tells "My great grandaddy was murdered in Wellborn and is buried in Carver cemetery. The only thing I can tell you about the reason for the shooting is that my great grandmother is buried in Beulah cemetery". Then he added another smile-y. In Tallahassee they say. "What do you call a guy from Wellborn with a good looking woman on his arm"? "That is a farmer with a tattoo!"
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Not so with Dwight. He is a very successful farmer, indeed, but the good looking woman who came to the WNW meeting with him is his wife Glenda. Dwight's 8 years in Tallahassee required him to be gone from his Wellborn home, farm, and family for 5 months each year. He is not a career politician and recognized people in Tallahassee who are career politicians. Dwight is grateful and humble to come back home. He has filed papers enabling him to run for Tax Collector of Suwannee County.

Dwight describes his years in the Florida House of Representatives as The Greatest of Learning Experiences. "I loved it!".
His statesmanship was heartening. "I voted my conscience and maintained honesty and integrity, never jeopardized my values, and avoided Party Politics". He was impressed with intelligence in both houses of our congress and gives the system his vote of confidence even now that he has seen it from the inside and knows how almost impossible it is to reach consensus. He adds "You gotta be honest, fair, and mind your own business".:-)

He served on the Agriculture Committee for 8 years and chaired it for the last 2 years. He told about Select Committees where he worked hard. 1. Voting process, 2. Constitution amendment process and 3. Private property rights.

In answer to a question from a listener "How do you feel about our water problems & Georgia's recent request?"
Dwight thought water would be the Big Fight when he went to congress. It wasn't.
"Water will be a war." he said. It will be about Quality and Quantity and the fight is imminent.

PECANS
Pecans are plentiful this year. Many hundreds from Geigers old pecan trees littered the dirt road( 9th ave) by their house. Since Maurice's grandaddy planted Stuarts, known for paper thin shells. Ann and Maurice hurry to pick them up before cars crush too many.
Dwight Stansel says his daddy , Bobbie Stansel, at age 87, was out picking up pecans with his cane in one hand and the rolling picker up basket in the other.
Marilyn Burnham's daughters and friends gathered around a table in her sick room with mounds of pecans to do together while they visited. Marilyn did a cup full, herself, for old times sake. Colleen says they have shelled and picked the meat out of 400 pounds of nuts so far during the vigil at her momma's bedside.