Friday, February 29, 2008
Feabruary 29, 2008
FROM WENDELL SNOWDEN, Wellborn Communitay Association president
For the blog - wanted to give you the next few events that the WCA has planned. -------------
Easter Egg Hunt for Wellborn Children at the Wellborn Community Association on Saturday, March 22, 2008, at 2:00 PM, ages 3 to 9.
Spring Yard Sale at the Wellborn Community Assocition on Saturday, April 5, 2008, from 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Spaces are $7.00 each, bring your own tables, tents, etc. Blueberry Pancake Breakfast available from 7:00 to 10:00 AM ($5 adults; $3 children). Hot dogs, hamburgers and soda available for lunch.
15th Annual Wellborn Blueberry Festival, June 6th and 7th, 2008. Arts & crafts vendors, food concessions, and Country Store will be selling both days (Friday and Saturday). Friday's special activities will be the crowning of Little Miss/Mr. Blueberry, the Bake-Off contest and the tasting party ($3 per person). Saturday activities will be the pancake breakfast, parade at 9:00 AM, and the talent contest. There will be entertainment and karaoke both days - with Herold White and the Country Masters performing again this year. Kids' games will be held at various times on both days and the dunking booth will be open to dunk your favorite "celebrities" on Friday and Saturday. This year there will be more FREE activities for children. Come see the new and improved Country Store! There will be country decorator items for sale as well as the usual blueberry food items. This year we will have new and improved blueberry pies, as well as new things to try (such as BLUEBERRY FUDGE)!!!! If you would like to participate in any of the events, here are the phone numbers for the chairpersons: Vendors - Wendell Snowden 963-1157; Parade - Bobbi Fenderson 963-2908; Bake-Off - Cathy Allred 963-4322 or Ruth Ford 963-5334; Little Miss/Mr. Blueberry - Chris Williams 963-1562; Talent Contest/Entertainment - Linda Dye 963-4898; Sponsors - Jack Gaylord 963-4486; Raffle Tickets - Ray Turner 719-8889; Kids' Games - Penny Present 963-1331.
FROM WENDELL SNOWDEN, Wellborn Communitay Association president
For the blog - wanted to give you the next few events that the WCA has planned. -------------
Easter Egg Hunt for Wellborn Children at the Wellborn Community Association on Saturday, March 22, 2008, at 2:00 PM, ages 3 to 9.
Spring Yard Sale at the Wellborn Community Assocition on Saturday, April 5, 2008, from 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Spaces are $7.00 each, bring your own tables, tents, etc. Blueberry Pancake Breakfast available from 7:00 to 10:00 AM ($5 adults; $3 children). Hot dogs, hamburgers and soda available for lunch.
15th Annual Wellborn Blueberry Festival, June 6th and 7th, 2008. Arts & crafts vendors, food concessions, and Country Store will be selling both days (Friday and Saturday). Friday's special activities will be the crowning of Little Miss/Mr. Blueberry, the Bake-Off contest and the tasting party ($3 per person). Saturday activities will be the pancake breakfast, parade at 9:00 AM, and the talent contest. There will be entertainment and karaoke both days - with Herold White and the Country Masters performing again this year. Kids' games will be held at various times on both days and the dunking booth will be open to dunk your favorite "celebrities" on Friday and Saturday. This year there will be more FREE activities for children. Come see the new and improved Country Store! There will be country decorator items for sale as well as the usual blueberry food items. This year we will have new and improved blueberry pies, as well as new things to try (such as BLUEBERRY FUDGE)!!!! If you would like to participate in any of the events, here are the phone numbers for the chairpersons: Vendors - Wendell Snowden 963-1157; Parade - Bobbi Fenderson 963-2908; Bake-Off - Cathy Allred 963-4322 or Ruth Ford 963-5334; Little Miss/Mr. Blueberry - Chris Williams 963-1562; Talent Contest/Entertainment - Linda Dye 963-4898; Sponsors - Jack Gaylord 963-4486; Raffle Tickets - Ray Turner 719-8889; Kids' Games - Penny Present 963-1331.
# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 11:11 AM
Saturday, February 16, 2008
February 16, '08
A gleaned item from the Suwannee Democrat is that the WHISTLE STOP @ CR137 and C-10A schedules a monthly Wellborn Speaker Series beginning Friday, March 7 from 10 to noon. Carolyn Saft from UF/FAS Suwannee County Extension Office will speak on spring gardening, perennials, fruit trees etc.
Your blogger suggests you pay attention to your itching green thumb and be there. Bring your questions and ask the experts! Reservations are suggested @ 963 1122 or 935 6966.
Mr Merritt and his son have rows of veggie plants poking promisingly up in his good mini farm plot behind his Missionary Baptist Church on US 90
Hometowners George Scott, Gary Bailey and Cory Gray are in the living history reenactment going on in Lake City and at Olustee Park this weekend. Your blogger's grandson, 18 year old Austin McCrea of Gainesville,Democrat is a Union solder today also..
A gleaned item from the Suwannee Democrat is that the WHISTLE STOP @ CR137 and C-10A schedules a monthly Wellborn Speaker Series beginning Friday, March 7 from 10 to noon. Carolyn Saft from UF/FAS Suwannee County Extension Office will speak on spring gardening, perennials, fruit trees etc.
Your blogger suggests you pay attention to your itching green thumb and be there. Bring your questions and ask the experts! Reservations are suggested @ 963 1122 or 935 6966.
Mr Merritt and his son have rows of veggie plants poking promisingly up in his good mini farm plot behind his Missionary Baptist Church on US 90
Hometowners George Scott, Gary Bailey and Cory Gray are in the living history reenactment going on in Lake City and at Olustee Park this weekend. Your blogger's grandson, 18 year old Austin McCrea of Gainesville,Democrat is a Union solder today also..
# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 12:46 PM
Thursday, February 14, 2008
February 14, 2008
Happy Valentines Day
Hear some HEARTBEATs in our hometown.
The WHISTLE STOP baker statue lost his thumbs up ability when a gust of wind toppled him . He broke his arm.
Happy Valentines Day news is that he is repaired and is thumbs upping again and smiling about his TLC and the good life available to us all in our hometown.
Congratulations to Rhiannon Roach for achieving the Girl Scout equivalent to the boy's Eagle Scout. Her very pretty picture appeared in yesterday's Suwannee Democrat honoring her for the G.S. Gold Award. CONGRATZ to Rhiannon and her family.
I did a weekly soft news column and made the joyful announcement when Robert and Rhiannon were the twins born to Gerald and Patty Roach.
There is a wedding this month for their big brother, Walter Roach, Patty told me @ voting. The Roach young ones were V.B.S. friends once upon a time.
May God comfort Peggy Cook's loved ones who grieve over her death, February 7, 2008. She was only 45 and was promoted to the heavenlies after a courageous battle with cancer. She lived here 30 years. Her parents still live in Wellborn, John and Virginia Cashmore, and a daughter, Nichole, a sister, Wanda Piet and also an ex husband, Don. Other bereaved family came from Jacksonville, O'Brien. Lake City and Sarasota in order to join with friends to appreciate life events shared with each other.
Happy Valentines Day
Hear some HEARTBEATs in our hometown.
The WHISTLE STOP baker statue lost his thumbs up ability when a gust of wind toppled him . He broke his arm.
Happy Valentines Day news is that he is repaired and is thumbs upping again and smiling about his TLC and the good life available to us all in our hometown.
Congratulations to Rhiannon Roach for achieving the Girl Scout equivalent to the boy's Eagle Scout. Her very pretty picture appeared in yesterday's Suwannee Democrat honoring her for the G.S. Gold Award. CONGRATZ to Rhiannon and her family.
I did a weekly soft news column and made the joyful announcement when Robert and Rhiannon were the twins born to Gerald and Patty Roach.
There is a wedding this month for their big brother, Walter Roach, Patty told me @ voting. The Roach young ones were V.B.S. friends once upon a time.
May God comfort Peggy Cook's loved ones who grieve over her death, February 7, 2008. She was only 45 and was promoted to the heavenlies after a courageous battle with cancer. She lived here 30 years. Her parents still live in Wellborn, John and Virginia Cashmore, and a daughter, Nichole, a sister, Wanda Piet and also an ex husband, Don. Other bereaved family came from Jacksonville, O'Brien. Lake City and Sarasota in order to join with friends to appreciate life events shared with each other.
# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 9:23 AM
Friday, February 08, 2008
February 8, '08
Our woodsy pathways sports violets and tiny white crosses ground cover now. We call the little patches of crosses"Quaker Ladies". The yellow trumpet shaped vine flowers , Jessamine, are already dropping blossoms on the path and there are many many baby leaves emerging.
Robins flock noisily. Distant distinctive sound of migrating sandhill cranes make us look way up to spot them. The swamp maple red blossoms have me remembering how those red seeds can be opened so as to stick on my nose for fun in the world of childhood imagination as I walked to and from Spring Garden School in Nutley New Jersey. Do you suppose I identified with a rhonoceros thereby?
Mr. Jack lists these birds he saw simultaneously to my woodsy walking. He rides his new electric EZ-GO cart. He saw robins, flicker, great blue heron, goldfinches, crow, bluebird,and yellow rump warbler but the hooded merganzers we have been enjoying must have been having afternoon tea on somebody's else's pond.
This evening family and friends of Marilyn Burnham gather in bereavement. She was nicknamed "Merry" in her schooldays at Wellborn School and has many friends in our hometown. The funeral service is Saturday at Mt Beulah.
My own sharing of her gifts and graces was at the Wellborn Methodist Church library. She was the good lady who was not intimidated by the amount of work it took to catalogue over a thousand books turning a collection of books people have enjoyed into a LIBRARY of books right here in our hometown. COME SEE & BORROW FYI 963-5023 for library open hours.
There are secular book, reference books and religious books as well as VCR and DVD's.
What a good time we had playing library together once a week. It wasnt so much fun when our together time became Friday visits at her bedside. Her travail was too long. I admired her and her loved ones, even more for the way they waited together for it to be her time to join her beloved George in the heavenlies.
May God comfort all of us who mourn. We know how we will miss her, even while we rejoice thinking about her newness of life already started. We anticipate our glad reunion one day.
Our woodsy pathways sports violets and tiny white crosses ground cover now. We call the little patches of crosses"Quaker Ladies". The yellow trumpet shaped vine flowers , Jessamine, are already dropping blossoms on the path and there are many many baby leaves emerging.
Robins flock noisily. Distant distinctive sound of migrating sandhill cranes make us look way up to spot them. The swamp maple red blossoms have me remembering how those red seeds can be opened so as to stick on my nose for fun in the world of childhood imagination as I walked to and from Spring Garden School in Nutley New Jersey. Do you suppose I identified with a rhonoceros thereby?
Mr. Jack lists these birds he saw simultaneously to my woodsy walking. He rides his new electric EZ-GO cart. He saw robins, flicker, great blue heron, goldfinches, crow, bluebird,and yellow rump warbler but the hooded merganzers we have been enjoying must have been having afternoon tea on somebody's else's pond.
This evening family and friends of Marilyn Burnham gather in bereavement. She was nicknamed "Merry" in her schooldays at Wellborn School and has many friends in our hometown. The funeral service is Saturday at Mt Beulah.
My own sharing of her gifts and graces was at the Wellborn Methodist Church library. She was the good lady who was not intimidated by the amount of work it took to catalogue over a thousand books turning a collection of books people have enjoyed into a LIBRARY of books right here in our hometown. COME SEE & BORROW FYI 963-5023 for library open hours.
There are secular book, reference books and religious books as well as VCR and DVD's.
What a good time we had playing library together once a week. It wasnt so much fun when our together time became Friday visits at her bedside. Her travail was too long. I admired her and her loved ones, even more for the way they waited together for it to be her time to join her beloved George in the heavenlies.
May God comfort all of us who mourn. We know how we will miss her, even while we rejoice thinking about her newness of life already started. We anticipate our glad reunion one day.
# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 1:01 PM
