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WELLPIN RIDING GROUP DOES THEIR NEW YEARS EVE RIDE

New Years Eve tradition pictures from Billie Gettinger

This is Dolores Davis' table dressed for Christmas Day Dinner at 2Pm. She shared her local family with her friends who are like family she says. The menu was lamb, previously marinated with garlic, cumin, fresh ginger and she couldnt remember what else. It was heavenly. There was a platter of ham added to give her guests a choice. Vegies were fancy stuffed and fanned potatoes, rice balls, corn on the cob, green beans, brussel sprouts, brocoli, tomatoe & onion salad and rolls. For dessert she had prepared her signature specialty of walnut layer cake and also a pumpkin cheese cake.
Dolores Davis loves people and she loves food and when she can get them both together she is the happiest of persons and so are her guests. She is a Hostess with the Mostest who rejoices each time she can do it one more time.

Digital camera failed to record satisfactorily the Christmas Lights that are such a delight to any night travelers around our hometown.
Blogger's three favorites are these
1.Terry and Jane Lowe's home and yard art is North of the railroad on CR 137;
2. Hoffman's home and yard art is on US90 West of CR 137
3. Chaunceys home with art is alongside of Andrews Square.
WCA's display in the gazebo/stage in the middle of Andrews Square made a first appearance last year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF US

Are you in the CROWD OF HAPPY WELLBORN FOLKS at the Community Center TO WELCOME SANTA

Wendell writes:

It was a real pleasure this year for the WCA to host the Wellborn Children's Christmas Party. Families with children of all ages started showing up around 5:30 pm. By 6:10, we had them all seated and singing Christmas carols. Santa Claus arrived by Wellborn fire truck, courtesy of Fire Chief Tom Maynard and assisted by Wayne Brooks. Santa (Jim Bezaire) was very jovial and into the role pleasing 58 children with very nice Christmas stockings. We then proceeded to pull tickets and awarded each and every child with a nice gift. Tickets were then drawn and two lucky children (a boy and a girl) each won a 26" 15-speed bicycle.

The annual raffle ticket winners were drawn as a finale. Robert Noble won the $300 cash, Jim & Pat Bezaire won the $200, and Oleta Rehders won $100. All children and parents, workers and Santa, enjoyed tons of delicious cookies, punch and coffee supplied by the WCA. We were all very pleased as this was a very good turnout of Wellborn families who seemed to have a good time. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all from your Wellborn Community Association.

Wendell Snowden
3302 - 104th Street
Wellborn, FL 32094
Phone 386-963-1157
Cell 386-590-0002

Carmen Hernandez climbed the ladder in order to help some angels fly near the ceiling of the Wellborn United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Barbara Andersen,Paula Arnold, Cathy Allred and Shirley Carter were the committee peple who learned how to tie fisherman knots in some very fine filament. All blog readers are invited to Wellborn Methodist church any of these Advent Sundays. After worship please stay for light luncheon amongst the host of angels flying around the room. Count the angels. There is a prize if you can report the correct number.

First Saturday Blueberry Pancakes were served up with Capn Jack Allred at the grill and Kathie Snowden mixing 'em up
Servers were the Williams who are Kathie and Wendell's daughter and son-in-law.
Chef Jack says he uses very little grease on the grill which is better for us and better for the grill's exhaust system.
I saw Nikki Fralick Sutton and her husband Anthony, his mother and Nikki's grandmother, Goldie Gaylord. All but Goldie had traveled over 50 miles to eat WCA pancakes and then they were off to Christmas On The Square in Live Oak. This has become a tradtion with the Gaylard, Fralick,Sutton families. They enjoy it so much that this year, when Ted and Goldie Marie are cruising around Australia, the meanwhilers decided to carry on tradtion without them.

Jan Pearce taught the Wellborn NeighborhoodWatchers a Contra Dance at the Christmas Party. Jane Campbell's invitation included a foreshadowing of dancing foot tapping fun. Jane also admitted to not knowing what Contra Dancing is all about. Well, she knows now and she likes it.

WNW leaders are Ruth Ford, Jane Campbell, Betty Barnes and Russell Smith. All can be identified in these phtoes. Buck Pearce, Paige Pearce and Tori and Teddy (friends of the Pearces) were the Contra Dance angels helping us beginners to round out three sets of four to make the dance progression work. The guy with the Santa hat is Jim Bezaire who distirbuted the gifts at the party. Very little swapping of gifts happend. We all liked just what Santa gave us!
Austin McCarthy got a turn with the fiddle. It seems he is a natural and played a recognizable Twink Twinkle Little Star after his first impromptu coaching from Jan.

Lloyd Baldwin of Branford came by special invitation to the Wellborn Neighborhood Watch Christmas Party Thursday December 5 The Party was a reward for the WNW workers for another year of cooperatiion with the Law Enforcement professionals to keep our neighborhoods safe. While doing that good friendships have blossomed. The air is full of Christmas. We have the ingredients for a happy celebration.
The general invitation to all the WNW'ers promised that Jan Pearce would get us to Contra Dancing. We not only did learn and enjoy Contra Dancing but we also did it to Lloyd Baldwins live fiddle music. What fun!

These are the play actors whose Thanksgiving weekend included three performances of a delightful playlet about Thieves that Couldnt Stop Sneezing. The couple in the middle of the back row are George and Bonnie Scott of Wellborn's Scott Blueberry Farm fame. George is a first timer in local theatre productions. Bonnie's enthusiasm about participation drew him into the fun. George was Bjorn the disc jockey on a small Wisconsin radio station. The story was about how they had booked a troupe from England to do a radio show/story and the English actors didnt show up so Bjorn and the stations handyman(Bonnie) and the town Mayor made it happen using local people's gifts and graces. Lots of laughs with a Christmas season flavor added.

Wellborn United Methodist Church on Advent #1 Sunday

It is Advent season in the liturgical churches (Methodist, Episcopal, Anglican, Lutheran & Roman Catholic in this part of the world, Russian and Greek Orthodox too elsewhere) The church year begins with four weeks of Advent. It is a wonderful time of preparation of our hearts and minds for the coming of our Lord and Savior into our dailies. We make ourselves aware of the 3 different ways this happened, is happening and will happen! 1.We meditate on God's choice of entering our world as a baby in Bethlehem 2000 years ago. 2. We marvel how it is when He enters our hearts as we invite Him into our lives.3. The Bible promises He will come again. When that happens God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit will make all things right. Our world will be like the Garden of Eden in the beginning. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear yearns for an end to our world's wrongness. We really want desperately a world of peace, harmony & righteousness to live in. It will happen!
That is why our sanctuary decor looked like this when we arrived for worship on Advent's fist Sunday, November 30th this year.
The color of the season is blue/purple, colors of repentance and of royalty. We know about our sin, individual and corporate, and how we keep needing to be forgiven, yet we know that royalty lived amongst us and invites us into His Kingdom!
God partnered with the Geiger family to create a representation of the profound JOY of the season. The first candle, a deep blue purple reminds us to prepare purposefully and to dare to hope. That Advent wreath is just off the picture on the right hand side . Also further right is the new screen and this first Sunday of Advent was the first time we projected & scrolled through current announcements and coming attractions enhanced by pictures and, Best Of All, words to hymns appeared on that new screen!. Pastor Jim Messer said looking up when we sing allows him to hear our rejoicing in song better than ever before. Surely God is pleased too.
Pastor Jim used the circle of white candles (front & center) with a story during which he lit the candles, blew them out and lit them again. It was about how greatly we value God's light coming to our world. The Hope candle was the one saved to re light Faith, Love, and Joy candles.