Resolution 25-044 honoring Anita Wilde 100th birthday

46:11Okay, now we'll go to res three.

46:14Okay. Um Mrs. Wilde, would you like to come up? Would you like to stay seated? Is that easier for you? Sorry.

46:23She can say seated at Bitch T.

46:28Yeah, I'm David Wilde, the son of Anita Wilde at [address removed], and she's a 40-year resident of Haskell County. And last month she just turned one hundred years old. It must be the food or the air or the water that keeps in love alive and young.

46:57Okay,

46:57I'm gonna read

46:57the

46:58resolution. Okay. Read the resolution now.

47:01Resolution number twenty-five-zero forty-four. A resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, honoring Anita Wilde for her one hundredth birthday. Whereas Anita Wilde Ney Montpétay was born October twenty ninth, nineteen twenty four, and was the fifth of six children. And whereas in nineteen forty-two, Anita Wilde was joined in holy matrimony with Virgil Wildey, and the loving couple shared thirty-eight years of happiness

47:31together. And whereas she became a valued resident of Pasco County in nineteen eighty-four, When she wrote relocated from Madison Heights, Michigan, as a homemaker and supportive member of the community, and whereas she is the mother of David Wilde and Denise Sims, the grandmother of Michelle Sheridan, Colleen Sheridan, Jeanette Covington, and Patrick Wilde, and the great-grandmother of Charles Covington and William Covington. And whereas, as Anita approaches her 11th decade, she

48:02is active with her friends, family, and the community as her health permits. And whereas Mrs. Wildy celebrated her 100th birthday on October the 29th, 2024, an occasion which was commemorated with great joy in remembering the past, giving thanks for the present and anticipating the future, and whereas Whereas it is fitting that the Board of County Commissioners should recognize those citizens who are celebrating such a milestone in their venerable lives. And whereas the Board of County

48:32Commissioners of Pasco County recognize this momentous achievement. of one of Pasco County citizens and wishes for Anita's continued good health and happiness in the years to come. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said Board hereby honors and congratulates Anita Wilde on the celebration of her 100th birthday and extends its best wishes to her. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting

49:03this twelfth day of November, 2024.

49:07Move to approve. We got a motion. Second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Hold aye. Well motion approves five zero. Ms. Yeager.

49:18Well first of all, happy birthday. You look beautiful.

49:43Well Miss Anita, I looked it up and milk was thirty-five cents a gallon back then and gas was twenty-one cents a gallon. So things have things have come a long way. Um First of all, I want to just say how what an amazing celebration and milestone this is. Um I'm sure you and your family have been enjoying uh celebrating. We my great grandpa, he lived to be almost a hundred and five, so um I know how special

50:14uh this is and um I wish, I hope for you that God continues to bless you and your family, and you have many more years to go. So you want the same thing?

50:25I'd say congratulations. Um I had a grandmother that made it to ninety-five. Other relatives to ninety-nine, but nobody's made it to a hundred,

50:32so thank you.

50:38Mr. Wade? Oh

50:39yeah. Um I can't even imagine. Um, I just it's just so wonderful and l and you look like you're in wonderful health too, so Congratulations. Um And to have a so much family around you. And I I Who who are the folks with you here today? So you're

51:01And I used to own a restaurant in Dade City forty years ago and Mr. Oakley was down the road, I was crossing Lakes Pasco.

51:09And then who who else is with you here today? Who else is is here with you?

51:13Oh my wife, Kathryn who who started teaching right here in Dade City at the elementary school and then she transferred to Gulf High because they needed somebody for IV. Ah. So

51:29his stepmother was my son's teacher.

51:35I

51:35can't

51:35put all that together.

51:45That's

51:46funny. We have our good friend Karen King. Yeah,

51:48I'm the skin.

51:51Well, um we are so honored to have you here today and I know we were supposed to have you uh last month, right? But the hurricane got in the way. So um just congratulations and okay. And uh that's wonderful. Uh Mr. Waible,

52:06I'll make it simple. How about everybody join me in singing? The most out-of-key song on the face of the earth. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy

52:19birthday,

52:20Miss Widley.

52:22Happy

52:23birthday to you.

52:35Well I I guess I'm the last one to speak, but what I wanna know is the secret because I only have twenty one more years to go till I reach our age and I plan on getting there, so but I won't be sitting here. At that time. So but uh it's wonderful that you're here with us today and you've seen so much of the changes in the world that uh the the changes seem to happen quicker now than you did from way when you think way back at what changes happen.

53:06So but a great time. So

53:08We go back a long way to Pasco. We got relatives and You are a her brother. was a brother at Saint Leo's and he ran the cattle ranches, which now are subdivisions. Right. Oh yeah. Thank you all. Uh

53:25thank you. We'll go down and uh take a picture. So

53:28I'll stay up here. Hey Mark.

53:59Hey. Look at her. Yeah,

54:02that's available.

54:05Well here

54:05than

54:05me.

54:34Keep it in the back. Alrighty,

54:37here we go. Ready. One, two, and three, two, couple in. One more.

55:13Thank you.