Resolution 22053 congratulating Alice Proctor on 100th birthday

1:24:12Thanks. Okay. Now we move on to um

1:24:15Madam Chair. My presentation is here. Oh

1:24:19okay. If you want to go ahead and do that right now.

1:24:22That'd be great.

1:24:23And then we'll have David. David, you can take well D okay.

1:24:26Oh I like their I like their outfits. But

1:24:31we're gonna stay away though.

1:24:32Jack.

1:24:35Oh, there you go. There you go.

1:24:41I remember when we did this in Dade City, Commissioner Oakley, were you on the board when we um we had a bus rider. Actually she was over a hundred. And she rides our she was riding our buses everywhere. Do you remember that?

1:24:53Oh yeah. Okay.

1:24:56That was and she walked up to the podium.

1:25:00Yeah.

1:25:03Come on up, all the way up, please. We have Mr. Seven. Yeah. Okay, go ahead.

1:25:11Resolution 22053. A resolution uh by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, congratulating Alice Proctor on celebrating her one hundredth birthday.

1:25:34Yeah.

1:25:36Oh.

1:25:40Whereas Alice Proctor was born on December 24th, 1921, in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. She met John Dwyer in the tenth grade and married him on January 2nd, 1943. They had two sons, John Dwyer, aged 76, and Rip uh Dry. Dyer, uh, age seventy four. And whereas Alice graduated from high school in nineteen thirty nine with a full scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, However, the era of World

1:26:11War Two called her to fulfil a different duty, preventing her from attending Juilliard. And whereas after the death of her first husband, Alice Proctor remarried in nineteen fifty seven, had one daughter, Debbie Proctor. She is the ground proud grandmother of eight grandchildren and a great grandmother of twelve great grandchildren. and whereas Alice was a member of the uh Cottage Park Yacht Club and volunteered to assist the Mothers

1:26:41Club with organizing sports. She enjoyed playing bridge with her friends every Friday night and also enjoyed attending the Commodore Ball to socialize with her friends. and whereas, although Alice was wheelchair bound because of multiple sclerosis, she never let that stop her from enjoying life, and had the opportunity to travel to Europe and visited Germany, France, Switzerland, Northern Italy, and Does you?

1:27:11And Whereas Alice started following the Boston Patriots in nineteen sixty three, and continued to follow with them when their name changed to the New England Patriots. And whereas Alice is a big fan of Tom Brady, and when he moved to Florida in nineteen eighty three, she was ecstatic to learn that Tom Brady was moving to Tampa Bay in twenty twenty, and happier to know she would be able to see him on television playing for the Buccaneers. and whereas Alice

1:27:41has always remained positive and continues to inspire everyone around her to always do their best And her joys or and her greatest joys in life is having her family nearby. and watching Tom Brah Brady pay play football. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said Board hereby congratulates Alice Proctor on celebrating her one hundredth birthday, done and resolved in regular session with a quorum president voting this twenty-fifth day

1:28:11of January twenty twenty-two. Approval. Second.

1:28:16All in favor? Aye. Opposed. Well congratulations and welcome. Thank you very much. This is Commissioner Mariano's, so we're gonna let him take the mic and run run with the M.

1:28:28I'm gonna come down there in just a second. I just want to talk to you so everyone could hear as well. Um when I saw the picture in the Sun Coast News. I said I gotta try to make something happen. So I called Brian Ford from the Tampay Bucks. He reached out we reached out to through the paper through your caregivers and then made a contact where I guess they sent you a package. And I want to tell you that they were so thrilled with you. uh and trying to help you get to see Tom Brady and The tickets weren't able to make it happen just

1:28:58the way, you know, at 100 years old we want to make sure she was going to be inside. Uh they tried to make that happen and just it just didn't quite work out with the weather. They didn't want her outside.

1:29:08We want to make sure they are in a safe environment so they don't get hurt, sick, and in difficulty getting there. Uh so they're they're working on it and hopefully next year we'll make something happen. But uh they wanted to make sure, as they said, you're a hundred years old, well your kid's gotta be seventy, seventy five. So I gotta make sure we protect them. So uh I I I understand you got a package. I'm delighted to hear that and uh I'm delighted that you were able to come out here with the family to to come out here and and accept this resolution at at being a hundred years old and again I got your spirit too. All right.

1:29:42All right, we're gonna we're gonna stand here. Yeah. I just noticed Jack says Mariano on the back. How did he do that?

1:29:49He plays. He played he he didn't know he was playing. He was on the practice squad.

1:29:54Uh a regional planning council, we're I'm always talking with Shawn Sullivan all about the Bucks, the Lightning, et cetera. They talk about the Bucks so much and Tom Brady coming down from he's from New England as well. He says, you know what? Instead of giving you a big picture frame or uh uh something else, he goes, I want to get you this buckshirt.

1:30:15But God bless you.

1:30:16Thanks.

1:30:16Thank you for coming. We're gonna try to make a Some good happen for you next year as well, but um I hope you're like the way they've treated you with the package and all.

1:30:23Yeah.

1:30:24Very nice.

1:30:25Thank you. Thank you.

1:30:27We got a picture right

1:30:27here? Yeah,

1:30:28it's good.

1:30:29Yeah, yeah.

1:30:33Thank you both.

1:30:38Oh my Yeah.

1:30:39Mm-hmm. Sorry she had to come on such a and such bad weather.

1:30:43You can take it off of your shoes and cleaning a violence.

1:30:50Well.

1:30:56Let's let's move Ellis in the back here so with the Board of County Commissioners get a pitch there too.

1:31:01The whole day come all this we made.

1:31:05Come on.

1:31:14awesome.

1:31:19to the box

1:31:23right-of-way.

1:31:33Oh wow I'm sorry. Okay.

1:31:50Will we make sure I second?

1:31:57And then that'll take two.

1:31:59Here we go.

1:32:05All right. Oh one more. All these phones I've been given.

1:32:10All right. All right.

1:32:14Thank you.

1:32:20And we're good. Thank you.

1:32:22All

1:32:22right,

1:32:22thanks, everybody.

1:32:23Well, thank you guys very much. Appreciate