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I recently wrote our Senator Bill Nelson urging him to be bold and brave and stand up for the American people and reject the current government plan for the takeover of the health care industry.  I was really surprised to get an answer, but not really surprised to find out how little notice is paid to his constituents.  I guess that his minion picked the wrong letter out of his junk mail answers. Anyway, since he said not to reply to his response, I thought I would share my reply with you.

Fire Chief John Ward was fired Monday night after a heated two-hour exchange between him and the city commission over his job performance over the last year.

Commissioners voted 4-1 in favor of the motion made by Vice Mayor Teresa Barron.  Commissioner Rollin Hudson voted against the motion.

“I think the fire chief has lost his effectiveness and lost his ability to work with the commission,” Mayor Teal Pomeroy said.

Ninety-year-old Olga, a long-term resident at Tri-County Nursing Home, in Trenton, looked a little confused when a small group of people entered her room asking questions about expecting visitors Thursday.

But her confusion melted when she saw that two of the group’s members were short, hairy and of the canine variety.

“I love animals,” she said as she caressed one of the dogs sitting on her bed, “ and they are so adorable.”

Three miles from Williston off a bumpy hilly road, a passage through scrub and pasture leads the unsuspecting traveler to the utopian sanctuary that Dr. Raymond Webber calls home.

More than 400 species of plants thrive on his 100-acre bit of paradise that has been more than 16 years in the making.

“Not many people in Florida have their house built into the side of a cliff,” Webber, an endodonist by trade, explains as he begins his trek through the assorted gardens that he has designed.

Indeed, the vista from this porch is breathtakingly beautiful.