"Always remember that you're here for the entire town, so represent each person, each family, each area and each business equally."

Former Mayor Steve Carver gave a few words of advice to incoming Mayor Mike Miller.  Carver, mayor of Wagener for 13 years, has seen a lot of changes in this small town, most of which he attributes to a long list of volunteers and both town employees and town citizens who consistently work hard for this community.

"Get help," Carver continued, "WDDC, Wagener Garden Club, WS JROTC, WS FFA, Crescent Cities Park Leadership and many more -- people want to help."  Carver encouraged Miller to pursue Grants, one of Carver's strong suits.  "My role as mayor was to constantly work to find projects that would match the needs of Wagener and then work with others to make these types of accomplishments happen."

Under Carver's leadership, Wagener received over three million dollars in grants, resulting in police and fire department improvements, park improvements, and energy, water and sewer improvements. Upon leaving office, Carver said these accomplishments were only possible by the hard work of the council members, the WDDC, the Wagener Garden Club, the citizens of Wagener, the Crescent Cities Park Leadership Group, the Wagener Fire Dept. and the town employees.

"It took everybody working together but Wagener is a better place than it was 13 years ago."

The town of Wagener thanks Steve Carver for all the years of self-sacrifice, unstoppable vision and genuine love for the people of Wagener.  Much thanks also to his wife and family for their patience, love and leadership.