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By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen

I had the pleasure of attending the 14th annual Women in Business conference last Thursday night at the Burke County Office Park.

It was a lovely evening ... dinner, fashion show and speaker.

Two of my co-workers, Lisa Chance and Anne Marie Kyzer were models for the fashion show.

Both were nervous about walking across the stage in attire they were not used to wearing ... the outfits chosen by Dillards were not everyday fashions.

Lisa seemed to be a bit reserved in her walk that was brisk as if she was in a hurry to get backstage.

However, Anne Marie, strolled as if she had

been practicing or either she had some modeling gigs before.

I was proud that I worked with these girls. They represented The True Citizen well!

The speaker, Jane Jenkins Herlong of Edgefield, S.C., was a hoot and inspirational at the same time.

I will always remember the most important line from her talk ... "She who loves the most wins."

There is no one on earth as attentive as a new grandmother. My sister-in-law, Patsy Taylor Sheffield, is one of those overly attentive grandmothers.

I can't ever remembe being that way (ha! ha!)

We eat dinner at my mother-in-laws house every Sunday with family members. The head count floats between 12 and 17 on non-holiday weekends.

There were 12 last Sunday, so we all gathered at the dining room table. It was a little crowded, but we all wanted to sit together and catch up on all that was going on with each other.

Patsy brought her new granddaughter, Emily. Emily is just beautiful and such a good baby.

When we sat down to eat ... all huddled together, Patsy decided she would wait to eat when someone else could hold Emily. We all agreed that Emily was so content that Patsy should eat with all of us.

Well, we certainly could not leave Emily without bringing her to the table. Getting the high chair and its tray takes a little doing with all of us gathered around the table ... it's a space issue.

We're all trying to be patient, but we're hungry and it's beginning to show ... no one says anything, but faces begin to look a little tense.

Patsy is not acquainted with the high chair at her moms and it takes several tries to get the tray on the chair. While all of this is going on, Emily is passed from person to person to get her closer to the high chair. It is like a Chinese fire drill!

Finally, Emily is in her chair. "Oh, she has to have her teething biscuit," Patsy said.

This means getting up again, pushing chairs back so she can get the cookies out of the diaper bag. Faces are looking a little more tense ... no serving bowls have been passed ... we're still trying to get the over-attentive granny to sit.

Finally, we are all seated and dinner gets underway.

I bet you can't guess what most of the table conversation is about? ... Emily, of course!

I hope I am still around when Emily is grown and has children of her own and I can tell her about all of the fuss that was made over her when she came to Great-Grandma Taylor's house.

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I need to make a correction about Christmas on Liberty Square and the Town and Country Woman's Club Tour of Homes.

Christmas on Liberty Square is Nov. 30 in downtown Waynesboro and the tour of homes is Dec. 1 from 4 to 8 p.m.

Tickets for the tour are $15 each and are available by calling Laura Hensley, 706-554-2021, Gail Voyles, 706-554-2464, Nell Cox. 706-554-2208 or any Town and Country Woman's Club member.

First United Methodist Church mission team will host a luncheon on the day of the tour. It will be spaghetti or pancakes.

Both sound good and the proceeds will be used for their mission work.

****** Happy 86th birthday to my co-worker Ruby Barefield. She still comes to work full time every day! Wow!