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A View Of Columbus Through Rose-Colored Glasses
This article is dedicated to acknowledge examples of positives that express the community spirit of Columbus – our town.
Have you met Montraie Baldwin? If you have, you will remember her smile. Montraie is the store manager of our Columbus Walmart Store, and her time with Walmart spans 30 years. The 30 years have been spent as a cashier, sales associate, stocker, and quite a number of other positions. Frankly, I’d like to be the manager of Walmart.
I hope you’ll understand that I think it would be fun and challenging to manage Walmart, HEB, AL&M, or several other businesses around town. Ms. Baldwin believes that Walmart offers the greatest rewards system in the business world. She notes that they will help you if you are ill or if you want to save money, or if you want to go to college. These are some of the benefits that founder Sam Walton would have you remember about his company.
It may surprise you to know that Walmart rents its space from HEB. They like to rent but they do pay their own way in property taxes. Is there anything Montraie would change about her building?
Yes, she would add more frozen food doors. She notes that you’ll find a lot of hunting supplies. It seems that Columbus has lot of hunters.
I asked her if she goes on the floor from her office upstairs. She quickly let me know that she will work all stations. You may see her there on certain days.
Montraie likes to support the community. She is extremely generous and loves to support groups within the community such as Lions Club, of which she is a member.
Once again, this is the time of year I would like to work at Walmart selling school supplies. I’ve already filled my notebook with a fresh pack of notepaper.
As you walk the aisles of school supplies, enjoy all the choices you have. Find something special for someone going back to school and enjoy giving it to them as a surprise.
Hurrah for the Columbus Girls winning the World Series in Softball!!!
And just for the record, Beamer did it again. During Saturday’s storm while we were in Brenham, he escaped from our back yard and headed to Hound Song for his third time for refuge. Good hearted Columbus citizens stepped up to the plate.
Hound Song employee, Joe, returned him to our backyard but he went back to Hound Song twenty minutes later, Joe then called our neighbor, Arlene SoRelle, and she sent her husband, Mark, to Hound Song to pick him up and dog-sit him til we got home – only in a small town...
