4/19/06 Today With Patty ...

by Patty

Today Crescent State Bank celebrated the opening of their first full-service office in Raleigh at 6408 Falls of the Neuse Road with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Bank executives, city council members and elected officials attended the event. Raleigh City Council member Jessie Taliaferro was there to welcome Crescent State Bank to Raleigh and to her district.

Bruce I. Howell, Chairman of the Board of Directors, was also there, and Bruce and I joked about how we only see each other at these office opening celebrations. Just because Bruce is who he is, everyone is always very reverent toward him, so of course I am not. I gave him grief about having his very own library named after him at Wake Technical Community College. Do you suppose that has anything to do with the fact that Bruce is married to a librarian?

I had lunch with Virginia Parker, the Queen of all Volunteers. Virginia serves on the Meredith Fund Advisory Board and is an active leader in the North Carolina education effort. Raleigh is a better place because of Virginia and all she does. She is a citizen who cares passionately about her community. We went to Zest and I ate half of Virginia’s lunch and all of mine, because I was so hungry. She was quite gracious about it. I think that is a “Southern thing.”

Speaking of food, I stopped by CVS and bought 50 pounds of Easter candy for my staff candy jar. Most of it is chocolate, so today I am Kipp’s favorite. Our office manager, Candy, is Nicole’s and Kate’s favorite, because she brought them Easter “boxes” full of goodies. Neither Nicole’s nor Kate’s mom bought them Easter baskets, so Candy took pity on them and stepped in and did the “mom thing.”

There’s Something About Mari … today, however, I have nothing to say about Mari. She will be jealous, because instead, I would like to say: There’s Something About Nicole. At the Crescent State Bank ribbon-cutting, there were these landscaping guys whose trucks were blocking all the parking spaces, so I sent Nicole out to talk to them. The head guy nearly snapped his neck looking at her, and next thing I know, he is following Nicole around like a puppy and setting everything up for her. He puts the sign up for her and makes everybody move their vehicles out of the way.

Had I gone out to talk to the guy, instead of Nicole, he probably would have run over me, buried me in the landscaping and covered me with pine straw.

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