It means so many things: more than I could possibly fit into one blog post.<\/p>\n
It means that everyday that I walk in the door there are people depending on me.\u00a0 It means that when I call other businesses in town and say, “Hi, this is Peggy at Roper’s” I’m greeted with a cheerful, welcoming voice.\u00a0 Likewise, when I call clients I know they are happy to hear that their wedding ring is sized, or that their grandma’s pearls have been restrung.\u00a0 It means being asked, “Are you a Roper?”…a lot.\u00a0 It means answering that, “although I’m not a Roper, they’ve sort of taken over payments on me because I’ve worked here so long”.\u00a0 It means that people are willing to come in and hand over their most precious family heirlooms, and walk back out again knowing that we will take good care of them.\u00a0\u00a0 It means being approached by almost every fundraiser in a twenty mile radius, and doing my best to support each and every one.\u00a0 It means supporting events and initiatives that may never affect us directly, but that will have an affect for the good for the community.\u00a0 It means behaving myself anytime that I’m anywhere that people know where I work.\u00a0 It means going to various meetings and having people hand me their watches because “they need a new battery, and do you mind taking it with you?”\u00a0 And I take the watch, and I don’t mind, because I know that means that they trust me.\u00a0 It means having Brenda bake each and every one of us our favorite dessert on our birthday.\u00a0 It means sharing our clients’ best days: engagements, and weddings and babies, as well as their worst days: the passing of a spouse, or a child, or a friend.<\/p>\n
It means being a working part of a larger community: a community where we choose to raise our children, a community we choose to call home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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