Women honored, tempted

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Women — their contributions to Gonzales County as well as their often insatiable need for retail therapy — took center stage last weekend at two Gonzales venues.

The first-ever Gonzales County Pioneering Women’s Day was held Saturday at the Pioneer Village Living History Center, in which five women emblematic of the modern-day pioneering spirit characteristic of Gonzales County women were honored for forging the way for others in their professions and lifestyle.

Marjorie Burnett, whose passion for preserving historic cemeteries was renewed following the event to celebrate women, was named the inaugural Pioneering Woman. Finalists for the designation in a hotly-contested, tight race that drew big numbers for online voting, also included Dr. Cathy Booth, superintendent for Nixon-Smiley CISD; Lillian Fernandez, who has been involved in the leadership for Girl Scouts for more than 30 years; Sherry Poe, who gave birth to the Christian Women’s Job Corps of Gonzales County; and Suzanne Sexton, who could not attend the pioneering event because of her annual Barn Sale, an entrepreneurial extravaganza that has become one of the shopping highlights of the year in Gonzales.

It was Sexton’s fifth annual sale, which expanded to two days this year, that was one of the county’s other big events especially targeted toward women.

The Barn Sale, which ran Friday evening and all day Saturday, attracted vendors and shoppers from throughout the region for an eclectic selection of vintage, antique, unique, handmade, remade or otherwise-made stuff. With so much from which to choose, it had all the ingredients for maximum retail therapy.

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