Women of Main Street: Janie Anderson

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Janie Anderson, owner of Grannys Attic Thrift Store, is one of nearly 100 women that will be honored Sept. 23 by Main Street Manning. We will be featuring all women who completed a survey related to their businesses on manninglive.com throughout September, and will also feature a select few in The Manning Times each week. Growing up very poor as the daughter of a sharecropper in the Turbeville-Barrineau area of Clarendon County, Janie Anderson was taught to love and respect others. “If someone needed anything we had, my mom and dad would share what they had,” said Anderson, who moved to Charleston in 1957 and worked there as a bookkeeper until retiring in August 2004. “We moved to the lake in 2004,” she said. “I opened the Neighborhood Thrift Store in November 2004, and gave it to my daughter. When she was closing it, I came back and opened it again as Granny’s Attic.” She donates portions of sales to the American Diabetes Association and Harvest Hope Food Bank. “There is diabetes on both sides of my family,” she said. “And there are hungry people everywhere. God has blessed me in so many ways, and I want to help others. Life would have been so much easier if there had been a place like this when we were growing up.” Anderson not only donates to charities, but she provides clothes and shoes to families in the area on Thursdays. “They bring vouchers from United Ministries to let me know they are in need of help,” she said. “I am so thankful for the very nice and caring people in Manning. They make my dream of the thrift store and helping others come true.”