The Southeast’s largest retail conference took place in Atlanta last week with five representatives from McMinnville working a booth that’s purchased by McMinnville Electric System. MES employees Randy Garrison and Debbie Sain were in attendance, along with Main Street McMinnville co-directors Paige Chastain and Brook Holmes, and Industrial Development Board director Don Alexander. Don told me Friday the conference went extremely well with a 10 percent increase in overall attendance from last year.