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High school notebook: Vaughn Flowers stepping in larger role for Rolling Hills Prep boys basketball team - The Daily Breeze
Tuesday, February 27, 2018Mater Dei-Windward, followed by Etiwanda-Harvard-Westlake). Bishop Montgomery opens the boys schedule at 6:30 p.m. against Sierra Canyon, followed by Etiwanda-Mater Dei.San Pedro’s Barrios heading to stateSan Pedro sophomore Sydney Barrios finished second at 143 pounds at the L.A. City Section wrestling finals on Saturday to qualify for CIF State Girls Wrestling Championships Friday and Saturday in Visalia.Barrios will join Mira Costa’s trio of Sasha Medvidovic (150), Allysa Nocum (121) and Viviana Ramirez (189) as South Bay wrestlers competing. Wrestling begins Friday at 9 a.m.Mira Costa water polo moving onThe Mira Costa girls water polo team advanced to the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 3 playoffs with Saturday’s 8-4 win over Rosary.The fourth-seeded Mustangs (20-10) will take on top-seeded Harvard-Westlake (23-4) in the semifinals on Wednesday at the William Woollett Aquatics Center (4601 Walnut Ave., Irvine). http://www.dailybreeze.com/2018/02/20/high-school-notebook-vaughn-flowers-stepping-in-larger-role-for-rolling-hills-prep-boys-basketball-team/
Muir Ranch gives students at Muir High a chance to flourish with flowers - Pasadena Weekly
Tuesday, June 20, 2017San Pedro. He recalls Barrett arriving at one giveaway “with a 14-foot truck to load up,” and the two quickly struck up a friendship over the fact that Barrett’s vision of the Muir campus “extended beyond being just asphalt and concrete.” Baron and his initial group of student Ranch workers first attempted to grow and sell food crops to school cafeterias, but found that the opportunities were extremely limited by the state’s educational bureaucracy. Having long specialized in growing and selling exotic flowers in his other endeavors, he decided to switch the focus of the program with resounding success. “The focus on flowers puts us in direct engagement with caterers, weddings, and galas, makes it more appealing to the kids,” says Baron. “I pick the genetics, the variety, and the minimal growing conditions for the flowers, but the kids do really beautiful things with them, and we just sold $4,000 worth of flowers the week before Mother’s Day.” Under the $250,000 annual budget, which is raised through a combination of public and private funding including a $25,000 contribution from Miracle-Gro, the student workers earn $10.50 an hour for up to 30 hours each week, including a seven-hour Saturday shift. Once the flowers are ready to market, they are sold weekly at the South Pasadena Farmers Market as well as the Saturday morning farmers’ market at Pasadena’s Victory Park, with proceeds channeled back into the program. The Ranch also has a growing base of “subscription” customers who purchase fresh flowers weekly for their homes and businesses, including Jones Coffee and AltaEats in Pasadena. This year marked the first time they supplied flowers to the Rose Parade, via the Miracle-Gro float, and Baron just closed the program’s first $10,000 deal — to create floral “hats” that will be placed on the heads of 1,000 random attendees and possibly some performers at the upcoming Arroyo Seco Music Festival.Their wedding-flower business is also starting to thrive, due to the fact that flowers purchased from the program are tax-deductible. One satisfied customer on the wedding front is Hollie Loson, a Pasadena resident who had her flowers supplied by the Ranch for her 2014 wedding. She was so impressed by the results that this past January she joined the Ranch team as a part-time marketing advisor to help them expand their reach and orchestrated a special showcase for wedding industry professionals and event spaces at the school in April. “Over the last couple of years, they’ve been hired to do a lot of events and Mud was tapped out by all the hats he was wearing, so they took me on to sell packages for the students,” says Loson. “I have a history in sales, and I talk to the brides, we invite them to the Ranch, and they have a meeting with our lead student designer. We talk about their inspiration, look at photos and if they hire us, we execute whatever is in their floral package on the day of the wedding.” While the focus on flowers puts the students in contact with a broad array of local businesses and puts money in their pockets, the program has impacted one particular student in a much greater way. Manny Garcia started with the...
Florist has found a niche in nursing ailing orchids back from the brink - SFGate
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Florist has found a niche in nursing ailing orchids back from the brink 1 / 13 Back to Gallery !-- /ga... http://www.sfgate.com/lifestyle/article/Florist-has-found-a-niche-in-nursing-ailing-13756333.php
Field and Florist creates floral arrangements for freshness and sustainability - Chicago Reader
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Field & florist, which opened in 2017 in a charming basement in Wicker Park on Division just east of Damen, grows its flowers on a 30-acre farm in southwest Michigan. Owners Heidi Joynt, 36, and Molly Kobelt, 32, say this land—surrounded by woods, vineyards, and blueberry fields—is the beating heart of their business. "Farm-to-table" isn't just for restaurants anymore. Joynt says she wanted customers to interact with regional growers who are also designers. "In today's economy of Amazon-available-anything, I think it's increasingly important to make these connections to gain a little insight into everything from the labor required to produce something to the necessary seasonality of flower varieties," Joynt says. "It's important to see the world as a complex web of interconnected systems." Field & Florist uses organic fertilizer made from cow manure, mushroom compost, and a mixture of fish emulsion and kelp spra... https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/field-and-florist-creates-floral-arrangements-for-freshness-sustainability/Content?oid=69018730
Obituary Notices: Week of July 29, 2018 - Big Island Now
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Friday, August 10, 2018 at St. Anthony Church, Mass will begin at 11 a.m., and burial will follow at 12:30 p.m. at Maui Memorial Park, Garden of Meditation.Candy was a Floral Designer at Kahului Florist for 52 years until she retired.She is survived by her daughter, Michelle Santos; son, John (Capri) Santos Jr.; siblings, Dolores (Jay-deceased) Conroy, Patricia (Jimmy) Saltiban, Fred de Aquino, Leonard (Carla) de Aquino, Estrellita (David) Marcellus; and three grandchildren, Cade Betancourt, Celise Santos, and Jena Santos. SPONSORED VIDEO Candy was predeceased by her husband, John Santos Sr.; daughter, Eileen Santos; parents, Pedro and Emelia de Aquino; sister, Louisa Pacubas, and brother, Andrew de Aquino.The family would like to acknowledge Hospice Maui for their compassionate care of Candy.Isabelle KainoaIsabelle KainoaOctober 28, 1934 – July 22, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT Isabelle Leina‘ala Chartrand Kainoa, of Waiehu, Maui passed away peacefully in her sleep on July 22, 2018. Isabelle was born in Honolulu, HI on October 28, 1934, to John Frances and Edith Kalawai’a Chartrand. She retired from the State of California Department of Rehabilitation after 18 years. She was predeceased by her husband Royal Joseph Kainoa, Sr. She is survived by her children, Joyce Kuuipo Mandracken, Roy Ernest Kalaelo... http://bigislandnow.com/2018/07/29/obituary-notices-week-of-july-29-2018/
From exquisite Orchids to lush Fuchsia, let the shades of ‘Awakening’ inspire your home garden - Architectural Digest India
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Visit the nearest botanical garden, florist, organic farmer’s market and even the nearest aquarium store and you’ll be able to spot many leaves and petals in the brilliant hues of Asian Paints ‘Awakening’ ColourNext 2019 Colour of the Year palette. From the exotic Orchid to the exquisite Williams Flowers, from the eye-catching Fuchsia and the gorgeous Queen of the Prairie Venusta Filipendula Rubra, valued for their flowers, there’s a plethora of blooming plants, houseplants and succulents to choose from.DRACAENA MARGINATA Dracaena reflexa var. AngustifoliaThis tall desert shrub thrives in arid climates and is a mainstay in Portuguese gardens which why you’ll find it growing abundantly in the gardens of centuries-old Goan villas. While it’s easy to confuse the dracaena with a palm tree, the Marginata cultivar has a shock appeal because of its burgundy or magenta foliage color streaking down the leaf edge. Also, known as the Red Edged Madagascar Dragon Tree, the staggered cane is a great alternative to the silk bamboo as an indoor plant with similar Feng Shui benefits.LIPSTICK PLANT Aglaonema Siam AuroraThis stunner has leaves has that show off dark green leaves elegantly flushed with bright pink veins that makes it look like a woman’s painted lips. A relatively new addition to the hou... https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/asian-paints-awakening-colour-of-the-year-indoor-plants/
OurCrowd Portfolio Company Bouqs Seeks to Disrupt Online Florist Business. Better Flowers, Lower Price - Just What Consumers Want & Need - Crowdfund Insider
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Then there is the exporter which manages the shipping to the wholesaler. The importer receives the flowers who then bundle them up and delivers them to the florist. Of course, the online order gatherer processes the delivery and payment and takes their cut. After all of that, hopefully, the flowers are delivered on time, looking something like the picture you saw online.But each segment of this process takes time and costs money. The tim,e which may last about 2 weeks until the flowers are cut and actually delivered, means a huge amount of waste. Most of the life of the flowers is used up in transit.The cost ends up being shouldered by the purchaser who is largely unaware of any of the processes beyond paying for the flowers.And what happens if the consumer wants red roses and only yellow ones are available? The flowers may end up being pitched and wasted.Bouqs is flipping this model upside down by cutting out the middlemen and doing this by shipping directly from the farmer to the receiver. Lower cost. Better flowers. And a lot less waste.Bouqs is also an OurCrowd portfolio company which appears to be an emerging success story from the crowdfunding platform.img class="aligncenter size-top-story-thumbnail wp-image-145777" src="https://cdn.crowdfundinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JOHN-TABIS-600x450.jpg" alt width="600" height="450" srcset="https://cdn.crowdfundinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JOHN-TABIS-600x450.jpg 600w, https://cdn.crowdfundinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JOHN-TABIS-300x225.jpg 300w, https://cdn.crowdfundinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JOHN-TABIS-768x... https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2019/03/145772-ourcrowd-portfolio-company-bouqs-seeks-to-disrupt-online-florist-business-better-flowers-lower-price-just-what-consumers-need/
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