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Flowers dominates Granite City Invitational field, Alton, East Alton runners also post solid performances - RiverBender.com

Chase Wallendorf, 165th (19:01.25) FRESHMAN/SOHPOMORE BOYSSpringfield – 62O'Fallon – 136Edwardsville – 138Triad – 139Waterloo – 140St. Louis University High – 183DeSmet – 186Chatham Glenwood – 247Carbondale – 264Jacksonville – 267Fort Zumwalt West – 269Mascoutah – 329Alton – 357Mount Vernon – 434Piasa Southwestern – 445Collinsville – 462Freeburg – 484Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin – 503Columbia – 524East St. Louis – 532Civic Memorial – 536Herculaneum, Mo. - 542Roxana – 560Belleville West – 579Farmington, Mo. - 609Belleville East – 614Granite City, Jersey, East Alton-Wood River – No ScoreINDIVIDUAL TOP TENWill Formea, Springfield (16:28.52); Eli Ward, Waterloo (16:39.98); Ethan Cherry, Carbondale (16:41.93); Issac Becker, Springfield (16:44.39); Dan Powell, Edwardsville (16:45.65); Kyle Boughter, Springfield, 16:47.29); Jackson McAlister, Waterloo (16:56.63); Casmir Cozzi, Mascoutah (16.57.70); Christian Cazier, Jersey (17:05.65); Brendan Fahey, Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin (17:10.41)OTHER AREA RUNNERS EDWARDSVILLE: Todd Baxter, 14th (17:15.38); Jacob Davis, 33rd (17:51.81); Jonah Durbin, 42nd (18:12.91); Joseph Brooks, 53rd (18:27.42); Henry Gruben, 64th (18:41.20); Josh Perry, 76th (19:01.81) ALTON: Cassius Havis, 30th (17:47.39); Zak Wilson, 68th (18:48.86); Issac Evans, 93rd (19:52.08) PIASA SOUTHWESTERN: Carden Bohn, 17th (17:22.63); Grant Seniker, 65th (18:42.74) CIVIC MEMORIAL: Drake Stevenson, 66th (18:42.74); Will Davis, 96th (19:56.53) ROXANA: Joel Woodruff, 112nd (20:15.94); William Cotter, 114th (20:19.78); Jarrett Warmack, 115th (20:20.35) GRANITE CITY: Jeremiah Perry, 91st (19:41.97); Jr. Harold, 123rd (20:36.43) JERSEY: Grant Morgan, 82nd (19:13.56) EAST ALTON-WOOD RIVER: Andrew Noack, 84th (19:17.65) If you have a EdGlenToday or Riverbender.com news, human interest or sports idea, e-mail Danbrannan@riverbender.com or call or text 618-623-5930. Follow Dan Brannan on Facebook and Danbrannannews on Twitter.Purchase photos from this article Print Version...

Schwartz, Flowers post wins at Edwardsville Invitational - Belleville News-Democrat

Jaycie Huson (ninth). Highland freshman Samantha Hengehold was the only other local athlete placing in the top 10. Hengehold was eighth overall.Mascoutah (116 points), Litchfield (127) and Carbondale (142) rounded out the top five teams.Flowers continues to bloomTwo-time Class 2A all-state runner Ben Flowers of Jerseyville continued his domination of local competition by winning the boys championship. Considered one of the favorites to win the state title in a little over six weeks in Peoria, Flowers finished the 5K course in just over 16 minutes 24 seconds to defeat Kevin Koester of Hillsboro by a full 13 seconds.Frankie Romano of Edwardsville and Jake Schwartz of Waterloo rounded out the top four runners while Roland Prenzler of Edwardsville placed sixth and Ethan Price of Mascoutah placed ninth. Price is the reigning Belleville News-Democrat Class 2A Runner of the Year.Edwardsville, which had five runners in the top 15, finished with 51 points. Hillsboro (100), Mascoutah (174), Alton (187) and Champaign Central (194) rounded out the top five teams. http://www.bnd.com/sports/high-school/article102712897.html

PREP CROSS COUNTRY: Jersey's Flowers runs to first at sectional meet - Alton Telegraph

Blake Quandt of Salem in 15:41, Lawrence Curtin of Taylorville in 15:42 and Ryan Melvin of Marion in 15:45.Springfield High won the team title, followed by runner-up Chatham Glenwood, Charleston, Carbondale, Mattoon, Jersey, Taylorville, Marion, Salem, Mount Vernon, Mascoutah and Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin.CLASS 1ARoxana’s girls cross country team grabbed the fifth and final qualifying spot at Saturday’s Metro East Lutheran Sectional meet at SIU Edwardsville and will advance its team to the IHSA State Meet, set for next Saturday at Detweiller Park in Peoria.The Shells finished ahead of sixth-place DuQuoin in the race for the final team spot. Herrin won the team title with 71 points, followed by Breese Mater Dei with 81 points, Freeburg third with 127, Carterville 153 and Roxana 162. DuQuoin finished with 220 points.Shells advancing include Kyrston Scifres, who finished ninth overall with a time of 20:30. She was followed by teammates Shalyn Edwards in 21:46, Michaela Tarpley 21:57, Victoria Tarpley 22:46, Alexis Stumpf 23:14, Sarah Stover 24:05 and Jaidyn Peebles 24:23.East Alton-Wood River senior Haley Kerpan qualified for state as an individual with a time of 20:43. Kara Marton of Herrin was the individual champion in 19:37.In the boys 1A sectional at SIUE, Pinckneyville won the team title with 56 points, followed by Freeburg, Nashville, Steeleville, Benton, Mater Dei, Herrin, Sparta, Red Bud, McLeansboro, Columbia and Murphysboro. Harrison Thomas of Carterville was the individual champion.CLASS 3AThe Edwardsville girls team grabbed their final spot in the team race as well. The Tigers outdistanced Lincoln-Way North 125-167 at the Normal Sectional Meet. Minooka was the team champ with 20 points, followed by Lincoln-Way Central 113, O’Falon 116, Lincoln-Way East 116 and Edwardsville. Following Lincoln-Way North were Normal, Rock Island, Joliet West, Moline, Joliet Central and Belleville East.Edwardsville runners included Maddie Miller, who was 11th overall in a time of 18:45, Rachel Schoenecker 18:55, Coll... http://thetelegraph.com/sports/73228/prep-cross-country-jerseys-flowers-runs-to-first-at-sectional-meet

US Supreme Court sends case of WA florist back to Olympia - KVI-Radio

Washington florist, Baronelle Stutzman, back to the Supreme Court of Washington, declining to hear the appeal but remanding it for new review in light of the High Court's recent decision involving a Colorado baker.Both cases revolve around a business owner declining to serve a customer regarding a gay wedding ceremony. In Stutzman's case, she declined to serve a gay customer who wanted her to present and arrange flowers at a gay wedding. Stutzman said her religious beliefs prevented her from participating in such an event. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson ultimately sued Stutzman for discrimination. Stutzman lost both a lower court ruling and a Supreme Court of Washington appeal. That's when she and her legal team appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to the Associated Press, the justices' order Monday means the court is passing for now on the chance to decide whether business owners can refuse on religious grounds to comply with anti-discrimination laws that protect LGBT people.That's the same issue they confronted, but ultimately passed over, in the recent ruling in favor of a Colorado baker who also objected to same-sex marriage on religious grounds.It's not clear from the record that the Washington Supreme Court w... http://kvi.com/news/local/us-supreme-court-sends-case-of-wa-florist-back-to-olympia

US Supreme Court sends anti-gay florist case back to state court - Las Vegas Review-Journal

LGBT people.That’s the same issue they confronted, but ultimately passed over, in the recent ruling in favor of a Colorado baker who also objected to same-sex marriage on religious grounds.The court said in the Colorado case that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission expressed anti-religious bias in violation of the baker’s constitutional rights. Washington courts will review the florist’s case for similar issues.It’s not clear from the record that the Washington Supreme Court will evaluate Stutzman’s case any differently in light of the Colorado ruling.There are no similar allegations that bias affected the state court decisions, and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said the recent Supreme Court ruling will have no effect on the case against Baronelle Stutzman and her Arlene’s Flowers store in Richland, Washington.But the Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Kristen Waggoner, who represents Stutzman, said Ferguson “pursued unprecedented measures to punish Barronelle not just in her capacity as a business owner but also in her personal capacity.” ... https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/us-supreme-court-sends-anti-gay-florist-case-back-to-state-court/

Appletons Memorial Florists to diversify by growing hemp - Appleton Post Crescent

It will be the first time Front Range Biosciences, a leading agricultural biotech company in cannabis, based in Lafayette, Colorado, has put a hemp nursery outside Colorado or California.  "We will be the first 'Clean Stock' nursery east of Colorado," said Bob Aykens, co-owner and president of Memorial Florists, referring to Front Range's genetics and root-cutting program. "I approached them. It’s something I’ve been looking at for three years. A way to diversify." It's also a way for the nearly 100-year-old florist to recover revenues lost over the last decade to low-cost big box nurseries.  "It adds another revenue stream to offset the change in demand," Aykens said.  Industrial hemp is a high-fiber relative of marijuana used for textiles, rope, paper, clothing and cannabidiol (CBD) oil. It has l... https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2018/12/04/appletons-memorial-florists-greenhouses-signs-deal-grow-hemp/2201857002/

Can the season's plentiful poinsettia displays be harmful to you or your pets? - Colorado Springs Gazette

They can be toxic if they’re consumed. But they’re very bitter to taste, so the risk is low,” said Dixie Schneider, designer with Springs In Bloom florist, 318 E. Colorado Ave. Quite a number of the bad-tasting leaves would have to be consumed to sicken someone. An Ohio State University study showed that a 50-pound child would have to eat more than 500 poinsettia leaves to have any side effects.“Those beautiful flowers you’ve been so wary of keeping in your home during the holidays (lest they poison pets or children) are not toxic,” reports Live Science, citing a study that looked at nearly 23,000 cases of poinsettia exposure reported to poison control centers. None was fatal, and the most severe responses were stomach aches. The poinsettia fears probably were sparked, Live Science writes, by a 1919 case in which a child was said to have died after eating parts of a poinsettia, but neither the death nor the poinsettia connection was confirmed.The milky white sap inside the plant’s stem can cause an allergic reaction — especially among those with latex (rubber) ... https://gazette.com/life/can-the-season-s-plentiful-poinsettia-displays-be-harmful-to/article_5a5f17ec-f4d6-11e8-8399-cbea3dc81409.html