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83 free things to do this summer in the city of Vancouver - Daily Hive

Trout Lake has food trucks on site and a variety of vendors selling all things food.When: Every Saturday until October 19, 2019Time: 9 am to 2 pmWhere: Lakewood Drive and East 13th Avenue, VancouverAdmission: FreeLonsdale Artisan Farmers’ MarketThe exterior of Lonsdale Quay Market. (Quay Property Management)What: Run by the same organization behind the Ambleside Market in nearby West Van, the Lonsdale Quay Farmers’ Market brings local farmers, artisans, and other vendors to North Vancouver for a weekly Saturday market.When: Every Saturday until October 26, 2019Time: 10 am to 3 pmWhere: East Plaza of the Lonsdale Quay Market – 123 Carrie Cates Court, North VancouverAdmission: FreeKitsilano Farmers’ MarketWhat: This friendly get-together, also known as the Kitsilano Farmers’ Market, takes place on Sundays in the parking lot of the Community Centre and offers a good selection of fresh local produce and gourmet treats to stock up on for the week.When: Every Sunday until October 20, 2019Time: 10 am to 2 pmWhere: Parking lot of Kits Community Centre – 2690 Larch Street, VancouverAdmission: Fr... https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-free-events-summer-2019

Modesto has nation’s largest garden club. It shows in 140 downtown flower pots - The Modesto Bee

Sixth-graders Varun Murali of Lakewood School and Joseph Yakligian of Fair Oaks School topped the countywide bee for elementary students. They will compete at the state bee in Stockton. Fifth-grader Taetum Cardenas of Connecting Waters Charter School won honorable mention and will go to Stockton if one of the others cannot. A sampling of the words the county champions had to spell: apiarist, idiosyncrasy, gasconade and intermittent. The county’s top junior high spellers were eighth-grader Alisha Chakravarty of Turlock Junior High School and seventh-grader Gurbaani Pannu of Prescott Junior High School. They will compete in the state bee in San Rafael. The alternate is seventh-grader Amay Parmar of Prescott. Some of the words they nailed: sacrilegious, deleterious, supercilious and magnanimity. The Stanislaus County Education Foundation and the county Office of Education put on the bees. Foster Farms aids Paradise Foster Farms donated $25,000 worth of its cooked chicken products to families affected by the massive Camp Fire in Paradise. The Livingston-based company is working with the Community Action Agency of Butte County and several food banks to deliver about 24,000 servings. “Community involvement has been a Foster Farms value since 1939,” CEO Laura Flanagan said in a news release. “As a California company, we feel a responsibility to step forward and support our fellow Californians in times of need.” ... https://www.modbee.com/latest-news/article222463475.html

School Kids Plant Trees, Flowers To Improve Environmental Health

Five new trees and some native perennial flowers are being planted on the sidewalk in front of William Paca Elementary School on North Lakewood Avenue.“They learn a lot about the life cycle of plants and animals,” said teacher, Adreon Hubbard. “And some of the students have raised monarch butterflies with me in the classroom from milkweed we grew in the schoolyard.”The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore is behind the project designed to reduce stormwater runoff into the harbor.“We’re really trying to drive home the point that what we do upstream from the harbor has a direct impact downstream,” said Leanna Wetmore of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore. “So if we’re working in the neighborhood on cleaning and greening issues, everything we do up here can impact the harbor eventually.”The Baltimore Tree Trust is part of the Healthy Harbor Initiative which will also beautify the neighborhood.“So this area gets a ton of runoff because of all of the concrete,” said Mark Conway, executive director of the Baltimore Tree Trust. “So these tree pits will help to capture some of that water and help make this community look a little better.”The Waterfront Partnership’s goal is to improve the social and environmental fabric... https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/10/26/school-kids-plant-trees-flowers-to-improve-environmental-health/

Supreme Court Vacates Washington Florist Discrimination Case

Arlene’s Flowers were liable. The court also found that Stuzman’s First Amendment rights were not violated.Earlier this month the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of a Lakewood, Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority that the state’s civil rights commission showed “elements of a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs” of the Christian baker.The narrow focus of the Supreme Court ruling left an open question of how it would affect similar cases. The case involving the Colorado baker did not settle the law about whether a business can refuse business to a gay couple, though civil rights advocates remain optimistic.“To be clear, the court made no indication the lower courts ruled incorrectly and made no decision on the case’s merits,” said James Esseks of the ACLU of the decision.“We are confident that the Washington State Supreme Court will rule once again in favor of the same-sex couple, and reaffirm its decision that no business has a right to discriminate.”Last week, the Oregon Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case involving a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.The state’s Bureau of Labor and Industries ordered Aaron and Melissa Klein to pay damages to Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer after concluding the Christian bakers violated Oregon’s discrimination law.The Kleins are represented by attorneys from the First Liberty Institute, who believe they can appeal their case to the high court.Washington Governor Jay Inslee said the Supreme Court decision regarding Arlene’s Flowers “does not surprise us or cause us any concern.”“Unlike the recent decision in the Colorado case, in Washington there was never any indication of religious bias or hostility in our pursuit to protect consumers from discrimination.”Like this:Like Loading... ... https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-vacates-washington-florist-discrimination-case/

Justices won't hear case of anti-gay-marriage florist

Richland shop, Arlene's Flowers, in 2013.Early this month, the Supreme Court issued a limited ruling in favor of Jack Phillips, the proprietor of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo.In an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the 7-2 majority found that comments by a member of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission displayed an anti-religious bias — depriving Phillips of the respect and consideration his beliefs deserved. The commissioner had said that "religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history," including slavery and the Holocaust.Kennedy wrote that such disputes "must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market."Washington courts will now review the florist's case for similar issues, but it's unclear whether their analysis will change. The state's high court held in its ruling floral arrangements do not constitute protected free speech, and that providing flowers to a same-sex wedding would not serve as an endorsement of same-sex marriage.Both Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Stutzman's attorneys said the U.S. Supreme Court's action was appropriate in light of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision."The Washington State Supreme Court now has the job of determining whether the U.S. Supreme Court ruling affects this case," Ferguson said in a written statement. "I am confident they will come to the same conclusion they did in their previous, unanimous ruling upholding the civil rights of same-sex couples in our state."But Stutzman's attorney, Kristen Waggoner, senior counsel at the religious liberty law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, said the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision should prompt an overturning of Stutzman's case. She cited what she described as the attor... http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/jun/25/justices-wont-hear-case-anti-gay-marriage-florist/

F.C. Florist Sends Bouquets to Congresswomen Targeted by Trump - Falls Church News Press

Born in the Soviet Union-controlled Uzbekistan, Rabinovich and her family traversed through multiple countries before finally getting clearance to come to the U.S. She would grow up in the New Jersey/New York area, earning her citizenship by the time she was 16 and would later go on to get her degree in visual merchandising and interior design. AdvertisementsHer first job was working in a flower shop, an occupation that was always seen as a fallback for Rabinovich whenever she was in between gigs. She later realized she enjoyed working in flower shops more than any other job and started her own business out of her apartment in Arlington. Rabinovich wound up purchasing Galleria Florist in July 2015 when searching for a production space to operate out of, and last December she became an owner of Nosegay Flowers in Washington, D.C. — a former employer of hers.She re-emphasized that the flowers were merely a show of goodwill, but did add a general message to all Americans that, “The U.S. is a melting pot. It stands for inclusivity, not exclusivity. That’s what’s going to keep us going; diversity and the knowledge our immigrants bring to the country.”Share this:Comments comments... https://fcnp.com/2019/07/31/f-c-florist-sends-bouquets-to-congresswomen-targeted-by-trump/

Sunflower selfie craze is center of Springfield festival - Burlington County Times

Johnson's Locust Hall Farm's Sunflower September Festival next week. A new end-of-summer sunflower experience has officially kicked off in the region.Thousands of people from across New Jersey are converging on area family farms, frolicking in fields of blooming sunflowers, snapping Instagram selfies and other photos and clipping a few blooming flowers to take home.Johnson’s Locust Hall Farm in Springfield picked up on the sunflower craze last year and is now expanding its Sunflower September Festival, which begins Sept. 7 and will offer a “photo trail” and “pick-your-own” experience throughout the month.“The sunflower craze is here again and in a big way,” said Allie Johnson, the farm’s events coordinator.She said the farm has always lined its 1,500-foot driveway with blooms, but “it wasn’t until two years ago that we noticed our customers calling and stopping in to see our sunflowers. So that very next season we thought why not turn our little driveway patch into a five-acre field and really put on a show.”Johnson's Locust Hall Farm is located at 2691 Monmouth Road. Call 609-353-9000 or visit www.johnsonslocusthallfarm.com/visit-us/. ... https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/20190902/sunflower-selfie-craze-is-center-of-springfield-festival

BBB consumer warning: Graduation gifts that never arrive - KTVZ

But Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific is warning consumers about a growing number of complaints against one online florist.Troys Florist , based out of New Jersey, operates the website, http://www.troysflorist.com. The company pays to boost its presence in online searches across the country making it appear to be a local florist. BBB consumer complaints indicate they were billed for flowers that never arrived.Emily Keizer of Florence, Oregon filed a complaint with BBB after ordering flowers for her grandparents' anniversary."I was rushing to get something sent and made the mistake of clicking on the first mobile link that looked okay," she said.Keizer adds that as a millennial, she should be savvy to online scams, so if she was tricked, "there are probably lots of people out there who didn't even realize their flowers were never delivered."BBB has received 191 complaints against Troys Florist, reporting the company delivered incorrect arrangements, charged for flowers that never arrived and did not honor refunds. The company has failed to respond to BBB."It's always a good idea to use bbb.org to research online companies before doing business with them," advises Dawn Johnson, Better Business Bureau Northwest +Pacific Spokesperson.Here ... https://www.ktvz.com/news/bbb-consumer-warning-graduation-gifts-that-never-arrive/1083986113

Crest Florist - BestofNJ.com

Since 1964, Crest Florist has been a go-to floral shop for New Jersey Brides. Brides who use their services praise the swift, efficient setup and the gorgeously arranged centerpieces, floral stands, and bouquets. Their team excels at whisking the arrangements into place without disrupting other wedding staff or preparations.Crest Florist on Social MediaVisit the Best of NJ Wedding Planning Directory to see other great services in your area. https://bestofnj.com/directory/service/florist/north-jersey-florists/essex-county-florists/crest-florist/