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When Mom Cancels Appointment to Take Care of Sick Son, Company Sends Her Flowers - Good News Network

Sometimes it’s the smallest good deeds that mean the most to us. In Lindsay Pualoa’s case, it was a bouquet of flowers that was delivered to her door on Monday.The mother from Ashburn, Virginia had spent most of the might taking care of her son AJ. The toddler had been feeling sick, and by the time the sun came up, he wasn’t feeling any better.“He was still a hot mess (in the) morning so I cancelled an annual furnace check I had scheduled with our HVAC company,” Pualoa wrote on Facebook. “I just apologized for the late notice, said I had a sick kid at home, and didn’t think much more about it. Three hours later, my doorbell rings and there is a florist at my door.”The HVAC company, AllTech Services from Sterling, had sent Pualoa flowers with a note saying that they hoped AJ felt better soon.“I’m floored! I’ve never had something like this happen before,” she added.WANT TO READ MORE STORIES ABOUT BUSINESSES DOING GOOD? CHECK OUT THESE OTHER ARTICLES FROM OUR GNN ARCHIVES… (Photo by Lindsay Pualoa)When Girl Asks For a Day Off For Dad, Google Gives Her Something Better #TBTCompany That Turns Tire Scraps into Shoes Employs Single Mothers Living in Pove...

Brookdale Riverwalk seniors, staff hand out flowers, kindness - The Bakersfield Californian

I think they’re more apt to do the same for others if it happens to them.”Diane Ashburn, director of financial services at Brookdale, helped hand out the flowers this year. This is the first year that management has been able to participate in Random Acts of Kindness Day, as it was just a residents-only activity last year.Only about 100 flowers were given out in 2017. The event grew into a communitywide activity this year.“It was wonderful. People really responded positively,” she said. “It was a really neat experience to be able to do that and see them light up.”At the Park at River Walk on Stockdale Highway, Daniel Cepeda was playing with his 4-year-old son, Isaac, when several residents and associates from Brookdale Riverwalk came up to them and each handed them a flower.“It’s really nice. It shows that there are some good people in this world,” he said.Desiree Armendariz was reading a book while her husband was fishing at the park. She said she was pleasantly surprised by the gesture.“It made my day. I’m sure it’ll make other people’s days, too,” she said.While making people’s days a little brighter was a major focus of the event, resident Juanita Blackwell said getting out of Brookdale Riverwalk also does a lot of good for the residents’ health, physically, emotionally and spiritually.“We need to be out with other people. We need to be out doing something,” she said. “You can feel pretty hemmed in if you just stay here all the time. You can get to feeling old. Just because I’m 90 doesn’t mean I need to feel old.”Newman said participating in events like Random Acts of Kindness Day makes the residents feel that they are making a difference in the community, even if it’s a small, short-lived one.“It isn’t just the recipient who feels better. I think the giver is rewarded even more,” she said. “To think you’ve made someone, even if for a very brief time, enjoy the day more and feel better about themselves is a great thing.”Brookdale Senior Living Inc. operates senior living communities throughout the United States. The company operates independent- and assisted-living ce... http://www.bakersfield.com/news/brookdale-riverwalk-seniors-staff-hand-out-flowers-kindness/article_27f66b80-1367-11e8-b4fa-8b9f862d8db6.html

The versatile DC investor with a buzzy nonprofit - Washington Post - Washington Post

About half a dozen full-timers run the day-to-day operations from an office in Ashburn, assigning 75 staffers to clients. Price bought a Virginia franchise in 2016 for about $350,000, including working capital. He expects it to earn around $2 million in revenue this year and double that by 2019, throwing off a 10 percent profit. The Rockville native gets his entrepreneurial bug from his grandfather, who sold whiskey from a still he had hidden in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.His great-grandfather was an Italian immigrant and roadbuilder who coined the family aphorism that it’s “better to sell apples on the corner than work for The Man.”Price’s father ran an excavating firm in Washington, where Price worked before attending the University of Maryland. He graduated summa cum laude in 1980 with an accounting degree.The guy was ambitious. Upon entering Maryland, he set his...

Arlene Earl, Flower Lady of the Great Lakes, dies at 78 - Detroit Free Press

I’ve ever met in my life," she said. "She was so well-loved by everyone … just made people laugh. Very spunky. Never a dull moment in mom’s life."Earl's sister, Linda Engel Washburn, said she was grateful Earl is now at peace.“She was just amazing and remarkable and had perseverance for being a dynamic business women, a giver, a heart of gold,” Washburn said. "Just a golden girl."?Related: Freighters sound a salute, Flower Lady sends her thanksEarl's great-grandfather founded Chris Engel's Greenhouse in 1883 in southwest Detroit. The shop was handed down through the generations, and Earl grew up in the business. She ran the shop until recent years, traveling the 90-minute route daily from Harsens to Woodmere Street.In the '80s, Earl wrote letters to captains asking them to sound a salute as the ships passed her house. She did so for a very special reason.When the ships began honoring her request, she showed her thanks by sending bouquets from her flower shop."I was brought up in a world that if somebody gave you something, you thanked them," she said in 2014. "How many people are out there today who will give you anything?"This giving quickly grew beyond a one-time deal. Before long, Earl was sending flowers through the J.W. Westcott mail boat about five times a year, around the major holidays. Folks at the Westcott, a business in the shadow of the Ambassador Bridge that has been around even longer than the flower shop, were happy to accommodate."We would probably put flowers on as many as 50 or 60 vessels, when she brought in the batches, like at spring fit out and Father's Day and Thanksgiving," said Paul Jagenow, a longtime Westcott employee.The mail boat would motor out to the center of the river, sidle alongside the massive freighters and hand up the bouquets just like the mail — by putting them into a bucket that would then be hoisted high above to the towering ships.The flowers "always put a smile on their face," Jagenow said in 2014. The sailors flooded Earl with letters and thank you notes.In recent years, the flower deliveries slowed as Earl struggled with her health. Her sister believes the last time Earl was able to send bouquets was around Father's Day 2015.Earl overcame breast cancer, but then contracted brain cancer. She lived alone on Harsens Island after her husband, Dick, died in 2010. The couple was known for legendary parties with family and friends. Besides Kapanowski, they had two sons, Chris and Richard Jr.The Interlake Steamship Co., which owns nine freighters that haul iron ore and coal on the Great Lakes, posted ... http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/12/21/arlene-earl-flower-lady-great-lakes/95700266/

DIY holiday gift ideas and the classes to take to make them - Philly.com

The key is using greens and natural materials, said Bryn Ashburn, graphics and media coordinator for Greensgrow in Kensington and West Philadelphia. "Our audience in particular wants to know where their food comes from, cares about sustainability, and doing it yourself means you aren't dealing with all the packaging and the things that go along with what you buy."The experience also allows you more than the chance to check an item off your to-do list. "You can come to the farm, see the pig, go to the farm stand. You're in a place that's really green - it's a nicer atmosphere," she said.Though it helps to have an eye, the professional florist will share insider tips on balance, textures, and arranging.Holiday centerpiece workshop, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Greensgrow West, 5123 Baltimore Ave., 267-244-4441, www.greensgrow.org.Herbal remedies. Give your loved one the know-how and materials to beat the winter blues or flus with personally crafted herbal remedies. Rather than having the gift-giver create the blends and tinctures, Terra Luna, a smal... http://www.philly.com/philly/home/20161202_DIY_holiday_gift_ideas_and_the_classes_to_take_to_make_them.html

Charlottesville riddled with barriers, security and flowers on 'Unite the Right' anniversary

August when white nationalists bearing torches marched through the University of Virginia campus. Amid heavy police presence on sidewalks and at checkpoints, police confiscated a pair of brass knuckles, a razor, knife and aerosol cans, city officials said. Two people were arrested on misdemeanor charges, one for trespassing and one for disorderly conduct. While the city prepared for the worst, it also took time to honor the memory of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old legal assistant, who was hit and killed last year when a young Neo-Nazi slammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. Two Virginia state troopers also died when their surveillance helicopter crashed near the protests. On Wednesday, a section of 4th Street — where she died — was renamed "Honorary Heather Heyer Way" in her memory. Chalk messages, flowers and other mementos are still being placed at the site. In the window of a nearby shop, a large sign with a hand reads simply: "Strength." It's part of the #joinedinstrength campaign, similar to the one last year which had storefronts display teal hearts with "Cville" written in the middle of them. The Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau said mounted the "Joined in Strength" campaign to demonstrate its opposition to using the city "as a platform for hate again." When the "Unite" rally moved to Washington, the "strength" campaign called for a show of support for the nation's capital through the downloading of posters, prints and "messages of solidarity" like those dotting Charlottesville. Karen Walker, the owner of Hedge Fine Blooms, said she gave out flowers last year. "It was the right thing to do. It was devastating what happened," Walker said. Heyer's favorite color — purple — is everywhere, in the ribbons tied in the trees, in the chalk used to scribble messages on the bricks, and in the shirts many are wearing. Walker, who normally closes her shop on Sunday, said she will remain open this weekend – in solidarity with the rest of this university city of 47,000 that still feels the presence of its favorite son, Thomas Jefferson. "I feel like everyone is in a pretty good place. This is our community," she said. The city, along with parts of Northern Virginia, is under a state of emergency. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said the order was an "administrative tool" to prepare the Virginia National Guard and other security details for any riots that might arise. UVA President James Ryan spoke to a crowd gathered Saturda... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/11/unite-right-2018-charlottesville-va-dc-rally/966312002/

Sang, Cuffe rule Bridge of Flowers

Leibold, who starred at Georgetown and was eventually an All-American at Stanford, said his strategy was to make a move on the uphill portion of the race. Growing up in Virginia, he said Crittenden Hill reminded him of jaunts through the Shenandoah Valley near his grandparents’ house.“(Crittenden) was longer and steeper though,” he said with a laugh. “I used it as a place to go for the win. I was trying to get away on the hill and keep pressing down the hill. I was able to get some momentum and open up the pack a bit. (Sang) kept the pressure on.”Indeed, Sang’s closing speed in the final mile-plus was the difference. The 29-year-old 2014 champion is part of the Western Mass. Distance Project, and he’s fresh off a New England 5-mile championship back in June.“I really made a point of having that closing speed,” explained Sang. “I was able to pick it up around Mile 3 and then that fifth mile, it was a sprint.”Framingham’s Benjamin Groleau finished third overall in 25:37, as he was in the lead pack for much of the first half of the race before Sang and Leibold separated themselves. Two-time champion Glarius Rop of Agawam was fourth in 26:03, followed in fifth place by Teague O’Connor of Burlington, Vt. (26:10). Shelburne Falls’ Dan Smith was the top local runner across the Iron Bridge, finishing ninth in 27:21.Cuffe and Leibold moved to Massachusetts just two weeks ago, as Leibold began medical school at UMass in Worcester last week. Cuffe said the pair was looking for something to do over the weekend, and discovered the event. Leibold said it was a nice escape from a chaotic first week of school.“We’re kind of aficionados of old races so when we saw this one, it was a no-brainer,” Cuffe explained.While she mostly competes in shorter races, Cuffe, who was 22nd overall in the field, felt right at home on the 8K course. She said she raced against Rees in a 5K last year, and knew the Bridge of Flowers defending champion was the one to watch when the opening gun went off.“I figured she knew what she was doing,” Cuffe said of keeping Rees in her sights.Semehar Tesfaye of West Roxbury, the 2016 champion, finished third in the women’s race with a time of 30:18. Karen Bertasso of Albany, N.Y. was fourth in 30:31, and Mohawk Trail star and Plainfield resident Meghan Davis was the fifth-fastest woman across the tape in 30:55.The weather cooperated for the 3K Charity Race and 8K Classic, as rain held off and the overcast morning made for comfortable, mid-August temperatures. The traditional charm of the race was evident throughout the course, with bagpipers, drummers and fans lining the streets and trails of Shelburne Falls to the delight of the over 800 runners combined between the two fields.“I love the history of Massachusetts races,” explained Leibold. “Old, long-standing races like this one, the community can get behind it and come out and support every year no matter who is running. That’s the great thing about it, it’s really an event that gets people coming back every year.”Locals ruled the St... https://www.recorder.com/Bridge-of-Flowers-19415790

Heather Heyer's mom visits memorial in Charlottesville: 'It's not all about Heather'

By Emanuella Grinberg and Kaylee Hartung CNN CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (CNN) -- The mother of Heather Heyer visited the site in Charlottesville, Virginia, where her daughter was killed last year and urged supporters to keep up Heyer's fight against racial inequities.Heyer, 32, was killed on August 12, 2017, when a suspected neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in downtown Charlottesville. Nineteen others were injured in the attack.On Sunday, Susan Bro said her daughter wouldn't want to be the center of attention on the one-year anniversary of the deadly protests. "Focus on the issues -- that's exactly what Heather would say. 'Quit looking at me, look at the issues,'" Bro said. "It's not all about Heather ... it never was." Numerous anniversary events took place this weekend in and around Charlottesville against the backdrop of a heavy police presence -- a stark contrast from last year, when white supremacists and neo-Nazis flooded the streets and law enforcement was criticized for... http://www.erienewsnow.com/story/38866861/heather-heyers-mom-visits-memorial-in-charlottesville-its-not-all-about-heather

Charlottesville anniversary: Peaceful protests, few arrests

United States gathered in a park outside the White House to protest a white nationalist rally on the anniversary of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the end, fewer than two dozen white nationalists showed up.The events held in both Charlottesville and Washington, largely peaceful though tense at times, were part of a day of speeches, vigils and marches marking a year since one of the largest gatherings of white nationalists and other far-right extremists in a decade. One person was arrested in Washington on Sunday, and four others were arrested in Charlottesville.In Charlottesville, the mother of the woman killed at last summer’s rally visited the site of the attack, saying the country’s racial wounds still have not healed. In Washington, a phalanx of police and a maze of metal barriers separated the small group of white nationalists from shouting counterprotesters within view of the White House.Jason Kessler, the principal organizer of last year’s “Unite the Right” event, led the Sunday gathering he called a white civil rights rally in Lafayette Square. Kessler said in a permit application that he expected 100 to 400 peopl... https://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/news/charlottesville-anniversary-peaceful-protests-few-arrests/