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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

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

The club also takes care of the flower clock outside Modesto Centre Plaza, the George Lucas plaza at Five Points, the garden at the Bodem Street senior center and rose gardens on the Virginia Corridor Trail and at College and Briggsmore avenues. The club educates the public about growing plants and has nine styles of landscaping on display at its office, 622 14th St. These kids can spell Stanislaus County has its entrants in statewide spelling bees for elementary and junior high school students next May. 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. ... https://www.modbee.com/latest-news/article222463475.html

Narcotics professor, florist found faith

Sale’s cheerful personality and eventhe metallic sequins on her white jacket. Putting in the extra effort is how the 66-year-oldapproaches her work as an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia CommunityCollege, and how she treated her patients as a nurse and how she mentored womenin jail. Her wide-ranging interests became pieces that all fit together whenshe found the Catholic faith two years ago, said Sale. “Putting faith with my experience and myknowledge and my passions is crucial for me,” she said. “I waited a lifetime toget to where I am.” Sale grew up in Philadelphia and has oneyounger brother, Robbie. They were baptized in the Lutheran faith, but as shegrew up, Sale said she never connected with one particular Christiandenomination. She earned a degree in nursing in 1979 and started work at PrinceGeorge’s Hospital Center in Cheverly in the intensive care nursery, often caringfor drug-addicted infants. She also cared for addicted mothers who wereencouraged to abort. “I said, ‘Why are you making these women feel so bad?’ Ifwe want them to stop using drugs, then don’t make them feel bad — lift them up.”Sale loved the work, but after a while was laid off. Her friend encouraged her to work withdetoxing adults at Fairfax Hospital. She told her friend, “I work with babies;I don’t know how to work with adults.’ She said, ‘Same t... https://www.catholicherald.com/News/Catholic_Living/Narcotics_professor,_florist_found_faith/

How plants bind their green pigment chlorophyll

Japanese colleagues, have partially solved this riddle. The team of Professor Harald Paulsen at the JGU Faculty of Biology used the so-called Water-soluble Chlorophyll Protein of cauliflower and Virginia pepperweed as a model protein. This protein possesses only a single chlorophyll binding site per protein molecule and is able to bind both chlorophyll versions. Upon variation of the amino acids near the chlorophyll binding site, the preference of the protein for one chlorophyll or the other changed. In one case, exchanging a single amino acid altered the relative binding strengths by a factor of 40. "This does not explain everything about Chl a/b binding specificity in the photosynthetic apparatus," said Paulsen, "but our results yield useful hypotheses that now can be tested with photosynthesis proteins. In the longer run, this may help to improve light harvesting in new photovoltaic devices or in artificial photosynthesis."One of the lead authors of this publication in Nature Plants is Dr. Alessandro Agostini. He received his doctorate for his thesis on Water-soluble Chlorophyll Protein jointly from Mainz University (Paulsen group) and the University of Padova in Italy (group of Professor Donatella Carbonera). "This is a nice example of a successful international collaboration," added Paulsen, "not only in terms of research but also by jointly advising a graduate student." This work was funded by the German Research Foundation. advertisement Story Source: Materials provided by Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Journal Reference:Daniel M. Palm, Alessandro Agostini, Vivien Averesch, Philipp Girr, Mara Werwie, Shigekazu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Satoh, Elmar Jaenicke, Harald Paulsen. Chlorophyll a/b binding-specificity in water-soluble chlorophyll protein. Nature Plants, 2018; DOI: 10.1038/s41477-018-0273-z Cite This Page: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz. "How plants bind their green pigment chlorophyll: Water-soluble protein helps to understand the photosynthetic apparatus." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 October 2018. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181018105325.htm>. Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz. (2018, October 18). How plants bind their green pigment chlorophyll: Water-soluble protein helps to understand the photosynthe... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181018105325.htm

Hometown Tourist: Old Mission Flowers in Traverse City

If it’s smaller, it’s less, you know people seem to kind of figure it out,” said Virginia Coulter, Owner.Virginia has a degree in horticulture, and what started off as a few beds, has turned into multiple varieties of all that you can imagine, and if you chat and hang out awhile, you’ll learn a lot from Virginia.“I have a lot of tulips and daffodils planted, and then is sold tons of lupines my lupines were just gorgeous. I have about 30 varieties of peonies, so I sell lots of peonies, so it’s sort of a progression of whatever flowers are in season and is open until it freezes, so you know end of October,” said Coulter.But there’s a secret to this garden too, it’s arranged so you have to walk around, and have a memorable experience on Old Mission.“I also have it purposely sort of jumbled up because I want people to talk all the way through the garden to find something. I really like the fact that it’s an experience, it’s more than just some place to come and get flowers at a reasonable rate.“It’s pretty cool, it’s a very fun to watch people pick flowers what they migrate to how they put flowers together, what their choices are,” said Coulter.For more information, click here.  Related Articles Comments comments ... https://www.9and10news.com/2018/09/07/hometown-tourist-old-mission-flowers-in-traverse-city/