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Richard Rico: A bouquet for the Rose - TheReporter.Com
Tuesday, March 19, 2019Monday) had gone through weeks of preparation for interviews, in public and on camera, from the panel of four. But then the playing field changed. During the first round, Councilman Mashburn nominated Vaca school board president Sherrie Mahlberg, and Mayor Rowlett nominated city services commissioner and KC-10 instructor Shawn MacMahon. Councilwoman Dilenna Harris nominated Beaty. But none of the three got the required three votes. Sullivan pulled off his surprise, and declined to nominate. Mayor Ron and Mashburn opposed the special election. So Mitch re-nominated Beaty. By 3-1, he won out. Sullivan got to vote no and the remaining applicants got a civics lesson. They’ll probably replay it and wonder what happened for years.* * *DON’T read anything into this, but a coincidence got my attention this week.It seems House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s family, my family and that of La Borgata Deli’s family have something in common: We all have roots in towns a few miles apart in the Italy region of Molise, south of Rome. They’re connected by ancient walls; what a concept. It doesn’t make us kissing cousins, but we may be paisani. Pelosi’s mother Annunciata D’Alesandro was born in the region’s largest town of Campobasso (pop. 50,000.) My family of Costanzo Rico came from the village of Roccamandolfi (pop. 640). They’re just 15 miles apart. A mile from Rocca is La Borgata’s village, Cantalupo, (pop. 764.) Actually, it’s as close as our Main Street, where Marianna Schiavone and mama Michelina Iuliano create deli del Molise.Maybe someday we can bend Pelosi’s ear when she stops by for a plate of gnocchi.Two, and she’ll reopen the government.The author is former publisher of The Reporter. https://www.thereporter.com/2019/01/13/richard-rico-a-bouquet-for-the-rose/
Naples garden workshop series starts Jan. 10 with talks on orchids, sustainable gardening - Naples Daily News
Tuesday, January 22, 2019Jan. 31 — Basics of plant propagation — Brian Galligan and Chad Washburn with Naples Botanical Garden Learn how to use propagation techniques using seeds and cuttings to help increase your tropical garden's palette while saving money » Feb. 7 — Demystifying the ancient Japanese art of bonsai — Chris Gilbert, Collier County master gardener A step-by-step look at age-old techniques used to grow bonsai » Feb. 14 — Plant nutrition — The need for feed — Bob Cook, certified horticulture professional Learn what lawns, trees and flowers require to grow and when it's a good idea to use fertilizer » Feb. 21 — From lawn to landscape — Isabel Way, owner of Colusa Farms in Naples A workshop on ground covers that enhance curb appeal, reduce fertilizer and pesticide use, and help conserve water » Feb. 28 — Arsenic and old lace: Poisonous plants — Gil Long, Collier County master gardener Learn which plants are dangerous to humans and pets and what safer alternatives are available » March 7 — Bromeliads in the landscape — Jon Hanson with Bromeliad Paradise Learn how to select, plant and care for bromeliads » March 14 — ... https://www.naplesnews.com/story/life/home-garden/2019/01/04/upcoming-naples-garden-series-features-talks-bonsai-trees-orchids/2463797002/
When Mom Cancels Appointment to Take Care of Sick Son, Company Sends Her Flowers - Good News Network
Tuesday, February 27, 2018Sometimes 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
Tuesday, February 27, 2018I 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
Tuesday, August 01, 2017About 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's Flowers v. Washington - Cato Institute
Tuesday, October 22, 2019Yet the U.S. Supreme Court precedent against compelled speech is strong. In West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), the Court ruled that school children could not be forced salute the flag and recite the pledge of allegiance. And in Wooley v. Maynard (1977), the Court found that New Hampshire could not require drivers to display the state motto (“live free or die”) on their license plates. (That case is why, if your jurisdiction has a default slogan—for example, “taxation without representation” in D.C.—it has to offer you an alternative if you ask.) In a pair of 2018 cases, NIFLA v. Becerra, and Janus v. AFSCME, the Court found that states could not force a pro-life clinic to read a script advising patients on how to get an abortion, and that non-union members of a collective bargaining unit could not be forced to pay for union speech with which they disagree, respectively.The Court had the opportunity to tackle the issue of whether states may force wedding vendors to create cakes for same-sex weddings in Masterpiece. But the Court didn’t reach the issue of whether the First Amendment—speech or religion clauses—protects a refusal to provide a product or service for a particular occasion, if so how to draw the line between professions that are and aren’t sufficiently expressive to gain that protection, or any other major controversy that continues to roil lower courts. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurrence offering some guidance, but post-Masterpiece state and circuit courts have diverged.As it has in previous stages of this litigation, Cato has filed an amicus brief supporting Arlene’s Flowers—again joined by Reason Foundation and Individual Rights Foundation—urging the Supreme Court to take up the case and settle these issues and ambiguities after all. Cato is the only organization in the country to have filed briefs in support of both Jim Obergefell (lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage case) and Jack Phillips (owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop). It shouldn’t be so hard to see the difference between government action and individual conscience, to have official equality while letting a thousand flowers bloom. https://www.cato.org/publications/legal-briefs/arlenes-flowers-v-washington-2
Wise County grand jury indicts 58 - Kingsport Times News
Tuesday, September 10, 2019Elliott was also indicted on a related misdemeanor obstruction of justice charge which carries a maximum 12 month jail term and $2,500 fine.— Yusef Lateef Thornton, 35, Woodbridge, Virginia, faces three counts of malicious wounding in connection with a May 30 incident when he allegedly wounded two adults and a juvenile.— Wilson Harmon Branham, 52, 8177 Penobscot Road, Wise, was indicted on a malicious wounding charge stemming from an alleged May 24 attack on his ex-wife and a strangulation charge for an alleged attack on a man on the same date. The wounding charge could result in a 20-year prison term on conviction, while the strangulation charge carries a five year maximum prison term.— Jimmy D. Dorton Jr., 38, 440 Dry Branch Road, Jonancy, Kentucky, was indicted on one misdemeanor count of assault and battery on a family member in connection with an alleged April 12 attack on an ex-cohabitant. The charge carries a maximum 12 month jail term and a $2,500 fine.— James Burton Eldridge, 36, 317 Cedar St., Benham, Kentucky, was indicted on six felony and two misdemeanor charges of embezzlement in connection with a series of alleged incidents against Norton business Cassell Electric. Each felony charge carries a maximum 10 year prison term and the misdemeanor charges 12 month jail terms on conviction.— Victor Eugene Flowers, 46, Pikeville, Kentucky, was indicted on two grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing property valued at $500 or more from Lowe’s in Wise. Each count, upon conviction, carries a 20-year maximum prison term.— Clinton Alden Hale, 39, 1014 Carico Ridge Road, Coeburn, was indicted on six felony counts each of forgery and uttering, six misdemeanor charges each of obtain by false pretense and petit larceny and one misdemeanor charge of financial exploitation of an elderly person for a series of incidents in October 2018 involving allegations of forged checks. The felony charges each carry maximum 10 year prison terms and the misdemeanors 12 month maximum jail terms.The grand jury handed down indictments against 47 other people for various charges including shoplifting and 29 drug case-related indictments. http://www.timesnews.net/Law-Enforcement/2019/08/24/Wise-County-grand-jury-indicts-58
A Closer Look at 15 American Floral Endowment Scholarship Winners - Greenhouse Grower
Tuesday, September 10, 2019Michigan Horticulture Education Foundation, horticulturist at MSU AgBioResearch, and researcher at MSU Floriculture.Harold Bettinger Scholarship Recipient: Rhiannon Newton, West Virginia UniversityNewton is entering her senior year completing her agricultural science degree with a major in horticulture and a minor in entrepreneurship. She hopes to be a greenhouse grower after graduation and would like to eventually own a business.BioWorks IPM/Sustainable Practices Scholarship Recipient: Sage Drohan, Orange Coast CollegeDrohan is a junior majoring in Landscape Architecture at Orange Coast College, where she focuses on sustainable design and horticulture. Since 2016, Drohan has owned Sage Succulents and Cacti.James Bridenbaugh Memorial Scholarship and Mike and Flo Novovesky Scholarship Recipient: Alexis Ramstine, Colorado State UniversityRamstine is a junior majoring in horticulture business management, with a focus on ornamental plants, fresh cut flower production, and horticulture as an instrument of public health. For the last few years, Ramstine has been employed full-time at Longmont Florist in Longmont, CO.CalFlowers Scholarship Recipient: Helene Dondero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoA senior majoring in agricultural science with an emphasis in ornamental horticulture and a minor in agricultural business, Dondero grew up in the floral industry. In addition to working in her family’s business, Fiore Floral and Gifts, Dondero is active in numerous student and industry organizations with CalPoly and FFA.John Carew Memorial Scholarship Recipient: Mary Lewis, University of GeorgiaLewis expects to complete her master’s degree program in horticulture in December 2019. Her focus is on ornamental plant breeding, specifically eight native Asclepias species.Earl Dedman Memorial Scholarship and National Greenhouse Manufacturers Association (NGMA) Scholarship Recipient: Gergely Motolai, Kansas State UniversityGergely Motolai is a senior majoring in horticulture science and minoring in entomology. His focus is on in greenhouse production and entomology. Motolai is working at Bird’s Botanicals and at the Kansas State University Greenhouses.Long Island Flower Growers Association (LIFGA) Scholarship and Long Island Flower Growers Association Bob Gunther Scholarship Recipient: Cassandra Castano, Farmingdale State CollegeA senior in landscape development at Farmingdale State College majoring in horticulture technology management, Castano is planning further education to become a landscape architect, working on urban projects.Richard T. Meister Scholarship Recipient: Emily Teng, University of Hawaii at ManoaTeng is obtaining her Ph.D. in tropical plant and soil sciences, and plans on working in floriculture production and variety improvement research. In her dissertation research, she is analy... https://www.greenhousegrower.com/management/a-closer-look-at-15-american-floral-endowment-scholarship-winners/
Community deaths - Washington Post
Tuesday, July 23, 2019Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Dorothy Gerber, singer, teacherDorothy Gerber, 78, a singer with the Choral Arts Society of Washington and a teacher from 1978 to 2000 with the Montessori Country School in Herndon, Va., died May 16 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. The cause was congestive heart failure, said a daughter, Amy Gerber-Stroh. Mrs. Gerber, a resident of Reston, Va., was born Dorothy Gould in Boston and grew up in Long Branch, N.J. With the Choral Arts Society, she sang in performances with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and at venues in Moscow, Paris and Spoleto, Italy.Helene Au, volunteer, property managerHelene Au, 105, who managed inherited property on Capitol Hill and volunteered at the Audubon Society bookstore in Georgetown, died May 18 at a care center in Fredericksburg, Va. The cause was thyroid cancer, said Johanna Humphrey, a goddaughter and family spokeswoman.Miss Au was born on Capitol Hill and lived in a townhouse there until 2018 when she was incapacitated in an acciden... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/community-deaths/2019/07/15/68a915b4-a74b-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html
