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Man to be sentenced in Edmonton flower store owner’s mall death during robbery - theglobeandmail.com

Iain Armstrong. Mr. Armstrong had tried to stop Mr. Cushnie from robbing a cash box from a cosmetic kiosk outside outside Armstrong’s Bunches florist shop at Edmonton’s Southgate Centre a year earlier. On Monday, Justice Eldon Simpson sentenced Mr. Cushnie to six years in prison. Story continues below advertisement Justice Simpson said Mr. Armstrong, who was 61, fell down and hit his head on a corner of another kiosk after he was punched six times by Mr. Cushnie. Sharon Armstrong, who was married to her husband for 37 years, said in a victim impact statement during Mr. Cushnie’s sentencing hearing earlier Monday that the morning of April 17, 2018, was a normal one as her husband headed off to work at their family-owned business. “In a few hours, my world would collapse,” she said, explaining she received a phone call from one of their employees and immediately called her husband’s brother and business partner. When she arrived at the mall, she saw the building surrounded by emergency vehicles, she said. “I felt my heart drop,” she told court. She was diverted to the University of Alberta Hospital, where she was met by police and called her son and daughter to meet her. “We were all so scared and confused,” said Ms. Armstrong, who added that doctors started using words like “dire, catastrophic” to describe her husband’s injuries. The family decided to take him off life support three days later. Story continues below advertisement Sharon Armstrong was one of eight family members and friends who provided victim impact statements. The couple’s daughter, Dana Mikulasik, said her world came crashing down when she rece... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-man-to-be-sentenced-in-edmonton-flower-store-owners-mall-death-during/

McLennan Flowers and Gifts Provides No Contact Delivery - Press Release - Digital Journal

About McLennan Flowers and Gifts:Incorporated in 1995, McLennan Flowers and Gifts supplies a wide range of floral arrangements and centrepieces for weddings, birthdays, sympathy, and other events.Visit https://www.mclennanflowers.com/ for more information. Media ContactCompany Name: McLennan Flowers and GiftsContact Person: Mary Ann VerberneEmail: Send EmailPhone: 519-652-2042Address:2445 Main St City: LondonState: OntarioCountry: CanadaWebsite: www.mclennanflowers.com... http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4728671

Woman opens North Walsham flower shop following redundancy - North Norfolk News

Penney Spall who is opening Penney's Flowers and Crafts Centre on July 1. Picture: Cathryn Lloyd Cathryn Lloyd A woman has followed her dream of becoming a florist after deciding to start a new chapter when she was made redundant. Penney Spall will open Penney’s Flowers and Crafts Centre on the site of North Walsham garden centre on Wednesday, July 1, becoming a florist for the first time after training for the role more than 30 years ago.Ms Spall is planning to open the shop from 9am to 5pm week days with only two customers allowed in at a time to adhere to social distancing guidelines.She said the garden centre was seeing a steady stream of traffic even with the rules in place, making it the perfect spot to open despite the pandemic.She said: “I got made redundant about a month ago and I just decided that if I can’t get a job, might as well create one myself. Contextual Article Video Code - includes targetted ad option for RFC 3031 -- You may also want to watch: ... https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/penney-s-flowers-and-crafts-north-walsham-garden-centre-open-reopening-1-6722833

Oxford florist asks: "If Marks & Spencer sell flowers why can't I?" - Oxford Mail

Gary Cooper, who owns Fabulous Flowers on Banbury Road in Oxford, had been hoping to reopen on Wednesday after the Government said garden centres could open again. He planned to allow customers to buy flowers from outside his store even bought a contactless card machine to help make business safer. But after checking with Oxfordshire County Council Trading Standards, he was told his flower shop had to remain closed. Also read: Botley butcher's new 'dream' farm shop gets a top food hygiene rating Mr Cooper said: “Our Oxford shop has a wide area outside where we sell plants and flowers from, so we were hoping to be able to sell plants and flowers at the front of the shop. “We set up a counter at the front door where we would take card payments and I even bought a new wireless card machine. “We thought it would be fine because M&S is currently open selling flowers and plants and garden centres are open now.” Under Regulation 5 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020, all businesses selling goods from a shop are required to close, unless their business is listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2. Florists are not listed and therefore are required to remain closed. However, Mr C... https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18454075.oxford-florist-frustrated-plans-reopen-shop-crushed/

Former Edmonton flower shop owner sent to prison for sex crimes - CBC.ca

Syrian refugees who came with their families to Canada in 2015. The boys were 13 and 14 years old when they got to know Zetouni, the owner of Flowers by Mark in Northgate Centre. The store is now listed as permanently closed.  "They would often visit him in the flower shop and even helped him in the store," Mah said.  In the summer of 2017, Zetouni took one boy into the back room of his shop and had him perform a sexual act. The boy continued to visit the flower shop and the sexual acts continued for more than two months. On multiple occasions, the older boy brought his younger friend to the shop, where Zetouni convinced the boys to perform sexual acts on him and on each other.  "Sometimes after the incidents, the accused provided the boys cigarettes and told them not to tell anyone," Mah told the court.  The older boy told a doctor about the incidents in November 2017. Police obtained a video statement from the teen with the help of an Arabic speaking police officer.  Zetouni, 54, was arrested on Nov. 28, 2017, and was originally charged with three counts each of sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching.  The remaining charges were stayed after he pleaded guilty to two counts of invitation to sexual touching.  "The accused knew or ought to have known that the boys were under the age of 16 and were not capable of consenting to the sexual acts," the Crown said.  The boys were not in court to hear the guilty pleas and did not file victim impact st... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-zetouni-sexual-contact-minors-1.5398516

‘The power of flowers’: Alabama’s florists cope with pandemic, recovery - AL.com

Volume dropped to almost nothing except what I could do,” Morris said.Morris’ experience was much like other industries, but it illustrates the particular challenges felt by florists around Alabama. The life events where people expect flowers - hospitalizations, funerals - were suddenly in the news, but the demand for them was all but extinguished.Cameron Pappas at Norton’s Florist in Birmingham said the lockdown, and the reopening that followed, has reminded him of the “power of flowers.”“We’ve had a lot of reminders of how important flowers are to everyone,” he said. “They keep people sane.”The pandemic hit America right in a peak season for florists - the rush before Easter, proms and spring events. Pappas said business began to slowdown by about 40 percent one week before his shop closed for two weeks on March 23. The store laid off all of its employees for that period.Cameron Pappas delivered flowers to Birmingham-area restaurants during the coronavirus shutdown.Thousands of floral businesses around America were left with perishable goods that they couldn’t sell. Just three days before Norton’s closed, it had received a shipment of about $5,000 in flowers. Rather than throw them out, Pappas said, they made bouquets to give away at restaurants and nursing homes that would accept them. In some cases, he hand delivered them.“We wanted the flowers to still do their job, to bring joy to bad situations,” he said. “We wanted them to say that we’re not going to let this virus take away the heart of our city.”Morris, 86, said he was reduced to little better than a one-man operation for about five weeks, with his nephew keeping the books. Most of the business coming in ... https://www.al.com/business/2020/06/the-power-of-flowers-alabamas-florists-cope-with-pandemic-recovery.html

HER | Local decorator helps get homes ready for holidays - Texarkana Gazette

Marie said, "including four banks, a phone company, some cell phone businesses and lodges at Beaver's Bend."But Oklahoma isn't as far as she is willing to go. "Every July I go to Dauphin Island, Alabama, where I have several clients. They get decor 'refreshers' each summer," she said. "When I go down there I also go deep-sea fishing for Red Snapper, so it's an annual vacation for me."When she isn't decorating for others, she and her husband Jerry reside on the Louisiana side of Caddo Lake where they enjoy entertaining. They are also very active at Trees Baptist Church. They have four children: Tony Campbell of Queen City, Dee Dee Wells and Misty Lutton of Atlanta, and Damon Donnell of Athens, Texas.Marie says she has never gotten too busy to take on more clients."I never turn anyone down," she said. "I just hire more people to do the work. We will do what it takes to make people happy." n... https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/her/story/2019/dec/03/her-local-decorator-helps-get-homes-ready-holidays/806564/

Wild Honey Flower Truck is Birmingham's florist on wheels - Alabama NewsCenter

It’s an idea that bloomed when Kelsey Sizemore and her husband, Josh, saw similar flower operations outside of Alabama.“We had seen a couple of similar businesses in other cities and we thought it was something that Birmingham would really love,” Kelsey Sizemore said.If you’re going to have a flower truck, it has to start with the truck.“We started by looking at trucks on Craigslist and eBay,” Sizemore said. “We decided on the kind of truck that we liked.”[embedded content]Wild Honey Flower Truck is blooming in Birmingham from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.When they found a potential truck in Ohio, Sizemore sent her father-in-law to check it out. When it earned a thumbs-up, they had the truck towed to Birmingham.“We started the process of really transforming the truck into something that could house the flowers,” she said.That meant a paint job, building out the back to carry flower vases and adding an awning.Next came procuring flowers by working with wholesalers, flower markets and other dealers.With the truck ready and outfitted with flowers, the only decision was where to go to sell them.“We just sought out the places that we really like to go,” Sizemore said.That could mean being outside of the Pizitz building one day and in Woodlawn the next.You can also find Wild Honey Food Truck at the West Homewood Farmer’... https://alabamanewscenter.com/2019/06/28/wild-honey-flower-truck-is-birminghams-florist-on-wheels/

Wild Honey Flower Truck is Birmingham's florist on wheels - Yellowhammer News

This group’s not coming the right way,” he said. “The Democrats want them to come, not because they’re kind and nice… [but for] power and money. They have no sympathy for the people here in Alabama… We have lost control of our borders and they’re coming right and left.”Tuberville sarcastically credited longtime Democratic elected officials like former Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for somehow spinning the nation’s problems, like the border crisis, into being President Donald Trump’s fault, as he has only been in office for two and a half years compared to their lifetimes in politics.“They own the media. And that’s the reason our country’s in the shape it’s in today, because our media will not call a spade a spade,” Tuberville lamented. “They won’t call it out. They’re going to side with the socialist Democratic Party and push that narrative as far as they can, because they want for some reason, I don’t understand it, for some reason they want to go that direction. They want free for everybody, and we know that doesn’t work. It’s really a sad situation.”During his remarks, Tuberville also identified fixing the rural healthcare crisis, workforce development, industry recruitment and growing Alabama’s high-tech sector as priorities if elected.Of course, his stump speech also included a heavy dose on what he views as one of the main reasons for American society’s decline.“I’m a Christian conservative,” Tuberville emphasized.“We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. We took prayer out of the schools in the ’60s and not one person has fought to get it back — not one. … You know what? Other religions can pray in our schools. They can. They can pray in our schools. And I’m not against any religion. Hey, you come here, as long as you go by our laws and our constitution you can pray to any god you want to. I’m all for that. That’s what this country’s about. But by gosh, don’t tell us we can’t say the Lord’s Prayer in school and send our kids home,” he said.Tuberville said that Trump can get the country turned around with enough support from conservatives across the country and in Congress. However, he decried that the president is having to fight members of the establishment from both parties in trying to effect change.“[W]e’ve got to put Jesus and God before everything else,” he stressed. “And if we don’t do that, we’re going to be brought down to our knees again.”Sean Ross is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn... https://yellowhammernews.com/wild-honey-flower-truck-is-birminghams-florist-on-wheels/