Burbank Flower Shop News
La Cañada Flintridge, Burbank take home awards at Rose Parade - Los Angeles Times
Saturday, January 18, 2020A year’s worth of work and dedication by hundreds of volunteers was recognized with awards during the 2020 Rose Parade on New Year’s Day. All six of the self-built floats — from La Cañada Flintridge, Burbank, South Pasadena, Cal Poly Universities, Downey and Sierra Madre — earned awards in the 131st Rose Parade, a feat that is rarely achieved during the annual event. The La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn.‘s float, called “Dodo Bird Flight School,” brought home the Bob Hope Humor Award, a distinction the organization has won four times in the past five years.“One of the purposes of our float association is to be humorous, so it’s particularly rewarding to get the Bob Hope Humor banner,” said Charles Thuss, a board member of the La Cañada organization. Advertisement The float depicted a flock of flightless birds trying to take flight with the help of a zeppelin, all backed with a loop of Lenny Kravitz’s hit song “Fly Away.”Leading the main float was an electric-powered satellite unit — a first for the La Cañada group — that was also adorned with flowers and included a figure of an ostrich riding a device reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s helicopter.As the main entr... https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/story/2020-01-01/la-canada-flintridge-burbank-take-home-awards-at-rose-parade
Funeral Notice: Kurken Berksanlar - Asbarez Armenian News
Wednesday, April 03, 2019Kurken Berksanlar, who passed away on Tuesday, April 1, 2019, after long illness.The funeral service will be held on Tuesday, April 9, 10:30 a.m. at St. Leon Cathedral, 3325 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504. Interment will follow at Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn cemetery.He is survived by his:Wife, Talin BerksanlarDaughter, Nicole BerksanlarSon, Nishan BerksanlarMother, Bercuhi BerksanlarBrother, Maykil BerksanlarMother-in-law, Hilda SahakyanSister-in-law, Haco and Alin DuhanciogluSister-in-law, Ara and Erlin DimitianNieces and Nephews, Arlene Dimitian, Chris Duhancioglu, Caroline Dimitian, Gabiel DuhanciogluAnd the entire Kuzuian, Biberoglu, Kayaoglu, Volkan, Beylerian, Stepanian, Aghjayan, Cherekjian, Sagherian, Renda and Fraser families and friendsA memorial luncheon will follow at Phoenicia restaurant, 343 N. Central Ave., GlendaleIn lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Armenian Educational Foundation, Kurken Berksanlar Fund. ... http://asbarez.com/178744/funeral-notice-kurken-berksanlar/
For Valentine’s Day, these flowers are getting a rock ‘n’ roll inspired twist - OCRegister
Tuesday, February 05, 2019Ace of Vase, the Burbank shop florist Sheri Scott opened in 2015, gets its name from a Motörhead song.Scott’s flowers may be lovelier than the heavy metal classic “Ace of Spades,” but it’s a fitting reference: Her arrangements are powerful, cutting edge and – sometimes – come in vases covered with spikes.Even so, Scott says people often assume she named the store after the far less hardcore Swedish pop group Ace of Base, who had a string of hits in the 1990s and, coincidentally, have an album titled “Flowers.”“Honestly, if that’s what draws them to me, I’m not going to correct them,” Scott says on a recent afternoon inside the store. “It’s whatever their interpretation is. It’s still music-related.”Sheri Scott’s Burbank florist shop Ace of Vase offers a variety of arrangements, including this one called “I Put a Spell on You.”Photo: Sheri ScottSheri Scott’s Burbank florist shop A... http://www.ocregister.com/for-valentines-day-these-flowers-are-getting-a-rock-n-roll-inspired-twist
An Inside Look at The Rose Parade in Pasadena on New Yeas Day - Travel Market Report
Tuesday, December 04, 2018Rose Parade travel tipsWhen presenting clients with a vacation that centers around The Rose Parade, keep these tips in mind.Travelers can fly into Los Angeles, Burbank, Orange County or Ontario airports. LAX is under construction, so if another airport is a possibility, consider booking that. Burbank Airport would be the closest.A rental car is a must. Tourist spots are spread out around Los Angeles. Using only public transportation would be challenging.Grandstand seats are available for the parade, but be sure to buy them as soon as the trip is planned.Super insider tip: Get up early on New Year’s Day and go to Orange Grove Boulevard to see the floats line up for the parade. You can see them up close before the parade begins.Visit other attractions, such as: Disneyland, Universal Studios, The Huntington Library, Norton Simon Museum, The Getty Museum, Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles, The Broad Museum, Olvera Street, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Levitating Rock. https://www.travelmarketreport.com/articles/An-Inside-Look-at-The-Rose-Parade-in-Pasadena-on-New-Years-Day
Gardening: Pink powder puffs are not always that particular color - San Bernardino County Sun
Tuesday, February 27, 2018Baja fairy duster is renowned for its seemingly endless flower production. Only for brief periods will you not find at least one or two blooms on display.Grace Hampton, who gardens in Burbank, wrote to inquire about the sabra prickly pear cactus that grows in Israel and throughout the Mediterranean, wondering how it got there since it is native to Mexico. This cactus arrived in the Mediterranean courtesy of Spanish explorers who brought back samples from their Mesoamerican expeditions.Although both the fruit and the pads of this cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) are edible, the Spanish had a different application in mind. Their interest was in the red pigment that was found in the gut of white cochineal scale insects that attach themselves to prickly pear cactus pads.If you have any of this cactus in your yard, you have probably noticed the presence of these sticky insects at one time or another.From the time the Spanish arrived in Mexico in the 16th century, until the advent of synthetic dyes in the late 19th century, cochineal scales were the main source of red textile dye in America and Europe.Spain had a monopoly on the cochineal dye market for about 250 years until scale-laden cactus pads were surreptitiously exported — by the French and Portuguese — to the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and Portugal.Sessile female scales attach themselves to prickly pear cactus pads, stick their proboscises into the pads, and suck cactus sap for sustenance. In the process, they produce a rich scarlet pigment known as carminic acid. This metabolite is stored in the gut of the female scales, to be used in defending themselves from attacking ants.Scale eggs are especially rich in carminic acid and the indigenous peoples who still produce traditional cochineal dye are astute in collecting the pregnant scales for maximum dye production.Prior to the export of cochineal dye from Mexico to Europe, the main source of European red dye was the kermes scale, which had been utilized as a textile dye since biblical times. In the book of Exodus, the materials utilized in construction and furnishing of the desert Tabernacle included tola’at shani, literally translated as “scarlet worm,” since it was thought that the dye used in coloring the Tabernacle tapestries and other fabrics was derived from a worm.Recent investigations of this subject by Israeli researchers proved that the scarlet worm was in fact a scale insect that feeds on the Mediterranean kermes oak (Quercus coccifera).However, the scarlet dye produced by the Mexican cactus scale was eight times brighter than that produced by the Mediterranean oak tree scale, and so all red dye used in Europe was soon manufactured from the cactus scale.A number of years ago, Nick Kurek from Granada Hills sent me simple instructions for readying prickly pear fruit (tunas) and pads (nopales) for eating.“The flesh of cactus pears,” he wrote, “is sweet and flavorful but full of seeds. Needles come off the fruit by rolling them in the dirt, a...
El Paso, New Mexico florists create tribute to Walmart mass shooting victims - El Paso Times
Sunday, February 28, 2021El Paso.The project is funded through two big donations totaling $5,000 from Walmart and a United Way of El Paso County private donor. The funds were used to purchase the moss from California, the mannequins and other supplies.There are eight floral shops involved from El Paso and Las Cruces with about 40 people from the borderland and New Mexico participating by working on the silhouettes or making donations to the project.More: Ways to commemorate the first anniversary of the Aug. 3 shooting at WalmartMore: 'Resilience': History museum staff prepares to exhibit El Paso Walmart shooting memorialmedia-image image-set="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/07/31/PTX1/3b2f0873-566f-4e19-b22d-0ecfb3df45bd-116150155_2643064182675202_5543603814563684475_n.jpg bestCrop, https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/07/31/PTX1/3b2f0873-566f-4e19-b22d-0ecfb3df45bd-116150155_2643064182675202_5543603814563684475_n.jpg?crop=719,539,x0,y85 4:3, https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/07/31/PTX1/3b2f0873-566f-4e19-b22d-0ecfb3df45bd-116150155_2643064182675202_5543603814563684475_n.jpg?crop=719,959,x0,y0 3:4, https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/07/31/PTX1/3b2f0873-566f-4e19-b22d-0ecfb3df45bd-116150155_2643064182675202_5543603814563684475_n.jpg?crop=719,404,x0,y96 16:9" image-alt="The silhouettes will be offered to the families of the victims after the anniversary events." credit="By Maria Cortes Gonzalez/El Paso Times" caption="The silhouettes will be offered to the families of the mass shooting victims after the Aug. 2 and 3 anniversary events at the El Paso County Community Healing Garden." orientation="vertic... https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2020/07/31/el-paso-new-mexico-florists-create-floral-tribute-shooting-victims/5555190002/
Coronavirus foils wedding plans — for Bay Area workers - Vallejo Times-Herald
Sunday, February 28, 2021Artisans, professionals and hourly workers in California’s booming wedding industry are scrambling as nuptials are postponed or canceled, said Richard Markel, president of the Association for Wedding Professionals International. About a quarter-million couples tie the knot in California each year, spending an average of about $25,000 on a ceremony — although the Bay Area and Wine Country are more expensive, he said.Planners are concerned the statewide shelter-in-place will stretch into their busy season, which usually begins in June, he said. “It’s going to get a little hairier.”Eileen Lacey, owner of E Events in Santa Cruz, now has clients postponing June ceremonies. She’s resisted layoffs for her three employees, who help manage weddings from Carmel to Wine Country and beyond for national and international clients.Lacey has spent weeks rescheduling events. She’s not charging for the complicated work. “I’m just doing it,” she said. “Everyone’s trying to do what they can.”Carlie Statsky, a Santa Cruz-based photographer, typically shoots about 20 weddings a year. It’s been a steady business for two decades — until now. Her March was canceled, her April events postponed, and now May is starting to look iffy, she said.Statsky has changed focus. She’s directing customers to her print shop on Etsy, and emailing past clients about ordering wedding albums and new prints of their nuptials.Statsky spotted another opportunity in the work-from-home customers. She’s invited people to send in photos of their rooms, and she’s suggested new prints from her collection of Big Sur and nature photos. “People are using this time to redecorate,” she said.Caterers have tried to shift into home delivery and pick-up services, but layoffs are widespread.Berkeley-based caterer Mixing Bowl has laid-off staff as events have been canceled or postponed, said vice president of marketing Maria Kuzmina. The company is trying to switch its business to sell directly to customers, but it needs more delivery drivers and customer service representatives. “We’re trying to create a whole new platform,” she said. “It’s tricky.”The company has reached out to hospitals and health care facilities, offering to bring lunches and dinners at cost to first responders, she said. But healthcare workers are busy caring for virus victims.Liza Bagerman, a San Francisco event planner with her own business, Studio DBI, has been rescheduling weddings for more than a month. She thought she had prepared for the worst-case scenario, but not “a world-wide pandemic.”She wakes up every morning, she says, thinking about ways to generate income. Bagerman knows she’s not alone. “I think the events world is going to be forever changed,” she said. “The answer is still a question mark.”In Palo Alto, the bouquets have been selling briskly, Minerva said. She hopes her temporary change in business plan gets her through the crisis.After all, she’s filled the yard with flowers, and the irises, pansies and roses bloom next. https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2020/04/03/coronavirus-foils-wedding-plans-for-workers
Calif. flower shop with no connection to Capitol riot flooded with threats, negative reviews - SFGate
Sunday, January 17, 2021Thursday afternoon. “One of our employees recently picked up the phone, and the person on the other line said, ‘Are you the bitch who stormed the Capitol?’ And she just said, ‘No, ma’am, we’re in California.’ And the person hung up on her. There’s no apology, no nothing.” At first, Alberti tried to delete the growing number of comments, which he found downright disturbing. “People have written things like, ‘I hope you get cancer,’ ‘I hope your shop burns down,’ ‘I hope you die,’ ‘I hope you rot in jail,’” he said. “And those are the polite ones.” Contrarily, Alberti added that the shop even received a love letter intended for Cudd from a firefighter living in Florida. “To be honest, they both concern me,” he said. In response to the harassment, Alberti notified the Roseville Police Department, which has been periodically sending out officers to check in on the shop. He also contacted Yelp, which he said acted quickly to remove the misguided comments, as well as Google, though he’s still awaiting a response. of this store since 1973.We are getting hate messages and bad reviews as a result. To our customers, please know that we were not part of that. Thank you for your continued trust and please ignore the hate reviews that are not meant for us.— Becky's Flowers (@BeckysFlowersCA) January 8, 2021 “It was just crickets,” he said. “Which was frustrating, because somehow all of (Cudd’s) negative reviews were removed from her page and likely identified as a targeted attack, and we’re the ones dealing with the repercussions.” (At the time this article was published, most of the negative Google reviews for Alberti’s business appeared to have been removed from the platform. However, Cudd’s business also has a 4.6 rating.) Two other florists bearing the same name in Kentucky and Scotland were burdened with similar harassment. Alberti said all of them have given up on deleting the comments, and are instead attempting to respond to each one in order to set the record straight. “I offered to send some people maps of the United States,” joked Alberti. “Most people apologize and then they reverse, but some are steadfast. My thing is, I understand the need to vent and get rid of that hostility, but just spend an extra five seconds of time to see t... https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Beckys-Flowers-Roseville-mistaken-Capitol-rioter-15871654.php
Becky’s Flowers In Roseville Bombarded With Hate, Mistaken For Shop Owned By Capitol Rioter - CBS Sacramento
Sunday, January 17, 2021Becky’s Flowers has a warning to customers on its website stating:“ATTENTION: Our shop has NOTHING to do with the Becky’s Flowers in Midland, TX or any affiliation with Jenny Cudd. Our shop is in California. We did NOT storm the Capitol Building.”... https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/01/14/roseville-beckys-flowers-threats-riot/
