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Lafayette flower shop donating free flowers to public service professionals - wlfi.com

Who can look at flowers and not smile," asked Nathan Anderson, executive director of Rosewalk Village Nursing Home in Lafayette. Rosewalk Village nursing home is the first of many facilities on Davis' list of giving. Anderson said he sees this movement having a great impact even after we make it through the pandemic. "To be supported by a local business, we can just continue those relationships here in Greater Lafayette and just be tighter as a whole community," said Anderson.  Davis is accepting individually wrapped goods, clean used vases and baskets, and monetary donations for the Good Samaritan Project.  You can find information through the flower shop's official Facebook page or email Paula Davis at fit4everflower@gmail.com.  ... https://www.wlfi.com/content/news/Lafayette-flower-shop-donating-free-flowers-to-public-service-professionals-569172631.html

A Second Life for Flowers - The New York Times

The flowers come from all sorts of places: weddings, farmer’s markets, the online florist company UrbanStems, even a first lady’s luncheon. In the truck she calls her “Bloom Mobile 1.0,” Kaifa Anderson-Hall recovers flowers from venues all over the Washington, D.C., area that would otherwise be discarded and gives them a purpose. After being preserved, often for weeks in refrigerators she keeps in the basement of a four-unit apartment building she and her husband own, those flowers take on their second job — in therapeutic activities with seniors, homeless women and people with disabilities around the city.Part education, part art therapy and part wellness activity, Ms. Anderson-Hall’s nonprofit, Plants and Blooms Reimagined, represents an enticing intersection of a number of pressing social issues: conservation; combating isolation for elders, people with disabilities and other marginalized communities; and wellness. Ms. Anderson-Hall is a horticultural therapist, a practice based on the idea that working with plants, both indoors and outside, can have therapeutic benefits.Ms. Anderson-Hall grew up in a Washington public housing complex where, she said, children weren’t all... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/opinion/second-life-flowers.html

Watch them blossom: At N Street Village, homeless women create floral art - Washington Post

N Street Village. A blue-handled pair of shears is at each space. The air is thick with the scent from hundreds of blooms.“This is how I love this room to be, filled to capacity,” says Kaifa Anderson-Hall, who leads the class.Sixty-two bundles of flowers — lilies, roses, tulips, dahlia, marigolds, alstroemeria, ranunculus — have been donated by Urban Stems, a florist just up the street.Anderson-Hall puts the song “Something Inside So Strong” on her iPhone then says, “Come up, get your flowers. Take the opportunity to be as present as possible.”The women move around the table, selecting blossoms. Someone asks how many flowers they should use.“It’s up to you,” Anderson-Hall says.Anderson-Hall is the founder of Plants and Blooms ReImagined, a nonprofit that provides horticultural therapy using repurposed arrangements left over after events such as wedding and luncheons. She started volunteering at N Street Village in April.It can seem like an indulgence — homeless women arranging flowers? — but it’s in keeping with one of N Street Village’s core principles: Just because a person is at a low point in her life, it doesn’t mean she shouldn’t be treated with dignity and respect.“Wherever we are, there needs to be beauty,” Anderson-Hall says. Hotels and restaurants have fresh flowers. Why shouldn’t you see fresh flowers in the place where women can come for a free meal, a shower, a washing machine?“You’re going to be surprised where you started and where you end up,” Anderson-Hall says.She’s talking about the cumulative process of creating a flower arrangement: adding flower after flower until something tells you you’re done. But it seems like a metaphor for N Street Village, how it lets women move at their own pace until, hopefully, they have left the streets behind.The class is just one of many offered at the charity, a list that includes sewing,... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/watch-them-blossom-at-n-street-village-homeless-women-create-floral-art/2019/11/12/ffed9314-04a2-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html

Florist Delma Booth, who turned ballrooms into wonderlands, dead at 89 - Tampa Bay Times

Petersburg Yacht Club into a winter wonderland that people from throughout the area would drive to see.Mrs. Booth died Nov. 16 of a stroke, her sister said. She was 89.Mrs. Booth’s niece Stephanie Anderson will continue to operate Delma’s Flower Booth, 2448 Fifth Ave. N in St. Petersburg.“She would want to be remembered as someone who would do anything for her customers,” said Anderson. “She just wanted to make them happy. It made her happy to see them happy.”When a bride and groom wanted to be showered with rose petals following their vows, Ms. Booth and her carpenter husband Wally Booth built a contraption to make it happen, Anderson said.In February 1987, according to Tampa Bay Times archives, Mrs. Booth created an entire tropical forest for an event at the yacht club.She “hung oak branches from the ballroom ceiling with orchids and bromeliads on them," the Times reported. “Giant arrangements of anthuriums and other tropical flowers bloomed on the tables."“She did everything big,” said her son James Booth, 60.Born in Oxford, Fla., to Jeffie and Beulah Nichols, Mrs. Booth was in seventh grade when she moved with her family from Ocala to St. Petersburg.While attending St. Petersburg High School, Mrs. Booth had a teacher, Mrs. Price, who recognized her artistic ability and guided her to the floral business, niece Anderson said. “It was a perfect match. She never thought of doing anything else.”Mrs. Booth worked for other floral shops in the area before venturing out on her own in 1954.Customers she had worked with promised to go with her, according to news archives, and old bosses provided equipment and help with deliveries.“She was a pioneer,” son James Booth said. “This was the early 1950s. It was a man’s world. There weren’t many women with their own businesses. But she did it.”A few years later, she met... https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinellas/2019/12/03/florist-delma-booth-who-turned-ballrooms-into-wonderlands-dead-at-89/

Cyber Florists: Do You Know Where Your Delivery Is Coming From? - NBC Connecticut

NBC Connecticut Responds also with a woman whose shop was listed at 26 Church St. She said they closed the location to do building work.Lora Rae Anderson with the Department of Consumer Protection says buyers should beware:“Make sure you go right to that company’s website, call their number, and check out their email and contact them based on that information. Instead of the information that you see pop up Google,” Anderson said.Anderson said if there are too many options and you’re not sure whether the storefront is real or fake, ask around.“You can usually pretty quickly figure out who’s legitimate and who’s not,” said Anderson.The Society of American Florist told NBC Connecticut Responds:“There is an issue of deceptive listings where companies list themselves under a variety of fictitious florist names with a local phone number.”Here’s what people should keep in mind when buying flowers:-Don’t wait until the last minute, especially around holidays like Mother’s day.-If you do go the online route, see if the flowers come from a central warehouse or if the company contracts with a local florist.-Have reasonable expectations. The bouquet probably won’t look exactly like the one in the photo, but it should be pretty close.-If it’s not, let the company know. Many florists will offer to replace it free of charge. https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Cyber-Florists-Do-You-know-Where-Your-Delivery-Is-Coming-From-509714221.html

With Bryan Clauson in mind, Zeb Wise wins the second BC 39 - Indianapolis Star

Tyler Kraft Indianapolis Star Published 9:49 AM EDT Sep 6, 2019 In between photos, Zeb Wise bent his head and took a deep breath.  The 16-year-old gripped the Driven2SaveLives BC 39 trophy as another wave of family, friends and team members swarmed the stage in the middle of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway dirt track. Then he was back again, smiling with a wreath of red flowers around his neck and a check for $15,000 in hand. This race means more to Wise than most. It's as easy to see as the No. 39BC stamped to th... https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2019/09/06/bryan-clauson-mind-zeb-wise-wins-second-bc-39/2064565001/

America in Bloom judges coming to Mansfield - Mansfield News Journal

This year's judges will be Linda Cromer and Tim France, according to America in Bloom.  Cromer has served her community, Greendale, Indiana, in a variety of political positions including planning commissioner, chairwoman of the park board and tree board and housing authority commissioner. She sits on the executive boards and plays an active role in the efforts of several national and state non-profit organizations dedicated to social justice and environmental issues. Cromer, who received a fine arts education at the University of Kansas, learned to love gardening at her grandmother’s knee. Owner and operator of a floral shop and greenhouse for over a decade, she has spent the bulk of her professional life traveling as an international representative for a labor organization and has used those travel opportunities to audit design and horticulture classes at a number of universities, and to study the diversity and individuality of public gardens and the communities where they are located. She is past president and active member of the local Garden Club and spearheaded her community’s first participation in the America in Bloom Program in 2005. France has been serving as the Coshocton Municipal Court judge since 2006, currently serving his third six-year term. He has been involved with the community in various capacities, including serving on the board for Coshocton Community Housing, which provides homes for people with developmental disabilities. He is president of Coshocton is Blooming, a non-profit board established to participate in America in Bloom. His talent for planting and nurturing flowers began about 20 years ago, when his daughter’s junior high track boosters raised money by planting flowers in the 30 downtown planters. The planters were planted in May and were dead by July. He realized that someone needed to take more responsibility, so he hauled water in the back of his truck to keep the plants alive all summer. Still, they were not thriving. The next year, he convinced the local Rotary Club to donate different flowers and the City of Coshocton to allow usage of spigots and city water. He completed the Master Gardener program through the Ohio State University Extension Office. He has personally designed and planted the courthouse and city flowerbeds and helped Coshocton is Blooming obtain planters for every intersection in the city, according to America in Bloom. Finally, he piloted a program to replace the old containers on Main Street to enhance the architecture of the city buildings. The planters have grown from 30 to more than 400, including 96 hanging baskets. To date, more than 250 communities from 45 states have participated in the program and more than 22 million people have been touched by it. Awards will be announced Oct. 3-5 at AIB’s National Symposium & Awards Celebration, this year in St. Charles, Illinois. America in Bloom 2018: Judges see flowers, historic sites, more lwhitmir@nncogannett.com 419-521-7223 Twitter: @LWhitmir... https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2019/07/22/america-bloom-judges-coming-downtown-mansfield/1793243001/

“Young Entrepreneur” of the month: Emma Browning - wpta21.com

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA 21) —  Each month, ABC 21 partners with Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana to showcase ‘Young Entrepreneurs’ in our area.For June, we introduced Emma Browning, 21, and her business: Emmie’s Flower Cart.It’s a mobile, self-serving flower cart where you walk up and pick any flowers you want to create a bouquet. They’re priced by the stem.Afterward, they wrap the bouquet up for you and send you on your way.It’s usually set up on Saturday mornings on Wayne Street in downtown Fort Wayne.The business is owned by Emma, but it is really a family affair.“At the end of the day, they really help me so much and I really couldn’t do it without them, seriously. So, I’m really thankful for my family,” Emma proclaimed.The family got the idea when they saw a flower truck in Nashville. They decided to bring the idea back to Fort Wayne.Emma said that it’s meant to help her pay for her nursing courses at the University of Saint Francis, but it has another purpose.“A lot of people say ‘this just makes me so happy,’ and that’s just really what we want. We want people to co... https://wpta21.com/news/2019/06/15/young-entrepreneur-of-the-month-emma-browning/

Pumas duo score 22 points in victory over Flowers in Summer Madness play - The Prince George's Sentinel

Basketball League action between CH Flowers HS and Wise HS in Largo, Maryland. Photos by Chris Thompkins/Prince Georges SentinelAccording to the transfer, he already has two scholarship offers from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Rhode Island University with other schools expressing interest. However, Thomas said he does not allow it to get to his head and is focused on finding ways to get to bond his new teammates.“I just like to play,” said Thomas. “But I try to find a way to bond with the team off the court, like we got group chats, FaceTime each other, and we play video games together. Just the little things like that help. I like my teammates and my coaching staff, they let me hoop and that’s all I really have to do.”The second half featured much of the same rhythm with Wise taking charge. Frager continued to orchestrate the offense, pushing the ball in transition for easy buckets and made big defensive plays of his end.Meanwhile, Flowers attempted a comeback but Brooks could not convert many of his shots during the second half. Jase Mosley, a rising sophomore for the Jaguars, tried to carry the load with two 3-pointers late in the contest, finishing with 10 points.Unfortunately, the Pumas’ lead was too much for their 4A rivals to handle during their summer league encounter.After finishing their first season with Head Coach Lou Wilson with 17 wins, the Pumas will be looking to surpass their third round exit in the state playoffs and become a contender in the 4A division.“I think we have the potential to be a real solid ball club,” said DeBerry. “I think a lot is going to depend on how we progress from this point going forward. The season is a long way ahead, a lot of things can happen, good or bad but I like where we are right now as a team.” Post Views: 264 ... https://pgs.thesentinel.com/2019/06/19/pumas-duo-score-22-points-in-victory-over-flowers-in-summer-madness-play/