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Why this Kamloops flower shop is handing out 500 free bouquets today - iNFOnews

People are willing to put themselves out there a little bit and put a smile on a stranger’s face.” You can find the volunteers downtown and at the Royal Inland Hospital. They'll be at the Aberdeen Mall later this afternoon.Credit: FACEBOOK / Kamloops Florist To contact a reporter for this story, email Jenna Wheeler or call (250) 819-6089 or email the editor. You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom and be entered to win a monthly prize draw. We welcome your comments and opinions on our stories but play nice. We won't censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above.  News from © iNFOnews, 2019... https://infotel.ca/newsitem/why-this-kamloops-flower-shop-is-handing-out-500-free-bouquets-today/it66965

Baskets for care; 9 year-old makes gift baskets for cancer patients - AberdeenNews.com

My favorite part was making bracelets with hearts,” Nora said.The family delivered the baskets to Avera St. Luke’s Cancer Center in Aberdeen on Aug. 2. They chose Aberdeen because two family members, who died from cancer, were treated in Aberdeen.“I was excited (to hand out the baskets) because I got to meet people with cancer and got to see their happy faces when I handed them out,” Nora said.Nora helped raise money for the baskets through a GoFundMe page. In all, she raised around $600, which was enough money to make around 50 baskets.“It’s pretty exciting,” Julie said. “We didn’t imagine it’d be this big. Ten dollars to a 9-year-old is big, so $600 is huge. Being able to buy a little something is huge.”Julie added that she only expected to get donations from family and close friends, but was surprised to see so many strangers donating and sharing the page. She hopes that Nora’s charity doesn’t end this summer.“I hope this will make an impact on her in a big way,” Julie said. “She’s always been a giver.”Nora’s not sure yet if she wants to continue making baskets, or if she’ll move on to another project.“I want to find lots of different ways to give,” Nora said.She’s also proud that she picked something that means so much to their family.“We’ve lost two family members to cancer, and their memorial walk is around the time that we gave out the baskets, so this is a good time to give back,” Julie said.Overall, though, Nora was just happy to be a part of someone’s good day.“Doing this made me happy because I got to give things to other people which made them happy, so it made me happy,” she said. http://www.aberdeennews.com/news/local/baskets-for-care-year-old-makes-gift-baskets-for-cancer/article_0454f861-a106-59b4-9305-869bb9ff8091.html

James Harney, florist who provided tulips for Tiny Tim's on-air nuptials, dies - Chicago Tribune

James Harney ran Aberdeen's Wedding Flowers in Chicago for more than 50 years, providing flowers for thousands of weddings, including the December 1969 union of crooner Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."Harney secured that job by taking the risky step of cornering the market on off-season tulips in Holland, figuring correctly that those particular flowers would be needed given Tiny Tim's signature song, his falsetto rendering of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." Some 10,000 tulips were used for the event."He just got this idea," said his wife, Helen. "He got all the tulips and he thought they'd have to come to him."Mr. Harney's business also provided flowers for the weddings of hockey player Stan Mikita, baseball player Glenn Beckert, a son of Mayor Richard J. Daley, a daughter of Malcolm X, a daughter of President Richard Nixon and radio personality Wally Phillips.Harney, 77, died of dementia and multiple myeloma on Sunday, Dec. 27, in his Des Plaines home, his wife said. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-james-harney-obituary-20160113-story.html

Des Plaines florist remembered for his charitable works for children - Chicago Daily Herald

Vicky's wedding in 1969.He also used his craft in more traditional settings, including an 8-foot-tall cross displayed every Easter in front of a Des Plaines church.Harney, 77, of Des Plaines, ran Aberdeen's Wedding Flowers in Chicago and elsewhere for nearly 50 years.At its peak in the1990s, the business provided flowers for nearly 300 weddings per week."I can't think of a more caring person," his son-in-law, Frank Davis of Prospect Heights, said of Harney, who died Dec. 27 at his home.While Harney made his living with flowers, he also helped make happy memories for children.Since 2003, he and Davis ran a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing gifts for sick children during the holidays and throughout the year.Their passion for helping children in need grew out of an episode in 2003, when thieves broke into Aberdeen's and stole $2,000 and 70 toys staff members had donated for a children's Christmas party."He took that so personally," Davis said. "He vowed that if he had to replace every single toy personally, he'd do it."Instead, Harney contacted the media, and subsequent news coverage mobilized residents from around the Chicago area.Before Harney and Davis knew it, Aberdeen's was overflowing with tens of thousands of donated toys."We thought of it as ... http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160106/news/160109507/

Florist Harney Brought Joy To The Masses - Journal & Topics Newspapers Online

Chicago area, died in his Des Plaines home on Dec. 27 at the age of 77.Born in Oak Park on Nov. 9, 1938, Harney attended Schurz High School and North Park University in Chicago before opening Aberdeen’s Wedding Flowers at the age of 19.Subscription RequiredAn online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety.LoginChoose an online service.Current print subscribersNeed an account? Create one now.You must login to view the full content on this page.Thank you for reading 8 free articles on our site. You can come back at the end of your 30-day period for another 8 free articles, or you can purchase a subscription and continue to enjoy valuable local news and information. If you need help, please contact our office at 847-299-5511. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety.LoginChoose an online service.Current print subscribersNeed an account? Create one now. http://www.journal-topics.com/news/article_7328cc80-b944-11e5-8fbf-7fef1f6e860c.html

University Florist at MSU invites public to Holiday Open House - Mississippi State Newsroom

Contact: Vanessa Beeson      The University Florist at Mississippi State will host its annual Holiday Open House this Friday and Saturday [Nov. 22-23]. (Photo by Taylor Vollin)STARKVILLE, Miss.—The public is invited to ring in the holiday cheer at the upcoming University Florist open house at Mississippi State. Centrally located at 100 Lee Blvd., the shop will host the special event Friday [Nov. 22] from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Saturday [Nov. 23] from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.Bulldogs can stop in to enjoy coffee and cookies, find MSU gifts, and see everything the 85-year-old MSU floral institution has to offer. Along with all MSU ornaments being discounted 20 percent, the flower shop features Mississippi-made wares including McCarty pottery and Wolfe Studio’s ceramic birds. Each day features a McCarty holiday arrangement giveaway. “We are excited to begin celebrating the holiday season with some great ornaments, home décor, and special gift selections. We look forward to seeing our faculty, staff and fellow Bulldogs for some refreshme... https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2019/11/university-florist-msu-invites-public-holiday-open-house

Jackson Attorney to Represent Flowers in Possible Seventh Trial - Jackson Free Press

A lead attorney with the Mississippi Center for Justice plans to represent Curtis Flowers (pictured) if he is tried for a seventh time for the 1994 murders of four people in Winona, Miss. AP Photo/Winona Times, Dale Gerstenslager, Pool, File A Jackson-area civil rights attorney is vowing to represent an African American man after a prosecutor accused of racial bias said he plans to try him a seventh time for the same murder case.Rob McDuff, the director of the Mississippi Center for Justice’s impact litigation project, announced on July 2 that he will represent Curtis Flowers if prosecutor Doug Evans tries him again for the 1996 slayings of four people at a furniture store in Winona, Miss. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Flowers’ 2010 murder conviction, finding that Evans was racially discriminatory in jury selection.“Curtis Flowers’ formidable struggle to secure a trial free from racial discrimination fits within MCJ’s core mission of racial and economic justice,” Mississipp... http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/jul/08/jackson-attorney-represent-flowers-possible-sevent/

Clarence Thomas Breaks a Three-Year Silence at Supreme Court - The New York Times

WASHINGTON — For the first 55 minutes of a Supreme Court argument on Wednesday about racial discrimination in jury selection, the justices seemed united in their view that a white Mississippi prosecutor had violated the Constitution in his determined efforts to exclude black jurors from the six trials of Curtis Flowers, who was convicted of murdering four people in a furniture store.As Mr. Flowers’s lawyer concluded her argument, Justice Clarence Thomas asked his first questions from the bench since 2016. He wanted to know whether the defense lawyer in the sixth trial had excluded any jurors. The lawyer said yes.“And what was the race of the jurors struck there?” Justice Thomas asked.White, said the lawyer, Sheri Lynn Johnson.Justice Thomas holds the modern record for silence on the bench. Before his questions in 2016, he had gone a decade without asking one. His explanations have varied, but he has said lately that the other justices asked so many questions that they were rude to the lawyers before them.The balance of the argument went well for Mr. Flowers, whose case has attracted widespread attention. Justices across the ideological spectrum said the track re... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/politics/clarence-thomas-speaks-supreme-court.html

Rising shipping costs spell the end of Norridgewock Christmas wreath company - Press Herald

Newburgh, which also makes wreathes. Corliss said the struggles for wreath-makers in Maine and beyond just keep mounting.Piper Mountain charges $26 per wreath, with $13 for shipping east of the Mississippi and another $1 westward.“Absolutely, shipping has become a bear,” Corliss said, saying the mailing companies have jacked costs severely the last six years and added additional home delivery fees. “It’s got me a little unawares this year. We did not raise our price, and, of course, when you say shipping, you don’t just blame UPS and FedEx; it’s also the cost of the box, the cost of the labor to decorate that wreath and put it in the box.”There’s also a growing challenge getting so-called “fir tippers” who bring in the balsam harvest from the woods, Corliss said.“The tips that we used to make the wreaths for years was 25 cents a pound for people to go out into the woods. Last year we were paying 40 cents a pound. This year I was offering 40 cents and no one came until I discovered some people offering 50 cents in this area,” he said.In Norridgewock, Christmas Tree Acres was once one of the largest Christmas tree farms in the state, and its former owner and founder, Dwight Newman, was a past president of the Maine Christmas Tree Association.Bolduc did not respond to a message left on his home phone or an email sent to the business. A phone call to the number on a “For Sale” sign on the building at 69 Depot St. also was not returned.Newman, who died in 2012, was a florist and greenhouse owner in Winchester, Massachusetts, when he started the tree farm on Sandy River Road in 1965. He eventually moved to Maine and with his wife, Nancy, started a mail-order Christmas tree and wreath business out of the Depot Street building, according to Newman’s obituary and Morning Sentinel archives.Newman retired in 1995, at which point he sold the wreath company to its current owner, David Bolduc.In the message on the website, Bolduc talks about shipping expenses increasing more than 27 percent in a single year. It said the average cost for shipping a wreath is $18 to $20 each, but the company charged only $11.25 for shipping.Leman, the Ellsworth wreath maker, said that sounds about right. His company ships about 6,000 wreaths each year to places all around the country. Six years ago, he said the average shipping cost per wreath was about $8 to $12, with $12 for wreaths going to the West Coast.Now it costs $25 to $30 to send a wreath to the west coast via UPS and “close to $16 bucks to send it next door.”The U.S. Postal Service is also an option, but the rates are generally more expensive than UPS or FedEx to ship wreaths across the country, Leman said.Representatives for both companies said in emails that dimensional weight pricing is a common industry practice, and they have efforts in place to help customers improve their packaging practices.“It allows us to make the best use of space in our vehicles and encourages customers to make packaging adjustments,” said FedEx spokeswoman Rae Lyn. “Ultimately, more efficient packaging is good for our customers and ... https://www.pressherald.com/2018/12/08/closure-of-longtime-norridgewock-christmas-wreath-company-a-sign-of-higher-costs-industry-challenges/