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Norton’s Florist ‘Doing Good’ for the Alzheimer’s Association - WBRC

Debby’s Delight.” It’s named after Debby Pappas, who worked there alongside her husband, Gus, and her son, Cameron, for 14 years. She was in charge of quality control. Cameron says, “She made sure every arrangement was perfect before it went out the door.”... https://www.wbrc.com/2019/05/08/nortons-florist-doing-good-alzheimers-association/

Longtime Waco florist dies at 97 - KWTX

In fact, the business grew in the coming years and at one point had retail shops and greenhouses in Temple, Belton and Cameron, he said.Whatever was necessary is what Reed did after he graduated from La Vega High School, took flying lessons and eventually joined the Army Air Force where he learned to fly the B-29 Superfortress and later trained other Air Force pilots. At the time Reed thought about making a career of flying, then after he came back to Waco’s James Connally Air Force Base to teach pilots to fly the B-25 Mitchell, he decided he’d stay and re-joined the family business. He married his school sweetheart, Glenda Pledger, finished his degree at Baylor and returned to the flower shop with his parents until they retired and he took over operations. Reed remained in the U.S. Air Force Reserve for 10 years and during the Korean War, was recalled to Connally where he trained radar intercept pilots and engineers who worked on the Superfortress. Reed loved to fly, but he found flowers would be his fortune. Reed, in his oral history with Baylor, explained Waco, in those days, was an important cog on the Texas floral business, the Texas State Florists' Association, the professional trade association for all branches of the floral industry including retailers, wholesalers, growers and manufacturers of floral products and supplies, was founded here in 1914 at the old Hotel State House at South 6th Street and Franklin Avenue. It’s now headquartered in Austin. Reed dedicated himself to a life of service when he became a Mason and later joined AAONMS, the Shrine, where he’ll celebrate his 72nd year of membership this year, records at the Karem Shrine Temple show, where he today is the oldest member on the rolls and is among the oldest active Shriners in the United States. Reed has a brother and a sister but neither has ever shown any interest in the flower shop, he said. ... https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Well-known-downtown-businessman-Harry-Reed-passes-away-at-97-505939331.html

Damascus Garden Club hears from international flower judge

Kilmer, Ginny Huffman, Bonnie McDermott, Marcia Spack, Janie Morckel, June Wallace, Lori Brodzinski, Val Knoedler, Judy Wheeler, Irene Morckel, Marcia Clark, Lynn Coblentz, Kathy Martin and Lynn Cameron. (Submitted photo) SHOW ARTICLE -- DAMASCUS — The Damascus Garden Club, a member of the Garden Club of Ohio Inc., met on July 12 at the home of Ginny Huffman. Serving as co-host was Second Vice President Dave Peterson. President Marilyn Wingett welcomed the eight members present and introduced Diana Mullins, an international flower shower. She spoke about her experiences as an international flower judge and the responsibilities she has managing the floral displays at the Canfield Fair.The minutes for the June meeting were read and approved with no corrections. The treasurer reported the June treasury balance and the June Penny Pines collection. Correspondence came from the Damascus Area Historical Society announcing the publication of its Damascus Herald newsletter. Peterson motioned to make a donation to the society for an ad to be placed in the newsletter. Carol Kuner seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Wingett announced that members donated 54.9 pounds of food for the July food drive. Collection for the food drive will be extended into August.The Community Care Committee requests that members remember to take their turns on the watering schedule and to call the next person on the list whose turn it will be to water. The sign and planter at the Go... http://www.salemnews.net/news/neighborhood-news/2018/08/damascus-garden-club-hears-from-international-flower-judge/

Floral designers use artwork to inspire botanical displays - StarNewsOnline.com

North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Last year, the artwork for Art & The Bloom came from the Cameron Art Museum. This year, they’re using a few pieces from private collectors and are partnering with the Wilmington Art Association, which will also have a sales gallery at the event.Twenty-eight competitors were matched with artwork in October via a blind draw and given design criteria. In addition to placed winners, a people’s choice category will be awarded. At last year’s inaugural event, Brittany Wells of Verzaal’s Florist in Wilmington took home the Best in Show prize. She will be returning this year to defend her title.Two floral judges, accredited through National Garden Clubs, will be in town for the event. Virginia’s Frances Thrash and Pam Braun from Tennessee are also hosting courses in floral design and botanical arts. Kim Fisher, a local floral designer originally from Washington D.C., will be leading a workshop in creating a terrarium out of succulents.“And Preston Montague, who is a botanical illustrator, will show people how to draw what’s in their yards to create their own note cards,” Bittler said. “We tried to schedule events that would be fun, and accentuate the garden and art aspect.”The New Hanover Garden Club started about four years ago and the 30 members are already working on a variety of community projects, from restoring the gardens at the Sherwood Manor Rest Home to making miniature floral arrangements for Meals on Wheels recipients to sponsoring two junior garden clubs.“We wanted to start a fundraiser to help support this work we do,” Bittler said. The club will be raffling off several items during the event, too, including arrangements made by Thrash during her presentation, a copy of Weathington’s book "Gardening in the South: The Complete Homeowner’s Guide," and the floral arrangements in teapots that will decorate the tables during the hat fashion shows and afternoon teas. http://www.starnewsonline.com/homes/20180105/floral-designers-use-artwork-to-inspire-botanical-displays

North Carolina Floral Design Exhibition Inspired by Art - EIN News (press release)

JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University.“Our first year was a huge success,” said co-chair Barb Bittler, member of the New Hanover Garden Club. “The artwork was from a collection at Cameron Art Museum. This year’s artwork will come from private collections and the Wilmington Art Association. Floral designers receive their art assignment from a blind draw weeks before the event.“The judges this year are Frances Thrash from Virginia and Pam Braun from Tennessee. Both are nationally accredited judges and Flower Show School Instructors through the National Garden Club.“Friday morning, judge Frances Thrash is going to create four different floral designs. Friday afternoon, judge Pam Braun will be talking about botanical arts, which is a new division in flower shows for the National Garden Club.“Preston Montague, a botanical illustrator from Durham, will present a workshop on how to make your greeting cards from what you might find in your garden. Montague is the creator of the Codex Carolinum alphabet series, using native or naturalized plants of North Carolina to encourage natural science literacy.“Kim Fisher, a local floral designer originally from Washington, D.C., will be leading a workshop in how to create a terrarium out of succulents. Kim’s experience includes floral design for several presidents and the Catherine Zeta-Jones wedding.“Floral design winners receive a beautiful ribbon, a cash award, and bragging rights. Last year’s best of show winner, Brittany Wells of Verzaal’s Florist in Wilmington is returning to defend her title.“Mark Weathington from Raleigh’s Raulston Arboretum will present his new book and host a book signing on Sunday afternoon,” said Bittler.New Hanover Garden Club, the organizer of Art & The Bloom, is federated through the National Garden Club and Garden Clubs of North Carolina. Th... http://www.einnews.com/pr_news/424422144/north-carolina-floral-design-exhibition-inspired-by-art

Paul Burrell says wife cried over gay wedding revelation - Stock Daily Dish

S in Chester since 2010, having previously spent 22 years working for Lloyds Bank.They were also pictured together on Facebook at the Blackberry Creek Retreat Bed & Breakfast, during a holiday in Missouri, US, in 2014, two years before Mr Burrell‘s divorce.The couple were not at home today – and Mr Burrell was not at his florists, his staff said.Mr Burrell has always refused to discuss his sexuality despite a 2002 expose in which an Australian man claimed they had enjoyed a three-year relationship in the early 1980s before he married Maria.However, a source close to the former butler has revealed that he confided in his special friend, Princess Diana.They told the Sun: ‘Paul‘s friends and family all know but for a long time he kept it a closely guarded secret.‘He did share it with Diana while he worked with her because they were so close.‘But at the time she was the only woman he felt he could tell.‘Mr Burrell and his wife announced their divorce just months ago, but it is believed that they had been living separately for some time before they split up.While he decided to stay in Cheshire, Maria now lives in a luxury home in Florida.Burrell now runs his florist, Paul Burrell Flowers, close to where the family used to live in the village of Farndon.Last month he was pictured taking flowers inside the store and serving customers. Although he is not thought to work there on a day-to-day basis. Paul and Maria Burrell met while they were both working at Buckingham Palace, with Maria serving as the Duke of Edinburgh‘s maid, and married in 1984.An established tradition suggested one of them should give up their job with the Royal Family, but the Queen made an exception for them, allowing both to remain in Royal service.Mr Burrell started working for Diana four years later and went on to become one of her most trusted members of staff.He joined Prince Charles and Diana at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire in 1987 and remained there until her death in 1997.Mr Burrell then made millions from a series of books about his life with the princess and from appearing on reality shows such as I‘m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.How William and Harry blasted Burrell‘s ‘betrayal‘ of their mum Princes William and Harry attacked former royal butler Paul Burrell for his ‘cold and overt betrayal‘ of their mother.In a 2003 statement unprecedented for its strength of feeling, William, then 21 and also speaking on behalf of his younger brother, showed his deep pain at Mr Burrell‘s revelations in his tell-all book.The Princes said the late Diana, Princess of Wales, would have been ‘mortified‘ at his actions if she were alive today.They called on him to put an end to his disclosures.Mr Burrell, who worked for the Princess, made a series of claims including one that Diana feared for her life and spoke of a plot to tamper with the brakes of her car.Prince William said in the statement released by Clarence House: ‘We cannot believe that Paul who was entrusted with so much could abuse his position in such a cold and overt betrayal.‘It is not only deeply painful for the two of us but also for everyone else affected and it would mortify our mother if she were alive today and, if we might say so, we feel we are more able to speak for our mother than Paul‘.In the international bestseller he c... https://stockdailydish.com/paul-burrell-says-wife-cried-over-gay-wedding-revelation/

A funeral director for the community - Dallas Voice

He also began taking mortuary classes at Missouri Southern.Then he moved to Dallas and began classes at the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service on South Buckner Boulevard and did much of his practical work at Sparkman-Hillcrest to earn his associates in applied science.He met LaFleur 16 years ago. LaFleur was is in retail and isn’t a funeral director. They met at JR.’s.“We stared at each other from across the room,” Lewis said. So one day he finally walked up to LaFleur and said, “Are we going to just stare at each other across the room or are you going to ask me out?”LaFleur gave him his email address. Lewis went right home and sent LaFleur a message and the email bounced. LaFleur insists it was an honest mistake.They met up at JR.’s again the next week, exchanged phone numbers and made a date to see each other the following weekend. Lewis said they ate dinner, watched a movie but he left, and they didn’t see each other for another four years.LaFleur was diagnosed with cancer and then he left for Louisiana to take care of his mother. When he returned to Dallas, they met up again on MySpace and have been together ever since.A few years ago, Lewis, who’s a member of the Turtle Creek Chorale, was talking to another member, who is also a funeral director, about how hard it was working for a funeral home owned by a large corporation.“I still want my own place,” he said.“I know a place in Ferris for sale,” the other member told him.A year passed before he decided to at least check out Ferris. The funeral home was still for sale, so on a Sunday morning, he drove to Ferris just to take a look even though he knew the place wouldn’t be open.As he was driving through town, though, he noticed signs for an open house. He decided to stop in and maybe get a feel for the town from the real estate agent.She asked what he was looking for in a house, and he said he was actually interested in Green Funeral Home that was for sale but stopped by the open house to get some information about Ferris from someone local. The agent told him her father owned the funeral home, and she called her dad and arranged for Lewis to meet him.Six months later, Lewis and LaFleur were in the funeral business.Their goal, LaFleur said, is to outgrow the current building within five years. “That means we have four years left,” Lewis said.While Ferris is growing quickly — 150 homes are already under construction on the west side of I-45, and T. Boone Pickens’ widow owns a ranch on the east side of the highway that she plans to develop — the couple knows they can’t rely on business just from the Ferris area.So, Lewis said, anyone was welcome to come to Ferri... https://dallasvoice.com/a-funeral-director-for-the-community/

Meet the Florida fans who sent get-well cards to Feleipe Franks - Tampa Bay Times

Kissimmee.All to a quarterback who might never play another snap for the Gators, one whose relationship with the fan base has been mixed, at best.RELATED: Five reasons to care about Florida-Missouri“I know he takes a lot of heat from people thinking that he’s just the worst thing that ever happened to Florida,” said Woody Bass, a 48-year-old Georgia resident who will graduate from UF's online program in May. “I didn’t want him to think that.”Neither did Laurie Bonham.?? Will the #Gators beat the brakes off Missouri? Can #FSU clinch a bowl berth? Will #USF slow down Cincinnati??@MBakerTBTimes gives us his picks against the spread in a brand-new Three & Out ????? https://t.co/rFBtzbVrwd pic.twitter.com/3SNikKXxLD— The Identity Tampa Bay (@TheIdentityTB) November 14, 2019“I just felt so bad for him,” said Bonham, a recently retired 64-year-old in Oldsmar.The physical injury was bad enough. But Franks has been a frequent target from fans for most of the past three seasons.One of the lows came last November against Missouri, who hosts the Franks-less Gators this weekend. Franks was booed in the first half and benched in the second of a 38-17 embarrassing home loss to the Tigers. Franks had won every game since then, but Bonham still saw too many people bashing him, despite the improvements he was making in Year 2 under coach Dan Mullen.“His mom was on this web page, and I felt bad for her, too,” Bonham said. “Nobody needed to be doing that. It was just poor manners.”Laurie Bonham (right, seen here with close friend Christy Fraser) was one of the Florida Gators fans who sent get-well cards to injured quarterback Feleipe Franks. [LAURIE BONHAM Special to the Times]Something good came from all the social media chatter: Bonham saw someone post a P.O. box that would collect mail for Franks.Judy Long noticed, too. During her lunch break, the 59-year-old walked from her job at a community bank in Polk County to a Publix down the street to find a card — maybe something with flowers on it.“I’m sure he was down and out,” said Long, a lifelong Florida fan. “A little card like that brightens someone’s day.”Long wrote a note, too, promising to wave at him from the Section 55, Row 4 seats her family has held for almost four decades.Reyce Ramsey went one step farther. With some help... https://www.tampabay.com/sports/gators/2019/11/15/meet-the-florida-fans-who-sent-get-well-cards-to-feleipe-franks/

The perfect rose: 62 years in the making - Los Angeles Times

Valentine’s Day. If you ask 100 people to name a flower, “99 would name roses,” says David Trinklein, an associate professor of horticulture at the University of Missouri and the author of “Rose: A Brief History.”Roses, he says, have “become synonymous with love and beauty and fragility.”The enthusiasts who jammed the Huntington rose garden in mid-April seemed to feel that way. The plants had started to open, and as the visitors stopped to smell the blossoms, many seemed to be swept up in the wonder of it all.But admiration doesn’t necessarily translate into sales. Americans just aren’t buying roses the way they did in the glory years of the 1960s and ’70s.When sales began declining in the 1980s, roses had already started to develop a reputation as prima donna plants that required regular pruning, spraying, feeding and dead-heading — the removal of spent blooms — to produce more flowers. Miles Davis, 5, of Hermosa Beach, takes a whiff of a rose known as Huntington's 100th. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) Carl Mahanay of Imperial Beach, left, and Lillian Kinkade, 2nd from left, of Redondo Beach., shop with others for bare root roses known as the Huntington’s 100th. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) The Huntington's 100th go on sale for the first time at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) Top, Miles Davis, 5, of Hermosa Bea... https://www.latimes.com/home/la-hm-col1-perfect-rose-quest-20190625-htmlstory.html