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Rene Flowers snaps up first endorsement from would-be colleague - Florida Politics

Chris King.Flowers, a current Pinellas County School Board member, has also earned endorsements from St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, St. Pete City Council member Lisa Wheeler Bowman, former St. Pete City Council member Steve Kornell and Gulfport City Council member Michael Fridovich. She launched her campaign in late November with support from more than 75 local supporters.Flowers is also far out front in fundraising in the race. She’s raised more than $12,000 as of the end of December. She faces two challengers in the Democratic primary. Former Rep. Frank Peterman Jr. has raised just $3,600. Rep. Wengay Newton just announced last week he would run, but has not officially filed for the race and can’t raise funds until he does.One Republican has filed for the, race in the heavily Democratic district that represents south Pinellas County. Chico Cromartie, a headline-making candidate who recently ran unsuccessfully for St. Pete City Council, has raised just $1,000, which he donated to his own campaign.Share this: ... https://floridapolitics.com/archives/315462-rene-flowers-snaps-up-first-endorsement-from-would-be-colleague

America in Bloom judges coming to Mansfield - Mansfield News Journal

Kingwood Center Gardens, the hoop greenhouses with raised gardens at the old site of Gorman Rupp Co. at Sixth and Bowman streets, the Richland County Fairgrounds Nature Park and the Blust Avenue Teaching Garden — and that's just for starters. Doug Versaw, head of the Mansfield Area Beautification Committee, Monday said this week 28 new and larger red dragonwing begonia mixed planters are being placed around the city in spots that need some sprucing up. "We've been planning for this week for the past 12 months since the judges were here last here and it's all coming together and we're thinking this is the best the town has looked in years. We have lots of new projects," Versaw said.  Versaw said a judge who visited Mansfield last year from America in Bloom recently drove through downtown Mansfield enroute to Wadsworth and texted him to say how beautiful all the downtown planters were. Versaw and community volunteer Jim Kulig picked up the 28 large, colorful planters from Alta Florist & Greenhouse on Monday afternoon. He said volunteers from the Urban Minority Alcohol and Drug Opportunities Program planned to lend a hand with putting down mulch around the potted flowers. Versaw said these are among the many things America in Bloom judges will see Thursday and Friday when they come to rate the city's beautification efforts. Leaders of the beautification effort are asking citizens to do their part, too. Versaw said it is the third year Mansfield has been involved with the America in Bloom project. Mansfield in Bloom: Young leads tree-planting efforts In addition to receiving a detailed written evaluation from the judges citing strengths and opportunities for improvement, participants can receive a special mention for what the judges deem to be an extraordinar... https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2019/07/22/america-bloom-judges-coming-downtown-mansfield/1793243001/

Brinkley, Cynthia Ann "Cindy" - The Chattanoogan

Memorial Northpark for 17 years. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Eugene and Ruth Pelham; paternal grandparents, Robert and Daisy Brinkley; stepfather, Gene Bowman; uncle, Eugene Pelham; and cousins, Jonathan Pelham and Robert Pelham. Survivors include her mother, Patricia “Pat” Bowman; father, Robert Andrew Brinkley Jr. (Barbara); brother, Robert Andrew Brinkley III; uncles and aunts, Jerry and Sue Pelham, Melvin and Louise Cummings and David Brinkley; cousins, Jared Pelham (Janice), Mandy Cummings Winkler, and Steven and Timothy Pelham; and very special friends, Robert and Julie Linebarger. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, April 23, from 4-7 p.m. at Chattanooga Funeral Home North Chapel, Hixson. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 24, in the funeral home chapel. Interment will follow in Hamilton Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the American Diabetes Association at www.donate.diabetes.org or to the National Kidney Foundation at www.kidney.org/support. Arrangements are under the care of the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory and Florist, 5401 Highway 153, Hixson. Please share your thoughts and memories at www.chattanooganorthchapel.com ... https://www.chattanoogan.com/2019/4/22/388822/Brinkley-Cynthia-Ann-Cindy.aspx

Supreme Court Vacates Washington Florist Discrimination Case

The state’s Bureau of Labor and Industries ordered Aaron and Melissa Klein to pay damages to Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer after concluding the Christian bakers violated Oregon’s discrimination law.The Kleins are represented by attorneys from the First Liberty Institute, who believe they can appeal their case to the high court.Washington Governor Jay Inslee said the Supreme Court decision regarding Arlene’s Flowers “does not surprise us or cause us any concern.”“Unlike the recent decision in the Colorado case, in Washington there was never any indication of religious bias or hostility in our pursuit to protect consumers from discrimination.”Like this:Like Loading... ... https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-vacates-washington-florist-discrimination-case/

Letter of Recommendation: Fake Flowers - New York Times

The stakes of the faux-flower question can be high — especially for Meagan Bowman, the founder of Eco Flower, which sells flowers made of sola wood, birch wood, denim, pine cones, burlap, old novels, used music sheets, jewelry and pretty much anything else at hand. She appeared on an episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” requesting a $400,000 investment from the show’s panel of millionaires and billionaires in exchange for a 10 percent equity stake. The subsequent negotiation was tinged with the old anxiety: Is realness a virtue? And even so, what kind of realness? In pitching her company, Bowman claimed that the world’s women didn’t really want “plant carcasses” and were in search of a more enduring “floral solution.” The two women on the “Shark Tank” panel rejected, on aesthetic grounds, the allure of handmade flowers; they pulled out of the negotiation. Another panelist, Daymond John, who didn’t state his aesthetic preference, found enough realness in the company’s recent $2.8 million in sales to invest in Eco Flower.Purists, of course, will turn their noses up at such mass-market considerations. But maybe there’s a good reason so many people buy Eco Flowers. Maybe people are seeing beyond the supposed authenticity of an orchid, kidnapped from its true home, so that you can impulse-buy it at Ikea, only to watch it “bloom” on your dinner table in the dead of a New England winter. The people who ship soil-grown flowers from across the globe — which are the bulk of a roughly $31 billion floral industry — are the ones selling a falsehood; what authentic connection to nature could possibly arise from such a convoluted arrangement? And how sad that a flower, so alienated from its true home, is supposed to communicate feelings of genuine connection.Handcrafted flowers, by contrast, make no pretenses. They are the sincerest of flowers, precisely because they are made — with intention, craft, ingenuity and quirky imperfection. Born in the heart and shaped by the singular hand of the gift giver, these artful flowers are the ones that most resemble love itself.Avi Steinberg is the author of “The Lost Book of Mormon.” He last wrote about the entomologist Justin Schmidt, who has become an expert in physical agony.Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of The New York Times Magazine delivered to your inbox every week.

Florists keep busy during pandemic | News, Sports, Jobs - Minot Daily News

Kathey Medlin Keller of Perfect Petals in Harvey had just filled her big cooler with flowers when the COVID-19 pandemic hit North Dakota in March.“We’re talking several thousand dollars worth of flowers, during a global shutdown. Connected next door to my floral shop is the antique, coffee, wine, beer, jewelry & gift shop called Ta Ahni, which I own also. We had to shut down that shop as well and do curbside delivery for both establishments,” Keller said.In a bind, Keller started working the phones. One of her first calls was to the president of St. Aloisius Medical Center, Mike Zwicker. She wanted to know the proper procedures and protocols for deliveries regarding the patients in the hospital. “I didn’t want to know who the patients were. I just wanted numbers,” she said. “Instead of having all these fresh flowers and arrangments wither past their prime, I asked if we could send flowers to the hospital, and he obliged.”After receiving the numbers and the OK from Zwicker regarding a project she had in mind, Keller placed phone calls to enlist 26 local businesses and two individuals – Susan Bartz of Harvey and Keller’s sister Regina Martin of Cookson, Okla. – in the pr... https://www.minotdailynews.com/life/business/2020/05/florists-keep-busy-during-pandemic/

Newly opened flower shop in Grand Forks concerned about future prospects - Grand Forks Herald

She got assistance to open her shop in the form of loans through the growth fund in Grand Forks, as well as the Bank of North Dakota. The loans totaled about $27,000, with another $9,000 chipped in out of her own pocket. Most of the money went towards the flower cooler. The coronavirus pandemic that wrought havoc on businesses, brought with it billions of dollars in relief money. That money has dried up, and the Small Business Administration announced Thursday that there would be no more loans until Congress replenishes the programs. Alexander didn’t think her business qualified for the loans anyway. listen live watch live “We don't have a lot of the qualifications required like a W2 employee, or 12 months of history, or having all of these assets, like your taxes and all of those things,” Alexander said. “We're brand new, so we're still impacted by the virus; we just don't qualify for that funding.” Alexander said she didn’t think the government took into account new businesses, such as hers, in the rush to create the relief program that became the CARES Act. “They obviously didn't take into consideration my loans and my lease,” Alexander said. “All of that stuff was signed before this virus outbreak happened.” She has houseplants available in her shop, as well a... https://www.grandforksherald.com/business/5213735-Newly-opened-flower-shop-in-Grand-Forks-concerned-about-future-prospects

Fort Collins woman gets traditional wedding, prepares for death on own terms - Coloradoan

I don’t like to see her like this,” he said. “It’s not fair to her because it’s just going to get worse.”Bob and Debra have known each other since 1973, when they were teenagers growing up in Fargo, North Dakota. They were friends for a long time, had fallings-out but made up, and eventually went their separate ways.Both married and then divorced. They found each other again, and Bob invited Debra to join him in Colorado.They were married in 1988 by a justice of the peace in Jefferson County. Bob adopted Debra’s son and daughter, and life with its ups and downs went on. Bob and Debra have five grandchildren and a great-grandchild on the way.While recent times have been dark for the family because of Debra’s deteriorating health, they enjoyed a bright time in February, thanks in large part to the kindness of strangers.Debra and Bob had talked for a long time about renewing their wedding vows. Debra let it be known she would enjoy a traditional wedding ceremony and reception — experiences she never had.Her daughter, Jennifer, sprang into action. With money tight because of Debra’s medical needs, Jennifer posted a request for wedding decorations on the Facebook group Free in Larimer County. She explained her mother was terminally ill.The response was overwhelming, Jennifer said. People donated everything that would be needed for a wedding, including flowers, decorations, and a dress and shoes for the bride. People volunteered to do Debra’s hair, makeup and nails so she would look her best on the big day.Everything came together in six days.Pathways donated space at its Fort Collins facility. The ceremony took place Feb. 15, the day after Valentine’s Day.Every family member had a role in the ceremony. Their 9-year-old grandson, Drake, served as best man.“Everything was done for me, and bless their hearts for doing that,” Debra said. “It just tells me that Fort Collins still has a heart, that the people of this town are still the best.”Gratitude is part of the message Debra wants to send to the community in her final days. She is especially thankful for the care she has received from Pathways, a nonprofit that has served the community for decades.“They are the best,” she said. “All I have to do is call and they are right here for me.”And she is grateful to her family, who has stood by her for so many years, in good times and in bad. She said Bob has been her “rock” and the “strongest man I’ve ever known.”She knows he’ll be strong for the family after she is gone.“It has been a very good life,” she said. “My family has always been number one in my life. I can go to sleep knowing they will be OK. Papa will be there.”Kevin Duggan is a senior columnist and reporter. Contact him at kevinduggan@coloradoan.com. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2020/03/13/fort-collins-woman-plans-death-aid-dying-medication/5013976002/

This Farm Lets You Pick, Cut, And Arrange Your Own Flower Bouquets For Just $5 Each - HouseBeautiful.com

DIY eye-catching bouquets.“We tend to call ourselves 'farmer-florists,'” said Lori, a North Dakota native, said to York Daily News. “People can come out here and pick. But I also really loved the florist side of the business, and I wanted to use 100 percent my own flowers instead of buying flowers that have been flown from who knows where.”BOOK NOW York County, Pennsylvania, TripAdvisorVessels priced at $15 can be filled to the brim with flowers of your choosing, and can usually create 2-3 bouquets (that's just around $5 each!). If you want even more flowers, you can purchase a larger bucket for $40 that'll give you around 5-6 bouquets. You don't have to dive right into arranging them on-site, of course, but there's a garden table area for you to design your own original bouquets. Not exactly a floral expert? Lori will be there, helping you turn your chosen blooms into masterpieces—and if you're short on time, there are also pre-designed bouquets for sale.Keep in mind that this is a working farm—meaning there's mud, uneven ground, and yes, a few farm animals roaming around. The U-Pick stand is open from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursdays and 9 a.m. to noon and 5-8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Dolphin Succulent Hirt's Gardens amazon.com $9.99 ... https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a28622872/pick-your-own-bouquet-flower-terra-farms/