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Obituary: Margery Shanks - Aspen Times
Thursday, March 12, 2020Pittsburgh, PA, Salem, IN, Cincinnati, OH, Hudson, OH, and Toledo, OH. While Marge enjoyed sports, antiques, and having fun, her foremost interest was art. She was the proud owner of The Duncan Gallery in Hudson, OH for 27 years. Her goal was to showcase local artists as well as provide quality artwork of all kinds to everyone. She promoted local artists which inspired national attention and international recognition as far away as the US Embassy in Oslo, Norway. Her customers respected her expertise and her friendship and many would spend hours with her learning about art and chatting about life. She showed us the light, showered us with love, and put others before herself. There’s such a thing as a man’s man, but she was a woman’s woman who inspired so many young women to believe in themselves, to act with independence, and to reject traditional stereotypes. Marge will be greatly missed by her 3 children ; Robbie, Dorian, and Carey as well as surviving brothers along with their families. Services are being planned for Toledo, Ohio and Aspen, Colorado in April and August respectively. In lieu of flowers for the family or for Marge, please consider a donation to your local arts chamber, school, or museum in Marge’s name. https://www.aspentimes.com/obituaries/obituary-margery-shanks/
Royal wedding florist makes Dallas museum fundraiser an eco-friendly affair - CultureMap Dallas
Thursday, March 12, 2020Empress Gilbert and her son, Micah, of Dallas-based Empress Earth Gallery, provided gorgeous flowers for the luncheon. A live auction, chaired by Barbara Harris and conducted by Sophie Duncan of Heritage Auctions, fetched thousands of dollars for once-in-a-lifetime trips, experiences, and one of the stunning floral designs just arranged by Connolly. As the luncheon came to an end, Connolly’s books, A Year in Flowers and Discovering the Meaning of Flowers, were available for purchase and signing. Also on view was the fourth annual Floral Exhibition, which featured a unique display of floral arrangements created by 10 local designers and inspired by works of art from the museum’s permanent collection. Notable guests included DMA Eugene McDermott Director Agustin Arteaga and Carlos Jaime-Hernandez, Barbara Bigham, Donna Arp Weitzman, Regina Bruce, Sung Moon, Daly Turner, Mary Geosits, Daly Turner, Sejal Kapadia, Linda Spina, Suzanne Guthrie, Lisa Blair, Tamareh Tuma, Leslie Champlin, Cindy Williams, Sarah Jo Hardin, Shannon Callewart, Susan Cooper, Sharon Gleeson, Judy Dryden, and Libbie Wilmer. Proceeds from Art in Bloom support the Dallas Museum of Art’s education programs, as well as the DMA League’s Floral Endowment Fund. ... https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/society/03-10-20-art-in-bloom-royal-wedding-florist-shane-connolly-dallas-museum-of-art/
Long Beach florist busy with Mother’s Day, despite coronavirus keeping customers at home - Long Beach Press Telegram
Friday, May 29, 2020Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, has announced that some businesses could reopen for curbside pickup by the end of the week, including clothing, book and sporting-good stores — and, yes, florists. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia also said plans for the initial local reopening process will likely come later this week.If Long Beach also allows florists to reopen, it’d prove to be good news for small local shops like Melinda McCoy’s Flowers.Arlene Winfrey making a Mother’s Day special arrangement at Melinda McCoy’s Flowers in Long Beach on Monday, May 4, 2020. The shop is open and very busy filling orders. Winfrey helps at the shop for free because she enjoys the task and the friendships in the shop. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)Rebecca Barnes makes a Mother’s Day arrangement at Melinda McCoy’s Flowers in Long Beach on Monday, May 4, 2020. The shop is open and very busy filling orders. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)Melinda Evans, owner of Melinda McCoy’s Flowers, holding stacks of orders for Mother’s Day arrangements in Long Beach on Monday, May 4, 2020. The shop is open and very busy filling orders. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsWith Mother’s Day this Sunday, Melinda McCoy’s Flowers is seeing an increase in orders over last year in Long Beach on Monday, May 4, 2020. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)The Barron sisters place an order of delivery for their grandmother at Melinda McCoy’s Flowers in Long Beach on Monday, May 4, 2020. The shop is seeing an increase in orders over last year. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)With Mother’s Day this Sunday, Melinda McCoy’s Flowers... https://www.presstelegram.com/long-beach-florist-busy-with-mothers-day-despite-coronavirus-keeping-customers-at-home
Bride and florist donate flowers after postponing wedding over coronavirus - GMA
Friday, May 29, 2020Bride and florist team up to donate flowers after postponing wedding due to coronavirus concerns GMAYour browser does not have Javascript enabled and this site requires Javascript. Please enable Javascript in order to browse. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/bride-florist-team-donate-flowers-postponing-wedding-due-69695530
Florists experience downturn in business due to coronavirus, missing key dates - KCRG
Friday, May 29, 2020Around this time of year florists typically have a boom in business with weddings, prom, and Mother's Day, but the continued spread of the novel coronavirus has put a dent in their business.Butt's Florist in Dubuque is a local shop and they say business is definitely down compared to usual. Even with curbside pickup and contactless deliveries there just aren't as many events that need flowers right now. Bryan Fitting, owner of Butt's, said Mother's Day was pretty good considering the circumstances."Our business is down. You know we're hoping for a good Mother's Day. The numbers aren't all in but I think it was a good Mother's Day, not record-setting but it wasn't a flop either," Fitting said. "So that was a good positive to have this past week. We're hoping as things improve our business will continue to improve."Fitting says they feel fortunate that the business has been able to be open for the majority of the lockdown. https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Local-florists-experience-downtick-in-business-570423001.html
Pay it forward with these beautiful bouquets - WTVD-TV
Friday, May 29, 2020Stella Grey Blooms in Chicago's North Center neighborhood is selling Pay It Forward flowers.Owner Sally Hayes said the inspiration for the idea came from a fellow florist who lives in Miami."You send somebody flowers and you don't say who it's from," Hayes said. You write things like 'I hope these make your day' or ' I hope they brighten your day' and at the end, you just say 'Pay it forward.'"All of the bouquets are sanitized and hand-delivered."A lot of times I get a call of people asking who sent me this," Hayes said. "I say 'I can't tell', it's the whole process of it, it gets people reaching out to their friends and it sort of escalates from that."For more information about the Pay It Forward bouquets, visit Stella Grey Blooms' website. https://abc11.com/localish/pay-it-forward-with-these-beautiful-bouquets/6135376/
Local florists find ways to adapt, overcome as pandemic stretches busiest season - The Independent
Friday, May 29, 2020Peg opened the business in 1979.And right now, she really misses that second family.For the past two months, Shea and florists like her have had to transform their way of thinking as, much like every part of the hospitality industry in Southern Rhode Island, the coronavirus pandemic has closed all floral shops to in-person sales.It might not seem like a major barrier to customer service in 2020 but with most of Shea’s clients coming through her doors as unplanned walk-ins — and with big floral events all canceled for the foreseeable future — it’s a disruption that will likely have a wide and long-lasting impact on the floral business, particularly in tourist-heavy South County.“It’s definitely changed the dynamic of our industry,” Shea said this week. “Never have I seen it like this. Ever. But it’s making us be more creative. We have to learn to be more descriptive when we speak to our customers over the phone. We’ve had to learn how to speak colors, speak vibrant colors instead of just saying something like ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got orange and yellow.’ It’s helping us to learn how to communicate better.”She is not alone.Ten miles south from Bert & Peg’s Tower Hill Road location in North Kingstown, Joy Rich works in her office at Flowerthyme in Wakefield fielding the same types of phone calls on a daily basis and doing her best to stay positive as she guides older customers through her freshly-updated website for online ordering and curbside pickup.But finding the silver lining is all in a day’s work for Rich, who says while things are tough now, they were a lot more difficult at the start of the pandemic. She points to the early days of shutdowns as the hardest as many of the region’s top suppliers – like Fall River Florist, Bay State Florist Supply Inc., RJ Ca... https://www.independentri.com/arts_and_living/article_83d8d81a-9007-11ea-9059-d38083c995f3.html
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