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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.

Native blooms in South Carolina | COLAtoday - COLAtoday

You’re not alone and today we are making it local. Spring will be here before you know it so let’s all stop and smell the flowers this morning. Here are local blooms you can find in South Carolina. Valentine’s offering from Fern – featuring local greenery and anemones Photo provided Anemone These blooms are easy to identify and are a member of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. In the photo above, can you spot the red flower with the dark center and white ring? Arrowwood Viburnum These flowers are a flat-topped cluster of several small, white buds. The difference is that you have to pick these whimsical blooms quickly before the flowers turn into berries in the early fall. Atamasco Lily Better known as a rain lily. This one takes a little prep – if you plant a bulb this spring it will bloom next March or April. The long grass-like leaves will forma around the base and single flowers will bloom with long white petals. Black Eyed Susan This is one of the most popular wildflowers that grows in North America. It is a member of the Aster family + can grow to be over 3 ft. tall, with leaves of 6 inches, and grow flowers 3 inches in diameter. Camellia There are around 300 species of camellia. Some are great for a Valentine’s Day bouquet, and some are perfec... https://colatoday.6amcity.com/south-carolina-native-flowers/

Holiday Plants Brighten the Season - Lincoln Sentinel

The poinsettia was named after Joel Robert Poinsett, an amateur botanist and the first American ambassador to Mexico. He sent some poinsettia plants home to Greenville, South Carolina in 1825. Poinsettias are now the number one potted flowering plant grown in the United States. The large colorful parts of the plant are not true flowers, they are modified leaves called `bracts’ . The true flowers are the small yellow/green buds in the center of the bracts. When choosing a poinsettia to bring home, look for tightly clustered yellow buds and crisp, bright, undamaged foliage.To read more please log in or subscribe to the digital edition https://etypeservices.com/Lincoln%20Sentinel-RepublicanID387/... https://www.lincolnsentinel.com/opinions/holiday-plants-brighten-season

Denver Junior Flowers | Obituaries | wvgazettemail.com - Charleston Gazette-Mail

Allan, Adam and Zack of North Carolina. Grandchildren Sadie, Emma and Katie Cline, Alexandria Williams, and Bryce Williams. His siblings Betty Bashor (Jerome) of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Shelba Midkiff of Huntington, Richard Flowers of South Carolina, Gary Flowers (Margie) of Alum Creek, and Greta Turner of Alum Creek. He was loved by his many nieces and nephews and will be missed by a host of friends and family.Per Denver's wishes, there will be no service. He will be cremated, and part of his ashes will be scattered on John (his longtime friend) and Cheryl Casto's property where he hunted many years. The remainder of his ashes will be interred in the Casto cemetery.To honor Denver, the family suggests memorial donations to HospiceCare, 1606 Kanawha Blvd W, Charleston, WV 25387-2536.Cooke Funeral Home, Nitro is assisting Denver's family and you may send condolences to the family at www.cookefuneralhome.com... https://www.wvgazettemail.com/obituaries/denver-junior-flowers/article_daf8fed8-f539-5282-aee2-9d6d6045f5c5.html

Business news: Lifelong Sumter florist opens antique department next door - Sumter Item

Mediterranean area while serving in the U.S. Navy. Most of his collections since completing his military service in 1970 have been from estate auctions and antique shows across South Carolina, he said.Friends encouraged him for years to open a shop, Newton said, and around Thanksgiving last year, he finally did.His collection in the new department includes an abundance of artwork - including original oil work on canvases - porcelain items, art glass, Persian carpets, costume jewelry, Blueware, stained-glass lamps and "Gone with the Wind"-period lamps from the Victorian era, among other items.The antique department's address is 415 Broad St., and some Sumterites likely remember the location as the former Hamm's Jewelry and Goldsmith shop in the 1980s and '90s operated by Joseph Hamm, he said.Newton was a partner with Hamm in the operation.Since then, the building has served as "my storage space," he said.Newton described his new location as "a little toward the higher, better-quality end" for an antique store.He does plenty of research online before purchasing his antiques and tries to be "very reasonable" on pricing with honest and fair prices, he added. "I do a lot of research on eBay, and if I find something on there, I try to ensure the item is priced under what I can find it for on eBay," Newton said. "Then, that should be a plus for the customer because they are looking at the item here. They are not risking it getting damaged in shipment, and they are actually seeing the piece of merchandise."Antique department hours are the same as his florist shop - Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. He said he's also available by appointment... https://www.theitem.com/stories/lifelong-sumter-florist-opens-antique-department-next-door,341692