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Marye Anne Monroe Sibold - The Chattanoogan

She is survived by a brother, Dunward B. Monroe (Brenda); sister, Carol Monroe, sister-in-law, Beverly Monroe; sons, Samuel Garst Sibold (Jessica), Ward Monroe Sibold (Amy), Joseph Bradford Sibold; daughters, Elizabeth Stoops Sibold, and Lara Ellen Sibold; grandchildren, McKenna, Mason, Isabella, and Spencer Sibold; nephews, Eddie Monroe (Cristy), Scott Monroe (Cindy), Stephen Monroe (Ann), an uncle, Robert Monroe (Sue) and several cousins, grand nephews and nieces, as well as extended family: Troy Potter; Paige, Dakota and Wade Freed; Elizabeth and Joseph Hoang. Mom's serving and caring nature led her to Baroness Erlanger Nursing program after high school where she became an LPN, spending most of her career as a surgical scrub nurse and a home health care nurse. Mom also spent her life with passion for music and theater. From City High school chorus and plays, to the Signal Mountain Glee club and First Presbyterian Church choir, mom kept music in her heart and instilled the appreciation in her children. She admitted to being a sinner saved by grace to which fostered in us the trueness of Christ, believing that Grace is not something you earn. "For By Grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God; not as a result of works" from Ephesians 2:8-9. Mom's greatest joys in life were her family members and without fail, showing us that she loved us and not just saying it. She was always selfless and self sacrificing, especially for her children of whom she was so proud. Anyone who crossed her path could instantly recognize her fullness of love and a magnificent sense of humor. Her ability to forgive others is unmatched; yet another trait that was second nature and a personal reflection of Christ. We have no doubts mom is with her Lord and telling Him about he... https://www.chattanoogan.com/2021/2/28/424095/Marye-Anne-Monroe-Sibold.aspx

Expert floral designer visits Andover - Eagle-Tribune

Bonnie Antkowiak, Tilton School; JoAnn Atwood, Golden Hill; Maureen Bly, Little Sprouts Haverhill NECC; Joseph Boland, Whittier Regional Vo Tech; Tim Carven, Pentucket Lake; John Clark, Bradford Elementary; Paul Corriveau, Silver Hill; Danielle Gregoire, Moody School; Heather Guthrie, Sacred Hearts; Alexandra Handel, Silver Hill; Rhonda Kurto, Sacred Hearts; Dana McNamara, Tilton School; Paul Moskevitz, Whittier Regional Vo Tech; Kim Perez, Silver Hill; Beth Perry, Tilton School, and Meghan Pstragowski, Golden Hill.Tickets are $40 each an include dinner. Raffles for gift baskets will be available. RSVP by Nov. 7 to Colette Ekman at ekmanc@northshoreymca.org.Festival of Trees at the ButtonwoodsThe Buttonwoods Museum's 16th annual "Christmas at the Buttonwoods: A Festival of Trees" runs from Nov. 24 (opening gala night) through Dec. 10.Tentative hours are posted on the museum's website, http://www.buttonwoods.org. A full schedule will be posted once it is available. The deadline to donate or advertise for this year's event is Sunday, Nov. 12.Donated trees, wreaths and centerpieces can be dropped off as follows: from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 8; from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 9; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 10 and 11; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 12.For more information, contact the Buttonwoods at 978-374-4626. Holiday fair to benefit Salem Animal Rescue LeagueDERRY — Brookstone Park is holding a Holiday Fair to benefit the Salem Animal Rescue League from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25.The fair will be held at Brookstone’s location at 14 Route 111 in Derry.Vendors will be selling homemade items, holiday themed gifts, bags, jewelry, pet items, clothes and more. There will also be activities for kids, with a children’s book sale, photos with Santa, and raffle items.All proceeds from this event support the Salem Animal Rescue League and the animals in their care.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... http://www.eagletribune.com/news/haverhill/expert-floral-designer-visits-andover/article_0ad9ef64-3938-5769-80a1-1a9af4081854.html

Keefe's Flowers moves into new location - Casper Star-Tribune Online

After years of owning Keefe’s Flowers, my dreams have finally come true,” owner Melanie Bradford said in the release. “I look forward to providing Casper with so much more than just flowers, and pair unique and modern designs with the gifts that I would want to give.”... http://trib.com/business/keefe-s-flowers-moves-into-new-location/article_9305c2d8-05e1-5674-ad7a-ed12d0b45554.html

Florist Makes Happiness Bloom In Trumbull With Petal It Forward Bouquets - Trumbull-Monroe Daily Voice

Wow. It’s beautiful,” said Farkas, once Raeann McLaren explained why she came up to him with an armload of blooms. “I’m going to give them to my honey.”Palazzo’s future in-laws, Debbie and Wayne Bradford who live in Great Britain and happened to be in town visiting, said they were happy to join in on the positive project.“I think they told me someone did this in New York last year,” said Debbie Bradford. “It’s great.”Nicole’s father, Bob Palazzo, said he started loading the flowers to be given away at about 6:30 a.m. The group planned to visit sites in Shelton, Stratford, Trumbull, Fairfield and Bridgeport throughout the morning and into the afternoon until all the bouquets — featuring roses, lilies and season garden mixes — were gone.Many see Pay It Forward Week as a time to secretly pay for the coffee of a stranger in the next car at a drive-through or buy a cookie for a fellow diner at a restaurant. As a florist, Palazzo said she believes Petal It Forward gives people a lasting gift of happiness.In fact, the Petal It Forward program at City Line is in partnership with the Society of American Florists, a national trade association. According to Palazzo, Petal It Forward is a response to new research showing the emotional benefits of flowers.“We see the positive impact day in and day out when we make our flower deliveries,” she said of City Line, which has been around since 1918. “People love to get flowers ‘just because.’”Her future sister-in-law, Georgia Bradford, said she enjoyed the confused looks on recipients’ faces.“Nothing’s free anymore, is it?” she said.“Nothing but the air,” said her dad. http://trumbull.dailyvoice.com/neighbors/florist-makes-happiness-bloom-in-trumbull-with-petal-it-forward-bouquets/686275/

YWCA Bradford presents gift baskets to women leaving shelter - Bradford Era

For several years, the YWCA Bradford Housing and Employment Services program has offered safe and secure emergency housing to women and women with children who have nowhere else to stay. The shelter is designed to be a temporary sanctuary.Now, the YWCA is offering gift baskets to assist women once they leavethat sanctuary.“The program we’re starting involves what we call ‘transition packs’,” said Housing and Employment Services Shelter Manager Amber Frontino on Thursday afternoon. “Each pack will be designated to women and women with children once they leave the shelter, as a means of assisting in the transition process of getting back up on their feet and living on their own.”The packs include a variety of basic-needs items such as garbage bags, dishes, pot holders, oven mitts, dish cloths, tissues, paper towels, toilet paper, shower curtains, shower curtain rings, disinfectants and cleaners, bleach, soap, sponges, mops, buckets and brooms.“It’s a lot of basic items that homeowners often take for granted,” said... http://www.bradfordera.com/news/ywca-bradford-presents-gift-baskets-to-women-leaving-shelter/article_a2f42fa6-973b-11e6-8de9-7be44b31fc7f.html

A Flower Display in Burlington Honored the COVID-19 Dead - Seven Days

Dozens more roses surrounded the heart and extended down the pedestrian walkway. Each represented one of the more than 200 Vermonters who have died from COVID-19 since the disease struck the state nearly a year ago. "It often feels like we're just talking about numbers and tallies," said creator Jayson Munn, a florist who mainly works weddings and other events. "I thought this was a great opportunity to do it in the public square." Burlington was one of about 80 cities nationwide that hosted an art installation as part of the Floral Heart Project. Created by New York City-based artist Kristina Libby, the idea was to designate March 1 as a national day of mourning to publicly grieve those "lost to and suffering from COVID-19." As of Tuesday, more than 515,000 Americans have died. Munn said one woman he talked to had lost her husband to the disease. She told him that visiting the flower memorial had been the first time she'd publicly grieved his death; both she and Munn "started bawling," he said. He gave her a rose. "It was a really touching, touching moment," Munn said. Daniel "D.J." Boyd of Wilmington was walking down Church Street when he saw a crowd by the display and thought, Gee, only in Burlington do you see a bunch of roses in the street and everyone just walking around taking pictures. Boyd walked over himself and read the sign that Munn had erected explaining the display, "and it just struck me," he said. His uncles, twins Leon and Cleon Boyd, had died of COVID-19 early last April, just six days apart.  "It's amazing," Boyd said of the display. "It's a good gesture. It puts it into perspective, you know?" Boyd walked over to Munn and told him he'd lost his uncles. Munn picked up two long-stemmed roses from the bricks, and then handed them to Boyd. https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/a-flower-display-in-burlington-honored-the-covid-19-dead/Content?oid=32450871

COVID-19 losses to be marked with floral heart placed on Church Street Marketplace - Burlington Free Press

Burlington florist Jayson Munn, according to the website for The Floral Heart Project. A map on the website for the project shows that the Burlington display is the only one scheduled for Vermont.According to the website, The Floral Heart Project not only acknowledges those lost to the virus — more than 500,000 Americans and 2.5 million people worldwide — but those affected psychologically by the course of the virus in the past year.More: 'Suffering silently': The pent-up demand for mental health services in Vermont“Following trauma incidents, large portions of any population will experience PTSD in the form of heightened anxiety, depression, physical violence and substance abuse,” according to The Floral Heart Project website. “Psychologists predict that 15% of the population or 50 Million Americans could suffer from PTSD following COVID-19. The severity level can be even deeper when people are forced to delay their grief and abstain from funerals, shivas and other mourning traditions. To combat the potential deluge of PTSD, we must show support for those suffering and those lost.”The nationwide floral displays will be in conjunction with a COVID Memorial Day proclaimed by the organization Marked By COVID. The purpose of that group, according to its website, is “Elevating the truth about COVID to save lives.” More than 100 grassroots COVID Memorial Day events are planned around the country for March 1, according to Marked by COVID.Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com. Follow Brent on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BrentHallenbeck. https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/2021/02/26/covid-19-pandemic-losses-floral-heart-church-street-burlington/6833906002/

How Vermont florists are preparing for Mother's Day during the coronavirus - Burlington Free Press

Maleeha SyedBurlington Free PressPublished 7:45 PM EDT May 8, 2020You might not be able to stop and smell the flowers at your local shop, but Vermont florists are adapting to make Sunday special during the coronavirus outbreak. The annual celebration falls on May 10 this year, and while Vermont is loosening up on some fronts, there are still restrictions in place for COVID-19. Vermonters gifting Mother's Day flowers might find it difficult to pop into a store and sort through the different bouquets.So the flower shops are coming to you.Long-time flower shop owners adapt The owners of Chappell's Florist in South Burlington and Sally's Flower Shop in Winooski both shut down operations for weeks starting in March, in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. Kristin Eaton bought Chappell's a few years ago but has managed it for nearly three decades. Mother's Day usually keeps the shop busy all week, but things look different under the Stay Home, Stay Safe order."The phones are a lot busier," she said.The volume of orders is down due to a smaller staff and lower capacity. Instead of more than... https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2020/05/08/what-mothers-day-looks-like-during-coronavirus-vermont-florists-covid-19/3097947001/

Flower growers see sales wither as planting season launches - CBC.ca

Canadian production stems from Ontario. Neighbouring New York and Ohio have also forced garden centres to lock their doors, while Michigan and Vermont have banned retailers from selling non-essential products, including home gardening items. "If they don't open, the damage is going to be astronomical," said trade group head Andi Kuyvenhoven, noting garden centres' crucial role for bedding plants in particular. British Columbia — the second-biggest flower and plant producer — Alberta and Manitoba and have allowed garden centres to keep running, while Quebec deemed them essential along with nurseries as of April 15, though not in time for Easter. Kuyvenhoven, who with his wife co-owns a $2.5-million business selling potted Chrysanthemums and indoor calla lilies — largely to U.S. distributors — on a pair of farms west of Toronto, says clogged supply chains south of the border remain a problem. 'I haven't slept in five weeks' "U.S. customers for a time closed their distribution systems to floral and so the main grocery chains were not purchasing plants," he said, which was hard on growers of cut flowers such as roses and tulips. "If a truck can take 24 skids and four skids were flowers, the flowers came off the trucks and they put more food on the truck — which we completely understand. The only challenge is, when you're growing flowers as we do, they also have a shelf life," said Kuyvenhoven, who bought his business from his parents in 1990. "Now we're now facing liquidity issues...I haven't slept in five weeks." Flowers Canada Growers says exports to the U.S. make up about one-third of greenhouse flower and plant sales, which hit $1.6 billion in 2018, according to Statistics Canada. Nursery sales topped $500 million. While garden centres can continue to operate across much of the continent, growers wonder whether bouquets and flower pots will remain on the shopping list of consumers struggling to make rent amid soaring unemployment numbers and a looming recession. Kuyvenhoven is hoping that families confined to their homes for most of the day will choose to spend what they've saved from unpurchased vacations and lattes on plants for their vases and flower beds. "That's part of what's carried us through downturns in the past," he said. Growers associations are in talks with federal and provincial governments over potential financial relief, with Flowers Canada Growers asking for a "cash injection" as well as extended debt repayment plans secured in part by Ottawa, Kuyvenhoven said. So far, the federal government has extended a stay of default for eligible farmers until Oct. 31, giving flower and potted plant producers an extra six months to pay off federal loans that would have been due at the end of April. Ottawa has also granted exemptions on air travel restrictions to temporary foreign workers and invested $50 million to help farmers fly in labourers on charter trips. "New flights are being booked ever day," the agriculture department said in an email. Back at th... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/flower-growers-hamilton-1.5546023