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Jul 6, 2021

Positively LEX 18: Florist uses leftover flowers from competition to honor veterans - LEX18 Lexington KY News

VA Medical Center in California and so for me part of it is just continuing that legacy. And also because I work for VA. Like many florists here in Kentucky, I have a day job."Gilbrides' progress in the Florists' Review competition as well as her blooms can be found on her Instagram page. Adblock test (Why?)...

Mar 19, 2020

Mild winter lacking snow leads to early spring flowers - WKYT

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Feb 27, 2020

2020 Philadelphia Flower Show: Your ultimate guide to the whole blooming affair - pennlive.com

International Festivals and Events Association’s award for best event worldwide, besting such other iconic events as the Kentucky Derby Festival, Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses Parade, and the Indianapolis 500 Festival.Besides raising some $1 million a year to support PHS’s greening efforts, the show generates about $65 million a year for Philadelphia’s economy (show-production jobs, hotel stays, restaurant meals, parking fees, etc.) and another $8 million in local, state, and federal tax revenues.Even non-gardeners go to appreciate the blooming beauty and summer-time scents of the tens of thousands of plants that have been greenhouse-cajoled into blooming on cue for showtime.See a photo gallery of vintage shots from the show’s pastPhiladelphia native Grace Kelly is shown with Clark Gable in the 1950s, left, and with the royal Monaco family in 1976.The Grace Kelly connectionThis year’s show pays homage to native daughter Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia-born actress who married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, making her Princess Grace.Monaco is a small nation-state bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the French Riviera, surrounded on its other three flanks by France.Kelly was a starring film actress in the early 1950s and met the prince at a photo shoot he arranged during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. She was Princess Grace of Monaco until 1982, when she died suddenly in a stroke-related car accident at the age of 52.The princess was also a plant-lover who founded the Garden Club of Monaco, wrote a gardening book (“My Book of Flowers” with Australian writer Gwen Robyns in 1980), and came back to Philadelphia to judge the floral competition at the 1976 Philadelphia Flower Show.Monaco’s U.S. embassy will pay tribute by sponsoring a Princess Grace Rose Garden at this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show.Its cente...

Feb 1, 2020

Finally some justice for maligned Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann | Christine Flowers - The Philadelphia Inquirer

That’s the only explanation I have for what some people did to a young Catholic student from Kentucky last year, when he and his classmates from Covington Catholic High attended the March for Life. As a bunch of them waited for their bus to pick them up, a Native American activist named Nathan Phillips approached banging his drum. Some of the boys reacted chanting their school song while one of them, Nicholas Sandmann, stood face to face with Phillips. The boy was smiling, although many characterized his expression as a “smirk.” The screen shot of that encounter went viral, and was used to attack Sandmann as a bigoted, privileged white boy who was mocking both ethnic minorities and a woman’s “right to choose.” Now Sandmann has finally gotten some vindication via a settlement announced this week with CNN, whom Sandmann sued for defamation — and was just one of many outlets and public figures who took shots at the teen. One of the most offensive comments was from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who incorrectly tweeted “The boys were protesting a woman’s right to choose & yelled ‘it’s not rape if you enjoy it.' ” She later deleted the tweet. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times observed that “there are dozens of students laughing and egging on the behavior. Will be interesting to see if anyone is actually expelled, as officials suggest is possible,” creating the false impression that the Catholic high school students were the aggressors. #right-rail .newsletter-card,.newsletter-card.hidden-desktop{display:...

Apr 27, 2019

Take a home and garden tour through Eau Gallie - Florida Today

Both women were ahead of their time. Carrie was the first woman agent for Standard Oil of Kentucky and owned several gas stations in the county. Ella owned and operated the Rossetter Insurance Agency. Pillars of the community, they supported local churches, museums and the Florida Institute of Technology, among other local causes. Though the Rossetter sisters are long gone, their home is frozen in time, and their possessions, including Carrie’s many hats and the Lily Pulitzer dresses she favored, still await her return. During the tour, guests can see the neighboring Houston Pioneer Cemetery, where members of area pioneers Houston family rest. The historic cemetery is open to the public only on rare occasions such as the tour. Also welcoming visitors for tour day is St. John’s Episcopal Church, built from “Merritt Island mahogany,” as the now extinct Merritt Island pine was known because of its strength. For a lunch stop, Big Don’s Real Pitt BBQ will be at the church parking lot. Valkaria Tropical Gardens will offer plants for sale there, too. The tour additionally highlights Twin Oaks on Highland Ave. General Douglas MacArthur’s second wife, Jean Faircloth, lived here during the winter months. At Twi...