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Apr 4, 2021

Lewes Tulip Celebration to bring spring cheer April 2-11 - CapeGazette.com

Floral Inspirations, located on the beach side of the canal at 524 E. Savannah Road in the shops under the Beacon Motel, will have flower-arranging demonstrations from noon to 3 p.m., April 2, 3, 9 and 10. A wide variety of colorful spring tulips will be on hand for purchase as well. Owner/designer Ken Norman encourages people to stop in just for the smell of it. Owner/designer Mayumi Williamson of Flowers by Mayumi in the historic business district at 128 Second St., will host a drop-in floral-arranging demonstration from 1 to 2 p.m., Thursday, April 8. Lewes Historical Society will offer a Maritime History walking tour at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 10, beginning at the Ryves Holt House, 218 Second St. An Architectural History walking tour will be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 11. Tours cost $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Purchase tickets for either tour at historiclewes.org under the Visit tab. GFWC Zwaanendael Women’s Club is taking geranium orders through Thursday, April 15, to benefit its community service programs. Pickup will be Saturday, May 1, at Lewes in Bloom’s warehouse, 217 Schley Ave., Lewes. Cost is $6 per 6-inch pot of pink, white, red or salmon blooms. To order, email mRocksRN@comcast.net or mail checks payable to Z Club, P.O. Box 100, Lewes, DE 19958.

Dec 10, 2020

Corners of Eden’s goal is flower power during dark times - New Bern Sun Journal

We want to gift these projects to beautify and nourish our community and be a beacon of hope in some pretty tough times,” she said.They see endless site opportunities, including places that provide support and refuge for those suffering from troubles ranging from physical abuse to addiction.“Beauty belongs everywhere, especially in the dark,” Wethington said.Their plans also extend a branch into the area of events, where both women have experience and expertise.“We will be offering kids camps and senior citizen events with educational components and take-away projects such as seed planting and paper-making and flower-pressing,” said O’Steen. “These outreach projects are really the core of what we do. The business side of Corners of Eden is what helps us get there.”Local businesses can display Corners of Eden installations or sponsor Eden Elsewhere projects and summer camps.“Everyone is welcome to sponsor a Plant for a Project with many available price points to choose from. Donations are welcomed and encouraged for the Eden Elsewhere projects,” she added. “We will be looking for as many grant opportunities as we are able and continue to search for funding for these projects. We are excited for what Corners of Eden and the Eden Elsewhere Project has to offer New Bern’s citizens and beyond.”O’Steen has more than 25 years of hands-on horticultural experience. She is a certified Plant Professional and worked for 15 years on the Tryon Palace horticultural staff.She specializes in 17th and 18th century design and served as floral designer and former contracted Christmas designer for the Palace. Her training utilizes organic and environmentally-friendly safe practices.She has led several educational programs, lectures, and demonstrations, as well as coordinating many volunteer beautification projects.O’Steen has served as a nursery and greenhouse manager as a grower of plants and their identification. She is also well versed in the identification of pest and organic disease control solutions.She is well integrated into the community and regional horticultural networks, having worked with the city of New Bern through Parks and Recreation, serving as park supervisor on various local projects.Wethington has additional future plans in the gardening genre, training to be an herbalist with her husband.“We grow mushrooms and are heavy into fungiculture and will start a mushroom business soon,” she said. “I am in love with plants and I just love to grow things.”She said it was an easy decision “to build a business for New Bern around something I truly loved to do.”She is a well-known face in the New Bern community and has been instrumental in the revitalization of the downtown New Bern art scene for more than a decade.Long known as an artist of the spoken word, Wethington was a founding member of the Nexus Poets; served as president of the Bohemian Artists of New Bern; served as a founding member of non-profit Community Artist Will - now Community Artist Gallery; was a founding member of non-profit FOLKS Journal, now FOLKS Foundation; and created the music and art event “The Saturday Sessions in Bear Plaza,” along with the popular Witches Ryde family bicycle event during Halloween.“It...

Sep 7, 2020

Robert Mercer, CEO who helped win Goodyear War, dies at age 96 - Akron Beacon Journal

I tried to tell him [Goldsmith] that he was not just fooling with another company, another takeover target," Mercer said in "Wheels of Fortune," the Beacon Journal book on the history of the city’s rubber and tire industry. "We’ve got 132,000 employees who want to see you go home. You bring nothing to the party."Mercer, Goodyear and Akron prevailed against Goldsmith.Rick Reiff, part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Beacon Journal reporters covering the attempted takeover, recalled speaking with Mercer the night the company agreed to pay "greenmail" to be rid of Goldsmith.Reiff said when they talked it was obviously the end of a long ordeal for the CEO.Mercer wanted to speak freely and let the Akron community share in the news, he said. One detail Mercer disclosed was that Goldsmith could not find the Goodyear stock certificates he owned when it came time to close the deal, Reiff said."It was very candid. It was honest," said Reiff, who recently retired as editor of the Orange County [California] Business Journal.Mercer "was a dyed in the wool Goodyear guy," Reiff said. "They don’t make CEOs like that any more. Or very few. He was a Goodyear lifer."Doug Oplinger, also part of the Beacon Journal’s coverage of the takeover and the paper’s retired managing editor, recalled Mercer talking about using his mechanical engineering background when he was a young Goodyear salesman. A client, Maytag, was having problems with a washing machine model. Apparently a tiny pulley that used a Goodyear belt wasn’t working properly. Mercer took a look and realized the pulley system required a notched, not smooth, belt."He designed it and saved the day for Goodyear and for Maytag," Oplinger said. "He took great pride in being an engineer who understood sales."The greenmail Goodyear paid to Goldsmith came at a high price, not counting the tens of millions of dollars the raider received to walk away. Mercer, who spent much of his time and energy to diversify Goodyear from slow-growth tires into areas such as oil and gas production and a $1 billion oil pipeline, was forced to spin off significant parts of the company to pay for the fight, which had saddled Goodyear with billions of dollars in debt.And where a top goal had been to create a more diversified corporation, Goodyear was forced to refocus on its core, tire making — something that Goldsmith had said the company needed to do. Goodyear Aerospace went to Loral Corp. for $588 million, and the Motor Wheel division was sold for $175 million to Lemmerz. Other non-tire subsidiaries were also sold off. Goodyear eventually sold the Celeron oil and gas business to a Texas company in 1998 for $420 million.Under Mercer, Goodyear introduced its first run-flat tire and also radial racing tires that debuted at the 1987 Indianapolis 500.Decrying takeov...

Jun 19, 2020

Farm donates flowers as thank you - The San Diego Union-Tribune

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Feb 1, 2020

Plants not seen in Ohio in decades found in Summit, Portage counties - Akron Beacon Journal

It seems like every couple years, we find something new."Contact reporter Emily Mills at 330-996-3334, emills@thebeaconjournal.com and @EmilyMills818. ...

Nov 9, 2019

Floral Inspirations to hand out flowers in Lewes Oct. 23 - CapeGazette.com

Floral Inspirations is a full service floral design studio in Lewes at 524 East Savannah Road next to the Beacon Hotel lobby. Owner/operator Ken Norman, AIFD, PFCI, is a third-generation floral designer. He was recognized and inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers in 2002. In 2012, Norman achieved membership with Professional Floral Communicator International. He is a respected instructor at the prestigious New York Botanical Garden. He has participated in the renowned Philadelphia Flower Show and as an exhibit chairman for AIFD. For the past several years, Norman has been a winning contestant and demonstrator at the flower show’s Designer’s Studio. His work has been published in several bridal magazines and the blog Style Me Pretty. Norman has won best ceremony and best reception categories in Florists’ Review Picture Perfect Wedding contest.