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Hate accusations keep flying in same sex marriage debate protest. Good Samaritan shot in neck in Concord police search for suspect From the last hours Slain Dollar Tree worker s year old son denied death benefits It s a dirty business but San Jose s Worm Dude is wiggling his way. Faith healers prove answer to woman s prayers State s college commitment hanging in the balance Steward Ex Hayward coaches reflect on products Del Rio Wakamatsu Washington Hospital helps bail out St. Rose Pocketful of roses By Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times Updated PM PST About years ago florist Jacob Maarse installed a rose garden in his yard for his wife Clara s birthday. He ordered bushes and planted them along the back perimeter of his house. She was delighted and the roses thrived in the sunny neighborhood northeast of Los Angeles. Then a bowl of those garden roses made it to Jacob Maarse Florists his Pasadena shop and customers caught a whiff of what real homegrown roses smell like. Those long stemmed hot house flowers that fill stores weren t good enough. Customers wanted those fragrant many petaled garden roses. Maarse tried to find a supplier but couldn t. The trouble is those roses are delicate and have to be picked after the budding stage making them difficult to transport. Because they must be raised outdoors not in a hot house they re vulnerable to red spiders windstorms and hail. So now Maarse grows his own and his acre property is covered with about rose bushes blooming eight months a year. In April and May during the height of cutting season his staff hauls buckets about stems into the store. Although Clara is in charge of ordering the bushes the garden is dominated by Jacob s favorites the hot pink Yves Piaget To me the best smelling rose he says and the sometimes green sometimes yellow St. Patrick a sturdy bloom that Maarse says can last up to days. There are hazards to having so many roses. The lawn has shrunk. The Advertisement tennis court is in danger of being taken over by the rose beds. And a pretty white iron bench under an arbor has gone almost unused. My wife and I put that in and thought we ll have tea there in the afternoon. We ve probably had tea three times there in the last years. We re rosarians. Who has time for tea Print Email Font Resize Return to Top Comments Please keep your comments respectful of others by avoiding name calling and other inappropriate remarks. FAQ Article commenting how tos and tips Recent Comments Post Your Comment Cars Rentals Jobs Homes PONTIAC Grand AM Cars . FORD Explorer Cars Click for Details CADILLAC De Ville D Elegance Cars Firm. Haulmark Cargo Trailer Cars Chevy Express Cars K miles All Listings FREMONT Rentals amp bdrms LIVERMORE Rentals Junction Ave. . 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And the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School estimates that despite the fact that the state has only same sex couples gay marriages could pump anywhere from million to million into Connecticut s economy within the next three years. That s because Connecticut has no residency requirement for marriage licences. Couples can hail from anywhere. Beside Connecticut Massachusetts is the only other state where gay couples can wed now that California has passed Proposition . And until July Massachusetts unlike Connecticut required couples to live in that state. And while New York State does not allow gay marriages it has announced that it will accept a same sex marriage conducted under valid law in another state. With Connecticut being closer to the New York metro area than Massachusetts a number of wedding planners see the shorter drive travel time as an incentive to wed here rather than there. Connecticut is a progressive state and a place where people are open minded and accepting of others said Ron Johnson co owner of Executive Chef Advertisement in Trumbull and Stratford who anticipates an uptick in business because of Connecticut Supreme Court s same sex marriage decision that took effect Nov. . Executive Chef is a year old catering company that has arranged hundreds of weddings and other formal affairs and has several gay wedding receptions already booked. If Connecticut tourism and economic development agencies play their cards right Johnson says they have a chance to market the state in new more inviting ways that show homosexuals are valued and accepted. In the same way that heterosexual people think about going to Vegas to get married or Tijuana to get divorced Connecticut could position itself as a mecca for gay marriage Johnson said. Sooner or later it seems to me that this is the way the rest of the country is going to go anyway and we ll find much more important things to do than poking our noses into the private lives of people this way. The state Department of Public Health expects an initial surge in the number of same sex marriages for the next few months William Gerrish a DPH spokesman said adding that it cost the state to reword its marriage licenses and distribute them to the state s town clerks. In the first few days the new document was available about gay couples completed them. A Connecticut marriage license is valid for days from the time a couple takes one and a clergy member or justice of the peace officiates the ceremony. In the first six months that California permitted same sex marriages close to gay couples wed. Similarly situated couples now have no West Coast state in which to wed. Connecticut could look quite inviting to these couples Wendy Marks a University of California at Riverside professor of economics said. A lot of these people will turn to either Connecticut or Massachusetts to get married. The more welcoming Connecticut is to them the more cultural acceptance it exhibits the more it stresses that it protects civil rights and ensures that gays aren t harassed this group may come to view Connecticut as a place to move to Marks added. Over the long haul attracting more gay couples to wed in Connecticut might encourage them to think of Connecticut as place they d want to relocate to. If that happens what Connecticut would see would be an infusing of more highly skilled highly educated professionals in its workforce. Bob Heffernan executive director of the Connecticut Florists Association in Monroe sees gay marriage as boon to the state s florists. When civil unions came into law in Connecticut the florists across the state did a fair amount of business. We had floral arrangers from Vermont and Massachusetts conduct workshops on some of the new mores and customs associated with gay weddings Heffernan said. It remains to be seen how many more marriages will take place in Connecticut because of this court decision but what we re doing is urging our members to go after this market and tell everyone that they welcome their business and want to help make their day as special as it can be. State Department of Revenue Service statistics show that Connecticut s florists grossed . million in floral sales last year. In DRS figures show that florists had gross sales of . million. Typically percent of the state s floral sales come from weddings from table arrangements to bouquets and boutonnieres for the bridal party. Heffernan has a civil union with his long time partner. Their ceremony was conducted on Dec. just two months after the state s civil union law took effect at the couple s Litchfield County home. Thirty five relatives attended. We had no idea how big it would be and who would attend. We put the word out to our relatives. We called them. We didn t mail a single invitation. All of the inviting got done over the phone he said. And every single person we invited showed. We were amazed about all of the love and support we had. It was incredibly uplifting. Heffernan now wonders what the General Assembly will do in its upcoming session about civil unions whether such legal relationships will be converted automatically into marriages or remain as is. We ve been together for years and if the Legislature takes action to convert our civil union into a marriage then I don t know that we have to go through another ceremony Heffernan said. So what we might do is still up in the air. Gay nuptials already show signs of becoming big business in Connecticut. The Rainbow Wedding Network a North Carolina based bridal show company catering to the gay market has a same sex wedding expo planned for Dec. at the Courtyard by Marriott in Shelton. Forty gay friendly businesses will showcase everything from catering travel planning wedding cakes and photography to musical talents. Rainbow Wedding Network organizes about expos in about a dozen states annually including New York at the Javitz Center Boston Atlanta and San Francisco. Amanda Hager is an event planner with the Rainbow Wedding Network who lives in North Carolina. Four months ago the year old met her partner Loren Buhse a landscaper. The two women lived six blocks away from each other in their town for the past two years but had never crossed paths. Then some mutual friends introduced them at a Mexican restaurant. You know that saying that when you you ve met The One that you just know it Hager said. I d hear my mom say it and I d think that is sooo corny. It s ridiculous. Then I shook this woman s hand and I just knew. I couldn t believe it. But I did. I know that we are meant to be together. A day after Rainbow Wedding Network s expo in Shelton the North Carolina couple will fill out a marriage license at City Hall in Shelton. The hard part will be to decide where to have the ceremony Hagar said. We want it to be outdoors someplace beautiful someplace special that will have meaning to us. That s what we are trying to figure out now. Print Email Font Resize Return to Top POST YOUR COMMENTS RELATED ARTICLES MORE RELATED ARTICLES HEADLINES Rolling out the welcome mat to gay marriage Get the newspaper delivered to your home or business Subscribe Now Sitemap Help Feedback Advertise With Us Listen to Podcasts Home Classifieds Homes Jobs Cars Rentals Place An Ad Subscriber Services Contact Us Privacy Policy Terms of Service Copyright Hearst Communications Inc. Privacy Policy MNG Corporate Site Map Copyright Sunday. The Gillens home located at Anthony St. Greencastle was built in May . An extensive collection of Santas includes handmade quilted primitives House of Hatten items and Bels Nickle woodsmen Santas. Trees throughout the house feature ornaments of Waterford crystal Hadley pottery white lights and berry garland. Other holiday accents include Lang and Wise Woof Poof and Byers Choice figurines. Tickets for the home tour are available for at Treasures on the Square Ambler Hill Florists Almost Home Eitel s Flowers and Gifts and from any chapter member. Comments Note The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive please Login or Create an account first and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. The house tour is Sunday I thought Posted by just a local on Sat Nov at AM Now this sounds like a suitable house for home tour. 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Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:45:01 +0000
Hate accusations keep flying in same sex marriage debate protest. Good Samaritan shot in neck in Concord police search for suspect From the last hours Slain Dollar Tree worker s year old son denied death benefits It s a dirty business but San Jose s Worm Dude is wiggling his way. Faith healers prove answer to woman s prayers State s college commitment hanging in the balance Steward Ex Hayward coaches reflect on products Del Rio Wakamatsu Washington Hospital helps bail out St. Rose Pocketful of roses By Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times Updated PM PST About years ago florist Jacob Maarse installed a rose garden in his yard for his wife Clara s birthday. He ordered bushes and planted them along the back perimeter of his house. She was delighted and the roses thrived in the sunny neighborhood northeast of Los Angeles. Then a bowl of those garden roses made it to Jacob Maarse Florists his Pasadena shop and customers caught a whiff of what real homegrown roses smell like. Those long stemmed hot house flowers that fill stores weren t good enough. Customers wanted those fragrant many petaled garden roses. Maarse tried to find a supplier but couldn t. The trouble is those roses are delicate and have to be picked after the budding stage making them difficult to transport. Because they must be raised outdoors not in a hot house they re vulnerable to red spiders windstorms and hail. So now Maarse grows his own and his acre property is covered with about rose bushes blooming eight months a year. In April and May during the height of cutting season his staff hauls buckets about stems into the store. Although Clara is in charge of ordering the bushes the garden is dominated by Jacob s favorites the hot pink Yves Piaget To me the best smelling rose he says and the sometimes green sometimes yellow St. Patrick a sturdy bloom that Maarse says can last up to days. There are hazards to having so many roses. The lawn has shrunk. The Advertisement tennis court is in danger of being taken over by the rose beds. And a pretty white iron bench under an arbor has gone almost unused. My wife and I put that in and thought we ll have tea there in the afternoon. We ve probably had tea three times there in the last years. We re rosarians. Who has time for tea Print Email Font Resize Return to Top Comments Please keep your comments respectful of others by avoiding name calling and other inappropriate remarks. FAQ Article commenting how tos and tips Recent Comments Post Your Comment Cars Rentals Jobs Homes PONTIAC Grand AM Cars . FORD Explorer Cars Click for Details CADILLAC De Ville D Elegance Cars Firm. Haulmark Cargo Trailer Cars Chevy Express Cars K miles All Listings FREMONT Rentals amp bdrms LIVERMORE Rentals Junction Ave. . PLEASANTON Rentals Vineyard Ave. OAKLAND Rentals amp up wk HAYWARD Rentals Bdrm Hayward Rentals amp up week HAYWARD Rentals bd ba OAKLAND Rentals AVONDALE Hotel All Listings FIELD TECHNICIAN INSTALLER Jobs Click for Details Nursing MA or CNA Jobs Eden Villa Assisted Living Caregivers Jobs LivHome CAREGIVERS CNA S Jobs Senior Solutions Drivers Class A Jobs Scully Distribution Inc. Transportation Warehousing Jobs P Delivery Customer Service Representatives Jobs Fred Loya Insurance General Route Sales Jobs Click for Details All Listings HAYWARD Homes BDRM ANGELS CAMP Homes Click for Details th St Homes Click for Details HAYWARD Homes Click for Details San Bruno Home for Sale Homes Andersen Jung amp Co OPEN HOUSE Homes El Camino Real. Sun . HAYWARD Homes Bedroom Bath Spacious All Listings Home Classifieds Real Estate Jobs Cars Place An Ad Advertise Subscriber Services Site Map RSS ANG Newspapers Privacy Policy Contact Us Help About Bay Area News Group Privacy Policy MNG Corporate Site Map Copyright Columnists Pet Pages Special Sections Newspaper Ads Religion Soap Updates Tech Tidbits Weddings Engagements Travel Educational Outlook Entertainment Movie Listings Cover Story Calendar of Events Music Feature Movie Reviews Movie Capsules Comics Games Horoscopes Lottery Soap Recaps Crossword Puzzle MORE. Business Business News Zahn s Building Business Market Snapshot Top Business News AP Opinion Editorials News Columnists Charles Walsh Ken Dixon Peter Urban Michael J. Daly Stephen J. Winters John Hourihan Paul Janensch Hugh Bailey Contents Weather Educational Outlook Search Archives Subscribe Purchase a Photo Customer Services Death Notices Newspapers in Education Pets Travel Health Contact Us Classifieds Homes Jobs Cars Rentals Place an Ad Local News En Espa ol Milford News Brooks Newspapers Death Notices Legal Notices News Columnists Pet News Police Log Top News Headlines AP Weather RSS Feeds Gay marriage law could boost state economy By MARIAN GAIL BROWN Staff writer Updated PM EST With same sex marriage now legal in Connecticut combined with the buying power these couples possess and the scenic New England backdrop it looks like a no brainer that the Constitution State needs to roll out the rainbow carpet. The buying power of the gay and lesbian market is projected at billion this year according to Witeck Combs Communications annual survey of gay consumers. And the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School estimates that despite the fact that the state has only same sex couples gay marriages could pump anywhere from million to million into Connecticut s economy within the next three years. That s because Connecticut has no residency requirement for marriage licences. Couples can hail from anywhere. Beside Connecticut Massachusetts is the only other state where gay couples can wed now that California has passed Proposition . And until July Massachusetts unlike Connecticut required couples to live in that state. And while New York State does not allow gay marriages it has announced that it will accept a same sex marriage conducted under valid law in another state. With Connecticut being closer to the New York metro area than Massachusetts a number of wedding planners see the shorter drive travel time as an incentive to wed here rather than there. Connecticut is a progressive state and a place where people are open minded and accepting of others said Ron Johnson co owner of Executive Chef Advertisement in Trumbull and Stratford who anticipates an uptick in business because of Connecticut Supreme Court s same sex marriage decision that took effect Nov. . Executive Chef is a year old catering company that has arranged hundreds of weddings and other formal affairs and has several gay wedding receptions already booked. If Connecticut tourism and economic development agencies play their cards right Johnson says they have a chance to market the state in new more inviting ways that show homosexuals are valued and accepted. In the same way that heterosexual people think about going to Vegas to get married or Tijuana to get divorced Connecticut could position itself as a mecca for gay marriage Johnson said. Sooner or later it seems to me that this is the way the rest of the country is going to go anyway and we ll find much more important things to do than poking our noses into the private lives of people this way. The state Department of Public Health expects an initial surge in the number of same sex marriages for the next few months William Gerrish a DPH spokesman said adding that it cost the state to reword its marriage licenses and distribute them to the state s town clerks. In the first few days the new document was available about gay couples completed them. A Connecticut marriage license is valid for days from the time a couple takes one and a clergy member or justice of the peace officiates the ceremony. In the first six months that California permitted same sex marriages close to gay couples wed. Similarly situated couples now have no West Coast state in which to wed. Connecticut could look quite inviting to these couples Wendy Marks a University of California at Riverside professor of economics said. A lot of these people will turn to either Connecticut or Massachusetts to get married. The more welcoming Connecticut is to them the more cultural acceptance it exhibits the more it stresses that it protects civil rights and ensures that gays aren t harassed this group may come to view Connecticut as a place to move to Marks added. Over the long haul attracting more gay couples to wed in Connecticut might encourage them to think of Connecticut as place they d want to relocate to. If that happens what Connecticut would see would be an infusing of more highly skilled highly educated professionals in its workforce. Bob Heffernan executive director of the Connecticut Florists Association in Monroe sees gay marriage as boon to the state s florists. When civil unions came into law in Connecticut the florists across the state did a fair amount of business. We had floral arrangers from Vermont and Massachusetts conduct workshops on some of the new mores and customs associated with gay weddings Heffernan said. It remains to be seen how many more marriages will take place in Connecticut because of this court decision but what we re doing is urging our members to go after this market and tell everyone that they welcome their business and want to help make their day as special as it can be. State Department of Revenue Service statistics show that Connecticut s florists grossed . million in floral sales last year. In DRS figures show that florists had gross sales of . million. Typically percent of the state s floral sales come from weddings from table arrangements to bouquets and boutonnieres for the bridal party. Heffernan has a civil union with his long time partner. Their ceremony was conducted on Dec. just two months after the state s civil union law took effect at the couple s Litchfield County home. Thirty five relatives attended. We had no idea how big it would be and who would attend. We put the word out to our relatives. We called them. We didn t mail a single invitation. All of the inviting got done over the phone he said. And every single person we invited showed. We were amazed about all of the love and support we had. It was incredibly uplifting. Heffernan now wonders what the General Assembly will do in its upcoming session about civil unions whether such legal relationships will be converted automatically into marriages or remain as is. We ve been together for years and if the Legislature takes action to convert our civil union into a marriage then I don t know that we have to go through another ceremony Heffernan said. So what we might do is still up in the air. Gay nuptials already show signs of becoming big business in Connecticut. The Rainbow Wedding Network a North Carolina based bridal show company catering to the gay market has a same sex wedding expo planned for Dec. at the Courtyard by Marriott in Shelton. Forty gay friendly businesses will showcase everything from catering travel planning wedding cakes and photography to musical talents. Rainbow Wedding Network organizes about expos in about a dozen states annually including New York at the Javitz Center Boston Atlanta and San Francisco. Amanda Hager is an event planner with the Rainbow Wedding Network who lives in North Carolina. Four months ago the year old met her partner Loren Buhse a landscaper. The two women lived six blocks away from each other in their town for the past two years but had never crossed paths. Then some mutual friends introduced them at a Mexican restaurant. You know that saying that when you you ve met The One that you just know it Hager said. I d hear my mom say it and I d think that is sooo corny. It s ridiculous. Then I shook this woman s hand and I just knew. I couldn t believe it. But I did. I know that we are meant to be together. A day after Rainbow Wedding Network s expo in Shelton the North Carolina couple will fill out a marriage license at City Hall in Shelton. The hard part will be to decide where to have the ceremony Hagar said. We want it to be outdoors someplace beautiful someplace special that will have meaning to us. That s what we are trying to figure out now. Print Email Font Resize Return to Top POST YOUR COMMENTS RELATED ARTICLES MORE RELATED ARTICLES HEADLINES Rolling out the welcome mat to gay marriage Get the newspaper delivered to your home or business Subscribe Now Sitemap Help Feedback Advertise With Us Listen to Podcasts Home Classifieds Homes Jobs Cars Rentals Place An Ad Subscriber Services Contact Us Privacy Policy Terms of Service Copyright Hearst Communications Inc. Privacy Policy MNG Corporate Site Map Copyright Sunday. The Gillens home located at Anthony St. Greencastle was built in May . An extensive collection of Santas includes handmade quilted primitives House of Hatten items and Bels Nickle woodsmen Santas. Trees throughout the house feature ornaments of Waterford crystal Hadley pottery white lights and berry garland. Other holiday accents include Lang and Wise Woof Poof and Byers Choice figurines. Tickets for the home tour are available for at Treasures on the Square Ambler Hill Florists Almost Home Eitel s Flowers and Gifts and from any chapter member. Comments Note The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive please Login or Create an account first and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. The house tour is Sunday I thought Posted by just a local on Sat Nov at AM Now this sounds like a suitable house for home tour. Posted by indtonyc on Sat Nov at AM Respond to this story Posting a comment requires free registration . If you already have an account on this site enter your username and password below. Otherwise click here to register. Username Password Forgot your password Your comments Please be respectful of others and try to stay on topic. Home News Sports Obituaries Opinion Blogs Greencastle Banner Graphic Contact Us Terms of Service Media Partners Search Text Alerts
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