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Green has new meaning at floral shop BY SARA MARIE MOORE EDITOR

SHOREVIEW — At Hummingbird Floral and Gifts, where designers surrounded by flowers and greens create beautiful arrangements, the word green has new implications. About 80 percent of the shop’s waste previously thrown away, including flower stems left over from cuttings for arrangements, was actually compostable, said Lugene Olson, owner and designer. The shop has gone from throwing everything away to recycling almost everything. Through a recycling grant received from Ramsey County through the Minnesota Waste Wise Foundation in 2016, the shop im-

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One of Olson’s favorite flowers is the garden rose, left. It is distinguished from a tea rose, right, in that its petals create more of a feathered, full and asymmetrical look.

plemented a recycling program that is unique in the floral industry, Olson said. “Really understanding how much you can really recycle is amazing,” she noted. “Literally in one week, we went from being a mass garbage producer to two trash cans per week.” If Styrofoam could be recycled, she added, the trash would not even fi ll one can. The compostable material now fi lls a large dumpster that is taken by Aspen Waste to a compost site in Ramsey County. Another dumpster gets fi lled with cardboard and other paper products. Beside floral designers in the shop are large cans designated now solely for extra greenery to be composted. Designer Debbie Wismer, of Lino Lakes, said she fi lls the can multiple times a day. It used to be thrown away. “There was nothing else to do with it,” she remembered. The grant from Waste Wise helped the shop get started on creating its own recycling program. It provided funds to build an enclosure for the recycling dumpsters, training and bins for inside the shop. A side benefit is the shop saves money with cheaper fees for recycling collection than garbage collection. “My goal really was to be more green-friendly,” Olson noted. “It was a winwin.” What the floral shop is doing has become the ambition of other florists she’s told about it. SARA MARIE MOORE | PRESS PUBLICATIONS “A lot of florists I know don’t do this,” she Hummingbird Floral and Gifts Owner and Designer Lugene Olson, of North said. Oaks, said the shop’s compostable waste, such as flower stems, is now composted instead of thrown away, reducing waste by 80 percent. SEE FLORAL SHOP, PAGE 11

Students mirror United Nations in statewide conference BY SARA MARIE MOORE EDITOR

MINNEAPOLIS — Students from across the state tried their minds at solving the world’s problems during a YMCA Model United Nations event earlier this month. Students from the northeast metro were among the 800 who gathered for several days at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center hotel to represent various countries and participate in model councils and committees mirroring the United Nations. Forest Lake students Emily May and Emma Savage were among about a dozen students on the model Security Council awakened at midnight April 6 to deal with a model crisis issue in Myanmar involving ethnic genocide of the Rohingya people from Rakhine State. The students began working on a response in the wee hours of the night

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but slept on it until they could meet with a delegate representing Myanmar. They then approved a resolution calling the government of Myanmar to put a stop to the violence or United Nations peacekeeping forces would be deployed. May represented the U.S. and Savage represented Sweden on the council, which unanimously voted in favor of the resolution. Countries on the council mirrored those that are currently or were recently part of the real council. The purpose of the event is for students to learn about the world, said Orville Lindquist, state program executive for the Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government program. Students researched their adopted country — its culture, government, enemies and current events — to prepare to represent it fairly, he noted. Students then discuss issues on various councils or

Chippewa Middle School student Owen Arndt represented Egypt on a Model United Nations Political and Security Committee during a YMCA event in Minneapolis April 6.

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