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Show Community Domestic Blitz By Dixie Brunner Kids ... they just never learn Put that tanning lotion on or cant even look at a chocolate youll suffer later, I lecture our chip cookie today without reachson. ing for the Pepto. fair-skinne- d, red-haire- d Yeah, sure. One hour later. Kyle, you did put on the lotion, didnt you? I question, no- SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 1995 7 Everythings coming up roses... and carnations... and daffodils... of 1982. Aunties was formerly By Dixie Brunner Business is blooming at located in the office that the Aunties Flowers 'N' Things. Utah Highway Patrol now ocOwners Loreeta Mitchell and cupies. We got started because Evelyn Knape are excited about the shops new location at 98 South 100 East, (in the former Kanab Premium Gas Station.) we wanted to offer more of a variety of flowers to the public, said l6iape. She added that the experience of running the shop has been rewarding. I enjoy The mother and daughter team has been operating the people. But some of the conventional But it hasnt always been easy. parent wisdom isnt all its flower shop in Kanab since May cracked up to be. Even though I detest cooked carrots, I always ate them because after all... youve never seen a rabbit wearing glasses. If you take the time to really Knape and Mitchell have been called upon to take their flower expertise on the road. Weve done a lot of weddings at the Grand Canyon and Zion, said Knape. Weve even done a wedding on a houseboat. Knape said that wedding customers can opt to pick up their own flowers, or have Aunties deliver and arrange them. Funerals are another important part of a floral business. Knape says that she has done some interesting funeral arIve really done rangements. some unusual but rewarding ticing that he was looking pinker by the minute. Ill do it in a minute. Hours later... casket sprays. Mom, voice calls painfully. think about this carrotrabbit The majority of flowers that My back hurts, Ive got a really thing, youd realize that these Aunties stocks are shipped from t bad burn. rabbits could actually have terCalifornia via Salt Lake. She rible eyesight and you wouldnt also gets flowers from Florida, If only our kids could be as know it. They could be wearand roses out of New Mexico. wise as we are. The wisdom and ing contacts, for one thing. The new store offers an exexperience of the years could And, while Im not one to throw panded selection of decorative prevent them from having to stones, you have to really quesitems including: plants, baby endure lifes painful lessons. tion the vision of an animal But it just doesnt work that who continually runs out in buggies, flowers, baskets and southwestern pottery by K. way. Kids have to find out about the road in front of oncoming Galen out of Phoenix. We also did-tralife the same way we traffic! offer floral arrangements in both I think that young people ocand error. silk and fresh flowers. There were probably a few casionally believe that the only Flowers can make anybodys things that your parents told reason adults make rules and day, said Knape. I dont care you as a child, that you didnt warn us, is to spoil our fun. They how low you are, or what a bad believe andor listen to. want to ruin our good time. day youre having, theyll make I never believed my mom when Even though I was one of the 'N' Aunties Flowers Things floral shop your day. We enjoy the happibest behaved kids around, (ha) she said that Id get cramps if I Evelyn Knape recently moved her there were even a few words of swam less than 30 minutes after across the street into the old Premium gas station. Photo by Dixie Brunner. ness that this brings to people. parental wisdom I totally ig- eating. I thought her notion was nored. Its just one of those see all wet. But I will continue to do as my for yourself things. You have to sunsuffer through a few painful parents and their parents beburns to truly understand the fore them have done. Ill warn 0 importance of a good bottle of my kids about all the real and PdEDb sunblock. imagined dangers out there, and We all think that we know a hope that theyll listen. But, from the looks of my red haired sons little more than our parents. When I was a little girl on our second degree burn, hes probIllinois farm, my dad would re- ably going to pay just about as Registration deadline Wednesday, August 16 peatedly warn me about not much attention to my warnings For more information, call Heidi at 644-815- 1 or Nathan at 648-232- 4 touching the electric fence that as I did to my parents. Kids... kept the pigs in. Well, needless they just never learn. to say, I had to see for myself... talk about having a shocking personality, my hair stood on end for a week! 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