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Bouquet Boutique ‘Flowers designed with your thoughts in mind’ Owner: Leah Gillis After purchasing Send Your Love Florist (on Holden Road) three years ago, Leah Gillis moved the business to Fleming Road in northwest Greensboro in 2020 and changed the name to Bouquet Boutique. The move put her business closer to I-73 and I-840 (Greensboro Urban Loop), allowing for more timely deliveries. Before going into the floral business, Gillis had a 20-year career in educational publishing and was a VP of sales and marketing.
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As the owner of her own floral business, she’s applying her knowledge of sales and marketing while enjoying her love of flowers – and, she also gets to further develop her creative side. Bouquet Boutique provides floral bouquets for all occasions, including birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, getwell, holidays and special events. Offering excellent customer service, personal attention, compassionate advice and on-time delivery are as essential to Gillis and her team as the flowers themselves. “We enjoy working with our
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customers and designing floral arrangements based on their thoughts and input,” Gillis said. Bouquet Boutique is a floral partner for “June’s Bouquets,” a program through Cone Health that allows nurses to hand deliver a beautiful bouquet with a note to a grieving mom before she leaves for home. “When there is a stillbirth or fetal demise, we deliver a fresh bouquet to the mother so she doesn’t leave the hospital empty-handed,” Gillis explained. “It’s a beautiful program started by a mother who experienced a stillbirth.” On a personal note: Gillis grew up in Greensboro and graduated from Southeast High. Her children attended Summerfield Elementary and Northwest Middle and High Schools. “I love this area,” Gillis said. “My husband, Mike, is very involved in the local business community, and we frequently enjoy shopping and dining out in the area.” In their free time, Leah and Mike enjoy boating, hiking, swimming and entertaining at their lake house in Smith Mountain Lake.
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gradually with the road improvements,” Taylor told the Northwest Observer.
Oak Ridge Commons shopping center. DOT also plans to build crosswalks and upgrade stoplights at the N.C. 68 and N.C. 150 intersection.
The streetscape plan calls for extension of sidewalks on both sides of N.C. 68 from the stoplight at N.C. 150 south to Linville Road. Sidewalks are already in place in front of shopping areas along N.C. 68.
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NCDOT plans to start its work in September 2022, leading to the possibility that Oak Ridge will proceed with streetscape improvements in 2023, according to Taylor.
The Northwest Observer • Totally local work since Oak Ridge’s “is1996 going to be done
Oak Ridge is sharing the costs of the streetscape improvements with NCDOT. The town’s capital improvement plan appropriates $250,000 in the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2022, and another $150,000 in the next fiscal year.
