The women in the windowless basement classroom are here to learn how to combine
green spider mums, hypericum berries and broad leaf greens with loops of monkey
grass, leatherleaf fern and aspidistra leaves to make floral bouquets for medal
winners at the 2010 Olympics.
You look at that screen and you see those athletes getting those bouquets, you
will know that it was yours, June Strandberg tells them.
Its as close to the podium as you can get.
It is training day at Just Beginnings, the Surrey flower shop and florists
training program for troubled women Strandberg operates at the Phoenix Centre at
13686 96A Ave., across the street from Surrey Memorial Hospital.
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