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corbin Flower Shop owner Buddy Woods is 80-years-
old, but hasn’t thought of retiring. He said he has a
passion for the business and loves coming to work
every day.

originally, it was just buddy working “that about takes the cake” buddy i didn’t know whether
at the store. joked.
Now, there are five people work- i would make it a day
ing there full-time in addition to another bUSY SeASoN or not. i don’t know
couple of part-time workers. The busy season in the floral indus-
Corbin Flower Shop has been at its try starts in February with Valentine’s how long it was before
current location off Master Street for 24 day, which is the busiest time of year for
years. florists, and runs through late May. i ever really did any-
Construction of the Corbin over- there are proms, weddings, Memo- thing. Nobody knew
pass took the site of the original store. rial day and Mother’s day, and then it
in the store’s 58-year history, rhoda slacks off until around Christmas. me really. it’s about
said the strangest thing that happened at one thing that hasn’t changed a lot
the business occurred back in the 1980s over the years is that people still don’t like any business,
at the old store when a preacher was send a lot of flowers for Father’s Day. when you start you
working there. “We do have a few, but not many,”
A couple came in wanting to get Johnny noted. don’t know if you are
married in the store, so the minister per- Fixing up a floral arrangement var-
formed the ceremony right there. ies in time. going to make it or not.
This was the “first and last” time Simpler pieces can be done in 15
that ever happened. – 30 minutes. bigger pieces sometimes