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Savor summer at free Connells Maple Lee Kids Club event Aug. 17 in all stores

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Neal

It’s getting to be back-to-school time, but the Connells Maple Lee Kids Club isn’t letting go of summer easily.

For the next free kids club event, on Aug. 17, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement. Participants also will receive a balloon.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Registration is required by calling one of Connells Maple Lee’s Columbus-area stores: 2408 E. Main St. (Route 40), Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.
For more information about Connells Maple Lee’s Kids Club, visit www.cmlflowers.com/kidsclub.

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Calling all kids club members: We want you to design our next birthday card

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Neal

ROY-2575_KC_BDay_Card_CON_01 — *Winning design from 2012.*

Would you like to win a flower delivery to your door? You could if you enter the Connells Maple Lee Kids Club birthday card design contest.
The winning design will adorn the birthday card that each kids club member receives on his or her special day. If we pick your design, you will receive a flower delivery on your birthday.
The contest is open to kids club members, ages 5 to 12. If you aren’t a kids club member yet, you can register here.
Now, download the birthday card contest entry form here, create your design, and drop off the entry at your nearest Connells Maple Lee store by July 12.
Good luck!

Kids club event June 22 will kick off ‘Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger’

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Neal

The Connells Maple Lee Kids Club event on June 22 will help kick off the annual Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger food drive.
Children ages 5 to 12 are asked to donate a non-perishable food item as the price of admission and to bring an empty food can to fill with flowers.
Participants also will have an opportunity to enter the kids club’s birthday card design contest for a chance to win a flower delivery.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Connells Maple Lee store: 2408 E. Main St., Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.
Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger is June 21-29. The collected food will be donated to the Mid-Ohio Foodbank.
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‘Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger’ returns June 21-29 to benefit Mid-Ohio Foodbank

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Neal

Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger will return June 21-29 to collect non-perishable food items for the Mid-Ohio Foodbank.
Customers are asked to bring food items to any Connells Maple Lee Flowers & Gifts store and place them in a collection box. For each food item, they will receive a free carnation, up to a maximum of six carnations per family per visit.
In its first year in 2012, Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger collected 83 pounds of food for the food bank.

Making arrangements: public design class

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Neal

You don’t have to be a professional designer in order to make a beautiful floral arrangement. Not when you have a professional designer from Connells Maple Lee on hand to guide you.
Our Jill Elmore led nine participants (including one from as far away as Chillicothe) in our April 27 public design class. The three-hour class was held in Connells Maple Lee’s central design department in Grove City.
Jill taught her students how to create a festive springtime arrangement.
We typically offer design classes three times per year, including a two-part class in early November. If you are interested in attending a future class, please contact Jill at jill.elmore@usretailflowers.com.

Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger returns June 21-29 to benefit Mid-Ohio Foodbank

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Neal

Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger, which benefits the Mid-Ohio Foodbank, will return for its second year June 21-29.

Last year’s inaugural event collected 83 pounds of non-perishable food items.
Customers receive a free carnation for each non-perishable food item they donate, up to a maximum of six carnations per family per visit.
Food collection boxes are placed in each of Connells Maple Lee’s stores in Bexley, Grove City and Powell during the event.
In conjunction with Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger, the Connells Maple Lee Kids Club will host an event for children ages 5 to 12 in all of our stores on June 22.

Decorate hyacinth basket at free Connells Maple Lee Kids Club event on March 16

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Neal

The Connells Maple Lee Kids Club will get the Easter season hopping with a free event on March 16 at all Connells Maple Lee stores.
Children ages 5 to 12 will be able to decorate a hyacinth basket for Easter. They can take the plant home and watch it bloom. Participants also will receive a balloon.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Connells Maple Lee store: 2408 E. Main St. (Route 40), Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.

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Spring is sprung at free kids club event on Jan. 19

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Neal

The Connells Maple Lee Kids Club’s busiest year ever begins Jan. 19 with a free activity at all of our stores.
The theme is “Think Spring” as children ages 5 to 12 will be able to make a tulip vase to coincide with our annual tulip sale. All participants also will receive a balloon.

Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Connells Maple Lee store: 2408 E. Main St. (Route 40), Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.
The other 2013 kid club event dates and themes: March 16, St. Patrick’s Day; June 22, Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger; Aug. 17, back to school; Oct. 26, Halloween/Bouquets for Books.
For more information about Connells Maple Lee’s Kids Club, click here.

Kids club event Nov. 3 will kick off annual ‘Bouquets for Books’

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Neal

Connells Maple Lee Flowers & Gifts will kick off its annual “Bouquets for Books” event with a Connells Maple Lee Kids Club event on Nov. 3.
The price of admission: a new children’s book.
In return, children ages 5 to 12 will have the opportunity to make a fall arrangement like the one pictured here.

Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Nov. 3.
Registration is required by calling one of our three Columbus-area stores: 2408 E. Main St. (Route 40), Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.
This year’s Bouquets for Books runs Nov. 2-10. We’re collecting new children’s books at each of our stores to benefit Bexley Public Library, Delaware County District Library and Southwest Public Libraries.
For each book, donors will receive a free bouquet, up to three per family per visit, while supplies last. Used books will not be accepted.

‘Bouquets for Books’ returns Nov. 2-10 to collect new children’s books for public libraries

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Neal

It is said that libraries are not made, they grow.

Connells Maple Lee Flowers & Gifts wants to continue growing the children’s book collections at area libraries.

Our annual “Bouquets for Books” event will return Nov. 2-10 to collect new children’s books for Bexley Public Library, Delaware County District Library and Southwest Public Libraries.

Just bring a new children’s book to our stores in Bexley, Grove City or Powell, and you’ll receive a free bouquet in return (up to three per family per visit, while supplies last).
Used books will not be accepted.