Jan 29, 2012

Lilly’s Floral and Gifts to OpenBy Terrence DwyerMessengerNews.net

Fort Dodge, IA – The boom in new businesses locating in the heart of Fort Dodge’s historic downtown commercial district that characterized 2011 is continuing as the new year unfolds. Lilly’s Floral and Gifts will open Wednesday at 11 N. 10th St. – just north of Little Joe’s Computers.

Owned by Alice and Don Schmidt, the new store will be overseen primarily by Alice Schmidt, who brings to the venture many years in the local floral world.

“I worked at Flowers by Vernon,” Alice Schmidt said. “I worked there for 14 years.”

Even before Flowers by Vernon closed in 2009 when owners JoAnn and Vernon Hoover retired, Schmidt said she had fallen in love with that type of business and began thinking about one day having a similar enterprise of her own.

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