Navi Mumbai: Acting on a tip off, a state excise flying squad intercepted a truck loaded with liquor near the Kharghar flyover on Sion-Panvel highway .
Dan Christina manages the menagerie at Green Animals.
Julie Zack
Newport Life
The old adage “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” is an unattainable dream for most people. To Dan Christina, chief horticulturist at Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth, it’s a reality.
“For a long time, I haven’t really thought of this as work,” he says. “I’m getting to create, I’m getting to cultivate a wide variety of plants and life. And that’s pretty exciting.”
Christina, a Bristol native, began his botanical journey as a child by pulling weeds in neighbors’ yards, then followed that with a degree in urban horticulture and turf management from the University of Rhode Island. He went on to serve as the assistant groundskeeper at Blithewold in Bristol for 10 years before settling in at Green Animals six years ago.
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MUMBAI: BMC on Monday filed an FIR at N M Joshi Marg police station against a restaurant and bar at Kamala Mills Compound (Lower Parel) for flouting Covid-19 norms. BMC said teams were on the lookout for violators. Assistant municipal commissioner (G South ward) Sharad Ughade said, “We filed an FIR and served YOUnion a show-cause notice, asking why its licence should not be suspended. We are writing to all restaurants in the area to ensure they follow Covid-appropriate behaviour.”
BJP MLA Ashish Shelar said despite CM Uddhav Thackeray’s orders, pubs in his son, Aaditya’s constituency (Worli) were operational beyond midnight. A video clip was circulated by Raj Thackeray-led MNS’s former corporator Santosh Dhuri alleging that norms were being flouted in Worli. Dhuri told TOI he was shocked to see youngsters crowding the pub on Sunday. “Is Covid restricted to koliwadas and chawls of Worli? Why should BMC not act against such spaces, where rules are no