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Wendell Hutson
“Things don’t look good right now with sales down 50 percent,” Starnella Johnson said of family-owned Ambassador Floral.
COVID through a small-biz lens
Wendell Hutson
For nearly two decades Starnella Johnson said her business, Ambassador Floral Co., had steady customers from high school students going to prom to local churches buying flowers for funerals and weddings.
But once the COVID-19 pandemic came along, that changed everything, and now her Roseland shop is facing closure unless she can get financial help through loans or grants. 
“Things don’t look good right now with sales down 50 percent,” said Johnson, owner of the flower shop at 11045 S. Halsted St. “As I sit here thinking of ways to reinvent myself to keep these doors open, things look pretty bleak.” ....

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