{"id":118421,"date":"2020-05-14T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=118421"},"modified":"2020-05-14T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:03:07","slug":"ctahr-sunflower-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/14\/ctahr-sunflower-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Go ahead, brighten my day"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_96686\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3T3fWJNz1ak?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"A little sunshine for frontline fighters\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Happy hues of orange and yellow radiate in the sunshine as <strong>Russell Galanti<\/strong> prepares to harvest his latest crop. The extension agent in ornamental crops from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> (<abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr>) trimmed and wrapped more than 400 stalks of sunflowers he tended to at the <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Urban Garden Center before delivering them to <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We hope these colorful flowers put a smile on the faces of hospital staff and patients,&rdquo; said Galanti. &ldquo;It\u2019s the least we can do for these courageous people fighting a global pandemic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_118348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118348\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-galanti-2.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Galanti holding bucket of sunflowers\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-galanti-2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-galanti-2-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-galanti-2-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell Galanti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ctahr\/albums\/72157714188511611\">View photos of the sunflowers at the Urban Garden Center.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sunflowers were planted earlier this year to make table centerpieces for <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr>\u2019s 32nd Annual Banquet, however, due to COVID-19, there were no more tables to decorate and no guests to bring home the arrangements as party favors. Galanti then shifted gears, and <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr> decided to donate the sunflowers to boost morale in <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our healthcare professionals are the real heroes of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; said Galanti. &ldquo;These flowers are just us trying to say Mahalo! to doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists\u2014everyone who is showing up for work in hospitals and braving the COVID-19 pandemic to keep our community safe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/NewsLetter\/go-ahead-brighten-my-day\">Read the full story at <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr>\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Mark A. Berthold<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_118346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118346\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-nurses.jpg\" alt=\"nurses holding papers saying thank you\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-nurses.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-nurses-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/manoa-ctahr-sunflowers-nurses-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>ICU<\/abbr> nurses at Tripler Army Hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Galanti led <abbr title=\"College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources\">CTAHR<\/abbr> in the harvest, preparation and delivery of more than 400 sunflowers to <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212,1411,1416,9],"class_list":["post-118421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118490,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118421\/revisions\/118490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}