Boggs family celebrates 100 years in jewelry business – The Observer News

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By LOIS KINDLE

Few privately owned, small businesses have the opportunity to observe their centennial anniversary. But due to the hard work of five generations of the Boggs family, Boggs Jewelry will celebrate this astonishing milestone Dec. 16. Owners Roy and Jo Boggs are inviting the public to come celebrate with them at 4852 State Road 672 (in the Kings Crossing Shopping Center), Sun City Center. Meet the family between 9 am and 1 pm and enjoy some refreshments while you’re there.
Founded by Roy’s grandfather Morris Boggs in Pittsburg, Penn., in 1923, the business was moved to 9th Street

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NB mother-daughter team creates ‘Polly Pods’ – perfectly imperfect earrings – New Brunswick

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When Meaghan and Polly Pennell sat down at their craft table to roll out the clay to make their first pair of homemade earrings, little did they know their little lemon bobbles would turn out to be so sweet.

“We were just really looking for something that we could do together as a mother and daughter,” said Meghan Pennell of Moncton, NB, who has since launched a line of clay earrings with her six-year-old daughter called Polly Pods.

“It makes me feel really special,” to have a line of jewelry named after

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Police identify suspect in hammer-wielding jewelry store robbery

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London police have identified a suspect in a smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store that was captured on video.

A man entered a jewelry store in White Oaks Mall on Wellington Road around 4 pm Wednesday, damaged property with a sledgehammer and stolen items before running away, police said. Nobody was injured.

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An employee at a nearby business recorded a video of the brazen crime that went viral after it was posted on TikTok, a video-sharing mobile app and website where the clip had been viewed 1.5 million times by Friday.

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Investigators have obtained

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Louis Vuitton seizes the men’s jewelery opportunity

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That said, it was also designed with women in mind. “I was briefed to do a men’s collection, but I felt like having to differentiate collections by gender feels a little old-fashioned. This collection has a scale and a size element to it that is considered men but at the same time, it’s also made for women. I’m going to wear it for sure,” says Amfitheatrof, who was also behind the launch of LV Volt, the brand’s successful unisex line of fine jewellery, in 2020.

A men’s collection lends itself to experimenting with materials, Amfitheatrof explains: “Titanium is used in

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