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Community activism group undergoes change in leadership
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Longtime Newtown Florist Club executive director Faye Bush, right, has retired from her everyday role for the environmental justice organization. Gainesville civil rights activist Rose Johnson will be taking over.
Now, if she wants, Faye Bush doesn’t have to walk across the street to work anymore. And she said she’s ready for the rest, maybe a little travel, as she turned over longtime leadership of the Newtown Florist Club at 1064 Desota St. in Gainesville to another longtime vocal leader, the Rev. Rose Johnson, at the end of 2014. “I just want to do whatever I can do to encourage (others) to do things and keep (the club) going,” Bush said.