Historical Summer 2004 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Kingsbury Animal Hospital is pleased to announce the expansion of Kingsbury Grooming Services at the new facility at 420 North Skinker Boulevard. Hospital operations will run from the new building using a temporary entrance on the Skinker frontage while the construction project is completed as the old building is torn down to provide client parking and a new entrance. Watch out for the grand opening celebrations in the early fall!
The new building will provide additional space for full-service grooming facilities. Joining Vlasta Holder, Kingsbury’s resident groomer for the past twelve years, is Rose Flynn. Rose, a former Skinker DeBaliviere resident, has over eight years of grooming experience and enjoys working with all kinds of dogs and cats. Rose is well known in the neighborhood.
During the years when her two children, Meg & Daniel, were in pre-school her volunteer efforts at Grace Methodist pre-school melded into a new career direction, in which she worked as an early childhood educator at Grace Methodist and at University United Methodist pre-school.
A long-time parishioner at St. Roch’s Catholic Church, Rose then worked at the parochial pre-school for over ten years, as a teacher and then as Director of the program. Many neighborhood residents and St. Roch’s pre-school alumni will have fond memories of the diverse assortment of classroom pets which they enjoyed with ‘Mrs. Rose’ at pre-school. Guinea pigs, hamsters, birds, hermit crabs, Mrs. Muffett the tarantula, and Rex the iguana.
All were part of her pre-school classroom menagerie. Rose believes very strongly in the importance of animal companions in the lives of children and adults. Rose’s introduction to the world of pet grooming was purely accidental.
She began a part-time position as a bather in the grooming department of the Maplewood Petsmart store.
She then trained as a pet stylist, learning to set patterns on all types of dogs.
Her enjoyment of the work and the development of her grooming skills over the years led to a very satisfying career association with Petsmart stores first at Maplewood, then as salon manager at Brentwood Promenade, and serving as regional grooming academy instructor for the company.
In her non-working hours, Rose enjoys keeping up with the adventures of her family – daughter Meg, an artist currently working and teaching in Roanoke, VA, and son Daniel, who serves in the US navy and is stationed in Guam.
Her own animal companions are Otis, a border collie mix, and Beatrice, a nice little domestic short haired cat. Both are senior citizens and receive all the doting attention that Rose can lavish! Rose also enjoys doing artwork, and is an aid reader and gardener. Rose is delighted to have the opportunity of working with Vlasta Holder, Drs. Steve Brammeier and Kim Lynch, and the staff and clients at Kingsbury Grooming Services.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2004.
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