ALEXANDRIA — Someday, if Fairmount’s Breezy Melton has her way, you might stroll the Champs-Elysee in Paris and find yourself standing in front of a BK Rootbeer stand ordering a big tenderloin sandwich — just like you can get in Alexandria.
On Saturday, 19-year-old Breezy was working the lunch rush at BK Rootbeer, 1412 N. Park Ave., dolling out big tenderloins, footlong Coney dogs and “Ham A Ramas” to a nearly full parking lot. Breezy, a Madison-Grant High School graduate and sophomore at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., is studying French and English as a second language.
“Eventually, I want to move to France and teach English there,” said Breezy, as she prepared orders with restaurant owner Randy Livezey. “Or maybe I’ll stay here and be a translator.
But then she added with a wry smile: “Someday I want to be just like Randy and open up my own root beer stand — maybe I’ll do that in France!”
BK is one of several businesses along Park Avenue — aka Indiana 9 — that are Alexandria staples. The stretch of road includes several longtime community shops, including Strong’s Market at Lincoln Center (“A Friendly Place to Shop”), Norwood Bowl and The Curve Inn.
On Saturday, friends Margaret Adams and Denise Ragsdale, both of Alexandria, were looking at flowers at Ousley’s Harvest Gardens, 115 S. Park Ave.
“They have a nice selection,” Adams said.
The women were buying coral bells and geraniums for Adams. Ragsdale was along as the flower authority.
“She’s the expert,” Adams said, “that’s why I brought her along.”
“I have four acres and I enjoy flowers and I enjoy looking at flowers,” said Ragsdale, shortly before the women placed a geranium into a red Radio Flyer wagon and they wheeled their flowers to the checkout.
Ousley’s, owned by Wayne and Sherri Ousley, has been in business for about 20 years, and at its current location for about a decade, said Dianna Etchison, a floral designer for the business.
Etchison, Frankton, spent part of her Saturday in a back room at the business, placing Gerber daisies and chrysanthemums into a vase for a church.
“Sunday morning, they’ll have fresh flowers,” she said.
Contact Shawn McGrath: 640-4883, shawn.mcgrath@heraldbulletin.com
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