Group gets together at Zielger home to practice Japanese floral art

On Thursday afternoon, Malta's Toni Ziegler had fellow members of the Ikebana International- Chinook Chapter #8 – the Hi Line group – over to her house for a lesson in Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement.

"Ikebana is actually a school and it is a very structured art and translates to friendship with flowers," Sandy Dungan of Glasgow said. "It has spread all over the world to help spread world peace.

Ikebana International- Chinook Chapter #8 was started by Allie Marie Vyehara, a Chinook native. Vyehara married a Japanese man and the couple moved back to Japan around the same time th...