Community rallies to support elderly flower vendor after she was reported to police

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An 83-year-old woman selling flowers on the side of the road over Mother's Day weekend was forced to stop after another vendor reported her to the police.

An 83-year-old woman selling flowers on the side of the road over Mother's Day weekend was forced to stop after another vendor reported her to the police.An ailing 83-year-old woman, Fidelia Hernandez, was out selling flowers on a corner in Van Nuys on Friday when another flower vendor with a much larger table, doing the same thing on the sidewalk, called the police on the elderly woman.

Lesly Chavez was one of those viewers. She immediately drove to the corner of Sepulveda and Sherman Way and not only did she buy flowers from the elderly woman, but others did too. Turns out Hernandez sells flowers three days a week here at this corner making 7 dollars for each bouquet she sells. and that pays for her rent. right she pays 620 dollar a month to sleep on someone’s couch.))

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