spray-painted 300 carnations blue for a flower arrangement used during the Amgen Tour of California start in Auburn, she said. In the back of the shop are cardboard boxes assembled by Hiers before his death. And Baehr has kept a pile of poems that her son is now thinking of setting to music."He'd give you the shirt off his back," Baehr said.
Baehr first met Hiers about a year ago when she locked herself out of her shop on Mother's Day, the store's busiest day of the year.
"He asked if he could help and I told him 'No, not unless you can break in,'" Baehr said. "He said 'Sure.'"
Hiers soon became a friend, who would sit at a desk in the back of the store rattling off poetry or helping out where he could.
from Auburn Journal: Highway 49 pedestrian dies from collision injuries
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