Orchids to …
• the state Republicans for changing their bill that gave Indiana’s top leaders huge pay raises and instead asking for a study comparing current salaries to those in other states.
• Ashlee at The Republic for her excellent customer service and for delivering our paper after business hours, from Bryon and Judy.
• members of the new administration who are trying to govern as those who elected them expected.
• volunteers in the resistance.
• Joe Donnelly for listening to your constituents.
• Don Ballman, whom we will miss, on 17 years of volunteering at Love Chapel Food Pantry.
• the Columbus Police Department for trying to slow people down who are speeding on Goeller Boulevard because it’s not a raceway.
• Denny Kubal and Dustin Renner for their letters to the editor.
• the new administration for doing what their predecessors should have done.
• our local forms of media for reporting the news and keeping us informed.
• Franciscan physicians in Columbus for very professional, confidential and complete care received at your office as well as at the Emerson Avenue location, from Robert and Joyce.
Onions to …
• those who support the new administration that has managed to needlessly insult America’s longtime allies and antagonize our enemies.
• those who think the president acted unconstitutionally by signing his order on immigration, because you should check the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 signed by Democratic President Harry Truman and used by Democratic President Jimmy Carter.
• the salesperson who calls several times a day wanting to sell me extra insurance or get me a lower credit card rate even though I’m on the no-call list.
• people who don’t know that stray cats roam.
• those who don’t realize that cashiers aren’t required to take rolled money as payment because there’s a possibility of slugs inside of the roll, but that they do have to take unrolled money as long as the person helps count it out.
• those who decry the new presidential administration, which will work and is for the common man.
• people who call animal control on dogs for destroying trash when those people don’t even put their trash in a trash can in the first place.
• those who don’t realize an immigration ban is not unconstitutional and has been done by six other presidents with no public outcry.
• anyone believing the entire world has a constitutional right to come here because it doesn’t work that way.
• the paper for not printing the plus number on the Hoosier lottery.
Happy Birthday to …
• my husband Jody Wells, from your wife, Rosie Wells.
• Justin Moss, from your Mom and all your family.
• Carolyn Bowden, Carrie Abfall and Michala Irons, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.
• Gary Poland Sr. and Teresa Satterfield, from Bethel Baptist Church.
• Wilma Huffman on No. 90, from Jan and Rick.
• Mae Bullard on No. 102, from Pat, Mike and family.
• Seleah Settle, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Cathy Barga, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Judy Eapon, from your family.
• Nevaeh Paetzel.
• Gracie Greene.
• Emma Sue Long.
• Jessie Kidwell.
• Harold Holcomb.
• Brook Sneed.
• Suzie Norman.
• Dane Konetzka.
Happy Belated Birthday to …
• Tristan Schaefer, from friends at the Moravian Church.
