Orchids to …
• the kind person who paid for the two ladies’ breakfasts at Kramer’s on Saturday morning.
• The Republic for the fine article on law enforcement officers who died in 2017, from a widow.
• Rudy at Joe Willy’s Burger Bar for looking for my lost phone, from at grateful lady.
• David Clouse at Hope Utilities for thawing out our water at The Corner Cafe.
• The Republic for publishing John Krull’s enlightening articles, from a reader who enjoys his opinion.
• Ron and Cheryl Gearries and all other carriers for delivering in this brutal weather.
• Bethel Holiness Church for a wonderful New Year’s Day dinner.
• Lowell General Baptist Church for a wonderful Watch Night service and dinner.
• the very nice young couple who paid for our dinner Sunday, New Year’s Eve, at Texas Roadhouse, after we gave them an extra coupon we had.
• Ken and Colleen Rogalski for putting up such beautiful Christmas decorations for the neighbors to enjoy, from Deb Lienhoop.
Onions to …
• the state representative more interested in dictating people’s thinking than in doing the proper business of the state.
• those who support a president who jokes about global warming when it causes increasingly destructive and devastating hurricanes.
• stores that make people use the self checkout late at night.
• the six adult children who did not give one Christmas gift to the mother who raised all of them by herself.
• the city for leaving the lane going to nowhere at Johnson Boulevard when two turn lanes are needed to turn west on State Road 46.
• those who don’t realize that lowering taxes increases tax revenue is not a true fact since the state of Kansas has proven otherwise.
• those supporting our political leader who is willfully ignorant concerning how global warming works.
• anyone who thinks that returning to the town of your birth for a government-mandated census makes you a refugee.
• people who send in letters to the editor and then call in Orchids to their own letters.
• those who would rather argue over the status of Joseph and Mary rather than the lessons of being a good Samaritan or straining a gnat.
• the person who won’t do anything about all the loud vehicles.
• those who don’t realize that the census that Joseph and Mary responded to helped fulfill prophecy of where Christ was to be born.
• the couple making unnecessarily rude comments about the young mother nursing her baby at the local restaurant and giving her dirty looks.
• the senator from Indiana who voted no to the tax cuts.
• government officials and others who are offended by fellow U.S. citizens taking a stand or a knee against injustices that occur in this country.
• Bartholomew County and Columbus for not having community centers for people to go when it’s cold.
• people who have the horse that is sitting out in the front yard with no shelter or anything in this subzero weather.
• stores that do not accept EBT cards.
• managers who let cashiers who have the flu work the register, potentially infecting the entire community.
• the owner and fans of the Colts that wanted the coach fired.
• businesses that expect you to be at work but can’t heat the building to 66 degrees and have only very cold water to wash hands with.
Happy Birthday to …
• Max Lay, from your family and Donna.
• Shirley Smith, from your friends and Bethel Baptist Church.
• Alley Griggs, from Pappaw, Mammaw and Grandma Jean.
• Bill Rothrock Sr., from granddaughter Blair.
• Tammy Clouse, from friends at the Moravian Church.
