Around Town – February 6

Orchids to …

• Brittany and First Class Catering for providing amazing service and food for the Northside Faculty and Staff dinner last Friday night, from Crystal Stewart.

• the ladies at the Ulta Columbus location for having exceptional customer service and being really kind and considerate of people’s needs.

• Ingrid at the Elks Club restaurant for treating our bridge group like royalty.

• the current president who asked that God and prayer once again be allowed in our educational system and to restore abortion restrictions in the nation’s lifestyle, asking God’s blessing in the actions of our leadership.

• Four Seasons’ well-organized function on Tuesday.

• Nancy Pelosi.

• Sherri, Elizabeth, Ashley, Valeri, Sally, Liz, Keri, Shacara, Niesha, and Abby, and all the wonderful ladies at Sixth Tower Columbus Regional Hospital, and Dr. Barrett and Dr. Kinsey for taking care of me, from Sammy.

• Tammy Laine for the beautiful vase and the stitching around it, from Sharon.

• my neighbor Bonnie for telling me my brake light was out, from Theresa.

• Crystal at the service desk and the cashiers at Kroger for finding my pocket knife.

Onions to …

• the multiple, daily onions to a “federal elected official” which have become tedious and obsessive.

• the lady at the grocery store who whistles loudly.

• people who support an adulterer and con man, but then wonder what is happening to their children.

• the trashy half-time performance.

• the people who think it’s OK to leave their trash in a public building for someone else to clean up.

• the federal elected official whose 2020 budget shows cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, programs he promised not to touch.

• the late night comedian who used filthy, ugly, sinful wording and showed lack of respect for the leader of our blessed country.

• most of the news commentators who interpreted the speech s as a political campaign address rather than a recap of current conditions of the country, giving their personal view in lieu of original intent.

• the federal elected official who is childish.

• those who don’t agree that the State of the Union address was full of sound and fury.

• those who don’t remember when the Presidential Medal of Freedom actually meant something.

• the childish actions of federal elected officials that demonstrates their true character.

• those that think that a man who had six bankruptcies really is leading and managing a $22 trillion economy.

• the federal elected official promising to protect pre-existing health conditions when he has taken multiple steps to eliminate the current protections we have, including supporting the lawsuit that would strike those protections down entirely.

• the federal elected official for ripping up the speech.

• the hamburger shop who had a sick girl working behind the counter and spreading germs.

• the political party for not wanting America to thrive just because they don’t like the man in charge who is doing one heck of a job.

• the federal elected official for the disrespect shown by destroying a government document.

• officials for not dealing with an animal abuse case.

• officials who are more interested in playing in a muddy river than kids going to bed hungry at night.

• officials who want to smooth out a river with millions of taxpayer dollars but can’t seem to find the money to fix the streets.

• the disillusioned political party.

Happy Birthday to …

• Terry Rosenberger from your family and Donna.

• Marjorie Clouse Hull, from all her Bartholomew County friends.

• Marjorie Hull, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.

• Owen Talkington on No. 6, from Mamaw and Papaw Simmons.

ANOTHER beautiful morning