• March 12
Orchids to …
• Bryan K. Hawley, for 40 years of service at Dorel in Columbus, from Mother and Frank and your family.
• the gentleman who helped me pick new wiper blades for my car at Advance Auto, from Betty.
• the kind and helpful employee at Lowe’s for a much-needed help with a ladder, from a satisfied customer.
• Chrystal at Best Buy for all your help, from Emily.
• Adam, at Verizon for all your help, from Emily.
• businesses supporters of Columbus Sunrise Rotary’s CANstruction: Burt’s Pest Control, Enkei, German American Bank, Johnson Witkemper Insurance, Lohmeyer Plumbing, Residence Inn Marriott, Salin Bank, Taylor Brothers Construction.
Onions to …
• a former sheriff rejecting on-call pay for city road workers.
• the city of Columbus for paying taxpayer money to employee specialty firms to advise our local council on everything from human resource issues to where to build a building or park.
• the letter writer who doesn’t understand the tenants of the church, which is to obey God’s laws, not break them to suit man’s sinful desires.
• those who cannot accept that all people don’t believe in the Bible — different beliefs, different gods.
• whoever decided to rearrange the darkness with daylight saving time.
• those who complain about daylight saving time every six months.
• Hoosiers with beams in their own eye who revel in pointing out motes in their brother’s eye.
• neighbors who seek to justify separatist habits by taking refuge in obscure clauses of an antebellum constitution.
• those who feed their enlightened self-perception by ignoring penalties under existing laws that already distinguish among motives (e.g. murder, manslaughter, self-defense).
• those that can’t comprehend equal protection under the law and want certain classes to be just a bit more equal than the rest.
• politicians who don’t support ethical elections.
• the karaoke guys Friday night at the bar for treating me rudely and playing a bad joke on me which hurt my feelings.
• the vice president for saying he is a Christian yet overwhelmingly supporting the president.
• the state of the city’s water which, given the cost of our utility bills, should taste like mountain spring water.
• those who don’t agree that the president should try reading the Bible rather than just signing them.
• people who mistreat dogs and animals.
Happy Birthday to …
• Michael and John Shireman, from John Tinkey.
• Kimberly Milligan, from your husband.
• Sue Henderson, from a friend.
• Jeanette Reed, from her sister, Catherine.
• Andrew Crouch, from his sister, dad, mom and the breakfast club.
• Jayden Burton, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Ron Trotter, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• David Nading.
• Trey Hoover.
• Everett James Lentz, from Elsie.
• Sue Morgan, from her son, Donnie Idol, Junior, Jacob, Tiffany, Rodger Sr., Wilma, Rodger Jr., dawn, family and friends.
• Belated Happy Birthday to
• Lucy Whittington, from aunt Elsie.
