Orchids to …
• Susan Fields for her beautiful photo of Mt. Hood in Oregon.
• CRH and its staff for a perfectly organized COVID-19 vaccination process.
• those who have been doing the right thing by questioning authority.
• the message of Scott Keen’s excellent letter to the editor.
• those that keep their mask on.
• the letters from Greg Dinkins and Scott Keen that call out the bad behavior by our officials.
• Forbes for holding officials accountable.
• Rep. Greg Pence for standing by President Trump as a proud American.
• Lajuana Heldman for helping your sister Luretta.
• Scott Keen for his spot on letter about our local elected officials.
• all the school systems that allow grandparents to attend basketball games.
• the House of Representatives for initiating impeachment.
• Scott Keen and Greg Dinkins for their wonderful and insightful letters to the editor.
• the president who provided strong leadership, cutting our taxes, and building the border wall.
Onions to …
• the large company trying to score easy virtue points.
• the large local company reconsidering recipients of its political contributions while also reaping tax credits and abatements.
• a city spending $35 million on an overpass, but we still have to listen to midnight train horns.
• the federal elected official still wondering who it was that destroyed his business brand name.
• the columnist that does not speak for all veterans.
• the letter opposed to our congressmen.
• the local representative who has forsaken his principles and the Constitution.
• elected officials who allow their hatred for one man to risk bringing the country to its knees.
• those who make unproven excuses for the riot at the Capitol.
• the federal elected official and his political supporters.
• the mob storming the Capitol in a failed attempted to stop the certification.
• the supporters invading the Capitol building and the Capitol that let them in.
• all the police officials that need to be helping other people but are not.
• all the hypocrites on how they described last summer’s riots versus the one last week.
• the school corporation that is carelessly endangering its student body and staff.
• the federal elected official who needs to admit defeat.
• the federal elected official who ripped a national document into shreds for the whole world to see.
Happy Birthday to …
• Hetty Bateman, from your family and Donna.
• Mary McGuire, from your family.
Happy Anniversary to …
• Joey Fox on No. 27, from Mandy.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
