Orchids to …
• the CRH vaccination center for being so organized and pleasant, a great service for our community!
• the store placing a “Now Hiring” sign where panhandlers congregate.
• Democrats last year putting country over politics and voting for Trump’s $2 trillion CARES Act COVID-19 relief, despite it helping the former president.
• President Biden for ordering teacher vaccines from the federal supply.
• Barbara Turner, Rick McClure, Martha Weekly, Lexi and Emmy Jones, Sophia Ortman and everyone who made our first fish fry at the Anderson Center a huge success, from the Anderson Center Board.
• the city for the ordinance allowing fireworks on Diwali!
• President Biden for getting out vaccines and getting the economy back on track.
• Steve Morrison with Burt’s Pest Control for Termite Technician of the year, great article.
• Musillami’s Drive-In for giving us the first sign of spring, from your No. 1 ham salad fan.
• Larry Isbell for another wonderful article.
• John Foster for his great article on brushing up on civics.
• the two kind gentlemen at Dairy Queen who helped pick me up after I had fallen outside.
• the EMTs and paramedics who are going to go and vaccinate homebound people.
Onions to …
• elected officials who are against coronavirus relief for Hoosiers and fellow Americans.
• those who always toss undocumented migrants into any discussion no matter the original subject.
• the principal for holding students accountable for their grade during eLearning and hybrid and not allowing them to do spring sports.
• the school system for not allowing middle and high school students do spring sports because of grades.
• those claiming “people were in crisis,” no, they were “people committing a crime.”
• those who need to take care of their own cars and not waste $43 for someone else to wash and sweep it out.
• the bill prohibiting doctors from refusing to perform abortions despite their religious views, that’s not equality.
• states putting their foot on the gas when it comes to not wearing a mask.
• those who give up our energy independence to prove a point.
• those crediting anyone other than stem cell technology for vaccines.
• the homeowners association enforcing such strict regulations that people feel unwanted and are moving out.
• the elected official who seems to prefer insurrection to legal voting.
• those who bragged about their Jan. 6 Capitol activities yet think it’s unfair their statements are now being used against them.
• throwing millions into a riverfront project that may never be used.
• Businesses that closed their doors forever instead of finding a way to adapt and overcome executive orders which have been the real threat.
• renaming the virus, leading to violent attacks on Asian-Americans and Asians.
• leaders who are pushing voter suppression rather than voter expansion.
• the current federal elected official’s policies that are strangling our recovery from the virus.
• not allowing fireworks 365 days a year.
• the crisis of national leadership.
• the current minimum wage, figure in taxes and living expenses, it’s hard to call it living.
• the political party reduced to a cult of personality.
• the former leader who was like a hijacker taking control of an airplane while the passengers cheered him on and now the plane is disintegrating.
• the previous administration approving a tax cut that allowed Amazon to pay zero taxes.
• the federal elected official who lets all the illegals come in.
• people who walk across the street from their workplace, stand in the alley, and throw their cigarette butts on other people’s property.
• a vaccine that put my friend in a hospital after her second shot.
Happy Birthday to …
• Barbara West, from Margie.
• Ken Erickson on No. 80, from your family.
• Rosie Hess from your family and Donna.
• Rosie Hess, from your family and Donna.
• Lillian Gray on No. 12, from Mom and Dad.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
