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Orchids to
Mr. Bud Herron for a great column.
Catholics for Choice everywhere.
the Sunday editorial about the bill censoring libraries.
Bud Herron for the excellent Sunday column, funny, but spot on! from Peggy Voelz.
library director Jason Hatton for his stance against Senate Bill 17 that proposes censoring public libraries.
the two guys who helped a lady on 25th Street dig her car out of the snow. I am very grateful.
Ed Cherlin.
the CSA cheer squad winning the EBL Cheerleading competition and McCartney Roberts, Above and Beyond award winner, from Poppy.
the Republic for outstanding coverage of the elementary school basketball championships.
Larry and Melissa at Rust-Unger Monuments for the beautiful gravestone for our grandmother and grandfather.
all the snow plow drivers and others who worked through the snow and ice to keep us safe and dig us out.
Ron at Faithful Friends in Passing for taking care of our family pet with care and dignity.
John Jerius for removing the snow many times off our driveway, from your neighbor.
Jason Hatton.
Rodney Nicholson for cleaning our driveway, from the Turners.
Mickey Herron for all the snow removal, shoveling, and everything else you do on Thompson Drive, from Norma Smith.
the kind neighbor who cleared our driveway on Chipper Road.
Senate Bill 17.
the Republic’s editorial regarding the attack on libraries and librarians.
Barker Brothers Plumbing for your usual great service and prompt service, from old customers on Marr Road.
Onions to
closing a medical facility during a snow storm leaving people with no options for treatment.
the school that keeps the coach with a losing record year after year.
describing assaulting police officers and defecating in the hallowed halls of Congress as “legitimate public discourse.”
the political party calling a riot “legitimate political discourse.” People died!
the party who would vote to censure two of its members working to reveal the truth.
no emergency alert on travel conditions.
whoever plowed their alley and put all the snow across the street in my front yard.
not knowing when you register to vote, you must show your ID and proof of citizenship.
the political party punishing fellow party members trying to protect our Constitution and our republic’s democracy.
legislators trying to apply their fix to women’s rights, education, what we read and the voting system, all of which are not broken.
the political party banning books, might as well go after the internet and TV advertising next.
anyone supporting bills that are anti-librarian and anti-teacher.
not clearing many county roads including 650E and The Meadows subdivision.
not knowing flags and signs of the former federal leader in yards do not represent the entire neighborhood.
the snow remover charging an older lady $65 and doing a poor job.
the city for designing such small roundabouts that the barricades had to be taken down for snow plows.
the HOA members who won’t volunteer to serve but complain about what those who do volunteer try to accomplish.
The party for not standing up to the former leader, but coddling him instead.
morally bankrupt and shameless political party stooping to a new all-time low calling the Jan. 6 attack “legitimate political discourse.”
the national political committee calling the assault on the Capitol “legitimate political discourse.”
companies doing business with a communist country.
the very poor job clearing snow and ice from Garden Street.
paying non-essential people to stay home during the snow emergency and not paying the essentials who worked any extra.
the political party trying to censor our personal freedoms of choice in education and health.
the state official using taxpayer money to travel to a location that has nothing to do with his job or Hoosiers.
the neighbor cleaning snow on his tractor with no thought of his neighbor who used to clean his out for years.
all the people too lazy to recycle at the landfill.
legislators and school boards banning books and scaring teachers and librarians, they are making the books bestsellers.
Happy Birthday to
Beverly Brown, from Bethel Baptist Church.
Zack Simo, from the Weddle bunch.
Donna Kuhlman, from Pat and Mike.
Sonja Kirby, from your co-workers at Columbus Internal Medicine.
Happy Belated Birthday to
Kara Sue Carroll on No. 40, from Mom, Johnny, and the whole gang.
