Orchids to …
• Angie and Scott of Columbus Optical for their very helpful and quick reaction to helping with a student’s broken glasses.
• the Trump administration for respecting all religions.
• Zoo’Opolis for having an amazing location to interact with friendly animals in a family environment.
• Al Roszczyk for his spot-on letter in Sunday’s paper in support of our city’s current leadership.
• Gwen, Dr. Kavelman, Dr. Hollenkamp and Dr. Forbes for seeing me so efficiently and alleviating my pain and problem, from Dana.
• Al Roszczyk for his excellent letter stating the case perfectly.
• the one school board member who voted against block scheduling, for supporting teachers and learning.
• Brian and Suzie Singer for the colorful spring bouquet of flowers, from Betty Holder.
• Ruth Quillen for the delicious sour cream nut cake for Easter, from Betty Holder.
• the maintenance man, Andy, at Parkside Court.
• the nice man that mowed my yard and didn’t charge me.
• The Republic carrier in Edinburgh who has been so kind on very rainy days and foggy days to put a senior’s paper on the porch, from Judy.
• Lori Borgman, for her article about Easter in Saturday’s Republic.
• John Vanderbur, for the excellent letter to the editor.
Onions to …
• uninformed people who are against city projects solely because they are the ideas of the current administration.
• the local various religions that are not conducting a community prayer service for the Christian victims of the bombings on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.
• Those who forgot decency left the Oval Office when Richard Nixon got involved in Watergate.
• those who do not recognize that Christians are under attack, with 320 killed.
• the school official who said teachers had input on block scheduling.
• the letter writer who claims that the mayor has made us all feel valued and that our opinion is important when we’ve not all been made to feel that way.
• those Democrats always sending in letters to the paper to try to encourage people to join them in their fight against Trump instead of spending energy on figuring out how to fix roads and bridges.
• officials who turn their backs on owner occupiers in a historic downtown Columbus area.
• the slow Republicans who don’t understand that we need regulation and taxes to keep the country running smoothly as a democracy.
• the presidential candidates politicking Medicare for all, which shows they failed Economics 101.
• the writer who submitted a letter regarding the president of our country because he should read the Facebook post he referenced instead of the journalists.
Happy Birthday to …
• Abby Shute from Mrs. Erickson.
• Tammy Watson Davis, from the Garrison girls.
• Belated Happy Birthday to…
• Mary Love McMullen, from all your seat mates at St. Bartholomew Catholic Parish.
Happy Anniversary to …
• Frankie Poole on No. 9, from Brandi.
• Brandi on No. 9, from Frankie.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
