Orchids to

Mancino's booth at Ceraland for helping us and giving us water when we were fixing up our son's memorial, from the family of Caleb Whittington.
Henry Mechanical for fixing my air conditioning and saving me a lot of money.
Rose for excellent service to your newlywed customers at Papa's Deli, from David and Jennifer.
the ladies at Lawyer's Title for always going the extra mile, and to Lori and Lynn for staying past 9 on Friday night to get my client closed on his new home, from Barb Masters.
the United Way for recruiting volunteers for the benefit concert for Marysville and all the volunteers who graciously gave their time on Saturday and endured the heat, from Do it for Your Neighbor.
Texas Roadhouse for the awesome grill I won and for loading it up, from Faith Chapman.
the Seymour 8-and-under purple softball team for winning the district championship, from Ronnie Smith.
Renner Motors Collision Center for the wonderful service in repairing my Honda, from Tim Wenzler.
my daughters and their families, sons and their families and everyone who helped make my 80th birthday wonderful, from Lola King.
Doug Showalter and his return to making our Sundays brighter with his column.
Paul and Amanda Arnold and Julie Lowe for spearheading the Summer Music Fest benefiting the Marysville tornado victims, from Lee Trapp.
Indianapolis for doing a fireworks ban.
Marty Koch for cutting the tree limb that fell on my roof during the storm, from Ron and Lois Brondyke.
city for canceling all the evening ball games last week.
family and friends of Papa Hawkins for birthday party at the fire station, from Donna Hawkins.
Gary Scroggins for his beautiful photos in the newspaper.
Becky, Perry, Cathy, Syndey and David for the fabulous food at Bill's party Saturday.
the neighbors in the 4200 block of Washington Street who worked very hard to remove storm debris from my roof.

Onions to

whoever permits all the bicyclists and all the dogs at the farmers market.
people who text in the movie theater.
restaurant on West Indiana 46 for doing nothing to help the stray dog Saturday morning.
dark SUV whose occupants use country roads as their trash dump.
rude cashier at a local greenhouse who lost a sale and a customer.
employers who disregard the state smoking law and still let employees smoke in public business with no concern for secondhand smoke.
water company for charging sewer fee when customers are watering their grass.
people who try to take advantage of good customer service by wanting more and something for nothing.
The Republic for telling me that they do not have the time or the papers to deliver to me for my missed paper on Sunday morning.
city administration for not taking into account the cost of the personnel and company that would do the billing for ambulance services.
station that changed its music format.
whoever painted the back of the street signs black on Fifth Street between Lafayette and Pearl.
ambulance service issues occupying four days of front page news and no coverage of the big storms affecting Ohio and other states.