At the time that I started writing down notes for the news this week, Congress was still squabbling over our debt and how to help straighten it out.

I did not vote for President Obama, but he made a very sensible statement the other day. That his children spend more time on their homework than our Congress spends on trying to figure how to fix our debt. Why is it that these people we vote in don’t have a clue how to run our government? The president has all these advisers that can’t figure things out that the average smart American can.

Some of them are too busy lining their pockets and fooling around to help us. You could say what’s happened to our country, but hasn’t this been going on a long time. We say, wake up people but will they in time, I pray they do.

Our problems really started in the 1960s and 1970s when we let them tell us we could not pray in school and they were wrong. The average person did not realize they could not stop us.

Also when the sex, drugs and rock and roll things started, we being weak (me included) did nothing to stop all of this.

I remember Khrushchev saying they would whip us through our children. It’s the devil that is running America, we had better wake up.

On June 25 Oden Ridge Fire Department had the annual Founders Day Celebration with food and fireworks. There wasn’t a very good turn- out this year but those who came had a great time.

Happy late birthday to my sweet great nephew, Mark Drinkard, on June 23. His grandfather, Robert, also had a birthday on the fifth day of July. Happy birthday to my sister, Sue Shrum on the 20th.

The young kids at Journey Church enjoyed a trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Everyone had a great time.

Little Cane Mize is spending the summer with his Granny Peggy and dad, James Mize. He is having a great time playing with my great-grandchildren and going to church.

All the seniors that go to the Center enjoyed their own 4th of July celebration on the 5th with lots of food including homemade ice cream and watermelon. Ms. Bonnie Holmes and Raymond Stinson furnished the ice cream.

Mr. View is holding Vacation Bible School this week. Also, West Side Baptist is having theirs this week.

Lawrence Cove Baptist Church enjoyed revival this week. They started on Sunday and went to Wednesday.

On Thursday of last week, Billy Woodard received a new kidney and pancreas at U.A.B. At last report he is doing great and the kidney started working right away. Put him on your prayer list.

Also pray for my sweet cousin, Maudie Garnett, who is undergoing chemo again, and my friends, Dorothy Hoover and Mary McKelvey.