Sunday, July 05, 2009

Ponca City trip being planned

Saturday night was Movie Night at the Bradleys. There were six of us there, at the beginning. When Bob learned that the movie to be shown was one he had recently seen, he opted out, leaving just five of us. Today, I got up in time to go to church. The usual crowd was there. After talking with Edna, I think Gail and I might be doing the special music in a couple of weeks.

Marilyn called tonight and invited us over for dinner in a couple of days.

I changed the venue for Secular Singers to my house. Gail has an obligation on the 11th and will not be able to attend.

I am concerned about the situation in Ponca City. The organizer for the Atheists Meetup there felt forced to resign after a 16-year old girl wrote a letter to the paper saying that "Satan was trying to take over the city" (I'm paraphrasing here) because of the Ponca City Atheist Meetup meeting at a certain local restaurant. The restaurant owner is, or was, the organizer for the Meetup. He resigned a few days ago. We talked about this situation at Movie Night and decided to travel to Ponca City and eat at this restaurant. It's the least we can do to support the owner in these tough economic times.

The worker at the fireworks display who was injured had non-life threatening injuries. The next night there was a mishap at the Tulsa fireworks display, which disappointed thousands. In North Carolina, five people were killed in a fireworks accident there. And then somewhere else, a bridge collapsed holding people watching fireworks go off. It was not a good year for fireworks.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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