Week in Review

“It’s usually easier to break down the house of cards than it is to build it.”

— Oscar Gonzalez, site engineer for the Chevy Chase Reservoir replacement project, on the structure’s nearly completed demolition.

“I’m tired, as some of my colleagues are, of being called a racist.”

— Councilman Dave Weaver, responding to critics of the absentee ballot application ordinance that passed Tuesday night on a divisive 3-2 vote.

“I’m not happy with how much money we have coming in. I want it over a million.”

— Liz Goodknight, the school district’s energy manager, on her goal for how much the school district should be saving by conserving energy.

“When you have difficult and challenging times, you sort of have to establish a clear focus and narrow your energies.”

— Chuck Sambar, member of the board of education for the Glendale Unified School District, on his interest in honing the board’s priorities for the coming school year in light of proposed state cuts to education.

“You’d be hard-pressed to say it was the Turkish flag. Really, honestly, it seems sensationalized. . . . I really saw a kid’s drawing.”

— St. Peter Armenian Church FatherVazken Movsesian on a piece of vandalism spray-painted on the church. Police said the graffiti depicted a crescent and star, symbols found on the Turkish flag, and are treating the act as an anti-Armenian hate crime.

“I heard from the students that there was a nudist colony or satanic place.”

— The Rev. Mother Sudha Ma, spiritual leader of the Ananda Ashrama, on her first impressions of the La Crescenta spiritual community.