“Something people never remember about is that police officers get up every morning and put on a gun.”
— Lindsay Soderlund, a Glendale resident, of potential police cuts.
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“I still make an effort to look two, three, four or five times in both directions before we cross the street.”
— Dominique Lopez, an R.D. White Elementary School parent, of her trepidation to walk on a crosswalk.
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“If there’s ever an earthquake, run for that pump station. It’s not coming down.”
— Gary Roepke, supervising engineer for the $21.5-million replacement of the Chevy Chase Reservoir.
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“Where are all the people? They’ll wake up when the tunnel is dumping everyone onto the 210.”
— Margaret Hammond, community advocate through the city’s Homeowner Coordinating Council, on the Wednesday meeting discussing the potential 710 extension.
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“The Army blessed me with my wife.”
— Frank Bacino, a Glendale resident, on why he builds patriotic monuments in his Adams Hill backyard.
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“I assumed that she was somebody’s child.”
— Ron Lanyi, English instructor at Pasadena City College, on noticing he had an 11-year-old student, Amy Lim, attending from Dunsmore Elementary School.
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“I think it’s morally wrong, and I just think God would accept any marriage as long as it’s to do with love.”
— Antoinette Palazzola, a Glendale resident who legally married her same-sex partner before Proposition 8 passed, upon hearing the state Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ban.
