Say Again

“People always say, ‘I wish my son were like so and so.’ My son was him.

He was the perfect son. A beautiful smile and personality. He was

rebellious, happy, a ladies’ man. He had everything.”

-- Sonja William, on her son Andre Stewart, Newport Harbor High School’s

football star who was killed in a car crash.

“Why wouldn’t they have checked him out before he got the job?”

-- Armand Charest, a Costa Mesa resident, on last week’s firing of senior

center executive director Alan M. Meyers, who is accused of falsifying

his credentials to get hired and is also suspected of having several

identities.

“Are we going to threaten to sue each other? Or are we going to take the

opportunity to elevate this issue?”

-- Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer, on the proposed El Toro

airport.

“He wasn’t coming up. I looked around and then remembered they were

looking for somebody. I reached in and pulled him up and called for help.

Really quickly, a man came running and rescuers swarmed around him.”

-- Dante Millon, who was body boarding on Thursday when a 17-year-old

Santa Ana boy drowned near the Newport Pier.

“They are getting to an age when they can look at you and love back.”

-- Jim Hodges, who with his wife, Shelly, celebrated the first birthday

of their quadruplets -- James, Jon, Melissa and Lucas.

“If you drive in from Riverside to go to the beach and you spend three

hours fighting the freeway, and then another hour looking for parking,

how many times are you going to come back?”

-- Joe Klure, manager of a Balboa store, on the “smart” parking meters

recently installed by the city of Newport Beach.