“We want to take care of the...

“We want to take care of the field issues before they get to be a

problem and before the community starts noticing those conditions.”

-- Jaime Castellanos, assistant superintendent for secondary

education, Newport-Mesa Unified School District, on improvements to

school fields in Costa Mesa.

“The volunteers were beginning to interfere in everything, from

administrative issues to medical issues. That’s why we decided to do

away with the volunteer program. They know nothing about medicine,

but they want to stick their nose in everything.”

-- Samir Botros, the veterinarian who owns the Orange County

Humane Society shelter in Huntington Beach, on the volunteers

recently being fired.

“I gave Barry Eaton the edge because of experience. At the same

time, I did not think Linda Daigle was second best. I put them in

parity. I felt it was appropriate for me to break the tie because

they were equally qualified. Eaton had the edge on experience, but it

wasn’t going there.

-- Steve Bromberg, Newport Beach city councilman on breaking a

council deadlock to appoint Linda Daigle to a City Council seat.

“Over the last five years, I’ve done a lot of work, and it’s taken

time away from family. With what’s happened the last couple years,

it’s just time.”

-- Don Haidl on retiring from his volunteer post as an assistant

Orange County sheriff. His son, Greg Haidl, 19, is awaiting trial on

rape charges.

“The bombshell is that the district attorney is completely

abandoning the whole theory that the girl was on GHB or a date-rape

drug. Jurors after the first trial told us they did not buy the

government’s theory about GHB, anyway.”

-- Pete Scalisi, Greg Haidl’s defense attorney, on the

prosecution’s decision to drop testimony from the upcoming trial that

Haidl and two other boys used a date-rape drug to allegedly rape a

16-year-old girl.