“We had a very strong holiday...

“We had a very strong holiday season. We were very happy.”

-- Debra Gunn Downing, South Coast Plaza spokeswoman, on the

mall’s showing during the holiday shopping season

“It’s not even going to bid to fix two potholes. Where are we ever

going to recoup the use of our infrastructure to accommodate this if

the vendors don’t even make $13 a day?”

-- Paul Wilbur, a Costa Mesa resident who keeps track of city

happenings, on the Orange Coast College swap meet’s lack of value. It

contributed about $29,000 in sales tax in 2001

“It’s 10 times worse because the wind is blowing off the four-way

stop signs at the blacked-out intersections. No one’s stopping,

people are trying to beat each other, and it’s kind of scary.”

-- Steve Stafford, while driving down Bristol Street in Newport

Beach during the winds earlier in the week, on temporary signs set up

because of the power outages

“We’ve had several boats off their moorings. Earlier, a sport

fisher got torn off the docks.”

-- Herbert Siegmund, an Orange County Sheriff’s Harbor Patrol

deputy, on the same winds’ doing in the harbor on Monday

“Scrap the study, scrap the bridge, and start building our

community.”

-- Paul Ables, a Costa Mesa resident, suggesting that the City

Council save taxpayers’ money by not studying a 19th Street bridge as

proposed by the Community Redevelopment Action Committee

“How can you not like Chief [Dave] Snowden? That’s just not just

not possible.”

-- Burt Santee, a Costa Mesa Police sergeant, on Snowden, who’s

retiring from the Police Department after 16 years as chief