Quotes of the week

Published 12:00 am Friday, September 28, 2012

“In my class, you’re not going to go to Walmart to get a notebook and dividers. All of the notes are in the (Internet) cloud.”
Amie Williams, Carson High teacher
At STEM Matters event touting Rowan-Salisbury schools’ use of technology
“We are disappointed but not deterred.”
Sam Foust
Salisbury Housing Authority
On not getting $18 million federal grant for West End revitalization
“We can get things done that have been put off for the past 10 years.”
Johnny Love, fair manager
On Rowan County’s sale of the fairgrounds to the Rowan County Fair Association
“How they found me is just an amazing process. My brother said, ‘Is this for real?'”
Lynn White Polasit
On receiving the Purple Heart that had been awarded to her uncle 69 years earlier