“It’s mind-boggling, to know that someone is willing to give a part of themselves. I don’t even know how to respond to that. If it were me, in the same situation, I hope I would do the same thing.”

— Don Herbert,

On new friend and local pastor Tim Jones

deciding to donate one of his kidneys to

Herbert shortly after they met

“She’s really brought us together. She always helps us think about each other.”

— Sarah Maynor,

On Emily Hall, a fellow cheerleader at China Grove Middle School who has Down syndrome

“I look at this as a new beginning.”

— Paul Woodson,

Salisbury mayor,

On top Salisbury officials meeting with new Rowan County commissioners Chairman Greg Edds and Vice Chairman Jim Greene to discuss zoning for the county-owned former Salisbury Mall

“Commerce doesn’t happen without accessibility. So, if no one can access southern Rowan and no one can access what we do have, then how do we grow our micro-economy? We’ve got to make it easy for new business to want to locate to southern Rowan County.”

— Lee Withers,

China Grove mayor pro tem,

On a long hoped-for exit at I-85 and Old Beatty Ford Road not being included in the state’s newly released 10-year transportation plan