“A quarter is a meal; to us, a
quarter is nothing.”

— Constance McGrail, a teacher at North Hills Christian School who helped organize a ‘pack-a-thon’ where students and staff packed 26,000 meals for children
in Haiti  — at a cost of 28 cents per meal — that will be distributed by the mission
group Feed the Hunger

“It’s a bad day that you have to pull your gun out and defend
yourself.”

— Thomas Pinkham, a partner in

ForceTEC, which is renovating a former school and YMCA building to house training programs for law officers and civilians in how to respond to armed confrontations

“We feel like we’re doomed. Like we’re going to be paying for it
later.”

— Tommy Baudoin, co-owner of Morgan Ridge Vineyards in Gold Hill, on the recent spate of warm weather that has crops blooming early as the threat of a late freeze looms over farmers

“If you feel like a human, you won’t act like an animal.”

— Audrey
Cunningham,
the first black woman investigator hired by the

Salisbury Police Department, who says
officers should treat people as
they themselves want to be treated

“I’ve yet to see anyone in politics come up with some kind of protections that would increase
the safety of young, African- American men. That seems to be the only ones that are actually
being killed.”

— Michael Kirksey, speaking at a
Salisbury City Council meeting about the issue of violent crime

  

“Ain’t much to it. The car does all the work.”

— Dale Earnhardt Jr., the NASCAR driver who had just qualified for the second
starting position in the Daytona 500