SAY AGAIN

A collection of the best quotes from recent news stories.

“It really means that it is something we need to look at. How can we make

sure the public understands what we’re trying to do?”

-- Serene Stokes, president of the Newport-Mesa school board, on the

failure of a school bond in Huntington Beach.

“In a way, it was a win and a loss. The win was that the supervisors are

finally looking at health care, which they’ve never really done in the

past.”

-- Jean Forbath, founder of Costa Mesa’s Share Our Selves, on a county

decision not to use money from the national tobacco settlement on health

care.

“Dad, Dad, Dad, the bobber’s going up.”

-- Alexandra Mazur, 5, who set a world fishing record this summer when

she caught an 11-pound, 4-ounce channel catfish at Laguna Niguel Lake.

“Linda Dixon and I have said that it’s insulting. It’s a very emotional

issue.”

-- Libby Cowan, Costa Mesa city councilwoman, on Santa Ana Heights

residents who want to be annexed by Newport Beach and not Costa Mesa.

“It’s been a long seven years, but it’s very rewarding when you drive

down the street and go, ‘We planted these trees.’ ”

-- Liz Meyer, president of ReLeaf Costa Mesa, on the group’s efforts to

plant 2,000 trees by the year 2000.