NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“After I started working out with Jill, I felt like I was somebody,

not just fat. When I lost a couple of pounds, my mom started to cry. So

did I. Finally my brother and sister stopped calling me names.”

-- Brittany Miller of Newport Beach, writing in her weight loss diary.

Miller, 10, has been participating in Tuf Production’s Teen Fitness

program.

“It feels good to talk.”

-- Bobby Ofiu, 15, as interpreted from sign language by Denise Renay

Knoblock on April 14 during the first-ever Deaf Fiesta at the Orange

County Fairgrounds.

“Easter is a terrible time to go to church. It’s so crowded. Coming to

this sunrise service is informal. It’s just wonderful. It was just

perfect.”

-- Nancy Flanagan of Costa Mesa, on attending the sunrise service held

by Christ Church by the Sea United Methodist on Easter Sunday.

“I think we need basic hospital beds and basic medical services. We

feel safe and secure where we are -- but we’re not. And I really think,

as a community, [we] need to do something about this.”

-- Dolores Otting of Newport Beach, speaking to the Newport Beach City

Council about Hoag Hospital having to turn away emergency room patients,

including her mother, for lack of space.

“It would tear my heart apart if somebody pulled the house down.”

-- Elaine Davis of Costa Mesa, speaking about the Old Pink House on

the corner of Orange Avenue and Camellia Lane. Davis, who recently

inherited the home, has said she needs to sell the property.

“Things that enhance people’s respect for the ocean can only be good.”

-- Lisa Miller, president of Shellmaker Inc., on hearing news that

Shellmaker Island will be host to a marine studies science lab.

“We’re still kind of in a state of shock about not being able to do

it, but we’re starting right away and working to see what we can do in

upcoming years. It is now the ‘Somewhat Annual Fish Fry?’ The ‘New and

Improved Fish Fry?’ ”

-- Mike Scheafer, president-elect of the Costa Mesa-Newport Harbor

Lions Club, on what happens now that this year’s Fish Fry has been

canceled.

“What am I going to do? I’m going to have to bang on doors asking for

fish. The fish was my favorite part. I have gone to every [Fish Fry] that

I can remember. It was like a Costa Mesa reunion.”

-- Diane Swarts, facilities manager at the Costa Mesa Senior Center,

on the canceling of the Fish Fry.