Don Edwards Quotations

We are not as busy as we will be, because many of the new students have not discovered us yet.

I don't feel like my ownership of property in this area affects my ability to make an objective decision,

We were just poking around and we're barely making wages.

We ask all those tens of thousands of people who stood in line to view the body of Coretta Scott King to march with us.

We all got together to try to address the issues about not having enough literacy and basic skills classes for the Lynn community. We spent four months discussing our roles and goals and we decided we needed to seek a planning grant that could help us move this along a little faster.

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

They've got a good basketball team and they played well. We didn't play well and when you don't play well against good teams, you get beat.

I just want to continue to make good decisions that will affect everyone in the community in a positive manner,

I fully expect a traffic light will be put in at Diana Drive and Main Street.

I gave the orders to salvage it, ... I think that whistle belongs to the citizens of Canton. I didn't want it going to a scrap yard for brass.

The Dixie was a place where everyone went, all levels of society. You could see the town mayor sitting next to the town drunk, ... It's really the passing of a landmark.

The Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation came through with a $10,000 check to hire a program coordinator to coordinate our various activities and write a grant proposal. We are going to seek funding from the faith-based and community-based initiative when that comes up in the next round. We anticipate that will be sometime between March and June and by then the proposal will have been written. Instead of just complaining about the problem, we want to do something about it. Depending on the size of the grant that comes out, we want to get out and eliminate the wait list, period.