“It was like the main thing that...

“It was like the main thing that I was waiting for over the summer.

It’s probably the best park I’ve been to.”

-- Daniel Segerblom, 9, on the Volcom Skate Park of Costa Mesa,

which opened last week at TeWinkle Park.

“That was wonderful. What was best is she flew so far before she

landed again. The fact that she flew so far is such a good sign.”

-- Heather Nevill, a volunteer who cared for a pelican during

surgeries to repair the bird’s throat pouch, which some say had been

cut. The pelican, named Hope, was released in Corona del Mar on

Wednesday.

“No big corporation’s going to go in there. It has to come from

the community.”

-- Billy Stade, owner of the Closet, a fashion store that targets

hip clientele, who said he has his eye on Virgin Megastore’s store

space. The record store’s planned fall departure was disclosed

Monday.

“It affects the confidence of the market -- people start talking.

People can’t tell unless they’re sophisticated in economics.”

-- Bill Cote of the Cote Realty Group in Corona del Mar on

academic prognosticators guessing whether there is a real estate

bubble.

“It’s great news. We started from zero in the president’s budget,

and it was great to get $2 million in the House bill, but it was

really good news to know that they might bump it up even further in

the Senate bill.”

-- Susan Brodeur, a coastal engineer in Orange County’s Watershed

and Coastal Resources Division, on a proposed Senate budget bill that

includes $7 million for dredging the Back Bay.

“I’d like [UC Irvine] to be recognized for the exceptional quality

of its faculty and students. It’s a really extraordinary university

that’s sort of underappreciated.”

-- Douglas Freeman, of Corona del Mar, who was chosen last week to

head UCI’s foundation.