Her instructions were to stay back and when people started to falter, she made her move. Once she was ahead, I knew no one would catch her. The other runners looked like they were wearing down, and she looked like she was just warming up.

I don't believe you should give up this community for this building. If you rezone this thing to M-1, you would be signing the death warrant for this community.

There hasn't been the clarion call to get up and boogie.

That's not a place for that animal any more than for a zebra or polar bear.

She's a good captain. When you are that good (at running), you get that kind of respect right off the bat. She's a good person - a nice young lady. She's easy to approach, but when you run like she does, she automatically gets respect.

This is not Bambi. You can't think of these things as cute cartoon characters. They are animals.

I have nothing to hide. I've had my ups and downs, and went through something 20 years ago. I've been ridiculed and persecuted, but I'm not bitter. I've gone through an enormous change, and now my life is driven by Christ.

To finally get a national championship - she worked so hard and she deserved it. It is hard to come by. There are lots of good runners in our division, but it was well-deserved with how much she wanted it and how hard she worked. She's the best female distance runner we've ever had here - and we've had some good ones, but she heads the list. She's going to be hard to beat.

We are very pleased to sponsor this program; a follow up to our highly successful conference last April. We believe that the time has come to inform and educate the county on the power and influence of this little known and underreported dimension of the Religious Far Right.