We felt we wanted the community to come in and have ownership and it worked for us, ... We wanted to make sure that no child was left behind.

It's supposed to be a patriotic thing for the whole community. I would really like to see us get along.

This is a tremendous gift for us all. We believe that, by working together, the community can and will build this facility, which will serve as a focal point for arts, entertainment and the exchange of ideas.

The international community wants us to accept a proposal that, if we were to accept, would mean the end to the opposition.

But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.

Sam was the epitome of a community newspaper publisher, ... He was courageous, he was extremely interested in the community and its welfare and success, and his independence contributed greatly to making the Courier what it is today.