We tried to fight it when it first began, but we were a village then, and a village cannot be bound by arbitration.

When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth - I am very proud that I have stayed as I was.

We're not against the organizations, and we don't want to hurt the vets. We believe we should be paid for a fair day's work like they are in other communities.

They were using people with no police training and no certification - there wasn't one real police officer.

He's a hell of a back. We just tried to get him to fight through this because it always comes around. I think he felt he didn't have a chance and wasn't going to play no matter what he did.

We simply couldn't look the other way when it came to the village. The village is wonderful, but some of its principal buildings downtown needed reinvestment. We felt we were probably the only entity capable of helping with that reinvestment.