People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“We’re hoping that someone will hear us, someone will have enough force to actually reopen the case and get something moving and bring resolve.”
— LaVonda (Croft) Deloney speaking about her family’s next steps after the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office decided not to reopen its case on her sister Kim Croft’s 1987 homicide.
“That’s going to be the biggest architectural loss that we’ve experienced in a very long time.”
— Preserve Chattanooga Director Todd Morgan on the expected demolition of the former Medical Arts building on McCallie Avenue.
“It’s unfair because in ways we’ve all gone through the same things, and we’re the same kind of person. We went to high school, we went to middle school, we both graduated and we both try to work and make our own money to help out our parents. So why is it fair for her to be incarcerated, detained and we’re not? There’s no difference there. She’s Ximena, and I’m Emilie, that’s the only difference, and she’s a good person. I like to believe I’m a good person, so I don’t see why I get to be free, and she doesn’t get to be free.”
— Emilie Meza about her friend Ximena Arias-Cristobal’s detention in ICE.
“When the county supported Erlanger’s transition to a nonprofit hospital, we didn’t envision multimillion dollar deals for stadium naming rights. I am very supportive of Erlanger hospital and its current leadership, but at a time of severe nursing shortages and quality of care concerns, this decision is hard to explain.”
— Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp on the naming rights deal for Erlanger Park, the forthcoming home of the Lookouts.
“We’ve prepped up a lot yesterday evening. We cut our own cabbage for the slaw… made another batch of chow chow, we’ve got 150 pounds of dry beans that we put on this morning. Lord, I don’t know, I’m sitting on about 1,600 pounds of chicken and about 800 pounds of wings.”
— Dusty Bradshaw owner of Bea’s restaurant prepping for 75th anniversary $1 all you can eat lunch.
“I think one thing that stood out to us is that Brent Marsh had a job, just like everybody else. But we all sort of have our own jobs, and we all do our jobs to varying levels of energy, of good and bad. Sometimes we do good jobs, sometimes we do poor jobs. Sometimes we have good days, sometimes we have bad days. And I think, you know, in the end, if you can think of nothing else about Brent Marsh, you’d say that, like, he had a job, and his job was to run a crematory. He didn’t do the best job of that, but it was a job of his, and it’s kind of a job that most of us couldn’t do.”
— Shaun Raviv on newfound insight into the 2002 Noble, Georgia, crematory scandal following the production of his podcast, “Noble.”
“This was not a financeable project by any normal banking standards.”
— Chattanooga Lookouts Managing Owner Jason Freier, thanking the five banks that funded the deal for the team’s new stadium.
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