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Stone Mountain-Redan Patch: Quotes of the Week

Here's a roundup of several quotes from articles that appeared on Stone Mountain-Redan Patch Oct. 16-22.

"It's changed me dramatically. I ride my motorcycle way more than I ever used to and I'm always willing, raring to go. My sense of humor has increased. I'm a lot more tolerable of other people that have issues."

-Paula Sword, breast cancer survivor, on how her experience has affected her life. .

β€œWe are not abandoning our instructors. The parks and recreation department will help to promote any classes that instructors offer. This will be a partnership. We will help them.”

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- Marvin Billups, deputy director of DeKalb Parks and Recreation, on instructors being contractors, not employees. .

"They're so non-aggressive. They're inside dogs, and they're quiet and calm. They get excited for a minute, and that's about it."

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-Carl Viener, of Adopt-A-Greyhound, describing the breed. .

"She tends to get overexcited by the presence of cats and thinks they make better toys than friends, so it' s best her forever home is kitty free."

-Susan Leisure of Atlanta Animal Rescue Friends, describing Sally, a pit-bull mix puppy who needs a home. .

"I'm excited to have another place to run in. But they need to be good to the people that are here."

-Betsy Hall, co-owner of Hall's Flower Shop and Garden Center, on a proposed Walmart on Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain. Hall asked that the planned store not have a landscape component. .


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