SUNDAY
"Reservoirs may prevent fish passage. But what are we going to do? Are we going to tell people they have to go other places to live? Those are going to be the hard discussions that have to take place nationally."
- Michael Barber, director of the state of Washington Water Research Center in Pullman, referring to one of the solutions to water scarcity being discussed, creating reservoirs for storage of water.
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"You pretty much have to dissect a book, clean it, and try to stick it all back together again."
- Jennifer Jouas, a book conservator at Washington State University's Terrell Library, who is working to restore books that were improperly conserved in the 1970s and 1980s.
MONDAY
"Nobody likes seeing bears in captivity. But these guys are really ambassadors for the rest of their species."
- Veterinary cardiologist O. Lynne Nelson at the Natural Resource Sciences Bear Research Center at Washington State University, who conducts research on bears at the center.
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"You don't have to tee off in a designated area. You can kind of make up your own rules."
- Craigmont Lions Club President Steve Riggers, describing the new nine-hole disc golf course the club built in the city.
TUESDAY
"They're going to drill regardless. Hawkins is doing this on their own. They are not willing to gamble with Moscow."
- Whitman County Commissioner Jerry Finch, referring to the Hawkins Companies shopping center development on the Washington side of the state border with Idaho. Finch says construction has been delayed by a "stalling technique" of the city of Moscow, which has been negotiating with Hawkins to supply water to the development in spite of opposition to the project.
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"I'm not so confident that for the money we have been putting out we have been getting the best possible service. I don't recall the vendor coming to us with ideas to improve services."
- Lewiston City Councilor Jim Kluss, advocating for the city to take over providing public transportation from Valley Transit. Kluss says the city could provide an expansion of services if it gets into the transportation business.
WEDNESDAY
"People are scrounging on their financial stuff so far that they're not keeping up on their routine maintenance. You're going to see a lot more disabled folks on the side of the road who bought gas instead of getting a tuneup. People run them until they pretty near die."
- Eric Davis, owner of Eric's RV Performance Center in Sequim, Wash., who attended the Life on Wheels RV conference at Lewis-Clark State College, noting fuel prices have put a big dent in his maintenance business.
"It's more fuel than anything. The problem is Idaho is a long way off, no matter where you are."
- Life on Wheels founder Gaylord Maxwell, saying he received about 80 cancellations of reservations for the conference.
THURSDAY
"According to our elders, this is the first modern-day incident like this. I believe it was a hate crime."
- Dave Penney, a member of the Talmaks camp police force, discussing the incident at the annual church camp where a pickup truck with four "cowboys" allegedly drove through the camp shouting racial slurs.
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"It's not about losing control; it's about maintaining control."
- Rob Lohrmeyer, the dean of Lewis-Clark State College's professional-technical programs, talking about the school's new Motor Safety Training Center, a North Lewiston training facility to be built this summer. The center will feature a skid pad for training truck drivers.
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"If it's roadless, leave it roadless. If there's a road, get rid of the gate."
- Lynn Jackson of Clarkston, organizer of the American Outdoor Alliance, a group in Asotin County formed to protest the closing of roads on public lands in the Blue Mountains and beyond. The group is focusing on a road along the North Fork of Asotin Creek.
"For us to put that road back to make it usable for jeeps and full-size campers and trucks, we would have to literally fill the creek in and move the stream channel. That is a lot of work and hydrology permits. Given the presence of threatened steelhead in there and bull trout, I just don't think that it is going to happen."
- Bob Dice, manager of the Blue Mountains Wildlife Areas for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, saying the road on Asotin Creek washed out in the floods of 1996 and is impassible for full-sized vehicles about a mile past the gate.
FRIDAY
"We'll take a real good look at it. Who would expect your backup system to go with your primary?"
- Nez Perce County Commissioner J.R. Van Tassel, discussing the crash of the county's computer hard drives and the backup system, which caused the loss of a lot of data. The information was recovered.
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"A lot of people told us we need to go to Arizona. Well, I've seen pictures and it looks like a giant trailer court. We lived in trailer courts for a long, long time."
- Bertha Hager of Kamiah, who, with her husband Roger, enjoys an active retirement in north central Idaho.
SATURDAY
"I was sitting with a pair of pocket sevens and drew a seven, queen, queen at the flop, giving me a full house of sevens over queens. My opponent had pocket aces and was betting on two pair, and he caught another ace at the river when I was all in."
- Duane Miller of Asotin, describing the hand that cleaned him out at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas earlier in the week.
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"I know it is a full-on pedal-to-the-metal job. I'm somebody who can deal with volume. That is how I've always worked."
- John Judge, a Moscow lawyer, on being appointed to be the new magistrate judge in Latah County Friday.
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Quotes of the week are compiled by Eldy Schultz of the Tribune.