QUOTES

QUOTES
Community comments
Comments from participants in some of the city's neighborhood cleanups this year:
EAGLE EYE BLOCK WATCH
"It isn't where you live. It's how you live."
Robert Moore
"I don't ever want to leave the North Side. That's why we're here. We want to clean it up. We don't want to leave. We want to run out the bad."
Frances L. Singleton
"Anything I can do to help. Instead of complaining, do something."
Lois Southerland
"Just look at all the garbage [put out] along the streets."
Carolyn Harris,on evidence that the block watch's message to clean out yards is working.
"I want to live where it's clean and neat. I don't want to live where it looks like nobody lives."
Edna Pettegrew
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR BLOCK WATCH
"I see the potential for really good, solid homes."
Joyce Davidson
"I wish the houses around here would look a little better."
Ashley Duby, 13
"I wanted to help our earth and our environment."
Danyaro Boatwright, 8
STREETSCAPE 2002 and ST. ELIZABETH HEALTH CENTER
"I just wanted to start ... to contribute."
Ken Englishof Canfield, a branchmanager for Metropolitan Bank, whichhas downtown headquarters.
"We are their neighbors. It's important to be good neighbors. This is our area, too."
Kathy Scheelof Canfield, a member of the Junior League of Youngstown,which has an office nearSt. Elizabeth Health Center.
"You don't have an island here. It's the whole community."
Lisa Parish of Hubbard,who works at St. Elizabeth.
"You don't want Youngstown to be dirty. You want to clean up."
Corey Kupensky, 13,of Masury, whose mother works at St. Elizabeth.
"It's an air of caring. You want your city to look like your yard."
Linda Hoefertof Youngstown, whoworks for the city.
"We work down here and want to make it nice."
Sherry Blakeof Youngstown, anaccountant at Cohen and Co., downtown.