“We have $19 million to lend, and we’d love to lend it to you. Press 3 for loans now.”
— A message on the voicemail of the west branch of the Wichita Federal Credit Union
“A lot of people get a kick out of my sign.”
— Huong “Sandy” Butler, the popular longtime owner of the Burger Stand at 17th and Mosley, who announced her return with a sign that says “Reopened under old management”
“I’ve never seen anything like it … and my mom’s house was destroyed in the April 1991 tornado.”
— Former Wichitan Kristin Peck, vice president for government and public affairs for Cox Communications in Oklahoma, in an e-mail about the massive tornado that hit Moore on Monday
“I just keep thinking Mother Nature’s got something really spectacular for us for the summer. That’s what I’m holding onto.”
— Pat Randleas, manager of the Old Town Farmers’ Market, whose crops first were delayed by a late spring and now have hail damage
“I tell people it’s OK to drink more beer. I know because I’m a doctor.”
— Blue Moon Brewing founder Keith Villa, who has a doctorate in brewing, speaking at the Wichita Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner May 16
“It’s not like I’m selling clothes out of grandma’s VW bug.”
— Holly Daley on Ginger Lily Boutique, her new traveling fashion truck that debuts at Central and Rock Saturday afternoon and will travel the city regularly
“The economic development program exists, I’m tempted to say, to irritate Commissioner Ranzau.”
— Sedgwick County CFO Chris Chronis joking at a budget hearing about Commissioner Richard Ranzau, who doesn’t believe it’s government’s job to help private businesses succeed
“Didn’t know the French were pogo stick illiterate.”
— An e-mail from Wichita producer Bob Walterscheid on a commercial he shot in the ’70s for a Chance Rides pogo stick that a French producer would like to use to help educate viewers on the history of pogo sticks
“I jokingly tell people it takes a staff of 3 over four weeks to plant and pull up the bulbs and it only takes 15 minutes to give them all away.”
— An e-mail from the Garvey Center’s Larry Weber on the center’s “Great Annual Tulip Give Away” of more than 15,000 tulip bulbs to tenants
“He’s a very popular saint.”
– John Hoskins of Saint Francis Community Services on how the Salina-based group isn’t affiliated with Via Christi on St. Francis