Dale Green
Salvation Army bell ringer
“Very. I wouldn’t be working where I am if I wasn’t optimistic.”
Barbara Filegar
retired
“Yes. You have to be in an economy like this. And some of us have already lived through the Depression as children. So we already learned how to live very frugally.”
Dan Mounts
server
“I’m optimistic because my restaurant hasn’t started playing Christmas carols yet.”
Ted Richardson
tasting room attendant
“I’m optimistic because people will always drink wine.”
This article appears in Dec 4-11, 2008.