Streetwise Streetwise (September 03, 2004)

What does Labor Day mean to you? Asked at Farmers Market

Donna McCarthy
Highcrest Court
It's a day to recognize everyone in the trades and in labor. In my home it's also a day when everyone in the family pitches in and works around the house as school starts and summer ends.

Fred Norman
Pleasanton
I'm from upstate New York and Labor Day was when all my summertime friends went back to their homes in the big cities to go to school. So it has significance as the end of the summer holidays and the start of a new season. I was also born on Labor Day, which that year was Sept. 2.

Tom Brown
Sunnyvale
For me, Labor Day is a special day when we recognize the importance of workers in America.

Bill McCannon
Fire Chief, Alameda County Fire Department
It honors the hard work of the people who make our country run. Everything that happens in this country is the result of somebody putting their hands to the grindstone to make it happen, so we honor all those laborers.

Eileen Manger
Florian Street.
It honors all the workers in the U.S. It's also a special day because my husband Tom and I were married on Labor Day.

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