Jennifer Hitt
medical assistant
“A bear—we have bears in this area. If I was at Lopez and I saw a bear, I would run away.”
Monique West
community support specialist
“It’s the spiders—the black widow and the brown recluse. But for me, it’s the brown ones more than the black ones.”
Armando Cardenas
farmer
“Sharks, because they confuse us as seals when we’re surfing in the water.”
Yvonne Tomaz
mom
“A skunk, because I don’t want to get sprayed. It smells really bad.”
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2015.