Article leaves one yearning for more...

Article leaves one yearning for more

I think this is a wonderful article (A Closer Look, “Residents

ask, ‘whose flight is it anyway?’” Monday), but what I am displeased

at is that there is no answer in there. There’s no numbers, not

anyone to reach, no specifics for Costa Mesa residents to call

anybody to complain to or let them know that we don’t want this to

happen and that needs to be published, especially when you’re making

an editorial about, we don’t want this, let the residents speak out

and give them somewhere to speak up to. We would love to do that and

if it’s printed there it would be much easier.

JEANIE FERRIS

Costa Mesa

El Toro would only add to pollution

I see Richard Taylor, Shirley Conger (Community Commentary, “El

Toro airport needs to fly,” Saturday), Bonnie O’Neil and others are

still attempting to push an airport at El Toro. It amazes me that

they think that they can get people to believe that that is the

answer to overhead flights with air pollution, noise, etc. That is

hogwash. It would only produce more flights, more pollution and more

noise as well as congestion on the freeway. Turning El Toro into a

huge commercial airport is no solution. It would only add to the air

traffic that everyone is complaining about.

ANN MERRITT

Corona del Mar

Many have fought JWA expansion

I was very interested in the fact that someone is still commenting

that there are people who care about the airport and the El Toro

situation (The Bell Curve, “Some haven’t dropped their gloves for the

El Toro fight,” Aug. 29).

I am 80 years old. I fought the airport when they first brought

the jet in for one month. We had a paper that had signatures from

Buddy Ebsen, from John Wayne, from different people who had lived

here quite a long while, somehow those papers got lost.

My neighbor and I walked the area and got signatures where no one

wanted that first airplane to come in to John Wayne Airport. Now

after John Wayne was dead and could no longer speak his peace, they

had the temerity to turn around and name it after him. His comment to

me when I went to his home and he invited me in with my neighbor,

Marilyn Palmer, we sat in his living room, he gave us coffee, and

discussed the airport situation. He said in no way did he want that

airport to be anything but what it is right now, which was a little

private plan airport. He said this is heaven on Earth, he didn’t want

it to change.

The airport to me has spoiled one of the loveliest neighborhoods

in the whole world, but I want the fact that people who need to go

back and forth to use the airport to be able to still do it, but I

resent very much the people of South County who feel that their area

should be absolutely pristine of anything that would be disturbing.

What about the times they come up and use the airport at John Wayne.

They feel that we are being very selfish by not enlarging and would

invade them by going down there to use El Toro.

Those Marines fought for Newport Beach as well as Irvine, which

didn’t come here for quite awhile after Newport Beach was

established, so I sort of feel that the Marine area should belong to

all Americans within the vicinity and that we have not been informed

properly, at least those people in this area have not been informed

properly, as to the underhanded way that the South County promoted

Measure W.

JANE COURTNEY

Newport Beach