LAGUNA WOODS

City Councilman Bert Hack returned last week from an anti-airport lobbying trip to Washington and addressed Leisure World’s Golden Rain Foundation with what he said was promising news for the movement. Hack represented Laguna Woods as a part of a nine-person, eight-city coalition of South County activists against the county converting the closed El Toro Marine Corp Air Station into a commercial airport.

“When we started lobbying, people viewed us as speaking on behalf of a small grass-roots organization,” he said. “They dismissed us. . . . But this time, elected officials treated us differently. They saw that we have a budget of $14.5 million. They listened quite carefully.”