2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:45:05 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Laughlin Air Force Base (TX)
 
Civic leaders unveil tough measures to protect Laughlin Air Force Base


By Bill Sontag
Del Rio Live! (TX)
July 3, 2008

"You folks are a couple steps ahead of other cities in Texas." Jesse Jack Hereford, San Antonio regional director and Texas outreach director for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, applauded local business leaders and elected officials, Wednesday, July 2.

The recently-formed Laughlin Task Force, Hereford, and - all told, 25 advocates of the Air Force mission here - met at The Bank & Trust boardroom, 1200 Veterans Blvd. Task force members heard and pondered bold conclusions of a Joint Land Use Study, orchestrated by Mike Hrapla and Celeste Werner, vice presidents of Matrix Design Group.

For more than a year, Hrapla and Werner have worked closely and frequently with local civic leaders to craft a body of carefully structured action plans and recommendations to examine encroachment and compatibility issues that - depending on community action - could determine future operations of the 65-year-old Laughlin Air Force Base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/7027

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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