Nichols Institute Fills Vital Need

The court decision Friday to allow the Nichols Institute development near Caspers Park is welcome news.

In spite of the many offers made over the years, the Nichols’ proposal was the only one accepted because of the noble use to which the institute would put the land. The institute designs equipment, systems and procedures by which medical discoveries can best be applied to the patient, and does critical analysis of blood and tissue. It has been in San Juan Capistrano for five or six years while waiting for water supplies and sanitary systems to be engineered for its permanent, but rather remote ranch site.

When relating the institute’s intended land use, the issue raised by opponents was beyond my understanding. I’m sure that other creatures exist within this recent addition to Caspers Park, but over the past 25 years I’ve noticed only coyotes, lizards, hawks, rabbits, mice, crickets, ants and spiders. At any given time the lizards are busy feeding on the spiders and crickets; the hawks are stalking the mice and lizards, and the coyotes are concentrating on the rabbits, as one would expect.

We are fortunate that there will soon be 101 acres nearby where one of the species on this earth is engaged in an attempt to preserve and enhance the quality of life, particularly that of man which, in my view, is the most endangered of them all.

WARREN W. WILSON

Dana Point