LAGUNA FESTIVAL FIGHT

“The day after the festival board voted 5-0 late Tuesday to move the Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters to a bigger site in San Clemente, artists and other opponents of the move vowed to step up their fight. ‘We will not allow this to happen. They may go, but the festival will not go with them. The artists will not go. The pageant people indicated they will not go and volunteers said they will not go’.” – Orange County Register 08/17/00