Board of Aldermen 7-14-2020 Page 34
And to the family and all of a sudden | am blanking on his name, but the young man who had passed away
through drowning, | really want to give my condolences. As it was said, this was a horrible thing to have
happened during any time, no parent should ever lose their child. So my heart goes out to them.
Alderman Lopez
So | also wanted to express my condolences to the family of Shea Patno and also to other families who
have lost children. We have lost a number of teenagers over the last couple of weeks. Because of the
distancing required by COVID-19 and all of the things that we have been going through, there isn’t as much
ability to grieve or to mourn. So | just want to remind the Nashua public that this is not over, this pandemic
is more than just news media articles and it’s more than just full ICU beds. This is a problem that we are all
facing together and it is really important to reach out to your neighbors, reach out to your friends, your
family. Reach out for the support you need and offer it to other people too because it is a very difficult time.
People are suffering and they have less ways to make their voices heard with that suffering.
It is also very important to continue wearing masks. | want to make Latha Mangipudi and her maskateers,
Pagma, for continuing to provide me with masks, I’ve still be handing them out to people in the community
that are in need of them and restaurants that are in need of them. Just because people are back at work
again, that doesn’t mean they have unlimited resources, it doesn’t mean that you can get protective gear as
soon as you need it. And a lot of the earlier gear has kind of been worn out, like the initial cloth we had. So
there’s a still a huge need for that. There’s still volunteers that are working with it and | want to thank
everyone who is continuing to wear a mask even if they are uncomfortable, in order to protect and look out
for other people. Thank you.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, Madam President. | would like to send my condolences to the family of Paula Moquin Burpee
who passed away. Paula group up in Nashua; she was a neighbor, she was a daughter of Ed and Dorothy
Moquin. She was a friend of our family as well. | want to express my condolences to her sister Mary Anne
and her children Adam and Sarah and their children.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | wanted to start by offering my condolences as well to the parents of Shea Patno. | saw the
firetrucks race by and | was hoping for a better outcome so | feel for them greatly right now. | also wanted
to highlight and thank the School Board and the Reopening Task Force for the hard work that they are
doing right now to look at what our scenario here in Nashua will be for opening the schools. It is a hot topic
right now and | know they are doing the hard work to make sure that everybody is going to be safe and that
teachers in this City feel that they are valued as well, because they do incredible work. So it’s not an easy
task and | just wanted to say thank you.
And then | left my comments to the end here, the incident down on Main Street. It’s been an especially hard
time for everybody right now, especially feeling it as people of color. That was a really hard video to watch
but | was definitely, it was nice to see our City come forward and say, “This doesn’t happen here and we
won't stand for it”. | spoke to George Russell this morning and he said, “People need to stop thanking me
for doing it, it was the right thing to do”. And | really appreciated that stand. So | am incredibly grateful for
everyone who stepped up and took our calls and for all the constituents who went out and said, “this is not
ok”.
