Board of Aldermen 06-22-2021 Page 20
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President. |, too, am glad to be back in the chambers. | have to admit is feels a little odd
and | don’t have slippers on today. | have real shoes so it’s a little different too. I'm also glad to be back here
after spending a week at St. Joe’s as| referred to it as the casa de St. Joe’s spa wmere | had a beautiful
backless gown and wonderful massages, etc. It’s an incredible facility and lm grateful that Nashua has that
here. They took very good care of me for this past week and | truly appreciated it. Having gotten out of the
hospital so soon, | wasn’t able to attend the Juneteenth which really kind of depressed me as far as that was
concerned.
I'd also like to kind of mention the fireworks and I’m glad that that was brought up. Anumber of years ago |
had two constituents that were affected by the fireworks — both Veterans, both PTSD Veterans. One of them
was taken out by ambulance and was not returned home for over 90 days because of the effect that the
fireworks happened. Another constituent was actually tortured. As each person set off the fireworks, they
yelled out that person’s name. Number 1 is fireworks being set off within the city limits is illegal. | found that
was not just cruel it was evil what that person did but they are illegal. The affect Veterans, they affect just
children, they affect wildlife, and they affect animals. Having Greyhounds that are very, very affected by this
and have been known to have heart attacks over this, |am extraordinarily sensitive to it. | hope that with this
year opening up and having the 4" of July that people will just enjoy the professional fireworks that are put out
there and not set them off although we are hearing them.
As a great granddaughter of Napoléon Andorila Viante, I’m sad that I’m going to miss the thing on Thursday. |
like many of my colleagues here will be sitting in our House session at the Bedford Sports Complex to vote on
that budget. So it does sadden me that! can’t be there. | thought it was originally on the 25'" and then | heard
it was the 24th and it was just really kind of ...
I'd like to echo something that Alderman Dowd said. | think it was uncalled for and unkind the attack on new
employees, especially our City Clerk. As she is one of my constituents as well as the City Clerk, | can tell you
that she did trial by fire at the last election and | think she did a phenomenal job. fm grateful that we had her
there. She had big shoes to fill from the previous Clerk and | think she did a phenomenal job and | want to
thank her personally for everything that she did.
| do want to do a Me Too to the Mayor for allowing the children in the suite. | think that is a better use. | think
they would appreciate it a whole lot more than we would so! think that’s a brilliant idea and thank you so much.
For all of my colleagues, thank you for your well wishes and the flowers and so on. It went to my heart so
thank you very much.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President. Alderman Jette | don’t have a drop of French blood in me.
Alderman Jette
| didn’t think so.
Alderman O’Brien
Irish to the core. My brother-in-law who was born in Dublin he had his blood tested. He was 92% percent. We
had our tested and we were 98%. He’s trying to figure out howwe were more Irish than he was. It’s the
bloodline but! wish all my Franco/Canadian friends enjoy. Have a really great time. It was my pleasure to
serve 35 years on the Fire Department with many Franco-Canadians. | don’t know if they were as good as us
Irish but they were darn good. It was my pleasure to work with them.
| also would like to say with the fireworks just to remind that what everybody says with the dogs and the pups.
It is true. Also just to remind they are illegal. Usually every year somebody does something stupid and that’s
