Board of Aldermen 11-27-2018 Page 14
| would like to acknowledge a gift | received from Alderwoman Kelly, it is a bag that says “Plastic ain’t
fantastic” kind of acknowledging the damage that plastic is doing to our environment and my meager
efforts in trying raise our awareness about that.
And lastly, the Nashua Rotary Club is selling Christmas Trees at the Plaza that is out on Amherst Street
near Pier One in front of Market Basket. The Demoulas Family very generously has donated or allowed
us to use that parking lot. Our trees are not plastic, they are real trees, they are New Hampshire trees,
so | encourage people to buy their trees from the Rotary Club. All profits go to local charities and my
wife and | will be selling trees there this Saturday morning, so please come on by and buy your tree
there. Thank you.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
| would just like to join everyone in congratulating Paul Shea and the volunteers downtown and the
Board of Directors of GAD. | too heard very positive things from the merchants as well as people just
down enjoying the evening. | think one of the things that is really nice to see is how many families are
coming every year, it seems like there are more and more families and | know some things are starting
a little earlier and | think that we are nicely growing the event for our families in the greater community.
So thank you for all of your efforts.
| would like to thank Alderman Lopez for bringing Alexis and all of her efforts to our attention and
through the presentation tonight to the attention of the greater community. | think that adults and youth
in the community should be inspired by her. And | also think that we need to recognize her family and
friends who have been supporting her. | think is important that as we look at young people in our
community who are reaching out that we acknowledge that they do have their family and friends with
them and just like each of us comes to this horseshoe with those who have supported us across the
year, they are also growing leaders through their leadership. So hopefully they will expand the number
of volunteers we have in our community. So thank you for bringing her to the community’s
acknowledgement and our awareness.
Two things, | got lots of phone calls because “Oh my gosh it is snowing and what is going to happen
with my yard waste collection”. It is going to December 7" so you can still rake leaves as the snow
melts, it will be picked up. The other thing is people have been contacting me because as many of you
know drainage in my neighborhood is a problem, we have a small lake at the end of Timberline
periodically. If you are out walking or driving and you see leaves in the storm drains, if you are so
inclined to remove them, that would be very helpful as we continue to get rains and have water backing
up throughout the neighborhood.
One final thing, NRPC has the draft of the 2019 to 2045 it says here Nashua Area Metropolitan Transit
Plan and it is going up on the website and it will be available for public comment so for you to review
and make public comment. It is up for 30 days and then will be discussed at NRPC. So if you would
like to take a look at that, it is on-line for you to look at. Thank you.
President Wilshire
| too would like to thank the Great American Downtown, Paul Shea, for all his efforts in putting on such
a great event — 25 years it has grown tremendously and is quite an event. People from out of town say,
“did you go to Nashua to that Stroll, it was really a good event” and so thank you to Paul Shea and
Great American Downtown.
I’d also like to thank you Alderman Lopez for bringing Alexis Durant in to us and recognizing her efforts.
She started at such a young age and it is so important to get young people involved.
