Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2020 Page 18
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak? Ok name and address for the record please?
Dan Latham 13 Beaver Street in Nashua. And what I'd like to say is I’d like to advocate on behalf of
Nashua. | work for a company called Horizon Beverage and we distribute wine and spirits and | travel
most of the state. And | think it’s very unfair that Nashua is the one under the spotlight right now. This
is the jewel of the state. What they did when we opened up when we opened up downtown and | think it
was April we were the envy of everybody because | think you are taking out of the equation the people
who run the businesses down here who live here. We took it so seriously and professionally, | couldn’t
be more proud and going to see other cities like Manchester lagging behind us and other cities, we
really take out hats off —| take my hats off to the people who work and live in Nashua in the restaurant
industry. And | do think it is unfair that we are being targeted. | also sent a letter to the Board of
Aldermen and Mayor Donchess. | hope you read it. It was pretty brief but | just wanted to advocate for
Nashua and | think you should challenge, you challenged it once before, challenge them again. They'll
do the right things. They made us proud, they'll do it again, this is a great City. That’s all | have to say.
President Wilshire
Thank you. It looks like | have someone named AA Ron that would like to speak. Name and address for
the record?
Aaron Howard My name is Aaron Howard, | live at 366 Main Street in Nashua. | work at Boston Billiard
Club. | would like to point out a couple of things. One of the foundations of this proposal is that
somehow people from Massachusetts because they have a curfew they are flooding the border and they
are crossing the border to come to the southern towns of New Hampshire in order to be entertained
because everything is closed in Massachusetts. Well | can tell you from personal experience as a
manager at Boston Billiard Club that we are less busy now than we were before Massachusetts
instituted their curfew. Think about that. The foundation of this proposal is not based on something that
is actually happening.
| would also like to point out that as it was publicly acknowledged, we did have cases within the staff of
Boston Billiards. The current system is working. Everybody that comes into the restaurant has to leave
their name and phone number. As soon as we identified cases, we closed down. We reopened, we
strengthened our protocols and the chain of transmission is broken. And this is the largest, maybe not, |
think it’s the largest food and beverage establishment in Nashua but if not the largest one of the largest,
we broke the chain. The current system worked. And my last point is that except for the Board of Health
Members, nobody has spoken in favor of this and | would like to ask the Aldermen, as elected officials,
to listen to your community and please vote no.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak that has not already spoken? Aaron Penkacik?
Aaron Penkacik Perfect, you’re the first one in my entire life that has pronounced that correctly. So | am
the guy that has been quoted at least three times now in the newspaper for a statement | made in a
previous meeting with the Board of Aldermen where | said that | felt like this was a knee jerk reaction to
a problem that we didn’t Know what the solution was. And | stand by that statement. I’ve been doing
more research since that time and | see no evidence scientifically ...
unidentified Person Interrupts
Aaron Penkacik. Pardon me? | see no evidence, scientifically or otherwise that supports that a curfew
would do anything to help curtail this virus. | get that this virus is a serious thing and | have relatives
who have contracted it and friends who have contracted it.
