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And | think we need to focus on that rather than wanting to put things back to the way they were, making
decisions for the short term. | just encourage everybody to do that, we have plenty of reasons to be
grateful, we also have plenty of lessons to learn from the past. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Alderman Lopez. Alderman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you, Madam President and |’d like to start by saying Happy Thanksgiving as well. And | agree with
exactly what Alderman Lopez said. We do have a lot to be grateful. The fact that we are here and that we
are able to meet this way, we are able to do as much business as possible because of the technology that
we have, | find it amazing. No one likes being in their home, | can’t wait to get into the horseshoe and be
with all of you and see all of you. | can’t wait to have my family that | haven’t seen in a year. But the
bottom line is that | think that we can be the change here and we can make things happen. People such as
Alderman Laws spoke about what he has to deal with. People are coming in from Massachusetts and these
people aren’t going to be hearing this message, the plea that we are doing to our Nashua folks here.
Our people such as in bars and restaurants, they’ve put up sometimes with a lot of abuse. And | can tell
you today alone | got five different email messages from members here in Ward 3 that have experienced
things in stores where one worker had nose and mouth outside of their mask and it was around the chin
and when they made a comment off to the side, she said, could you put your mask up and he said, I’m
wearing it. So | had to send her exactly what the Ordinance said, you know, it’s not just wearing it, it’s
covering your nose and your mouth and so on. | think being belligerent like that helps no one. | think it
does a disservice to those people that are trying to stay healthy, keep family healthy. | want to do
everything | can to protect people such as Alderman Laws, Dr. Stephanie Wolf-Rosenblum, Director
Cummings, all of us here. We have to do it for each other, we have to do it for ourselves and if we don’t
start now, today, this very moment, you know what? A year from now we are going to be sitting here on a
Zoom call and personally | don’t want to spend my next birthday on a Zoom call, I’ve already rescheduled it
once, that’s going to be enough. So thank you very much. And please, everybody have a wonderful
Thanksgiving.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Alderman Klee. Alderman Harriott-Gathright.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
| just want to say Happy Thanksgiving to my colleagues and all the officials that are on this call as well as to
the City of Nashua; not just my District but to the City. And I'd like to echo what my colleagues spoke of in
terms of taking care of ourselves. |, for one, most of you know | have pretty large family here, | have 12
grandkids here and 4 of 5 children here. And we are actually doing separate housing Thanksgiving for the
first time in life, literally. Because literally my house was the house for Thanksgiving Dinner for all of my
family and there’s usually about 20 of or more in the house with pictures and everything else.
So that’s a different transition for me and for their dad and for the grandchildren in particular, like my
granddaughter who is coming home from school in New York and what have you and going to be here for a
while. And she’s like we come to your house and I’m like “no, you have got to have it with your dad and
your mom’, you know? So it’s been a difficult time for everybody just trying to be safe and make sure that
we are all OK at the end of this day. Because we still have long days to go ahead of us. So | just want to
say, Happy Thanksgiving everybody and make sure you take care of yourselves personally and then family
next. Thank you.
