Community Leaders Have Many Good Wishes for 2015
By City Journal Staff at December 24, 2023 | 9:45 am | Print
Each year the New Britain City Journal asks leaders across the City and this year some from Berlin their wishes for the New Year.
Following are their replies.
• “My wish is that 2015 be a year filled with hopefulness and joy for the people of New Britain; that we continue to work together, regardless of party, to move our great City forward; that the pride our young people feel for their hometown continues to grow; and that all our families have a year of health, happiness and continued blessings.” - Mayor Erin E. Stewart
• My wish is for all your readers a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year…..The Benefits Are Endless - Bill DeMaio, Director of the New Britain Parks and Recreation Department
• “Regardless of the kind of year that precedes it, Christmas always brings a feeling that life is good.” Wishing to all, the Blessings and Joys of Christmas throughout the coming year - Alderman Lou Salvio
• I wish every resident of New Britain and every member of the New Britain Police Department Family health, peace, and happiness in 2015. Let us all commit daily to making our community a better place by using the talents we have been given for good – James Wardwell, Chief of Police
• My wish for next year is that everyone can continue working together to create a better New Britain – New Britain Industrial Museum
• “World peace…and a Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle bb gun” – Gerry Amodio, Downtown District Director
• I wish everyone health and happiness in the New Year!! - Denise M. McNair, Town Manager Town of Berlin
• May 2015 be the year for movement, on our new public transportation systems, and toward other things that promote individual and community well being. – Stephen Hard, Executive Director, Greater New Britain Arts Alliance
• Gods Blessings and prosperity.- Mother Jennifer, St. Lucian’s Residence
• My wish for 2015 is for the health and wellbeing of our community and school district. That our leaders will engage in respectful discourse and come together in common purpose for the benefit of our City, the place we call home. Cleaner, calmer politics will set a tone for the entire community. We must leave the vitriol behind and agree to disagree when necessary. When men and women of goodwill come together - nothing is impossible. - Sharon Beloin Saavedra, President New Britain Board of Education
• That our City, as we all work together, will continue to transition, grow, and prosper in the new year and that all who live and/or work here will enjoy a blessed Christmas and many blessings in 2015. – Sharon Baretta, Fire Commission member
• I would like to wish everyone in New Britain a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. May 2015 be a better year for everyone and as always New Britain is #1. Thank You all for a great 2014. - Piotr Ceglarz and Ceglarz Motors Inc.
• Our wish for Berlin animal control shelter is that we hope that less people will feel the need to just abandon their dog or cat outside the door at the shelter. We hope they take a little time to search for a rescue or private shelter to help them and not wait til the day before they are moving to begin looking. Here is to all our current dogs and cats for a bright and happy new year in a new loving forever home.. – Jan Lund, Berlin Animal Control Officer
• Wishing for new businesses to find New Britain, or for the City to discover new ones so that our priorities are jobs, economic development, the growth of the Grand List. Nothing else moves forward without that. An economically healthy 2015 ! – Alderman Daniel Salerno
• Wishing the City of New Britain a productive, healthy and safe 2015 – Don King, Assistant Fire Marshall
• I wish Costco was open already. I also wish for a hole in one in golf. But more importantly I wish that people would just open their minds and eyes to see that we are all a part of the same world and the solutions to all of our problems means putting our differences aside and working together to make our communities better places to live, work and do business in. – Tim Stewart, President of the Greater New Britain Chamber of Commerce
