Letter of the week, 11/3/08: Show your colors!

[David]

Proud colors
Editor:

What is so wrong about an Italian red- white-and-green flag on Colony St. in downtown Meriden? It’s right next to a pizza establishment so it does fit in well with the area. I seem to like it and think it’s a good idea!

Maybe we should also do a red-and-white Polish flag next to the Polish deli on West Main Street. Anything to make Downtown Meriden look better is an improvement to an area that has been run down for years now. We need to bring people back to the downtown area again if we want things to be the way they were there in the 1960s. As a child growing up on Randolph Ave., I lived in the area and found myself in downtown Meriden every day.

I also lived at the YMCA for a few years when they had rooms for rent. I was there and I saw the downtown area come and go. Being proud of one’s ethnic background is a good thing. Let’s put up more flags in downtown Meriden. It will make the area look nice and at the same time show our true ethnic colors and where our families living in Meriden came from.
TOM COSS, MERIDEN

[alwaysright]

Proud colors
Editor:

What is so wrong about an Italian red- white-and-green flag on Colony St. in downtown Meriden? It’s right next to a pizza establishment so it does fit in well with the area. I seem to like it and think it’s a good idea!

Maybe we should also do a red-and-white Polish flag next to the Polish deli on West Main Street. Anything to make Downtown Meriden look better is an improvement to an area that has been run down for years now. We need to bring people back to the downtown area again if we want things to be the way they were there in the 1960s. As a child growing up on Randolph Ave., I lived in the area and found myself in downtown Meriden every day.

I also lived at the YMCA for a few years when they had rooms for rent. I was there and I saw the downtown area come and go. Being proud of one’s ethnic background is a good thing. Let’s put up more flags in downtown Meriden. It will make the area look nice and at the same time show our true ethnic colors and where our families living in Meriden came from.
TOM COSS, MERIDEN


I think we should paint a giant glass pipe mural on the corner of Grove and Church st. I believe it's real near a crack house, so would fit into the area. Maybe a nice prostitution flag on the side of city hall or the so called cultural center- because often the *****s ply their trade there, so it would fit in the area. be proud. Show your colors.

and speaking of colors- maybe some of the gangs in town should be able to paint THEIR colrs on the corners where they do business.