If there was any doubt the Garde Arts Center is a vital community asset, the robust turnout for the late August event recognizing a national award the theater recently won should quash those misgiving.
Published February 26. 2021 6:12PM
Nick and Karen Fischer
Seeing and listening to reaction to Mike DiMauro’s column about the murder of Ronde Ford and listening to people talk about why the murder happened brought us back to the murders of Matt Chew and Travon Brown. It also reminded us of Yogi Berra’s famous saying, “It’s déjà vu, all over again.”
There were and are immediate responses. “We must do something!” And, in each case before Ronde Ford’s murder, there were meetings, much anguish and anger, and good intentions.
Yet we as a community did not sustain the initial efforts to “do something.” The exception was the New London Youth Talent Show started in the aftermath of the Matt Chew murder and led by Curtis Goodwin, Frank Colmenares, Susan Connolly, the Sigels, among others. And the Talent Show continues.
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