By Lindsay Carey Staff Writer The Community Committee to Save Bradley (CCSB) held its first meeting, where leaders Rosemary Champagne and Bonnie Sica presented their plans for the committee to a room filled with residents. The CCSB will be made up of five sub committees: attendance, publicity, awareness, petition and legal facts. The attendance subcommittee is responsible for maintaining a presence at public town meetings, to make sure the hospital remains a topic of discussion for community leaders. “We would like to have around eight to 10 people at every Town Council meeting,” said Sica. The publicity subcommittee will be contacting the press and sharing information on social media. The awareness subcommittee will be handing out flyers as well as calling businesses and friends in town to inform them about this issue. The petition subcommittee is going to go out into the community and collect more signatures from residents. The legal and facts committee will work on collecting data regarding the hospital and Hartford HealthCare. Sica introduced two phases of their plan. The first phase is to prepare a legal case to fight Hartford HealthCare at the state level when they apply for the Certificate of Need to close the […]
By Lindsay Carey Staff Writer The Community Committee to Save Bradley (CCSB) held its first meeting, where leaders Rosemary Champagne and Bonnie Sica presented their plans for the committee to a room filled with residents. The CCSB will be made up of five sub committees: attendance, publicity, awareness, petition and legal facts. The attendance subcommittee is responsible for maintaining a presence at public town meetings, to make sure the hospital remains a topic of discussion for community leaders. “We would like to have around eight to 10 people at every Town Council meeting,” said Sica. The publicity subcommittee will be contacting the press and sharing information on social media. The awareness subcommittee will be handing out flyers as well as calling businesses and friends in town to inform them about this issue. The petition subcommittee is going to go out into the community and collect more signatures from residents. The legal and facts committee will work on collecting data regarding the hospital and Hartford HealthCare. Sica introduced two phases of their plan. The first phase is to prepare a legal case to fight Hartford HealthCare at the state level when they apply for the Certificate of Need to close the […]