Sad news: “Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray on Monday morning ordered flags in the city to be lowered to half-staff to mark the death of philanthropist and community volunteer Caroline Steinman Nunan.
“Nunan, 85, died Sunday at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. She had been stricken Wednesday while visiting her daughter’s home in Norwich, Vt.”
WATCHDOG: This is a fitting tribute to an individual who devoted herself to civic improvements and the arts, epitomizing the best in the Steinman tradition. The city and county had no greater friend and benefactor. Hers was an example of selfless philanthropy.
In social gatherings, she would rush over to other community benefactors and praise their efforts. To her wealth was a responsibility to improve the lot of others, not for self aggrandizement.
As was recently demonstrated in the circumstances of a momentarilly ostracized artist couple, once a friend, always a friend. She made it a point to host them in public!
“May her memory be for a blessing.”
In America – we have NO ROYALTY! This is clearly a sign of just how much power the newspaper wields in Lancaster County
Notice that the newspaper fails to mention their enterprise as 1/2 the owner of the convention center hotel!
Of course we have royalty in America. It’s just not formalized. But this isn’t the time for bickering about this.
Mayor Gray should acquaint himself with the Flag Code. The only persons authorized to order the flying of the U.S. flag at half mast are the Presidednt of the United States, the governor of a state, and the mayor of the District of Columbia. Too many officials think that they have the power to order flags to fly at half mast.
Mayor Gray is a ‘power broker’ / politician who needs LNP on his side. I can appreciate the efforts that Ms. Nunan did for the community, and her loss will be felt within the community that she benefited. Lowering the flag is an ‘over the top’ gesture.