Where are the White Shirts?
Unofficial group lies low - for now
By Abigail Eagye
Aspen, CO Colorado
ASPEN — Almost a year ago, historic preservationist Les Holst helped bring the community together with a simple mission and a simple garment: white T-shirts.
But since the City Council implemented a building moratorium April 25 of last year, the White Shirts, who originally made an impression by turning out in large numbers, dwindled to the occasional handful of white specks at city meetings, and they haven’t been spotted at all of late.
But that doesn’t mean they’ve been blotted out.
According to Holst and several other locals who donned the familiar "I (heart) Aspen" T-shirts, the group has already achieved its mission - to send a message to the council that citizens are fed up with the pace of construction in Aspen. Or was it the quality of new development? Or the loss of historic landmarks?
Holst says the group’s members have a wide range of hot-button issues, and it wasn’t necessarily any one point they rallied around. He doubts everyone who ever suited up in one of his T-shirts would agree on all topics, but all had reached a breaking point in feeling as if they were losing the Aspen they loved.
Even if there’s still work to be done, Holst says the White Shirts have already succeeded.
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