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West Roxbury residents Bill and Ann Downey had a fall surprise when their daughterLinda, her daughters and the couple's great granddaughter Lineas (pictured) bravedthe 13-hour drive from Charlotte, North Carolina, to come up back to Boston. Thefamily said they took quarantine precautions before heading up north. "This photocaptures the joy and love, even in hard times and far distances," said Brianna Downey. COURTESY PHOTO

3227 and 3221 Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. The owner of 3227 may be get-ting cold feet about redeveloping the house.

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Owner changes his mind tosell, surprising developers

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A routine review for a two-to-threefamily conversion of 3227 WashingtonSt. got rearranged during the virtualSept 16 JP zoning committee when thelive–in owner popped up on the screento announce he didn’t want to sell af-ter all.

Cougar Capital partner Ian Hislopdescribed his plans to upgrade and adda unit to the wood-frame, two-storyhouse.

It was being thrashed out by com-mittee members and the armchair ar-

chitects in the audience debating sky-lights, ceiling heights and enclosedporches when Alex Ponte Capellanfrom City Life asked in the chat tospeak.

“This is taking rental units off themarket,” he said, “and turning intohomeownership. There’s ten peopleliving in that building. Will they be dis-placed?”

“Nelson Valdez is the owner andhe’s now thinking about the agreement,Ponte added.

Nelson Valdez then appeared on the

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The path would allow for safe pedestrian and bicycle travel along VFW Parkway,something that isn't very feasible right now.

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Over the past month, WestRoxbury Bikes (WR Bikes) has beencollaborating with local biking andwalking groups like Dedham Bikes topush forward an idea for a bike pathalong Route 1 between Spring Streetand Dedham Square.

This proposed multi-use, two-di-rectional path would begin whereVFW Parkway and Spring Street in-tersect, go along the VFW towardsProvidence Highway (the Westernside of Rt.1) , past the Dedham Mall,and end near Dedham Square. It wouldbe on one side of the VFW. The ideais currently in very early stages of aproposal, and has been discussed a fewtimes at Dedham meetings. It currentlyhas no official name yet, but is nick-named “Route One Study.” WR Bikes

members hope the project will start its“study phase” in early 2021.

“I became aware of this idea lastyear - I heard bits and pieces aboutfunding for a Route One improvementproject - by the VA Hospital on SpringStreet up to Dedham Square,” statedCindy Gillan of Dedham. “There’s dif-ferent perspectives on how quicklythis process will move. I think theDedham Planning Board has had somediscussions about their objectives andwhat the scope of work could be. Rightnow, there’s $150,000 that has alreadybeen granted to look at the project andstudy it. Our goal is to get it movingas quickly as possible so that engi-neers and those interested in theproject can get fired up about it.”

“We [WR Bikes and the DedhamCycle Club] have met together two

he Belnel Family NeighborhoodAssociation (BFNA) held its quar-terly meeting virtually on Thursday,Sept. 24 with a number of issues onits plate. But the hottest item was theplanned protest at the new BurgerKing this Sat., Oct 3 from noon to 3p.m. This protest is one of a trio ofefforts to keep the new franchise atthe Shops at Riverwood from takinga foothold in the neighborhood.

“We will be walking the sidewalksin front of the Burger King,” an-nounced BFNA president HelenaTonge. “For those of you who havebeen on this journey, opposing thisBurger King since January, we askyou to please come out and join us inthis protest as we make our statementabout how this Burger King wasmoved through without a significantamount of community input.”

She added that “more than 560

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screen. “I really regret it. I want to

get my contract reversed,” hesaid.

“My concern is that I’m 68years old. It’s tough for me tomove on with my life. I’ve beenthinking about where should Igo? What should I do?” Valdezasked.

“I’m seeing now what’s go-ing on,” he said. “I don’t feelgood with my health. I’m con-cerned about my tenants. I’mafraid of losing my home after15 years. COVID-19 brokedown all my plans and myhealth.”

Ponte-Capellan broadenedhis argument.

“My main job at City Lifeis non-displacement,” he said.“Then I found out this companywas kicking people out to makemicro condos. Ten people livein this building. They have no-where to go. These folks don’twant to go anywhere.”

The purchase and saleagreement requires an emptybuilding.

Committee member LeeGoodman was taken aback.

“You’re doing this withoutthe owner’s consent?” he askedHislop. “This is not what weexpect of owners. Maybe weshould defer now. You need tofigure this out.”

Ponte-Capellan had it fig-ured out.

“The best thing is that thesale doesn’t go through,” hesaid. “Your group [zoning com-mittee] has the power to tellCity Hall this is not the type thatwe want.”

Ponte-Capellan then intro-duced the next door building3221 Washington St currentlybeing converted to a three unitbuilding by Matt Javitch of3221 Washington St LLC; itreceived JP zoning committeesupport and zoning board ofappeal approval in March 2019.

Vania Chen then popped upon the screen. She called her-self an artist, said she was aformer tenant at 3221 Washing-ton St., and wanted to “sharemy story of what happened.”

“The owner sent over a con-stable and we had three days tovacate. We had to move out inDecember,” she said. “I’m stilltrying to look for housing.”

That opened a debate aboutwhether Javitch’s company andCougar Capital were related.

Committee member MarieTurley wanted the project de-nied.

“This is not to support,” shesaid. “This raises fundamentalquestions. Two projects runamuck. A small unit has be-come speculation.”

Committee member KyleSmith is also an attorney who

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often represents developers atthe zoning board of appeals.

“Was the owner strong-armed?” he asked Hislop.“Were they properly coun-seled?”

Committee Chair DaveBaron wanted that questioningto end.

“What, are you trying totease the property owner?” heasked.

Cougar’s attorney MarcLaCasse, who was also on thecall, wanted to reconsider.

“I request a deferral,” hesaid. “We need to regroup thecontract and report back if thisis ever going forward.”

Some committee memberswanted to deny with prejudiceand one was Lee Goodman.

“The attorney is doing ver-bal gymnastics,” he said. “It’sall shady. So unseemly, thewhole situation.”

Baron disagreed.“I’m strongly against this

motion,” he said “There is acontract here with the devel-oper so the developer can pur-sue the zoning process. If wedeny we’ve committed some-thing on behalf of the propertyowner. Deferral gives the pro-ponent a chance to regroup.”

A motion was made to de-fer that was carried with onlyTurley voting against.

Baron had the last word.“It would be better if noth-

ing had happened,” he said. “Iwant this meeting to end. Thisis absolutely outrageous.”

LaCasse agreed in a phonecall with The Bulletin on Sept23.

“We were blindsided andambushed at a communitymeeting egged on by a commu-nity organizer apparently sit-ting in Mr. Valdez’s livingroom,” he said.

“Lindsey Santana hosted anabutters meeting on Aug 4 andMr. Valdez spoke in favor,”LaCasse said. “We then wentto Brookside and ESNA.”

According to LaCasse,Valdez put his house on themarket on Aug. 3, 2019 with abroker and was under agree-ment with Cougar Capital inDecember, 2019.

“All renters are familymembers Valdez said and therewould be no problem with re-location,” LaCasse said. “Heagreed to deliver a vacantbuilding in the purchase andsale.”

LaCasse told The Bulletinthat Cougar’s attorney Rich-May delivered a demand let-ter on Friday Sept. 18 statingthat Valdez’s testimony at theJP zoning committee consti-tuted a breach of contract.

Valdez has 14 days to re-spond.

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The devcelopment proposes about 34,000 square feet of publicly-accessible greenspace at the top of thecarriage road between Warren Street and Washington Street in Brighton.

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After a first meeting in June,that’s June 2019, the proponentsfor 1515 Commonwealth Ave. inBrighton came back to the tablewith a smaller project, respond-ing to community commentsfrom last year’s meeting.

The project was originallypitched with two buildings, onewide rental building with 175units and one tall condo build-ing at 96 feet, with 155 units,totaling 330 units. The new de-sign has 250 units, with its high-est point on the condo buildingat 85 feet, with 100 condo unitsand 150 rental units in theshorter building.

“This is the second publicmeeting of this project and a lothas changed,” said proponentDavis Companies ManagingDirector Stephen Davis.

One aspect of the project thedevelopment team touted was itsincrease of open space and pub-lic access to the site from thecarriage road on which it sits.While the address is Common-wealth Ave., the building itselfsits on a side carriage road run-ning two ways and parallel toCommonwealth Ave. Right now,visitors to Overlook Park/FidelisWay Park only have accesswalking either from the parkinglot for the park or from the Mon-

astery Path off of Warren Street.The proposal would give a pub-lic pedestrian access from thecarriage road to the park.

“The exciting part, I think,from the original proposal is thatwe had a lot of positive feedbackon this notion of increased openspace and greenspace around thebuildings,” said Rode ArchitectEric Robinson. “And we’repretty close to meeting a simi-lar amount of open space, whichis exciting for the project.”

Davis said there would be34,000 gross square feet of out-door publicly-available openspace for the building. He saidthe public path to Overlook Parkwould be maintained by thebuildings’ staff as well as fromCommonwealth Avenue’s car-riage road to the park. Theywould also be donating funds topave and stripe the parking lotat the park, and are currently fi-nalizing what he said would bea “six figure payment” to theBoston Parks and RecreationDepartment.

Davis said both buildingswill also have income-restrictedaffordability requirements overwhat Boston Mayor MartyWalsh’s Inclusionary Develop-ment Policy requires. He said forthe condominium building,there will be 14 percent of theunits required to be affordableand 17 percent for the rental

units. He said the area medianincome (AMI) requirements arehowever, still being worked out,but he said they were rangingfrom 50 percent to 70 percentAMI for the rental building and80 percent to 100 percent for thecondo building. He added therewould be a deed restriction fora 35 percent cap of investmentunits on the condo building.

The last public benefit in-cluded the installation of aBlueBikes station somewhere

nearby, but it hasn’t been final-ized yet.

Robinson said the design ofthe buildings and their facingshad the area’s history in mind,as the site used to be a majorquarry in the late 19th and early20 centuries. He said the facingson the buildings will be granite-colored, and a publicly-acces-sible courtyard in the front of thebuilding will be stylized of gran-ite. The two underground park-ing floors will, presumably, also

reflect the history of said quarry.Howard Stein Hudson Traf-

fic Engineer Liz Peart andRobinson both said they heardresidents’ concerns from the pre-vious meeting on the sensibilityof having the carriage road con-tain two-way traffic, and theysaid while that is an issue con-trolled by the city and beinglooked at in a Boston Traffic

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times in the past month. We’reprimarily trying to figure outwhere the project is, what’shappening with the project,and if the project goes for-ward that it’s considered amulti-use trail - a pedestrianand bicycle trail. It seems likethe perfect opportunity - thereis a lot of room for it by theCharles River,” explainedmember of WR Bikes BenWetherill.

Wetherill also stated thatthis multi-use path would gopast the Lincoln Property Co.254-unit multifamily develop-ment that is currently underconstruction on 1545 and1555 VFW Pkwy. He addedthat he felt this would be agreat path for future residents.

Wetherill explained that alot of the land between theCharles River and the road isowned by the Federal Govern-ment and Army Corps. of En-gineers because it is wetlands.

“I have talked with theCharles River Watershed As-sociation and they like theidea and would like to helpus,” stated Wetherill. “Thisconnects West Roxbury to

WR Bikes continued from page 1other neighborhoods likeDedham. This is important -we want to make sure WestRoxbury has recreational con-nections in all directions - toNewton, to the center of Bos-ton, to Hyde Park, etc.”

West Roxbury communitymember and supporter of theproject, Jason Brown, statedthat these improvementswould be beneficial to pedes-trians as well as cyclists.

“Any of the cycling im-provements are running im-provements as well. They ben-efit all of the street users orwalkway users,” Brownstated. “I run along the 109side - I don’t even try to runalong the Route One side. Ona summer day, it’s very ex-posed and hot.”

Like West Roxbury,Dedham has been havingmany discussions about howto make their town more pe-destrian and cyclist-friendly.

Due to the ongoing globalpandemic, many communitymembers are spending moretime outside and participatingin outdoor activities. During

the summer, there were no-ticeably more people biking inthe Parkway area.

West Roxbury Bikes, aneighborhood bicycle advo-cacy committee that works onbicycle infrastructure andsafety in the West Roxburyarea, mapped out a family-friendly bike map from WestRoxbury to the NeponsetRiver. The ride is mostly offroad or on quiet streets. It be-gins at the West Roxbury PostOffice, goes up StratfordStreet, through Bellevue Hill,through Stony Brook Reserva-tion, down Gordon Avenue inHyde Park, then down RiverStreet towards the NeponsetRiver. Round trip, this bikeride is 8.1 miles - but thegroup warns the uphill routeback to West Roxbury is notsomething to be taken lightly.

WR Bikes members alsomapped a walking/hiking trailfrom West Roxbury to the Mu-seum of Science in DowntownBoston. One can hike fromWest Roxbury to the Museumof Science almost completelyin parklands. The walking trailmapped by WR Bikes mem-bers covers Allandale Woods,the Arboretum, Jamaica Pond,Olmsted Park, and the CharlesRiver Esplanade. The traillength is 9.8 miles.

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Department study yet to be completed, they have planned onboth outcomes.

“Our understanding is the city will be conducting a sepa-rate study on what that carriage road will look like in the fu-ture, but our layout will work with the existing two-lane con-figuration or a one-way,” Peart said.

She said the the pair of buildings will have a combinedparking space-to-dwelling-unit ratio of .64. The condo build-ing will have 100 spaces for a one-to-one ratio and the rentalbuilding will have 60 spaces for a .4 space-to-dwelling unitratio.

“That ratio of .64 has aligned really nicely with what thecity’s parking goals are,” Peart said.

She added that the development team has committed toeither participating in an already-established shuttle programfor dense developments in the area or will create a separateprogram themselves. She said the developers will also be look-ing to incentivize residents not to drive and not to own a carthrough a legally-binding transportation access plan agreement.

Peart said each building will have separate geolocators forride share services like Uber and Lyft. The condo buildingwill have its drop off area in a courtyard, while the rental build-ing will its sit on the street a little further west. While she saidtaking up a travel lane is not ideal, it is sited in a way thatdrivers and pedestrians will have good line-of-sight for safetypurposes, and would be a properly-designated drop off zoneif the city decides to make the road one-way.

Peart also went through Howard Stein Hudson’s trafficmanagement plan, which looked at local intersections, vehicletrip generations during peak hours and increased MBTA GreenLine usage during peak hours.

For vehicles, she said the building would generate 60 ve-hicles for the a.m. peak hour and 75 during the p.m. hour foran average increase of one vehicle per minute. She said fortransit ridership increases, that would translate to 39 extra rid-ers for the a.m. peak hour and 44 for the p.m. hour.


Council tackles pest control, city announces use of dry ice

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The Boston City Councilmet for a hearing on Sept. 23to discuss pest control, whichhas become an urgent issue dur-ing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rats in the city have alwaysbeen a problem, but have be-come more aggressive andbranched out further than theyhave before because of a lackof food sources following a de-crease in restaurant waste be-cause of the COVID-19 re-sponses.

District 9 City CouncilorLiz Breadon sponsored thehearing, as Allston has beensometimes known as “AllstonRat City,” an homage to itsother nickname, “Allston RockCity.”

“It’s a very distressing situ-ation,” she said. “I had a con-

versation with a constituent lastweek who had rats in hishome.”

Inspectional Services De-partment (ISD) CommissionerDion Irish said during the hear-ing that the department will soonstart using dry ice again to re-duce the rat population. The ideais not new, and was first used inthe city in 2015 and thenscrapped a year later because theU.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) stated that dry iceis not an approved rodenticide,even though it was used at thetime in such entertainment usesas fog machines and martini gar-nishes.

The EPA has since alloweddry ice to be used as a rodenti-cide, but it required the providerto have a certification for thatuse. This took place about ayear-and-a-half ago. The onlycertified provider in range of

Boston is Nokia Bell Laborato-ries in Rockland, and since thatcompany trademarked its Rat Iceat the time, the price went up con-siderably, almost three times theprice of any other dry ice. As-sistant Commissioner LeoBoucher said originally, they

used the ice very heavily backbefore it was regulated.

“At the time we started, theprice to buy 50 pounds of dryice was 25 bucks, which wasn’ta bad day,” he said. “So it be-came registered, and the onlycompany that has a registration

for it – and they call it Rat Icenow, but it’s no different achemical compound than CO2– it’s Bell Labs. But for us touse dry ice we have to purchaselabels form a pesticide company

The dry ice pellets, or Rat Ice, as it is now trademarked, are placedinside a rat's burrow after it has been sealed.

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WFHCG holds meeting with City officials on voting, schools

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The West Fairmount HillCommunity Group (WFHCG)held a comprehensive virtualmeeting on Mon. Sept. 28where City officials gave pre-sentations on the upcomingelection process and the open-ing of the Boston PublicSchools (BPS).

City Election Commis-sioner Eneida Tavares gave apresentation on the success ofthe preliminary election in Sep-tember and the upcoming elec-tion on Tues. Nov. 3.

September’s election wasthe first time that all registeredvoters received a mailing withan application for a ballot.There were 91,072 residentswho requested a vote by mailballot, of which 59,200 werereturned. Another 10,886 vot-ers opted to vote early in per-

son. On Election Day, another77,334 participated.

“The overall turnout was35.07 percent, which was anincrease of 26 percent from the2016 state primary,” Tavaressaid.

Because of concerns withthe postal system, there is nowan online portal to request aballot. Voters can go towww.mailmyballotma.com torequest a vote by mail ballot.The sitewww.trackmyballotma.comcan track when the ballot wassent and returned.

Early voting will be ex-panded to 21 locations through-out the city, with another eightlocations expected, she added.It will start Oct. 17 and runthrough Oct. 30 and be held ontwo full weekends. Voter reg-istration ends Oct. 24. Ballotsmust be postmarked by Nov. 3and received by the Election

Dept. by Nov. 6 in order to becounted.

Seventeen drop boxes willbe placed around the city “foran additional layer of security,”according to Tavares. Polls willcontinue to be open.

Tammy Pust, senior advisorto the BPS superintendent, gavean update on the school reopen-ing. Right now, remote learn-ing has begun. About 50 per-cent of students have signed upto attend school remotely, whilethe other half will be attendingin the hybrid model.

In the hybrid model, classesare split into two cohorts. Eachcohort attends in-school ses-sions for two days a week, ei-ther Monday and Tuesday orThursday and Friday. The restof the days, students participateremotely from home.

“We took all this time tolearn what worked well andwhat didn’t,” she said, saying

staff met with parents in everyneighborhood in a series of 35community meetings from mid-May to mid-July. Three planswere filed: a return to school, aremote and a hybrid.

“Every family is different,and every family knows what’sbest for them,” she said.

Before these issues wereaddressed, co-chair MarciaKimm Jackson updated the 25people in attendance on a num-ber of key local issues. She rec-ognized Marie Wilson, who hasbeen running a community foodbank out of her home with thehelp of a couple of volunteers.

“Working for the BostonPublic Schools as a lunchmother for 21 years, I look to-wards it’s feeding the kids,”Wilson said, noting she servedlunches at the neighboringRoosevelt School.

In her work, she noticed thatthe school lunch would mostlikely be the only meal somestudents would receive for theday.

“You don’t realize who is inneed,” Wilson explained.“They might have those Nikesneakers on but – you knowwhat – they might not have thatdinner. It doesn’t matter howyou dress. You never knowwhat’s behind that door.”

This inspired Wilson to cre-ate a food bank from her homeat 27 Cranmore Rd. It operateson Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m.While Star Market donates allof the meats and other compa-

nies contribute, she could al-ways use donations of food andmoney to sustain the effort, aswell as volunteers.

“I want to thank you for set-ting such a good example,”added District 5 City CouncilorRicardo Arroyo as he spokeabout the challenges of theCOVID-19 pandemic. “Theone bright spot for me is watch-ing how neighbors have stoodup for other neighbors and re-ally come through.”

He is in the process of get-ting an official City citation forWilson in recognition of her ef-forts.

The group also will be sub-mitting a proposal for Commu-nity Preservation Act (CPA)funding for the third year in arow, according to memberNathaniel Thomas.

“We initially submitted aCommunity Preservation Actapplication in 2018,” he said.“We were then suggested by theCity to work with DCR (theDepartment of Conservationand Recreation), which we did,for the supplemental applica-tion in 2019.”

He added that DCR had of-fered $40,000 to match the re-quest in the proposal to the City.However, it was not funded inthe second round because theCity focused more on housingefforts.

Member Cathy Horn, thefounder of Keep Hyde Park


Univar up in Woburn who is theonly local vendor. We have totake those labels to Rockland DryIce Corporation, who’s the onlylicensed vendor for dry ice andwe have to pick it up there.”

Boucher said they currentlyhave a worker on the newly-cre-ated 6 a.m. rodent shift who livesclose to Woburn, now picks upthose stickers and brings them toRockland on his way in to work.

“We’re going to start using itheavily again, in the public parksfirst,” he said. “The differencebetween the dry ice and the poi-son is there’s no chance of re-sidual poisons. A dog or cat can’tdig it up, it stays in the burrowsystems, so it’s being applied inthe burrow system completely.”

Boucher said the dry ice isalso more effective than poisonas well, after an experiment hisdepartment led on 20 burrowsin a local cemetery.

“It’s very effective, but nowwhat’s happened is, and I don’tknow how it’s happened, butBell Labs has the license for it,and we have to use those twovendors,” he said. “We’ve set upa mechanism where we canheavily use it and set up aweekly run to Rockland to pickit up.”

At-Large City CouncilorMichael Flaherty said he be-lieves that this situation has cre-ated a monopoly on Rat Ice,which can be reflected in theprice.

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spring created the perfect con-ditions for the rodent popula-tion, in that it was their breed-ing season and there were fewerpest removal services in actionduring that time.

Boucher said the city’s useof Rat Ice is coming just in time,as the rat populations have beenfollowing where the food goes.

“We’ve eliminated all thatcommercial trash they were usedto eating,” he said. “That com-mercial trash has reverted backto the neighborhoods in termsof take out, as most of you folkson this call probably reverted totake out food and things of thatnature as opposed to going to thesupermarket, and people are us-

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Boucher added while he hasseen evidence to support reportsthat rats have become more ag-gressive since their usual com-mercial food sources have driedup, he emphasized that theyhave only become more aggres-sive with each other, and do notpose any serious danger to hu-mans.

The Council voted the nextday at its regular hearing to con-tinue to work on reducing therodent population in the city.


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neighbors were total lyagainst this Burger King.”

Also, two court cases arein the process of moving for-ward in Suffolk SuperiorCourt against the restaurant’spresence, although the datesare not on the docket at thistime. Tonge and four neigh-borhood associations hadfiled a suit against the Bos-ton Licensing Board and thefranchisee, which they lost inAugust and are in the processof appealing. The second is acivil suit to close the BurgerKing altogether.

The group has been in-volved in community im-provement efforts since theirlast meeting in December.District 5 City CouncilorRicardo Arroyo praisedBFNA for working with himto get trash cans installed onRiver Street from HuntingtonAve. to Cummins Hwy. A re-view will be conducted by theCity within the next twoweeks, he said, to figure outthe best locations along thatstretch.

Also, BFNA has engagedin two community cleanupson July 18 and Sept. 19 andplanned to participate in theNeponset River cleanup,which occurred on Sat. Sept.26. They are planning a thirdneighborhood one on Sat.Nov. 7.

“I want to thank folks onthis call because I know thatthe cleanups have been doneby residents and not the City

even though it’s City’s prop-erty, because it’s not how itshould go,” Arroyo said.“The City has agreed to comeout and do a cleaning of thatarea.”

He added that the issue ofoverhanging trees will be ad-dressed by the MassachusettsDepartment of Transporta-tion (Mass DOT) within acouple of days of the City’smaintenance effort. Therehad been an issue of whichgovernment entity owned it,but it was determined thatland is the City’s responsibil-ity, Arroyo explained to thegroup of about 30 partici-pants.

“That just wouldn’t bepossible, I want to make thatclear, without the work thatHelena did and the work ofthis organization,” he added.

Arroyo also announcedthat his office has been rais-ing money for two localschools – the Roosevelt andthe Channing – over the pastcouple of months. In partner-ship with local nonprofits,the office raised about $3,000to buy special education toolsfor the Roosevelt. They werealso able to raise another$5,000 for the Channing sothe school could donate giftcards to food insecure fami-lies.

“The good news is thatwe’re not across the finishline yet,” he added, notingthere are one or two moreschools that are in the pipe-line for assistance.

Arroyo also explained theproposal he co-authored forthe police civilian reviewboard with Councilor At-Large Julia Mejia and Dis-trict 4 Councilor AndreaCampbell . Instead of thethree-branch system pro-posed by the City, they cre-ated a system with one office.There will be a meeting withMayor Marty Walsh and then

a community review process.Tonge introduced newly-

elected State Rep. BrandyFluker Oakley, who repre-sents the 12th Suffolk dis-trict. She thanked those whovoted for her as well as JovanLacet, who was present andran against her.

“Looking at the impact onCOVID-19 on our commu-nity both in terms of econom-ics and also on our healthcareand education systems … es-pecially since there are stud-ies that have shown that wewill be living like this up un-til the middle of next year ifnot the end of next year issomething that I am mostcommitted to,” she said.

In association news, com-munications co-chair WeddeeHenry announced the cre-ation of a newsletter and a re-vamped Facebook page thatwas launched this week.

On Oct. 10, the group isgoing on an apple pickingtrip. In December, TimFitzgerald, the youth commit-tee chair, with be serving asSanta and delivering candy-grams throughout the neigh-borhood.

Fitzgerald also works witha group called Youth Policein Partnership. He would liketo do a Zoom with local po-lice to continue to strengthena bond with young people andthe local departments in thenear future.

The group discussed thepossibility of purchasing avacant City-owned lot at theintersection of Belnel andPoydras Sts. The cost wouldbe $100 for 5,625 square feet.The idea was to involve resi-dents, the neighboring MatchCharter School students andpossibly Boston PreparatoryCharter School students in acommunity gardening ven-ture. Benches, trees and com-munity meeting space weresuggested.


DeathsFRIEL

Marjorie A. (Keefe) ofMedfield and Osterville, for-merly of Needham and WestRoxbury, September 21, 2020.Beloved wife of the late ThomasF. Friel. Loving mother ofKathleen M. O’Neil and her hus-band Daniel R. of Medfield,Elizabeth A. Dulkis and her hus-band Michael S. of Medfield,Thomas D. Friel and his wifeNicole J. of North Andover, andDaniel E. Friel and his wife JulieBowers of Needham. Grand-mother of Colin, Madison, Mat-

thew, Katherine, Abigail, andBrandon. Sister of Paul Keefeformerly of Needham, NancyD’Ercole of Needham, and thelate Donald Keefe, Philip Keefe,and Joan Reardon. Also survivedby several nieces and nephews.Marjorie was an active memberof St. Bartholomew’s Churchand St. Edward’s Church. Sheenjoyed gardening, reading, trav-eling with her husband, andspending time on Cape Cod withher family. A private visitationwas held for immediate familyonly. Interment in St. JosephCemetery, West Roxbury. In lieuof flowers, expressions of sym-pathy may be made in Marjorie’smemory to the Alzheimers Asso-ciation, 309 Waverley Oaks Rd.,Waltham, MA 02452. Arrange-ments by George F. Doherty &Sons Funeral Home.

MAVROPOULOSMichael G. of Roslindale, for-

merly of Somerville, passedaway on September 25th, at theage of 88. Beloved companionof Dorothy Maguire. Devotedson of the late George and SofiaMavropoulos. Adored brother ofthe late Nicholas Mavropoulos

and his wife Santa of Somerville.Loving uncle of George ofHaverhill, Steven and his wifeSheila of Reading and Michaelof Somerville. Also survived bya grandniece and many grand-nephews. Mike graduated fromSomerville High School, class of1950. He was an outstandingSomerville high school athlete.From there he went on to Bos-ton University in 1950, where hebecame a four year starter play-ing football for the terriers, hav-ing a stellar collegiate experi-ence. Upon graduating fromB.U. in 1954, Mike went on toserve 2 years in the U.S. Army.He then started his 40 year ca-reer working for Rex LumberCo. Funeral from the Dormitionof the Virgin Mary Greek Ortho-dox Church. IntermentWoodlawn Cemetery. In lieu offlowers, donations may be madeto the Dormition of the VirginMary Greek Orthodox Church,29 Central St., Somerville, MA02143. Funeral Arrangementsunder the direction of Cota Fu-neral Home in NORTH READ-I N G .www.cotafuneralhomes.com

Around the NeighborhoodBEACON HILL ARTWALK RETURNS

The Beacon Hill Art Walk ismoving to the fall with a specialonline format. For health andsafety reasons the event cannotbe held in person, so artists havegathered some of their favoriteworks from the past year for atwo-day art sale. The event willtake place Saturday, October 3and Sunday, October 4 at http://beaconhillartwalk.com/. Thewebsite will go live Saturday,October 3 at 9:00 AM. Each ofthe artists selected to participatein this year’s event will submit20 pieces of work to the sale.There will be a wide selection ofone-of-a-kind works from paint-ers, sculptors, photographers,jewelry makers, illustrators andmore. “These artists really needour support right now,” said JenMatson, a Beacon Hill Art WalkOrganizer. “COVID has had aprofound effect on Boston areaartists. Not just in terms of lostrevenue, but many havestruggled to remain inspired andcreative in a time of isolation.” The Beacon Hill Art Walk nor-mally takes place on the firstSunday of June throughout thenooks and crannies of BeaconHill’s North Slope.

Residents open up their pri-vate gardens, alleyways, andcourtyards and allow artists todisplay and sell their artwork. Itis a chance for visitors to tour theprivate spaces of Beacon Hillwhile viewing original, hand-made artwork. Thousands ofpeople attend each year. It is afree popular event in the neigh-borhood, with a festive atmo-sphere and volunteer musiciansplaying in various gardensthroughout the day. Around 100artists usually participate, with avariety of styles, media, and sub-ject matter. Visitors enjoy aunique atmosphere boastingbursts of colors at the back-

ground sound of live classical,klezmer, and folk music playingin various gardens throughoutthe day. Organizers hope to wel-come everyone back to BeaconHill in the summer of 2021. Thisprogram is supported in part bya grant from the Boston CulturalCouncil, a local agency which isfunded by the MassachusettsCultural Council, administeredby the Mayor’s Office of Arts +Culture. The Beacon Hill ArtWalk will take place Saturday,October 3 and Sunday, October4 at http://beaconhillartwalk.com/.

LEARN TO SKATE!Ice Skating - New& Ongoing

Learn-To-Skate classes for chil-dren, ages 4 to 18 New classesstart October 4th, 8th & 9th atBrookline/Cleveland CircleReilly Memorial Rink, 355Chestnut Hill Avenue, are start-ing now. Classes are held onThursdays at 4:00 p.m., Fridaysat 4:00 p.m. and Sundays at 1:00p.m.

Use figure, recreational orhockey skates. Beginner, inter-mediate and advanced classes areavailable. For information andto register, call Bay State Skat-ing School at 781-890-8480 orvisit online atwww.BayStateSkatingSchool.org. Celebrating Over 50 Years! BayState Skating School is compli-ant with the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts Covid-19 guide-lines. The number of studentsallowed on the ice will be lim-ited.

FRANKLIN PARK ZOOADDS ADDITIONALNIGHTS & TIME SLOTS TODAZZLE AND DELIGHT

Resulting from the popular-ity of Boston Lights: A LanternExperience at Franklin Park Zoo,Zoo New England has added 18additional nights & new time

slots to give more guests the op-portunity to see the majestic lan-terns this fall. Starting Septem-ber 21, Boston Lights, presentedby National Grid, will be opennightly (including Monday –Wednesday, in addition to thecurrent schedule of Thursday –Sunday) through November 1.

Additionally, beginning Oc-tober 1, Franklin Park Zoo willopen Boston Lights an hour ear-lier at 5:00 p.m., and has addedtwo additional time slots (5:00p.m. and 5:30 p.m.) for ticketseach night from October 1through November 1. For the fullschedule as well as ticket prices,visit www.zoonewengland.org.

Spanning the 72 acres ofFranklin Park Zoo, BostonLights initially debuted on Au-gust 21, and is impressing visi-tors of all ages with more than50 large scale displays com-prised of hundreds of colorfullanterns. Featuring stunning, dra-matic entrance arches, a walk-through 66-foot-long shark tun-nel, a 26-foot-tall giant panda, a197-foot-long dragon, whimsicalocean scenes, vibrant flowers,traditional Asian lantern scenesand much more, the whole ex-perience has been dazzling anddelighting audiences since itopened. Boston Lights alsoshines a light on the importanceof conserving the incrediblebiodiversity on our planet. Fromsnow leopards to Panamaniangolden frogs to the localBlanding’s turtles, each speciesplays a role in healthy ecosys-tems.

Visitors to Boston Lightshave the opportunity to learnmore about Zoo New England’scommitment to conservation andways that they can participate inwildlife and habitat preservation.Presented by National Grid, all

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Beautiful (KHPB), announcedthere will be a neighborhoodcleanup on Sat. Oct. 10 from 10to 11 a.m. Volunteers will meetat the corner of Wakefield andBadger Rd. and clean the areaaround Moynihan Park, Wash-ington St., Wakefield Ave. andTruman Prkwy.

Kimm Jackson also spokeabout the recently formed com-munity advisory board, whichwas created to work with theCity around future develop-ment efforts. On Oct. 13, therewill be a racial justice forum todiscuss what Hyde Park wouldlook like as a racially equitablecommunity.

of the lanterns are illuminatedwith energy saving LED lights. The same health and safety mea-sures in place for a daytime visitto the zoo are also in place forBoston Lights. These measuresinclude advance online andtimed ticketing for a designatedday and time, guest capacity lim-its, one-way paths to controlguest flow, clearly designated 6-foot distance markers, enhancedcleaning protocols, and morehand sanitizer stations through-out the zoo. In accordance withthe Massachusetts Department ofPublic Health, visitors (over age2) to the zoo are required to wearface coverings. Zoo New En-gland has partnered with TianyuArts and Culture to bring thisexperience to Franklin Park Zoo.

Goddard House Events

Tai Chi for Parkinson’sOffered on Zoom on Tues-

days | 11:30 am -12:30 pm. JoinStanwood Chang, Founder andDirector of the Sun Tai Chi In-stitute of Boston, for Tai Chi forParkinson’s, designed specifi-cally to improve strength, bal-ance, flexibility, mental focusand emotional tranquility. Reg-ister NOW! Email Erica Curcioat [email protected] orcall 617-731-8500.

Parkinson’s ClassroomSupport Group

Offered on Zoom, meets FirstWednesday of Every Month |2:15 pm to 3:30 pm. Facilitatedby a licensed healthcare profes-sional, and co-sponsored byRight at Home Boston MetroWest, this monthly support groupfeatures educational topics, ex-pert guest speakers, and the op-portunity to connect with others.For information on how to join,email Bob DePeron [email protected].

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