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76 Stonley Rd and 84 Stonley Rd. SNA spent over 2 years discussing these projects.PHOTO BY RICHARD HEATH

Stonybrook N/A reexaminesguidelines, criticizes 3390 Wash

RicharRicharRicharRicharRichard Heathd Heathd Heathd Heathd HeathStaff Reporter

The Boston Mayor’s Office gavethe Stonybrook Neighborhood Asso-ciation (SNA) marching orders thatmay reverberate citywide: stop delay-ing development projects. The officegave SNA a three-month time frameto vote on projects.

Faced with pandemic-enforcedvirtual meetings, delayed filings andstaff shortages, ISD and the BPDAare buried in a pile of back-loggedprojects complicated by the unpre-dictable pace of obligatory commu-nity meetings.

As The Bulletin reported, SNA

was chastised at the Dec. 2 JamaicaPlain Neighborhood Council ZoningCommittee for its delaying tactics overa small, six-unit residence at 97 Will-iams St.

The SNA took this to heart and atits Dec. 14 meeting discussed at lengthhow it could in the future interact withdevelopers.

Jon McCurdy opened the discus-sion.

“The reason why we’re discussingthis tonight is that recently the projectat 97 Williams St came under a spotlight,” he said.

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Hyde Park has its ownCOVID-19 testing site – at last

MarMarMarMarMary Ellen Gambony Ellen Gambony Ellen Gambony Ellen Gambony Ellen GambonStaff Reporter

On Dec. 15, a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site opened near the site ofthe Boston Renaissance CharterSchool in Hyde Park at 1432 HydePark Ave. after not having a mobiletesting site for the majority of the pan-demic.

The free site was originally slatedto be open until Sat. Dec. 19. How-ever, a source at the Boston PublicHealth Commission (BPHC) said thatthe site was expected to be extended“for several weeks.” District 5 CityCouncilor Ricardo Arroyo confirmedthis statement on his Facebook page.

Neither Arroyo, the chair of theCity Council’s Public Health Commit-tee, nor his staff responded to multiplerequests from The Bulletin seekingcomment over a two-week period.

“The hours of operation are 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday,” said

Denyel Fonseca, the Hyde Park liai-son for the Mayor’s Office of Neigh-borhood Services via email. “Sign upat app.beacontesting.com/login .”

She noted the appointment is validfor only one person and that those ac-companying the person being testedneed separate appointments.

After the announcement on Dec.15, appointments quickly filled in lessthan an hour.

A mobile testing site was open at1337 Hyde Park Ave. at the Brighamand Women’s Faulkner CommunityPhysicians at Hyde Park parking lotfor less than two weeks beginning onApril 16. It was sponsored by BrighamHealth and was for Hyde Park resi-dents only.

During much of the pandemic, par-ticularly in the early stages, Hyde Parkexperienced the highest rates of theCOVID-19 virus out of many otherBoston neighborhoods, calling into

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Residents came out during the holiday season to collect Toys for Tots, which has hadissues because of the pandemic doing its regular collections.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL FAGONE

Parkway comes togetherfor Toys for Tots

Ariane KAriane KAriane KAriane KAriane KomomomomomyyyyyatiatiatiatiatiStaff Reporter

With the help of social media, com-munity members and residents fromWest Roxbury, Roslindale, JamaicaPlain and Hyde Park helped donate car-loads of toys for those in need this holi-day season.

West Roxbury resident MichaelFagone, along with his sister JulieFagone, normally run a Toys for Tots(T4T) collection through their after-school program, but COVID-19 meantthat the program could not run this year.Fagone wasn’t sure how he would stillhelp this cause – so he decided to lookfor help from the community via socialmedia and Facebook.

Starting in early November, Julie andMichael launched their drive. “We also

decided that we would start in early No-vember as we expected COVID-19would impact online and store inventoryfor toys, and it did,” explained Fagone.Within two days of launching the drive,Fagone said toys started arriving at hishome.

They reached out to families andfriends via social media and posted aboutthe drive in local Parkway, JP, and HydePark Facebook groups. Fagone createdan Amazon wishlist and included hisVenmo (an online money app) informa-tion in his posts. This past summer,Fagone raised money and collectedbooks for West Roxbury’s Anti-RacistLittle Library, so many communitygroups recognized him.

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Hyde Park is once again getting its own COVID-19 testing area, which which had beenlacking despite the neighborhood's high infection rates.

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Toys for Tots continued from page 1area Facebook pages and beenwelcomed warmly with my li-brary project, I decided I wouldtry bringing our Toys for Totscollection to the community,” hesaid. “I am so glad that I did. Ithas been a hard year for us all.One that tested our emotions likeno other. And one that often hadthe community on very oppositesides that sometimes led many ofus, myself included, to believewe would never find commonground. The community restoredmy faith that there are somethings that we as a collective stillbelieve in…like helping others inneed. And with the massive un-employment this year, that needwas greater than ever.”

The Fagones also collabo-rated with local toy stores to helpcollect donations. The Boing ToyShop, located in JP, put togethera wish list for the Fagones andoffered a discount for customersbuying for T4T. Boing alsostarted a gift cards promotion andgave donated gift cards to theFagones to spend for the drive.

“Kim and Ellery [of BoingToy Shop] have been so helpfulthroughout. Kim went above andbeyond and always sent us homewith more toys than we could af-ford! That’s a special kind of gen-erosity right there in a year whensmall local businesses are tryingto stay afloat!” stated Fagone.

Between toy donations fromcommunity members, Fagone’sAmazon wishlist, and monetary

donations, 2020 was the biggestyear the Fagones have had col-lecting toys for T4T. Fagone alsolearned a lot about the organiza-tion this year.

“The amount of toys thatended up in our house was bothheartwarming and overwhelming(in the best way). Julie’s old bed-room quickly filled up fast sothose toys were brought straightto the Toys for Tots warehouse.I’m glad we went. I alwaysthought T4T was this big organi-zation. It isn’t. It was Staff Sgt.Howard Brown and a handful ofvolunteers with ONE van tryingto collect, pick-up and distributetoys to children in Suffolk, Nor-folk and Northern PlymouthCounties. That’s a lot of area tocover! They look for sales anddeals so that they can maximizethe financial donations they re-ceived. They even asked me onthe spot to do their social media!They’re doing so much amazingwork with the little resourcesthey have!” explained Fagone.

The toy donations kept com-ing and “flooded” Fagone’shome. So T4T connectedMichael and Julie with Lt.Michael White of the NewtonFire Department who brought alarge trailer to pick up the toys.The drive ended last week, andFagone is not exactly sure howmany toys were collected in to-tal, but it took four cars, an SUVand half of a trailer to collect allthe toys.

For the Fagones, this T4Tdrive really shows the power ofcommunity. Michael is thankfulfor the communities of WestRoxbury, Roslindale, JamaicaPlain and Hyde Park for onceagain welcoming him into theirFacebook groups and allowinghim to post “over and over again”looking for donations. “I am alsothankful for them trusting me tosend their money too. I didn’t takethat trust lightly. Many peoplevenmoed me money who didn’tknow me so I appreciate that trustand we tried to be very transpar-ent by sharing photos and updatesso everyone knew exactly whereit was going,” explained Fagone.“We are neighbors who can sharecommon goals and work togetherfor a greater good! Thanks to ev-eryone – [the community] trulywarmed our hearts during thiswhole process and showed whatreal community and holiday spiritis about.”

The basic mission of the Ma-rine Toys for Tots Program is tocollect new unwrapped toys anddistribute those toys to less fortu-nate children at Christmas. Theprimary goal of Marine Toys forTots is, through the gift of a newtoy, help bring the joy of Christ-mas and send a message of hopeto America’s less fortunate chil-dren. It is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profitpublic charity which was createdby the U. S. Marine Corps in 1991.To learn more, visitwww.toysfortots.org/.

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The Five Way has been the site of many collisions throughout the years and officials are finally consideringaction to increase the area's safety.

PHOTO BY MARY ELLEN GAMBON

WalkUP and Mt. Hope Canterburyworking to tame “The Octopus”

MarMarMarMarMary Ellen Gambony Ellen Gambony Ellen Gambony Ellen Gambony Ellen GambonStaff Reporter

Walk Urban PlanningRoslindale (WalkUP) and MountHope Canterbury NeighborhoodAssociation (MHC) joinedforces with neighborhood volun-teers to find ways to improve oneof the most dangerous intersec-tions in Boston, referred to col-loquially as “the Octopus,” or theFiveway through a walk auditpedestrian study this past week.

The tentacles of this transpor-tation nexus include CumminsHighway, American LegionHighway, and Canterbury Street.

While the intersection is situatedin Roslindale, the outstretchingstreets serve as arteries connect-ing to Hyde Park, Mattapan andDorchester. They also lead to twomajor shopping centers onAmerican Legion Highway. In2015, when the City of Bostonhad a grant to keep track of its 10most dangerous intersections, theFiveway Octopus was 10th onthe list in terms of car collisionsand traffic accidents.

The study also includes whatWalkUP chair Matt Lawlor re-ferred to as “the missing middle,”which is the triangular area fromCummins Highway down Rowe

Street through Hyde Park Avenueto American Legion Highway atthe Octopus.

“In a pre-pandemic world, wewould do this walk audit in per-son in one day,” Lawlor said.“We would meet first as a groupand go through a presentationcalled ‘Ped 101’ that WalkBostonhas had for a long time. We’d in-troduce the group to concepts re-lated to walkability and safewalking with a focus on the de-sign and infrastructure aspects ofthat.”

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Christmas pastimes

My Kindof Town/Joe Galeota

My favorite Christmas bookis gone — forever! It was a thinand somewhat dilapidated pa-perback that, having survivednumerous readings as well ashot summers and brutal wintersin our attic, must have beentossed out last year after theholidays.

Most people have a favor-ite Christmas movie—the onethey enjoy seeing on TV. Mineis so old that it is usually notreshown and reshown, as hap-pens to many Xmas movies: the original “Miracle on 34thStreet” with Edmund Gwynn,John Payne, Maureen O’Hara,and a very young NatalieWood. (If you think I’m pickyabout the original version, Iknow somebody who, as an in-formal Dickensian aficionado,claims that the only “ChristmasCarol” worth watching is the

1951 version with Alastair Simplaying Ebenezer Scrooge.)

Most people have favoriteChristmas carols that they en-joy hearing over and over. They might even have rendi-tions by their favorite record-ing artists. So don’t I: “Joy tothe World” by the Ray Conniffsingers in which there are somespectacular harmony at strato-spheric high notes, the lesscommon “Mary’s Boy Child”by Anne Murray, and “For UntoUs a Child Is Born” by the Bos-ton College Chorale.

They may even have theirfavorite essays/short stories. Mine happens to be takenfrom The New York Sunnewspaper on December 21,1912, when an editor repliedto a letter by a very youngVirginia O’Hanlon whetherthere is a Santa Claus. “Yes,Virginia, There Is a SantaClaus” actually came in handyseveral weeks ago when I hadto paraphrase a line or twofrom it when the question wasposed to me, “Where isJesus?” I knew that the an-swer “in heaven” would notsuffice to an inquisitive six-year-old.

Back to a favorite book,which actually did not reachthat echelon until several de-cades ago. It’s actually aYoung Adult book, accordingto some librarians: “The BestChristmas Pageant Ever.” Written in 1971 by BarbaraRobinson, the novelette is ten-

der and hilarious at the sametime as it details the actionsof Imogene Herdman and herfive hard-scrabble siblingspreparing to participate in theannual church Christmas play.

A reading of the reviewswill surprise you as to howmany other adults character-ize it as a great read, even in-ducing tears for a number ofreaders.

So this year there won’tbe any curling up beside thefireplace in the days leadingup to Christmas with someHood’s Golden Eggnog whilereading Robinson’s heart-warming words. But therewill be thoughts of Imogeneas well as her brothers and sis-ters, as the book ever so fur-tively touches upon the realmeaning of the season.

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Letters to the Editor

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DEFINITELY NOTROCKET SCIENCE

To the Editor:With Madam Chair’s state-

ment at the end of the ZBA meet-ing this past December 8th, con-cerning the forbidden parkinggarage on the first floor of 11Dana Ave:

“We are looking at a parkinggarage as an accessory use to themain use. It’s not a parkinggarage.” One must wonder if wehave entered some sort of bizarrequantum “Copenhageninterpretation” of the Hyde Parkzoning code.

Apparently, muchlike Schrödinger’s cat, whichexists in quantumsuperposition, simultaneouslyboth alive and dead, we nowhave located at 11 DanaAve Schrödinger’s Parking Ga-rage, which apparently also ex-its in quantum superposition, si-multaneously a parking garageand not a parking garage.

I keep telling people that thezoning code isn’t rocket science.But Quantum Physics?

Jim KirkerHyde Park

WITLESS SOURCEOF FRUSTRATION

To the Editor:This letter seeks to illustrate

a particular component of yourrecent article, December 17th -“11 Dana Ave.,” and it is hopedthis illustration will better servethe reader to understand what theabutter and his supporters in theHyde Park NeighborhoodAssociation (HPNA) have had to

endure in this conflict with CityHall for over 2 years.

BPDA and ISD are conjec-turing that the apartment build-ing would be built “as-of-right” as they saw no zoning vio-lations and thus the developerwould not be compelled to go tothe Zoning Board of Appeals(ZBA) to seek relief in the formof variances. It was obvious tothe abutter and most members ofHPNA that this was in error asthere were three significant vio-lations. The most blatant viola-tion is the construction of a park-ing garage on the first floor ofthis building in the“Neighborhood Shopping” zon-ing sub-district, when said sub-district encourages commercialand office storefronts on theground level and thusspecifically forbids a parkinggarage on this floor.

The ZBA rejected this appealand your article presents aquote from the chairwoman ofthe ZBA defending their deci-sion. “We are looking at a park-ing garage as an accessory useto the main use. It’s not a park-ing garage.” Make up yourmind. You can’t say it is an ac-cessory parking garage and thenclaim it’s not a parking garage. The Hyde Park Zoning Articleforbids a parking garage on thefirst floor. It does not care if itis for main use, i.e. the cars oftenants, or for accessory uses,i.e. cars belonging to plumberswho come in to fix the sinks oftenants.

This is just one example ofthe frustrations we’ve facedtending to this matter. Not long

ago, due to a well reported caseof corruption at BPDA/ISD/ZBA, the City Council replacedsome questionable ZBA charac-ters but apparently refrainedfrom clearing out the dim-wittedsegment. This writer found thecorruption to be less impactful tothe overall process than the en-cumbrance of stupidity.

This is of utmost importance. Large apartment buildings given“as-of-right” status are not com-pelled to provide any affordableunits. Also, the precedent hasbeen set as proposals for similardevelopment plans have beenbefore HPNA and they express11 Dana Avenue as an exampleas they intend to eliminate store-fronts in Cleary/Logan Squareand replace them with parkinggarages. Main Street will soonbe gone.

Craig MartinHyde Park

SUPPORT SENATORCHANG DIAZ’S POLICEREFORM BILL

To the Editor:I am in full support of Sena-

tor Sonia Chang Diaz’s compre-hensive police reform bill andhere’s why. In August of 2019,an innocent family member ofmine was chased and beaten un-conscious by the police. Policebrutality is common in Massa-chusetts and in this country. Ac-cording to the ACLU, there havebeen at least 115 reported casesof police brutality in 34 Massa-


Prayer to the Blessed Virgin(Never known to fail!)

Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt.Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor ofHeaven, Blessed Mother of the Sonof God, Immaculate Virgin, assist mein this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea,help me and show me herein you aremy mother. Oh Holy Mary, Motherof God, Queen of Heaven and Earth,I humbly beseech thee from thebottom of my heart to succor me inmy necessity (make request). Thereare none that can withstand yourpower. Oh Mary, conceived withoutsin, pray for us who have recourse tothee (three times). Holy Mary, I placethis cause in your hands (threetimes). Say this prayer for threeconsecutive days and then you mustpublish and it will be granted to you.

—M. West

St. Jude’s NovenaMay the Sacred Heart of Jesusbe adored, glorified, loved andpreserved throughout the world,now and forever. Sacred Heartof Jesus pray for us. St. Jude,worker of miracles, pray for us.St. Jude, helper of the hopeless,pray for us. Say this prayer 9times a day. By the 9th day yourprayer will be answered. It hasnever been known to fail. Pub-lication must be promised.Thank you St. Jude. My Prayerswere answered.

In gratitude for helping me.

—M. West

Covid Testing continued from page 1

question neighborhood equity.“The City of Boston is

committed to providing equi-table access to testing acrossthe City,” said a source withinthe BPHC. “We’ve beenpartnering with communityhealth centers to increase ac-cess to testing, particularly inneighborhoods experiencinghigher rates of COVID-19.However, there is not a neigh-borhood health center in HydePark.”

As of the week endingDec. 17, Hyde Park had thefourth-highest cumulativepercent positive in Boston at12.7 percent, trailing onlyEast Boston and both parts ofDorchester, according to theBPHC. On Dec. 9, the ratewas 9.7 percent for that week,with the same neighborhoodstatus, according to BPHCstatistics.

Community leaders hadmixed opinions about thetesting center. While happyabout i ts presence, somethought the hours and lack ofone up until the second waveof the coronavirus were con-cerning.

“It’s about time,” saidMarcia Kimm Jackson, theco-chair of the WestFairmount Hill CommunityGroup (WFHCG). “It’s a longtime coming, and it’s muchneeded.”

She noted that Hyde Parkhas a large population of es-sential workers, and that “itseemed like a foregone con-clusion” that there would bea testing site here. She calledthe site “an amazing oppor-tunity and a blessing.”

“Hyde Park is at the edge

of the city, both physicallyand literally,” Kimm Jacksonsaid. “Dorchester, JamaicaPlain and Roslindale havetheir own health centers, butwe do not.”

Her ultimate goal, KimmJackson said, would be to seea neighborhood health andwellness center either onTruman Parkway or in ClearySquare. COVID-19 pointedthis out as a critical needgiven the high population ofelders, people of color andothers in marginalized com-munities.

“That to me was sort ofthe screaming concern here,”she said. “There aren’t anyhospitals close by. That’sbeen a dream of mine,frankly. I think we needsomething, especially sinceHyde Park took over parts ofMattapan. There needs to bea balance of access to re-sources.”

“We are of course sup-portive of a Hyde Park test-ing site,” added Joe Smith,the chair of the FairmountHill Neighborhood Associa-tion (FHNA). “Hyde Parkhas a very high instance ofCOVID-19 and testing helpsto identify and hopefully di-minish it.”

Melanie Daye, the volun-

teer administrator of theHyde Park Central RiverNeighborhood Group, tookanother view in an email con-versation with The Bulletin.

“I am not happy that I hadto find out from you,” Dayesaid. “As a leader in HydePark, I should have receivedthis information as soon pos-sible. I should not have to goto a ci ty councilor ’sFacebook page.”

She added that Hyde Parkresidents should have beennotified by mail because noteveryone has access to acomputer or the Internet.

“The people in Hyde Parkare not getting enough timeto schedule an appointment,”Daye continued. “The siteshould have been for moredays and/or planned for afterthe holidays, when theCOVID-19 count might behigher.”

When she tried to sched-ule an appointment, the sitewas fully booked, Daye said.However, she did learn thatthere will be limited hours onDec. 23 and 30. The site willbe closed Dec. 24, 25, 30 and31 due to the holidays.

“This is not good,” Dayeadded. “The residents needmore dates and times to gettested in Hyde Park.”

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Stonybrook continued from page 1ring projects to a subcommit-tee first and then a full SNAvote worked pretty well,”McCurdy went on.

“But the city requested thatSNA put this project up for avote in October. We let the cityknow it was still in subcom-mittee.”

McCurdy explained that onNov.16, Faisa Sharif, DeputyDirector of the Office ofNeighborhood Services(ONS), convened a meetingthat included the JP liaisonLindsey Santana, the SNAsteering and subcommitteemembers and Dave Baron,chair of the JP zoning commit-tee.

“What came out of this wasthe city is looking for a fasterprocess. They want a threemonth faster time line,”McCurdy said.

“If anybody read the Bul-letin or the Gazette they knowwhat a robust discussion wehad at that [Dec. 2] JP zoningcommittee.”

McCurdy recommendedthat SNA work on updatedguidelines to bring the processmore in line with the city’s re-quest.

Page Sparks, who lives onBrookley Road and is on thesteering committee, saw this asan opportunity.

“We can be more up frontwith others,” she said, “tomaintain and strengthen our

reputation.”Going forward, she said,

the group should meet withothers for advice and guidancelike Lindsey Santana, AislingKerr of the BPDA and the JPzoning committee.

“We’ll try for threemonths,” she said, “It’s shortbut we’ll see where it goes,we’re going to do our best.”

Sparks joined the Dec. 16JP zoning committee andasked questions of memberswho gave her insights and ad-vice.

Sue Cibulsky has long beenactive on the SNA.

“Are we going to complywith this?” she asked. “Is theretime to negotiate with thecity?”

Steering committee chairTrevyn Langford lives onGartland Street.

“We did push back,” he ad-mitted, “but they [the city]were pretty vague with us.Where did this come from?But they were pretty adamantthat we hold to that [threemonth] line.”

Mc Curdy said more com-munication with Santana wasimportant.

“She agreed to notify us ofabutters meetings and we willcc her on emails,” he said. “Wedon’t have all the time in theworld to work with develop-ers,” he said. “The time frameis helpful to committee mem-

bers.”McCurdy saw some room

for change.“Eighty-four Stonley Rd. is

back and we’re recruiting sub-committee members,” he said.“But it’s on the edge of theneighborhood. It doesn’t abutanybody really. We could letit go straight to the JP zoningcommittee - unless membershave objections - and skip theSNA general meeting.”

McCurdy said that 97 Wil-liams St “will have to come toa conclusion.

"The [JP zoning] meetingwas not very informative, butthe developer is not going todefer forever. Sooner or laterwe’ll have to make a decision.”

He said that the developer,Joseph Federico, has been in-vited to the Jan. 11, 2021 SNAmeeting and a list of more con-cerns was emailed to him onDec. 10.

Federico is on the Jan. 20JP zoning committee agenda.

Jennifer Uhrhane ofRossmore Road is on most ofthe subcommittees and alreadyfocused on the 3390 Washing-ton St. [BMS Paper] develop-ment which is well outside theStonybrook neighborhood.

“I’ll give a quick sum-mary,” she said. “It’s a restau-rant supply warehouse now.The owner wants to add 151units, a grocery and continuehis restaurant supply busi-

ness.”“They want to add 68 one-

bedroom and 31 two-bedroomunits. It’s very big. A lot ofthings going on with it. I’vebeen going back and forth withthe details with the developer,”Uhrhane said.

“I emailed them on Dec. 1.Then they told us they filed aproject notification form onNov. 20. They didn’t tell us.Why didn’t they keep us up todate?”

Overlooking the city’sthree-month time frame,Uhrhane wants the BPDAcomment period extended pastthe project notification form(PNF) date of Jan. 3.

Uhrhane summarized herconcerns.

“It’s too bulky, too big, Ithas an awkward design,”shesaid. “It’s too dense, too manyunits, it needs a decent design;six stories is too tall. It’s not

an interesting building. Theyshould put more things under-ground.”

She said she had discussedthe plans with Kenton Rd ar-chitect Jan Wampler. “He hada lot to say with how bad thearchitecture is,” she said.

A subcommittee withUhrhane has already beenformed with two other mem-bers, both of whom live onBurnett Street.

It will be a crowded com-munity process; the developershave already met three timessince Dec. 2019 with UnionAvenue residents.

Cibulsky was worried aboutone word she heard at the JPzoning committee, ‘intransi-gence.’"

“We need to be more flex-ible,” she said. “This is a goodopportunity for us to improveto become more efficient. It willget more people involved.”


Deaths

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COTUGNO

Helen R. (Connolly) Long-time resident of West Roxbury,formerly of Jamaica Plain,passed away on December 21,2020. Beloved wife of the lateMatthew J. Cotugno (BPD. Ret.)for 57 years. Devoted mother ofMatthew J. Cotugno (MSP) andhis wife Cheryl of Dedham, andJoseph P. Cotugno of WestRoxbury. Loving grandmother ofCaitlin and Matthew Cotugnoboth of Dedham. Sister of the lateMargaret Coffey and MaryBannen. Also survived by severalloving nieces and nephews.Helen was employed for manyyears in the Division of LaborRelations for the Commonwealthof Massachusetts. Funeral fromthe P.E. Murray - F.J. Higgins,George F. Doherty & Sons Fu-neral Home 2000 Centre St.WEST ROXBURY. Funeralfrom the funeral home on Thurs-day, December 24th at 9am, fol-lowed by a Funeral Mass at HolyName Church, West Roxbury at10am. Relatives and friendskindly invited. Please wear amask and be attentive to all covidguidance. Interment St. JosephCemetery, West Roxbury. In lieuof flowers donations may bemade in Helen’s memory to theAmerican Cancer Society 30

Speen St., Framingham, MA01701. Arrangements by P.E.Murray - F.J. Higgins, George F.Doherty & Sons Funeral Home,West Roxbury.

FIUMARO

Rita T. (Hart) of WestRoxbury, formerly of the SouthEnd, December 19, 2020. Be-loved wife of the late JosephFiumaro. Wonderful and devotedmother of Janet DeLaTorre andher husband Freddy ofBurlington; Linda Kelly and herhusband Joseph of WestRoxbury; Natalie Fiumaro ofWest Roxbury. Dedicated andloving grandmother of Erika andJoseph DeLaTorre and Alanna,Christopher and his wife AshleyKelly. Sister of the late Charles,Paul and James Hart. Also sur-vived by many nieces, nephewsand dear friends. A visitation washeld at the P.E. Murray-F.J.Higgins, George F. Doherty &Sons Funeral Home, 2000 Cen-tre Street, West Roxbury onWednesday, December 23. Inter-ment private. In lieu of flowers,expressions of sympathy may bemade in Rita’s memory to thecharity of your choice. For direc-tions and guestbook,

pemurrayfuneral.com. P.E.Murray -FJ Higgins George F.Doherty & Sons West Roxbury617-325-2000.

FOLEYDonald E. of West Roxbury,

formerly of Brighton, passedaway surrounded by his lovingfamily on December 18, 2020.Beloved husband of 61 years tothe late Jean L. (Kelly) Foley.Complete notice to follow. Will-iam J. Gormley Funeral Service617-323-8600.

KILLIZLIAntoine of Medway, for-

merly of Roslindale, December16, 2020. Dear and devoted hus-band of Josephine (Halabe).Loving father of Mary Viola andher husband Robert of Norfolkand Christina Salameh and herhusband Wayel of Holland.Cherished grandfather, “Jiddo,”of Marissa and Stephen Violaand Zane Salameh. Dear brotherof Nora Homsey and the lateHabeeb, Julia and Jemelia. Alsosurvived by several loving niecesand nephews. Graveside FuneralService was held at Mt. BenedictCemetery, 409 Corey St., WestRoxbury, Tuesday, December22, 2020 at 11 a.m. In lieu offlowers, contributions inAntoine’s memory may be madeto Our Lady of the AnnunciationCathedral, 7 VFW Pkwy., WestRoxbury, MA 02132. Guestbookand other information atwww.KfouryFuneral.com

KIRBYFreida M. (Ayoub) of West

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Geoff of Wilmot, NH, PeterKaram and his wife Courtney ofRidgewood, NJ, KimberlyMazzocchi and her husbandBrian of Walpole, and JessicaMcKenna and her husband Jasonof South Boston. Also survivedby 10 great-grandchildren. Sis-ter of Janet Lubin and VioletMcCarthy, both of Weston andthe late Fred, John, and MonaAyoub, and Helen Shumway. Aprivate Funeral Mass was held inSt. Mary’s Church, Dedham onTuesday, Dec. 22 at 10am fol-lowed by a private interment inBrookdale Cemetery, Dedham.In lieu of flowers donations maybe made in Freida’s memory tothe Dana-Farber/Jimmy Fund,P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA02284.Online guestbook atgfdoherty.com. George F.Doherty & Sons Dedham 781-326-0500.

KLETTERAnnette (Fulham) of West

Roxbury, formerly of Wellesley,December 11, 2020. Annette waspreceded in death by her husbandLarry, by her parents Thomas A.and Annette (Healy) Fulham, andby her sisters, Mary FulhamKillion and Lucy CatherineFulham. She is survived by hersisters, Ellen Fulham Lopez(Gordon) of West Roxbury, MA,Christina J. Fulham andGretchen M. Fulham ofStoughton, MA, DeborahWescott Fulham-Winston (Rob-ert) of Carlisle, PA, and by herbrothers, Thomas A. Fulham(Marcia) of Alexandria, VA,Nicholas L. Fulham (Rosemary)

of Framingham, MA, and Gre-gory J. Fulham (Patricia) of Chi-cago, IL. A memorial gatheringwill be announced at a later date.In lieu of flowers, the family sug-gests that you tell someone youlove them. Online guestbook atgfdoherty.com. George F.Doherty & Sons Wellesley 781-235-4100.

RUSSOJoseph L. “Joe” of Costa

Mesa, CA, and Hilton Head Is-land, SC, passed away peace-fully on December 19, 2020, atBrigham and Women’s Hospi-tal, Boston, MA, following anillness. Joe is survived by hisloving daughter Cecelia Walsh-Russo, his son-in-law TokeKnudsen and cherished grand-daughter Ida Knudsen. He wasthe dear brother of Janet Briggsof Hilton Head Island, SC, andLaura Sarver of Poulsbo, WA.He was the cherished uncle ofJacquelyn, Jennifer, Stephenand David, and great-uncle ofEmily, Thomas and Brianna. Hewas the beloved nephew of hisaunt Catherine Santospirito ofWest Roxbury, MA. Joe wasoriginally an urban planner andlater enjoyed a second career asa high school educator. Hemaintained wide-ranging inter-ests in travel, politics, architec-ture, music, photography, bicy-cling and education. FuneralServices will be private. In lieuof flowers, donations may bemade to Dana-Farber CancerInstitute, Boston, MA. Directyour gifts to GastrointestinalCancers, Pancreatic Cancer

danafarber.jimmyfund.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2100. Forguestbook and live streaming goto www.gormleyfuneral.com.William J. Gormley Funeral Ser-vice 617-323-8600.

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Gordon named President and CEOThe City of Boston Credit

Union (CBCU) today announcedit has selected Neil Gordon toserve as its next president andCEO. Gordon joins CBCU fromMillbury Federal Credit Union,where he serves as Treasurer andChief Financial and OperationsOfficer. Gordon will be focusedon continuing to grow the CreditUnion’s membership and main-taining the highest quality ofmember experience, includingthe enhancement of all memberdigital platforms.

“We are thrilled to have NeilGordon join the City of BostonCredit Union to lead us into an-other decade of continuedgrowth and shared success withour members,” said Board ChairGreg Rooney. “Of all the candi-dates interviewed, Neil’s exper-tise in all facets of a CreditUnion’s operation — from mem-ber service and marketing tolending and investment — stoodout. During the interview pro-cess he took the proactive stepof actually joining our CreditUnion to immerse himself in themember experience. He under-stands the critical importance ofcontinuing to build on the bed-rock of trust we have establishedwith our members.”

The selection of Gordon fol-lows a robust, competitive searchprocess through KLR ExecutiveSearch Group that included can-didates from across the country.Gordon will begin in the role onJanuary 4. He succeeds DanielWaltz, who retired in September

after three years as CBCU presi-dent and CEO.

“It’s an honor to join theCity of Boston Credit Union andbecome part of this century-longcommitment to personal, rela-tionship-driven, member ser-vice,” said Gordon. “The tremen-dous growth of this institutionover the past three years has putus in a strong position to con-tinue to do more to serve ourmembers. I’m ready to roll up mysleeves and get to work in mak-ing a positive impact for the com-munities we serve.”

In his role as Chief Financialand Operations Officer forMillbury Federal Credit Union,Gordon significantly improvedthe organization’s liquidity, earn-ings, and key financial metricssuch as net worth ratio. He alsooversaw the implementation ofseveral member service technol-ogy upgrades, including smallbusiness banking technology.

Prior to his tenure at MillburyFederal Credit Union, Gordonheld leadership positions at Fi-delity Cooperative Bank andBank of America.

Gordon earned a Bachelor’sdegree in economics from Bos-ton University and an MBA infinance from Suffolk University.He recently became a boardmember of the Shawn ThorntonFoundation, which makes a dif-ference in the lives of childrensuffering from cancer orParkinson’s disease. He lives inLittleton, Mass.

About the City of BostonCredit Union

Since 1915, the City of Bos-ton Credit Union has provided itsmembers with personal, conve-nient and value-priced financialservices that support themthrough all of life’s milestones.Big enough to serve all yourneeds, and small enough to knowwhat they are, the City of Bos-ton Credit Union fosters a cul-ture where relationships matter.As a credit union, we are ownedby and accountable to our mem-bers, who each have an equalvote in our direction, regardlessof the size of their accounts. Webelieve we have a responsibilityto support the health and wealthof our members and their com-munities, and in 2019 donatedover $400,000 to hundreds of lo-cal organizations, in addition toour colleagues’ dedication oftime and involvement in theircommunities. For more informa-tion, visit CityofBostonCU.com.

Neil Gordon


Letters continued from page 5chusetts cities and towns over the last 10 years. According toCNN, 1,098 people were murdered in the hands of police in2019 and 54 percent of those were people of color.

As a youth leader with the Hyde Square Task Force, I en-courage the community to support Senator Sonia Chang Diaz’slegislation. No other child should have to ever witness theirfamily member being harmed in the hands of the people whoare supposed to protect them. Her bill creates a nine member,civilian-led Police Officer Standards and Training (POST)Board with power to proactively monitor police department andofficer data to identify problematic patterns of behavior. ThePolice Officer Standards and Training Board will be empow-ered to: investigate incidents of misconduct with subpoenapower; permanently decertify officers for offenses such as byfailure to intervene, violation of use of force laws, or making afalse report; maintain a disclosure database for public transpar-ency; and improve police officer training and standardize certi-fication.

Please support the Racial Justice Policing bill, Senate 2963.This will be an important step to making us all safer and allow-ing communities to regain trust in their police forces.

Emma FaithDedham

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5 - Way Intersectioncontinued from page 3presentation was held virtuallyon Monday, Dec. 14 via Zoomand was attended by about 20people who took part in the sur-vey over the week. They notedtheir observations about the con-ditions of the pavement, lighting,sense of safety, availability ofcrosswalks and how well theywere painted, and areas thatcould use upkeep. Signal timingand sidewalk widths also weretaken into account. Areas thatwould benefit from traffic calm-ing measures or beautification,particularly at the Octopus, wereof great concern to residents. Amap and checklist were providedfor guidance. Participants couldupload their pictures as well tocapture their experiences.WalkBoston will compile thedata into a report to submit to leg-islators and government depart-

ments for further action.“I think the advantage of this

approach is that we keep addingto it as we go,” Lawlor explained.This proved to be relevant, as thecomment period was extended toJan. 8 due to the snowstorm onDec. 17 to capture people’s ex-periences trying to traverse thestreets in varying conditions.

WalkUP did a walk audit ofRoslindale Square five years agowith WalkBoston, and thenWalkUP did another of Cumminsfrom the Square to Rowe Streeta year ago, Lawlor noted. TheBoston Transportation Depart-ment (BTD) recently beganworking on Cummins Highwayfrom Mattapan Square to WoodAvenue, installing bicycle lanesand planning road improve-ments. But this area being stud-ied now has long been neglected,

according to MHC co-chairs LisaBeatman and Rick Yoder.

“We’ve been calling it ‘themissing middle’ because theRoslindale section was beingpaid attention to, and then theMattapan section was being paidattention to,” Beatman said.“Something that became veryclear to us is that the easternRoslindale section was just notbeing touched by any of theprojects going on.”

However, she said that neitherproject is looking into putting incapital investment for trafficcalming measures. This is despitethe Five Way Octopus intersec-tion being in the top three per-cent of crash sites in the City ofBoston.

“This is a really importantopportunity to focus on the miss-ing middle of Cummins and themissing piece of American Le-gion,” Beatman said.

Historically, part of the prob-lem is that the area borders twoCity Council districts – District4 and 5. District 4 currently isrepresented by mayoral candi-date Andrea Campbell, and Dis-trict 5 is represented by RicardoArroyo.

“One of the issues regardingthat stretch is that we’ve had ex-periences for several years nowbecause it’s on the border of dis-tricts,” Beatman continued.“Each councilor – and there havebeen changes in the councilors –have said that they don’t want totread on another councilor’sturfWhat’s ended up happeningis nothing.”

She added that she has askedboth offices to collaborate on thisissue because of the growingnumber of accidents on Ameri-can Legion Highway.

Trying to get to Stop & Shopcan be “death defying” for hun-dreds of walkers including her-self and Yoder, Beatman stressed.The plaza is a major destinationwith a Walgreen’s, a CrunchGym and a bank.

“There is a light trying tocross at the intersection onCummins,” she said. “But no carsever, ever, ever look.”

Yoder noted that the fundingfor the bike lanes came fromemergency funding due toCOVID-19.

When the Octopus was con-structed, “it was driven byNSTAR’s desire to put a 300,000volt transmission wire upCummins to American Legion toBlue Hill Avenue and then theother way to Hyde Park Avenue,”according to Yoder. “I think theypaid for it, and I assume the Citydesigned it. The reason for thesplit was because of the substa-tion on Hyde Park Avenue.”

“It was all about how to movethe traffic in and out of Bostonas fast as possible,” Yoder added.“That’s why we’re stuck withwhat we’re stuck with.”

For more information, go towalkuproslindale.org.

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