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By Dave Eisenstadterdeisenstadter@wickedlocal.com

Choose one: huge fare in-creases and vast service re-ductions, or slightly smallerfare increases and even moreservice reductions.

Those are the alternativesthe Massachusetts Bay Trans-portation Authority, saddledwith an expected $161 millionbudget shortfall, is presentingits customers.

“If we are required to im-plement these plans, we willsee decreased ridership andthey could well leave somepeople without a public tran-sit option,” MBTA acting gen-eral manager Jonathan Davissaid at a Wicked Local edi-torial board meeting Friday.

The first scenario wouldeliminate 60 bus routes andincrease fares by an averageof 43 percent. The secondeliminates more than 200bus routes, reduces the lengthof 11 others and would in-crease fares by an average of35 percent.

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411 onthefarehikesOfficials:Drop inridershipexpected

RIVERDALE REUNION

By Andrea Salisburyasalisbury@wickedlocal.com

With cow-themedballoons, classphotos and hun-

dreds of memories, Riverdalefriends gathered Saturday forwhat can only be describedas a grand homecoming.

“It is like one big family,”Nancy Clement said Satur-day, Jan. 21, at Moseley’s onthe Charles. The retiredRiverdale School teacher wasall smiles as she lookedaround the crowed ballroomduring the first Riverdale

Reunion. “This is awesome.It’s multigenerational.”

Organized by the Friends ofRiverdale, the neighborhoodreunion snowballed from a

Lisa Mullinix, Mary Ellen Kelly, and Laney Clement at the first Friends of Riverdale Reunion on Saturday night atMoseley’s on the Charles. WICKED LOCAL PHOTOS BY JARED CHARNEY

Rita Girard and Gloria Nelson wowed the crowd withtheir rendition of “Mosey down to Moseley’s.”

But wait, there’s moreVideo: Rita Girard and Gloria Nelson sing “Moseydown to Moseley’s” atWickedLocal-Dedham.com

Photos: Check out thegallery from the reunion atWickedLocalDedham.com

REUNION, PAGE 6 MBTA, PAGE 5

Bowling with Doug

Doug Flutie, a former New England Patriot, and hisdaughter Alexa, a current New England Patriotcheerleader, attend the ninth annual Flutie Bowl onMonday, Jan. 23. The event was held at Kings Dedham at Legacy Place to benefit the Doug Flutie Jr.Foundation for Autism established by Doug Flutie andhis wife Laurie to honor their son Doug, Jr. who wasdiagnosed with autism at the age of 3. For morephotos visit WickedLocalDedham.com. WICKED LOCALSTAFF PHOTO BY KEITH E. JACOBSON

By Dave Eisenstadterdeisenstadter@wickedlocal.com

Good fences make goodneighbors? Not according tosome Edison and Morse Av-enue homeowners.

Earlier this month, a groupof residents at the end of

Morse Avenue had a fenceerected blocking a footpathbetween their properties andnearby Whiting Avenue.

While some neighbors ap-plauded the move, designedto stop high school and mid-dle school students using thepath after school, others ar-

gue accessing Whiting Av-enue has now become a nui-sance.

Stephen Gasbarro has livedin the area since he went tomiddle and high school, hesaid at his Edison Avenue

MORSE AVENUE

Fence irks neighborsNew structure blocks footpath to Whiting Avenue

By Dave Eisenstadterdeisenstadter@wickedlocal.com

The Mother Brook Com-munity Group established itselfas a force for positive change inEast Dedham at its annualmeeting Tuesday night.

The theme of the event,

“Proud Past, Bright Future,”was emphasized again andagain. Joe Heisler, a memberof the Mother Brook Com-munity Group board of di-rectors, served as theevening’s host.

Dan Hart, board presidentfor the Mother Brook Com-

munity Group, began themeeting with a list of achieve-ments of the past year.

First and foremost, hetalked about the group’s in-volvement with Dedham’s375th anniversary celebra-

MOTHER BROOK COMMUNITY GROUP

‘There is a lot to look forward to’

My fondest memory is …

Friends share stories, photos of neighborhood

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Facebook page created byMichael O’Brien. He wasn’table to attend Saturday’sevent.

“Without (O’Brien) wewouldn’t be here,” reunionorganizer Lisa Mullinix an-nounced from the stage atMoseley’s. “We got over 300people here for our first re-union.”

Between photo slideshowsnarrated by Jane Breed, BobKing, Bob Aldous, and BobReissfelder and a brief histo-ry lesson by Vicky Krucke-berg, of the Dedham Histor-ical Society, Riverdale resi-dents could be heard laugh-ing and shrieking as oldfriends arrived.

Stepping off the stage,Mullinix said the highlightof the night was “seeing oldfriends that I haven’t seensince I was 15 and knowingwho they are.”

Just as she said that, Pe-ter Ellis walked into theroom.

“And here he is,” Mullinixsmiled.

“What do you mean, andhere he is?” Ellis joked be-fore going in for a hug.

“It’s all about seeing old

friends,” she said.The scene was repeated

throughout the night.“My fondest memory (of

the reunion is) just seeingall my former students whonow have students at theschool,” Nancy Clementsaid. “I’m retired (Riverdaleteacher), but I am a mathcoach in the (Dedham)schools and the kids willsay, ‘You had my mother.’ ”

She lives in her childhoodhome on Arlington road.

“(The home) is on the bighill that ends down by theriver where we used toskate,” she said. Her sister,Laney Clement chimed inwith her memory.

“We used to take oursleds to the top of the hill inthe winter, slide down thehill on the snow, put ourskates on, skate across thechannel to go bowling,”Laney smiled. “(Then)spend the day in the bowl-ing alley (only to) turnaround put the skates backon, cross the channel, grabthe sled and then it was(time to go home).”

From there the stories

just flowed.“We would be outside at

recess (at the RiverdaleSchool) and Monsignor(Michael J.) Durant fromSt. Susanna’s church wouldget in his car and drive tothe parking lot every singleday,” Laney said and Nancyjust nodded, knowing howthe story ended. “He wouldthrow candy to the kids. Itwas hilarious.”

Most memories ofRiverdale take place alongthe Charles. Sixteen-year-old Kristin Lebovitz, whowas the youngest person atthe reunion, said her familyis pretty outdoorsy.

“(As a kid) we would goon canoe trips on the river

or play kickball on thestreet,” she said and addedthat she lives on a quietstreet. “I have a lot offriends in the neighbor-hood, it was kind of closeknit group where wewould go over each other’shouses.”

As the night turned to

dancing, one question re-mained: How did CandyMountain get its name?

“Through this whole par-ty, we’ve tried to figure outwhere the name came from,and nobody knows wherethe name came from,”Mullinix said.

While there isn’t a specif-ic route to get to the area,Mullinix pointed to a mapand said the best way to seethe mountain is from WestRoxbury.

“If you are in MillenniumPark and you are lookingtoward Dedham, you arelooking at Candy Moun-tain,” she said. “Everyonewho is here went to CandyMountain. I have 20-year-old kids now and they wentto Candy Mountain.”

Kruckeberg, executive di-rector of the Dedham His-torical Society, said that shetoo has tried to uncover themystery of the name.

“I have no answer for you.We have not been able tofind any reference to find-ing Candy Mountain.”

Editor Andrea Salisburycan be reached at asalis-bury@wickedlocal.com or781-433-8322.

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Obituaries appearing in this section are paid for and written by families,often through the services of a funeral director.

O B I T U A R I E S

Joan CurwenWESTWOOD – Joan Dunphy

Curwen, a resident of Fox HillVillage in Westwood, diedpeacefully at her home on Jan-uary 16, 2012.

Born June 3, 1924 in Bostonto Edwin Blakeslee Dunphyand Virginia Delano Dunphy,she attended The Park Schoolin Brookline and The WinsorSchool in Boston, graduating inthe class of 1942. In 1943 shemarried Darcy Curwen, anengineer. They delighted intheir three children, Ginger,Chris, and David, and lived inWestwood for most of theirlives; Darcy died in 1986. Joan'smany enthusiasms includedthe Red Sox, the Patriots, theWestwood Library, the BostonPops, the Museum of Fine Arts,bridge, crossword puzzles, andtennis. She was an accom-plished painter, an avid

traveler, anda reluctantCub Scoutden mother.

She is sur-vived by herd e v o t e dcompanionof 15 years,Frank Egloffof Woods

Hole; her three children, theirspouses, four grandchildren,and nieces and nephews; aswell as Frank's six children, 15grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren; her nieces andnephews; and her sister,Priscilla Burlingham.

Contributions in her memorymay be made to The JimmyFund (www.jimmyfund.org),10 Brookline Place West, 6thFloor, Brookline, MA 02445-7295.

Joan Curwen

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REUNIONFrom Page 1

Michael Lessard caught up with friends on Saturday, Jan. 21, during the first Friends ofRiverdale Reunion held at Moseley’s on the Charles. WICKED LOCAL PHOTOS BY JARED CHARNEY

Dee Dee Cibotti takes a trip down memory lane at thefirst Friends of Riverdale Reunion.

This past Saturday night over 300 friends ofRiverdale came to Moseley’s on the Charles to cele-brate being part of the Riverdale community. Wewould like to thank the many people, friends and fam-ily that helped make this a very successful reunion.Starting with Vicky Kruckeberg, executive director ofthe Dedham Historical Society for her insightful pres-entation of Riverdale, Jane Breed, Bob King, Bob Al-dous, and Bob Reissfelder for sharing their wonderfulmemories of growing up in Riverdale. Special thanksalso to Rita Girard and Gloria Nelson for a beautifulperformance of “Mosey out to Moseley’s.” We wouldlike to recognize our youngest and oldest attendees,Kristen Lebovitz (16) and Rita McDonald (95). Thankyou to all the families that gave us photos for our slideshow, especially Evelyn Dorsheimer, David Noyes, BobKing, and the Volante and Amos families. A hugethank you to Joanne Hathaway Curry, Denise Reiss-felder Downing-Foley, Linda Cornacchini Cotto,Jeanette Ellis Garber and Maria Collins for all theirhelp throughout the night. Thank you to NancyClement and the Riverdale School, Parks and Recre-ation director Bob Stanley, Joan Foley and the St. Su-sanna’s church social group, and special thanks toDorothy Leonard, Patty Nader Begin, Mike O’Brien,and Ed DeVincenzo for all their support. And thebiggest thank you of all, to the Facebook Friends ofRiverdale that helped to make this event as successfulas it was.

Sincerely,The Friends of Riverdale Reunion Committee

Kristin Lebovitz, 16, the youngest attendee poses with Rita McDonald, 95, the oldestattendee of the first Friends of Riverdale Reunion.

Relics from Riverdale’s past were on display at the firstFriends of Riverdale Reunion.

Thanks for the memories

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