42nd Jan/Feb Year! ASHMONT 2012 OUTLOOK

Published at Dorchester, Massachusetts by the Ashmont Hill Association, Established 1970

Happy New Year! Ashmont Hill Association Many neighbors celebrated the holi- Monthly Meeting days at the lively Peabody Square Tree Thursday, January 26 Lighting and the festive AHA Holiday Party. Many thanks to Matt Malloy and 7:30 p.m. Mike Dawson for hosting the party and 36 Welles Avenue, to all who brought tasty dishes to share. hosted by Are you missing a glass plate with a Kyle Gates & Ayla Gavins grape pattern on it? If so, please call the Supper at 7 Message Line or email info@ashmont Desserts appreciated hill.org; we want to return it to its owner. Winter Farmers’ Market Opens in Codman Square The next AHA monthly meeting is Speakers: The Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Thursday, January 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Bill Walczak, Carney Hospital Market got off to a rousing start on 36 Welles Avenue, hosted by Kyle Jenny Silverman, Dorchester Gates and Ayla Gavins. As always, Sunday, January 8, with more than 600 people coming to see what it’s all Community Food Co-op come at 7 p.m. for a light supper; Corey Allen, TechBoston Academy desserts are appreciated, as are cash about. Enthusiastic shoppers bought out just about everything the vendors donations to help defray the cost of the Community Calendar supper. Speakers include Bill Walczak, had to sell, which included seasonal president of Carney Hospital; Jenny produce, cheeses, eggs, meat, breads, Dorchester Winter Silverman from the Dorchester Winter cakes and other baked goods. Farmers’ Market Farmers’ Market and Dorchester Com- The Winter Market continues every Every Sunday through March munity Food Co-op; and Corey Allen Sunday through March, from noon to 3 12 noon – 3 p.m. from TechBoston Academy, who will p.m., at the Great Hall, 6 Norfolk Great Hall, Codman Square give an update on student/community Street, in Codman Square. Each week Franklin Park Volunteer Day relations. the market will also offer crafts, chil- Saturday, January 21, 10 a.m. – noon Ashmont Hill “Can Share” indeed! dren’s activities, workshops, and music, Valley Gates parking lot Neighbors donated 184 pounds of making it a real community event. Dot Ave Zoning canned and packaged food to Boston EBT cardholders are welcome; Community Meeting Can Share in December, to benefit the Boston Bounty Bucks will be available Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. Greater Boston Food Bank. Thanks to to double SNAP buying power up to Viet-AID, 42 Charles St., Fields Corner everyone who participated. $20 in total purchases. Stephen Puleo on the Participating vendors include Silver- 1919 Molasses Flood Vicki Rugo brook Farm in Acushnet; Powisset Farm Sunday, January 29, 2 p.m. President, Board of Directors in Dover (on land owned by the Trustees DHS Headquarters, 195 Boston Street Ashmont Hill Association (continued on page 2) (continued on page 4) The way city living should be 2 Ashmont Outlook • Jan/Feb 2012 Winter Farmers’ Market The Ashmont Hill Continued from page 1 Association of Reservations); Oakdale Farm was established in 1970. A non-profit 501(c)3 organ- in Rehoboth; Stillman’s Farm in ization, its mission is to provide a forum to enhance central Massachusetts, which the quality of life in and around Dorchester’s historic Ashmont Hill neighborhood by fostering a strong sells pasture-raised meats; Law- sense of community among all residents. ton’s Family Farm in Foxboro, We welcome news items of neighborhood interest, which sells their own cheeses; space permitting. Submis sions (no longer than 250 words and including a contact name and phone num- Proofed Artisan and Traditional ber) should be sent to P.O. Box 240217, Dorchester, Bread in Norton; and Good MA 02124, or left on the Message Line. We reserve the right to edit submissions for clarity and length. Measure Bakery in Boston. The Winter Farmers’ Market Advertising is a project of the Dorchester Classified: $10/insertion for heading Community Food Co-op with Young neighbors enjoy the Peabody Square Tree and four lines of copy. support from numerous local organiza- Lighting watched over by the “Santa” Moon. Business ads: $30/insertion or $250 tions, businesses, and individuals. Visit for full year (10 issues). the website (dotcommcoop.wordpress bring yours if you have one. Wear Leave ad info request on Message Line. .com) and the market’s Facebook page warm clothes and mittens! Sign in at News and advertising deadlines: for more information. the Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse. February 10, March 16, April 13 Buy local, buy fresh, and support RSVP for both events: www.franklin The Outlook is distributed approximately one week after each deadline. healthy eating in Dorchester! parkcoalition.org or 617-442-4141. The Ashmont Hill Association neither endorses Counting Trees nor warrants the products or services of Wine Club Benefits Food Have you planted a tree recently? If Ashmont Outlook advertisers. Co-Op so, make sure it gets counted towards the AHA Board of Directors Monday Night Wine Club at the Ash- City of Boston’s Grow Boston Greener 2011 - 2012 mont Grill will benefit the Dorchester goal of planting 100,000 trees by 2020. Vicki Rugo, President Community Food Co-op during the Go to www.growbostongreener.org/ David Mooney, Vice President month of January. Four courses with gbg/report_planting.html or contact pro- Victor Frank, Treasurer wine pairings are $38 per person, with gram coordinator Mathew Cahill at 617- Patricia Burson, Assistant Treasurer $5 donated to the Co-op. The menu will 542-7696 ext 20 or mathew@boston Lianne Ames, Clerk be determined by what chef/owner Chris natural.org. Meghann Van Dorn, Assistant Clerk Douglass finds at the Winter Market. Kyle Gates, At Large For reservations, call 617-825-4300 by Host an AHA Meeting! Outlook staff the Sunday before each Monday. Hospitable neighbors make the Ash- Lianne Ames, layout/production mont Hill Association’s monthly meet- Vicki Rugo, writer/editor GREEN DORCHESTER Andrea Barsomian-Dietrich, webmaster ings possible. There’s no work Franklin Park Doings involved; everything is provided, from Ashmont Hill Association Volunteer Day: Saturday, January the supper to the chairs! If you would P.O. Box 240217 consider hosting a meeting on any of Dorchester, MA 02124 21, 10 a.m. – noon. Come do wood- lands restoration work. Wear old the 2012 dates below, please email Message Line: 617-822-8178 clothes and layers, heavy cotton or [email protected] or call the Mes- Email: [email protected] wool is best; bring liners for under sage Line, 617-822-8178. www.ashmonthill.org leather gloves. Meet at Valley Gates February 23 AHA is grateful to the Codman Square parking lot midway along the main March 29 Health Center for providing the Message park road. Line. April 26 Snow Festival: Saturday, February 4, May 31 1– 4 p.m. Sled, snowshoe, build snow June 28 people, and track animal prints in the To subscribe to the Ashmont Hill list- snow. If you have crosscountry skis, September 27 serve, send email request with your full take a guided tour at 1:30. Warm up October 25 name and street address to with hot chocolate and board games in Thank you! [email protected] the clubhouse. 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Neighbors enjoy the annual Ashmont Hill Association Holiday Party.

“Run, The Molasses is Ashmont Book Group About the Coming!” ) The next Book Group meeting is On January 15, 1919, a 50-foot-tall Wednesday, February 1, 7:30 p.m. at 12 Neighborhood steel tank filled with 2.3 million gal- Ashmont Street, hosted by Sheila lons of molasses collapsed on Boston’s Fesko. We’ll discuss Caleb’s Crossing BRA/Dot Ave Zoning waterfront, disgorging its contents in a by Geraldine Brooks. March’s book is Update: Final Community 15-foot-high wave of molasses that Dancer: A Novel by Colum McCann, a Meeting Jan. 25 traveled at 35 miles per hour, killing 21 fictionalized account of the life of St. Mark’s Area Main Street, other people and causing widespread dam- Rudolph Nureyev. Join us! Info: organizations, and interested residents age. On Sunday, January 29, at 2 p.m., klil@hotmail or call the Message Line. have been participating for the last year the Dorchester Historical Society will in the BRA’s Dorchester Avenue Zon- host Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Boston City Singers Seeks ing Update project. The BRA will hold Tide, the story of the disaster, who will Young Singers their final community meeting on talk about the Molasses Flood as well Would your child like to try a Boston Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. at as the times in which it occurred. City Singers class for free? Classes Viet-AID, 42 Charles Street, near the Copies of Dark Tide will be available meet every Wednesday afternoon Fields Corner T Station. The project for $16. The event, free and open to the between 4 and 5:15 p.m. at All Saints’ aims to combine Dorchester Avenue public, takes place at DHS Headquar- Ashmont, with a Kodaly singing class and the rest of Dorchester into a single ters, 195 Boston Street. for ages 4 to 7 and a Training Chorus zoning neighborhood; correct inconsis- program for grades 2 – 6. To schedule tencies; and, where appropriate, update Voices of History a visit, call 617-825-0674 or email Dorchester Avenue zoning to reflect The Adams Street branch library, 690 [email protected]. current and potential future land uses. Adams Street, will host a quartet of All are welcome to attend. Info: Jeremy singers from the Handel & Haydn January is Restaurant Rosenberger at the BRA: 617-918- Society on Monday, January 30 at 6:30 Month 4431 or jeremy.rosenberger.bra@city p.m. The group will perform music Dorchester and Milton restaurants ofboston.gov. Visit the project web site ranging from 1100 to 1994 with classi- are offering special three-course menus at http://www.dotavzoning.org. cal, folk, and multicultural idioms. for $30.12 every Sunday through Everyone is invited. (continued on page 4) The way city living should be 4 Ashmont Outlook • Jan/Feb 2012

Community Calendar Earl Taylor 617 293-3052 Continued from page 1 Realtor / Mortgage Broker

“Voices of History” Concert American Home Realty Monday, January 30, 6:30 p.m. American Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Adams Street Branch Library Realtor, Broker-Owner Mort Broker Co id 1246 Ashmont Book Group License 116222 Individual license 9917 Wednesday, February 1, 7:30 p.m. [email protected] MA Division of Banks 12 Ashmont Street DAVID DUNCAN Franklin Park Snow Festival ATTORNEY AT LAW It’s all inside the Y. Saturday, February 4, 1 – 4 p.m. ZALKIND,RODRIGUEZ,LUNT &DUNCAN LLP www.zrld.com Come to the Dorchester YMCA and get the Start at Golf Clubhouse 617-742-6020 chance to win a free one year membership. See the Dorchester YMCA Membership AHA Monthly Meeting Representing individuals in criminal, family law, Desk for details and to register. Thursday, February 23 personal injury & business litigation & faculty & 617.436.7750 students in university disciplinary matters. Dorchester

Restaurant Month Continued from page 3 Thursday night to the end of January. Dorchester restaurants include 224 Boston Street (617-265-1217), the Ash- mont Grill (617-825-4300), the Blar- ney Stone (617-436-8223), dbar (617- 265-4490), Ledge Kitchen & Drinks (617-698-2261), Savin Bar & Kitchen (617-288-7500), and Tavolo Ristorante (617-822-1918). Milton restaurants include 88 Wharf Street (857-598- 569 Talbot Avenue 4826) and Abby Park (617-696-8700). Peabody Square Treat yourself to dinner in the dead of Dorchester, MA 02124 winter! Reservations at all restaurants (617) 436-4412 Fax (617) 436-4479 are suggested but not required. [email protected] www.yankeeins.com New Key Medical Staff at donald e. vaughan Carney Hospital Serving Dorchester Since 1989 Three physicians have joined the

Carney Hospital staff as department Representing Individuals and Businesses chairs. Robert Lowenstein, MD heads 617.345.3237 Emergency Medicine; he previously [email protected] burnslev.com was associate director of Emergency c d o A C Q Medicine at Quincy Medical Center. Glennon O’Grady, MD chairs Family ,Q1HHGRID3K\VLFDO" Codman Square *RRG+HDOWKEHJLQVKHUH Medicine; he was previously Hospital- Library ist Director and VP of the medical staff 690 Washington Street at Lawrence General Hospital. Peggy 617-436-8214 Johnson, MD chairs the Psychiatry *HW+HDOWK\7RGD\&DOOIRULQIRUPDWLRQ Department and comes from Boston Janice Knight, head librarian RUYLVLWZZZFRGPDQRUJ Medical Center, where she served for Chris Strunk, children’s librarian :DVKLQJWRQ6WUHHW'RUFKHVWHU0$ 14 years as vice chair of clinical serv- Library hours: Help keep our ices for psychiatry and medical director Monday & Thursday 12-8 for behavioral health services of the Tuesday & Wednesday 10-6 neighborhood safe: Friday & Saturday 9-5 BMC Health Plan. Porch lights on from c d o A C Q dusk to dawn

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