Will Dedham Finally See a Senior Center?
Article 3 on the Monday April 8 Special Town Meeting warrant could play a big role in whether the town will build a senior center or not.
Will Dedham finally see a senior center? After years of trying, Council on Aging Board chairwoman Leanne Jasset is hoping so after next Monday's Special Town Meeting. “It’s probably been 30 years that the town has been trying to build a senior center in Dedham,” Jasset said. “Some of it has to do with funding, but most of it has to do with the NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) scenario. And most every neighborhood that it’s been proposed in the neighbors have been very outspoken about why they don’t want it there,” she said. Jasset and the Dedham Senior Center Foundation - a non-profit organization formed to raise funds for the construction of a senior center in town - believe that the ideal location for a center would be at the Endicott Estate…
Barbara
10:05 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Since the town is planning on moving the ECEC to the Dexter school, how about the senior center to be in the ECEC building? I know, it will be said that it is two floors, seniors can't walk up the stairs. The same can be said about three year olds, but they still doing so. The seniors are only for building at Endicott Estate, this is where they want and this what the think they should get. It is … more ›