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New rector has vision for community

By Dave Eisenstadter
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The Church of the Good Shepherd, founded by an escaped black slave from the South, now has its rst non-white rector in Noble Scheepers. Born in South Africa, Scheepers came to the United States in 2008 and got a job as a priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd in March 2011. He was recently made the 11th rector of the church. This is an extremely

closely knit community and they show that they have no hesitation in making you aware they appreciate what theyve got, Scheepers said on Friday, Dec. 28. You want to grow with the people and congregation. Every spiritual leader in the community has to be a visionary. Scheepers vision for the church is to expand it and to make the community more aware of its presence, he said. I see a lot of young people around and yet I dont

see a lot of those young people attached to the church, Scheepers said. In his nearly two years with the church, Scheepers has tried a number of outreach techniques. He has brought in the Ocean State Barbershop Harmony Chorus, of which he is a member, as well as starting the tradition of a South African barbecue every summer. What makes it South African is that there are
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Noble Scheepers is the new rector at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Dedham. WICKED LOCAL STAFF PHOTO BY
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Town tackles drug abuse

Substance Abuse Task Force meets to discuss growing problem
By Paula Vogler
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DEF honors teachers

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Chef Chris McDermott, center, explains what to look for while searing beef for a stew to Katie Tauro, left, of Dedham, and Adriana Toli, right, of Westwood, during Tuesday evenings cooking class at the Dedham Community house. WICKED LOCAL PHOTO BY SEAN BROWNE

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Chef offers evening cooking class at Community House
You guys are going to be doing A few minutes earlier he had supall the work, the chef and environ- plied them with a $13 extra large mental scientist told his seasonal bottle of Yellow Tail a cabernet Chris McDermott prepared his winter cooking class at the Dedham and merlot mix. class of six students for an evening Community House. SEE CLASS, A3 They laughed. of culinary adventure.
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A group of approximately 30 town and state officials and Dedham residents met to discuss what some say is a growing problem for the town. Drug abuse, from prescription pain killers and other opiates to alcohol, and the associated problems to fuel that habit like house breaks and car breaks, are an ongoing battle for the police as well as the residents of the town. For Dorothy Victoria, who has lived in the Manor
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Filmmaker sets his focus on Civil War

Dedham native to direct short lm over the summer
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Alex Fofonoff s rst lm, A Really Good Movie About a Very Bad Day, had a simple plot. It was just about me, Alex, having a really bad day and then conquering it at the end, Fofonoff said on a Tuesday afternoon at a Dedham coffee shop. That is where it all started. He was 13. Now the 22-year-old lmmaker, Dedham native and New

York University senior has a larger theatrical aspiration. His senior thesis, a 25-minute short titled Kingdom Coming, uses a new glass to see old things through, he said. Set in post-Civil War America, the script follows the return home of a son of a wealthy Northern general who hired another

man to ght for him. Fofonoff said the main character, Robert, returns from abroad to take responsibility for the death of the man he hired. However, during a raucous postwar celebration at his family home, he Alex Fofonoff of Dedham will shoot a short film on nds it is not as easy as he post-Civil War America in Boston over the summer. Hes
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launched a fundraising site to help cover the cost of the film. WICKED LOCAL STAFF PHOTO BY ANDREA SALISBURY

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years ago prompted her to call the police department From Page A1 to ask for help. While a neighborhood neighborhood of Dedham watch association and her whole life, watching monthly meetings with pothe drug activity across the lice have improved things street from her home three a bit in her area, Victoria

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said she is still looking for answers. Weve had a drug problem for years. I want to know what the town is going to do about the problem, Victoria said at the Substance Abuse Taskforce

meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 15. Dedham Police Detective Kevin Mahoney presented statistics that back up Victorias assertion. From January 2011 through December 2012, there were 82 overdoses, though not all fatal and some from people overdosing over and over again. Not surprisingly, many of the prescription medicine incidents also appear to include alcohol use as a contributing factor, Mahoney said. He said from 2007-11 there has been a 48 percent increase in non-fatal opiate-related events from local hospitals and that fatal overdose numbers are higher than people that die in car accidents. This is a problem that needs to be dealt with, Mahoney said. Its a problem that doesnt have any boundaries. Its crossed enough lines that people want to do something about it. Part of the problem, according to Dr. Michael Marciello of Dedham Medical Group, is writing prescriptions without being able to adequately know if a person could be prone to addiction. While all prescription in his office are done electronically, Marciello said the thinking and teaching

on pain relief has moved away from an approach that used multiple and different types of medicines to one focused on preventing addiction and abuse. Marciello said abusers are often kids who started smoking tobacco products and marijuana or who experimented with alcohol. Prevention doesnt start with the prescription to the adult. Some of the prevention is before the prescription even gets out there, Marciello said. From the enforcement side of things Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey said his office also works on prevention. He said 26 of 28 communities in Norfolk County have drug drop off sites at police stations so unused medication doesnt get misused by young people. In addition he said there are more state police in the states drug unit and more training is given to them. Drug dealers who are caught see their money, cars, computers, and phones seized, he said. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Rowe said the countys diversion program is available to prosecutors for younger kids but also to anyone who wants to refer a child. It allows schools to refer

kids who they know use marijuana that we cant prosecute because of current laws, Rowe said. We dont want to wait for someone to be court involved to take advantage of (those classes). Ron Brock, who grew up and still lives in Dedham, said that although he is a former graduate and counselor at the drug recovery program Teen Challenge, he struggled for years with addiction. He said it is still easy for someone to get whatever they want on the street and that stiffer nes and longer treatment programs were needed. I went through a 15 month course, Brock said. Thirty day courses and three month courses are not going to cut it. You need a longer rehabilitation time. Selectmen Sarah MacDonald and Mike Butler said they would bring recommendations out of the task force meeting to the Jan. 17 selectmens meeting to determine if a permanent task force should be created and the goals the community would like to see to address the drug issue. Paula Vogler can be reached at 781-4338322 or by email at writedesk84@comcast.net.

important, he said. People tend to forget how ofFrom Page A1 ten history repeats itself. To share his bit of histhought to escape the past tory, Fofonoff is working and the ghosts that come toward a budget of just with it, Fofonoff wrote on $24,725. That total inpost-production his indiegogo fundraising cludes and costs for a two-week page for the lm. Fofonoff said he start- shoot in Boston. Through ed writing the script be- the Advanced Production fore his semester abroad Thesis Class at NYU, Foin Berlin, Germany. It was fonoff was one of 12 stuafter he returned that the dents selected to receive script really took shape allotments which inand combined his love of cludes insurance, equiphistory with passion for ment, and a small sum of money. He still needs to lm. I think history is really raise $7,800 to complete his project. On Tuesday, Jan. 15, he launched an online fundraising page,www.indiegogo.com/kingdomcomingthelm. There, folks can contribute $10 to $5,000 for various perks at different levels. A $10 donation will give you a DID YOU digital download of the lm, where $2,500 will grant you a cameo in the wickedlocalfavorites.com lm. Hes raised $310 at the end of the rst day of fundraising.

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Fofonoff is planning to shoot Kingdom Coming over two weeks in June. While he has his crew nalized, the actors havent been selected. He plans to do an open casting call in New York to see what comes out of the woodwork of the city. As the young lmmaker returns home to complete his senior thesis, he is hopeful for a career after college. Ideally, Fofonoff hopes to screen Kingdom Coming in festivals, and has already submitted another short, The Fool. From there, he hopes to get recognized and hired as a writer or director. But whatever the outcome, making more movies is my graduation plan and doing it anyway I can, he said. For more information on Kingdom Coming, check out the lms Facebook page at www.facebook. com/kingdomcomingthelm, or donate to the project at www.indiegogo.com/ kingdomcomingthelm.