Friends and family gathered on the riverside near the Fort to dedicate a bench to the memory of Reilly Anzovino who lost her life Dec. 26 last year in an icy, late night  car crash.

The 18-year-old woman was remembered Saturday afternoon in short speeches, songs and poems recited for the nearly 200 who attended.

Many of them released flowers into the water as a remembrance and farewell in an evocative ceremony under a bright blue sky.

“Reilly is in charge of the weather,” said her mother Denise Kennedy.