Page 8 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, MArCH 3, 2023 ASKS | FROM PAGE 5 What do I need to carry? What do I have with me? What don’t I have? So, if your friend falls in the woods and you don’t have phone service, you know what to do. If you have more people, that’s great. Then you can make a stretcher. One of the things we learned in emergency preparedness – if you have two people, you can carry somebody out. And if you have five people and somebody gets hurt, you have two people stay together while others go for help. Q: What do you want to be when you grow up? A: I want to join the military. I want to join the Navy and I want to be a Navy Seal. Q: You want to be a Navy Seal? How long have you thought about that? A: Forever – since I can remember. When I was really little, I wanted to be a firefighter. And then my sister told me to do something different. She didn’t like me playing firefighter anymore, so my interest in the military picked up. I started to understand that my father did other things. And my father is an important role model for me. So my dad was in the Navy. He was a corpsman. He told me some cool stories. I’ve met some interesting people at the Fire Department. Becoming a Naval Seal [is] another test. I like to test myself; I like to push myself. It’s like Eagle, where I want to be part of the six percent that does [make Eagle]. Q: Do you have anyone in your family who has made Eagle? A: Maybe some cousins, but none that I know of. My grandfather did Boy Scouts; my father did Boy Scouts, but neither one made it to Eagle. My grandfather made it to Life [the rank before Eagle] and he stopped. Q: You have 33 merit badges right now; how many more do you intend to earn? A: That’s one of those things where after I get Eagle, hopefully, I can stick around my troop. And being the troop guide, I can help kids get merit badges that they want to do. And if it’s a merit badge that I don’t already have, I guess I’ll do it, too, with them. Q: There are over a hundred merit badges out there. A: Yeah, there are. I’d say I would probably like to get about 40 or 45 maybe. There are a couple of kids who have gotten over a hundred. That’s a lot of merit badges. That’s a lot of work. Q: Looks like a lot of people have volunteered to help with donations for the fundraiser? A: A lot of that’s my mother. She goes on Facebook and has gotten people to donate a lot of things. She got a flier out there and got the word out about the Prince Pizza Comedy Night. And as we got the word out, people started to donate. That’s how that all started. It’s a lot of talking to people. The thing about doing The Eagle project – this has to do with leadership – I have to tell adults what to do and – for a young person – this is my first time doing that. I’ve been looking up to them forever, and now I have to tell them what to do. That’s why Eagle Scouts are great leaders: It pushes you out of your comfort zone. Soliciting people to do things for me – “Hey, can you go do this?” – it’s weird. But once you overcome that, it helps you as a person in society, knowing it’s okay to do that. And it pushes you out of your comfort zone. It helps you do things that you didn’t think you could. Q: Anything else you want to say? About the Eagle Scout Badge and this project? A: I would say that if there are young people out there or people who have children and they have interests like I have – like just being outside or whatever – get a kid into scouting, because they can learn a lot about themselves; they can learn a lot about other people, and it will teach them life skills. It will teach you how to become an adult a little bit easier and learn more and more things about yourself. Police retrieve three stolen Bobcats from Cedar Glen Golf Course Advocate staff report S augus Police are investigating last month’s recovery of three stolen Bobcat tractors on Cedar Glen Golf Course. Police got a tip that one Bobcat was there and they wound up finding three The three tractors – valued at about $75,000 apiece – were discovered in the maintenance garage area. They were stolen from Danvers, Middleton and Beverly, according to police. “The first one was stolen with a trailer,” Saugus Police Chief Michael Ricciardelli said. “It looks like the stolen trailer was used to transport the stolen Bobcats. The whole thing was very odd,” the chief said. The case remains under investigation. TREE SCIENCE | FROM PAGE 7 Lynn Museum exhibit. Opening in May, the exhibit “A CLOSER LOOK AT TREES: FROM OLDGROWTH TO OUR URBAN FOREST” will display the work – depicting both old-growth trees and the trees of our local urban forest – of Kelly and participants in Kelly’s and Laura’s early spring workshops at the Lynn Museum/LynnArts from May through August. Works will include experimental drawings of twigs and cones, trace monotypes of trees, artist’s books, and woodblock prints using nontoxic, plant-derived inks. The opening reception will include a short artists’ talk and a chance to ask questions of participating artists. For more details, or to register for the March 21 class, follow this link: https://lynnmuseum.org/events/second-saturday-march-23/
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