Page 14 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 THE SOUNDS | FROM PAGE 11 loading videos on Facebook and YouTube of their songs and booking shows together along the East Coast. In 2019 they released their first EP, “Make it Mean Something.” For tickets, call the Kowloon Restaurant at 781.233.0077. Other Kowloon events The Kowloon Restaurant continues its Samuel Adams Live Music Concert Series for September with the following lineup: Big Party Orchestra: Friday, September 17, 7:00-10:00 p.m. Critics hail The Big Party Orchestra: “Highly trained and skillfully dedicated musicians; wonderfully energetic and cleverly composed.” Boston Renditions: Friday, September 24, 7:00-10:00 p.m.: a seven-piece tour-de-force live band and DJ combo who music critics call “Distinguished musicians at the top of their game playing jazz to hip-hop and everything in between.” VOTERS | FROM PAGE 8 School Committee Facebook page a selfie photo he took of himself with Fisher. Both men held nomination papers. “Well... we have some unfinished business. Who has a pen handy?” Whittredge wrote in a message that accompanied the photo. “I’m in!” Fisher wrote in his post a few minutes later. Dave Macklin Band: Saturday, September 25, 7:00-10:00 p.m.: “High energy, and a powerhouse band mixing the best in R&B, Motown, top 40, reggae from old school to today’s hottest dance hits. Peace Love and Funk!!!” For tickets, call the Kowloon Restaurant at 781.233.0077 or go to www.KowloonRestaurant.com. Rockin’ 4 Vets Home Grown Rock for Boston’s Homeless Vets – Concerts For A Cause: Showtimes are 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.; Saturday, September 25, Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room; Saturday, October 2, James Montgomery Band and Friends with Barrence Whitefield and Ilanna Katz Katz – 50th Anniversary Concert; Saturday, October 9, Jon Butcher and Friends with Sal Baglio of The Stompers. Tickets and prices are available at https://gimmelive.com/ClassicRock. All shows will be outside from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. A community garden update If you are young or old and Whittredge’s wife was among the 61 readers who indicated they liked or loved the post. Fisher had made a detailed post on his Facebook page last week, telling readers that he may not run for a second term because of the verbal abuse he has been subjected to over social media and in person – including threats of physical abuse. “I spent two years being attacked for listening to exfeel like doing some real earthy community service, why not join the growing team that’s been assisting the Community Garden which has been helping to feed the hungry and needy people of Saugus? Contact The Rev. John Beach of St. John’s Episcopal Church to get the latest update on how the garden is doing and what you can do to help. Anyone who wants to help out Rev. John on this noble project can call him at 774-961-9881 or send him an email at revjbeach@gmail.com. Here’s Rev. John’s latest update: “The community garden continues to produce vegetables which have been welcomed by the Saugus Food Pantry. There may be someone there on Saturday morning, but most of the harvesting will be done on Thursday and Friday. “Several of us are gathering on Thursday afternoon (anytime between 3 and 6) to pick vegetables to be driven down on Friday morning. If any among you are available to help either perts, doing what I said I would do, and not changing my position to win votes,” Fisher said in a new post this week. “I’ll be honest with you. It got so bad last year that my wife and I decided my daughter would attend a private kindergarten, and that I wouldn’t run again. I’d honor my commitment but no more,” he continued. “But things got better, temin picking on Thursday or tending the garden on Friday morning between 9 and 11, you are warmly welcome.” Healthy Students-Healthy Saugus Program Resumes for the 21-22 School Year (Editor’s Note: The following info is from an announcement submitted by Julie Cicolini, a member of the Board of Directors for Healthy Students-Healthy Saugus – providing information about the return of the program for the new school year.) Who we are: Healthy Students-Healthy Saugus (HS2) is a nonprofit group of volunteers helping to offset food insecurity in households. HS2 provides students/families that enroll in the program a supply of nutritious food for when school lunches and breakfasts are unavailable to them on weekends. How HS2 can help you: HS2 bags are distributed at school on Fridays to take home. Bags include such items as peanut pers calmed, and then Erin McMahon showed up with her moonshot,” he wrote, referring to the new superintendent of Saugus Public Schools. “I decided this morning I wouldn’t let all that progress be wiped away, and if it takes two more years to finish the job, I’m in. Thank you to everyone who supported me for the last two years and who encouraged this decision. If you’d like to sign butter, jelly, a loaf of bread, canned meals/soups/tuna/vegetables, pasta/sauce, fruit cups, cereal, oatmeal, goldfish, pretzels and granola bars. To sign up and complete an online form: https://forms.gle/gmMGguycSHBdziuE9. Want to partner with us: HS2 relies on donations to create take-home bags with a weekend’s supply of meals. All food is provided to children free of charge. It is hoped these resources will support the health, behavior and achievement of every student who participates. We would love to partner with organizations, youth groups, PTO’s, businesses and individuals to assist in feeding students of Saugus. To learn more about how you can partner with HS2, visit the Healthy Students-Healthy Saugus Facebook page or email HS2Saugus@ gmail.com. Checks can be sent directly to: Salem Five, c/o Healthy Students-Healthy Saugus, 855-5 THE SOUNDS | SEE PAGE 15 nomination papers, adopt a sign or help in other ways, I’m very appreciative. Send me a message and I’ll show up.” So, the five incumbent members who were elected in a contentious campaign in which the three incumbents were swept from office two years ago may all get in without opposition – unless challengers surface before today’s deadline. Whittredge said last week that he believes ugly Saugus politics during these challenging COVID-19 times could be discouraging other potential candidates from running. But he also acknowledged that the apparent lack of interest in the School Committee race could reflect overall confidence in current school governance – that town residents are generally happy with the incumbents’ overall efforts to turn the School District around. In an email to The Saugus Advocate late yesterday before deadline, Whittredge elaborated on his reasons for running despite his wife's health problems. “I pulled papers on Tuesday with a little nudging from my wife. So I’m back to finish some unfinished business,” he said. “We all know how important the next couple of years will be with making sure we take the district to the next level. I definitely don’t want anyone or anything trying to pull us back to the days when we run superintendents out of town and end up close to state receivership. We have a plan and it’s time to implement it.”
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