THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, SEpTEmbEr 16, 2022 Page 7 A Founders Day Celebration “PERSON OF THE YEAR” AWARD RECIPIENT IN 2019: awardee Randy Briand (left) and Saugus Selectman Mike Serino. Gino Figliola, now 16, of Haverhill, who first began performing at Founders Day in 2015 when he was nine years old. Board of Selectmen Chair Anthony Cogliano dotes on his 18-month-old granddaughter Luciana Cross, who experienced her second Founders Day. She is the daughter of Mike and Gabriela Cross. Jake Guarnieri, 15, a sophomore at Saugus High School, and his mother, Tyess Guarnieri, 53, got to hold the championship belt of retired pro wrestler Rocky Ramond, 54, of Saugus. He’s a former New England Tag Team Champion in Empire Pro Wrestling. PERSON OF THE YEAR | FROM PAGE 6 gonians … hail!… hail!” Introducing Laura Eisener Debra Dion-Faust, a 2019 “Person of the Year” award recipient, introduced Eisener at Saturday’s Founders Day ceremony. Here are some highlights of Dion-Faust’s speech: This year’s Woman of the Year is a Saugus High School graduate who received her Bachelor of Science degree from Connecticut College with a double major in Botany and Anthropology. She went on to receive a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Since the early 1990’s she has been one of the 200 members of the Saugus Historical Society who preserve and promote our town heritage and Pictured from left to right: lifelong Saugus resident Eugene Decareau and former Saugus resident George Brown greeted each other at Saugus Center. provide educational opportunities, a Board Member most of that time, and President of the organization for the past nine years. In 2015 she won the adult division of the Time Capsule Essay Contest about Saugus for the 200th anniversary of Saugus’s existence. She is an active member of the environmental group SAVE, or Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment; PERSON OF THE YEAR | SEE PAGE 8 SAVE THE DATE Catered by: Henry s Catering , 1979/1980 Class BBQ Sept. 24th, 2022 1:30 – 5:30 $40 per person Elks Grove • 401 Main St• Saugus MA 01960 RSVP by Sept. 3rd, 2022 to: Pete Nicolo 978-815-8234 • PSNicolo2533@comcast.net or Mike Allan 781-953-2279 • Allan7915@gmail.com Make Checks payable to Peter Nicolo and mail to: 13 Bourbon St, Unit 55, Peabody, MA 01960 Invite your friends from other Classes!!! Rain or Shine Outdoor shelter provided
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