Page 16 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, SEpTEmbEr 23, 2022 THE SOUNDS | FROM PAGE 15 and don’ts of effects makeup, hygiene, how to get started, how pros make monsters jump to life and some tricks to improve your costumes/ makeup at home. Volunteer to be used in a demonstration and get your makeup done! To register, go to the Saugus Public Library, 295 Central St., Saugus, call 781-231-4168 or go on your computer to sauguspubliclibrary.org Just Sew! Saugonians are welcome to join a monthly sewing class for adults, which will be held the third Monday of each month from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Saugus Public Library. The next meeting is Monday, Oct. 17. The class will cover basic topics like sewing buttons, hemming clothing and mending torn fabric and will move on to more advanced topics in the coming weeks. This class is free. (See sauguspubliclibrary.org.) A neat, new teen club: The New Manga & Anime Club began last Saturday and its second meeting is coming up on Oct. 1, from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Teen Room. Chat with friends! Make crafts! Try Japanese snacks! Grades 6 & up. Club meetings will continue on Saturdays, through May, from 10-11 a.m. They will be held on Nov. 12, Dec. 10, Jan. 7, Feb. 4, March 4, April 1 and May 13. Please sign up in advance: Call 781-231-4168 or stop by the Reference Desk – https://www.sauguspubliclibrary.org/new-manga-animeclub.../ Owls for Oct. 1 at the Iron Works! The World of Owls will be presented by Wingmasters and the Saugus Public Library at the Saugus Iron Works on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 10:30 a.m. Bring a chair or blanket to sit on! —Cont est— CONTEST SKETCH OF THE WEEK No registration is required. This free program is recommended for adults, teens and children ages six and up. Check our website after 9:15 the day of the event for weather-related updates. Owls are probably more misunderstood than any other kind of bird. These are hunting birds, yet their sharp beaks and talons are partly hidden under feathers. Owls have more and softer feathers than other birds, and this unique plumage gives them a plump, rounded look. Add an upright posture and huge eyes set in front like ours, and you have what looks irresistibly like a small, bemused person wearing a fur coat. In reality, owls are superbly adapted nocturnal hunters. This program shows how owls use their specialized powers of sight, hearing and flight to survive and thrive. A variety of live North American owls provides the focus of this presentation. Wingmasters is a partnership of two people dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of North American birds of prey; Julie Anne Collier and Jim Parks are both licensed wildlife rehabilitators based in Massachusetts. Together they care for injured birds of prey at their center in Leverett, Mass. Most of the birds they rehabilitate can ultimately be released back into the wild, but in some cases the birds are left permanently handicapped. Julie and Jim are further licensed to provide a home for these non-releasable raptors, and to use them for educational programs. Since 1994 Wingmasters has presented over 10,000 programs at schools, libraries and museums throughout New England. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Saugus Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Saugus Public Library – 295 GUESS WHO GOT SKETCHED! If you know the right answer, you might win the contest. In this week’s edition, we continue our weekly feature where a local artist sketches people, places and things in Saugus. Got an idea who was sketched this week? If you do, please email me at mvoge@comcast. net or leave a phone message at 978-683-7773. Anyone who between now and Tuesday at noon identifies the Saugonian sketched in this week’s paper qualifies to have their name put in a green Boston Red Sox hat with a chance to be selected as the winner of a $10 gift certificate, compliments of Dunkin’ in the Food Court at the Saugus Square One Mall. But you have to enter to win! Look for the winner and identification in next week’s “The Sounds of Saugus.” Please leave your mailing address in case you are a winner. (Courtesy illustration to The Saugus Advocate by a Saugonian who goes by the name of “The Sketch Artist”) Central St., Saugus, MA 01906; 781-231-4168; sauguspubliclibrary.org – facebook.com/SaugusPublicLibrary/ First Annual Family Fall Festival features owls This announcement is from Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment (SAVE). The group announced in this column last week that it was sponsoring a following free educational program featuring live owls as part of Breakheart Reservation’s First Annual Fall Family Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “We’ve just been advised that the York Maine Center for Wildlife will be unable to bring their live owls into Massachusetts for the planned show due to a newly instituted MA special permitting process (due to recent avian flu outbreaks),” SAVE told us. “With DCR’s [state Department of Conservation and Recreation] help, we have been able to substitute a program by Mass Audubon, who is able to present five 20-minute live owl presentations throughout the duration of the Fall Festival, all within the Visitor Center. Presentation times will be at: 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. “The good news here is that, although each presentation will be shorter in duration, having five shorter sessions will give more people the opportunity to attend and may even work out better for the family Festival experience.” The entire Festival will run from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, with a number of activities available. SAVE will also sponsor another “It’s New To You” SWAP once again this year at the Festival. The SWAP – an effort to help keep usable items out of the waste stream – will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Breakheart’s Christopher P. Dunne Visitor Center. The SWAP is part of SAVE’s continuing efforts to increase recycling by repurposing still usable goods and reducing what is put out as trash and incinerated. The SWAP is another free event – no money, just a simple swap. You can bring items or take items; you do not have to do both. Bring usable items in good condition to the SWAP, typically those things you no longer want but that are too good to throw away, and perhaps find a treasure or two to take home with you. (Please, do not bring items that require special disposal.) SAVE and DCR will also sponsor a short ecological tree tour, led by SAVE member Ryan Duggan, to help introduce visitors to the large variety of trees within Breakheart Reservation. Meet at the Visitor Center at noon to join this easy tour. For more information about the SWAP, please contact Ann at adevlin@aisle10. net. You can also visit the SAVE website at www.SaugusSave.org Peter A. Rossetti Jr. of the Friends of Breakheart was optimistic about the fall festival – despite the fire that was burning for several weeks. The state Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) had tree cutting crews set to go into the woods to remove the dead wood so that visitors will not be exposed to the dangers of falling trees. “This will be the First Annual Breakheart Family Festival,” Rossetti said. “It had been called the Fall Festival in the past and it was something we had been going to for 20 years. It’s going to be the same idea, but they will do away with pumpkin-decorating, which DCR just doesn’t have the staff to do anymore,” he said. “DCR is downplaying the hands-on arts and crafts decorating of pumpkins. We do expect face-painting, some music activities and games for kids to play. It will last from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 1. There will be a mounted unit, either from the State Police or the DCR. The festival is being co-sponsored by DCR and the Friends of Breakheart. Youth Cross-Country Hey, parents! If you have children who could use an opportunity to get into a healthier lifestyle – which might, in turn – lead to better academic scores, consider getting them to sign up for Youth Cross-Country. Here’s a simple outline of what this entails. Who: any Saugus child in grades 1 through 5. When: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:45 to 4:45 p.m., at the Belmonte Track; Saturdays, 10 to 11:30 a.m., at the Visitor Center at Breakheart Reservation. Dates: The program will last through Nov. 15. Why: to learn to enjoy Cross Country Running and make new friends. Cost: $100 for new runners; $50 for returning runners. This weekly program is guided by Coaches Steve Boudreau and Chris Tarantino. Children will learn good stretching techniques and the basics of exercise and cross-country running. Best of all, this will be a great way to make new friends. Participants need to wear a good pair of sneakers, dress in comfortable running clothes and bring a water bottle. For more details, contact Coach T (Not Mr. T.) at 781-854-6778. Sounds like a worthwhile and affordable fitness program with lots of upside for grade school kids. Healthy StudentsHealthy Saugus Program resumes for the 22-23 school year (Editor’s Note: The following info is from an announceTHE SOUNDS | SEE PAGE 18
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