THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, OCTOBEr 10, 2025 Page 15 SOUNDS | FROM PAGE 13 ing the meet. Ending Thursday, Nov. 13: Wrap-up Session at Belmonte. Cost: $150 for first year, $75 returning from Cross Country 2024. If you have any questions, need further information or want to register, please contact Coach T at 781-854-6778 or Christophertarantino24@ gmail.com. Saugus High Class of 1965 reunion The Saugus High Class of 1965 will be celebrating its 60th Reunion on Saturday, Nov. 29, at Prince Pizzeria on Route 1 South in Saugus. Cost is $50 per person. The final date for reservations is Nov. 1! You can contact Ellen Santosuosso at 781-6663470 or esantosuosso@gmail. com for more details. Come join your friends and classmates for our 60th Reunion. There’s a bonus for those alumni who attend the reunion: The new Saugus Middle-High School will be open on that Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. It will be a great opportunity to see the new campus. Saugus High Class of 1980 Reunion is Nov. 29 The 1980 Saugus High School Class will observe its 45th Reunion on Saturday, Nov. 29, at the Saugus Elks Hall. Hello everyone. Although our 1980 SHS Class is not merging with any other classes, we wanted to extend the invitation to our friends and GARDENS | FROM PAGE 14 sai display highlighting trees and other woody plants that have been kept small and shaped according to ancient Japanese pruning and training techniques. One unusual plant in the exhibit this year is a porcelain berry (Ampelopsis glandulosa) being trained by Alex Manoogian of Saugus. It is also known as Amur pepperberry and is an Asian plant related to grapes and Virginia creeper. This vine can be invasive if not carefully managed, but bonsai techniques are very precise and labor-intensive. The vine’s common name comes from the sky blue “porcelain-like” color of ● If you are one of our classmates that hasn’t attended in a long while, you are the people we look forward to seeing. Long Lost Friends! There already appears to be much interest in this event, so if you plan on going, please RSVP by November 8 or earlier. This will help us plan better for this gathering. Make checks ($45 per person) payable to: Pete Nicolo, 15 Tilden Lane, York, Maine 03909 or Venmo: Pete Nicolo@ Pete-Nicolo Any questions, please feel free to reach out to: Andrea Saunders (1980 Class President) or Pete Nicolo (Class of 1980) at: Andrea Saunders: PaulA ONE-WOMAN SHOW: The New Friends of the Saugus Public Library welcome Sheryl Faye as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “I Dissent” tomorrow (Saturday, Oct.11) at 2 p.m. in the Community Room at the Saugus Public Library. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. As a Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg stood out because she was not afraid to dissent and disagree with conditions of unfairness and inequality. This one-woman show is the inspiring story of how she changed her life — and ours. (Courtesy photo to The Saugus Advocate) family members that would like to join us. I (Pete Nicolo) have several friends that did not graduate in our year (1980) that will be attending. Most of us have kept in touch with some of our classmates / friends throughout the years. But what about the classmates / friends that you would love to see and have not seen in decades? I’ve recently reconnected with a couple of Classmates that I really hung out with and had a lot of laughs with in High School – hadn’t seen them in over 40 years. It has been quite a wonderful experience for me to reconnect with them. This is an opportunity to reconnect or simply have some laughs with old friends. Come see your SHS friends and be a part of making this a memorable event. We expect a good turnout – you’ll have a Blast! Some of the people we have sent / extended the invitation to are: ● Invites were extended to our entire 1980 Saugus High Class (over 90% of 1980 Classmates contacted – including Classmates living overseas). ● Saugus Jr. High Classmates that left and graduated from other High Schools ● Saugus High family members (1 Classmate has 2 sisters that graduated a couple of yrs. earlier and later) ● Saugus High School teachers and coaches attending (Babcock, Volpe, Melvin, Ward and others) – please feel free to reach out / invite your favorite teachers that you may keep in touch with and want to see there ● People move, addresses change, friends from other classes may want to attend – please help us extend our invitation to them. wax, including the barn and farm animals that won Ryan a blue ribbon (in the photo). The family has had many years of beekeeping experience in the Oaklandvale neighborhood of Saugus. At the Topsfield Fair, this beeswax farm made by Ryan Duggan of Saugus won a blue ribbon. (Photo courtesy of Laura Eisener) its ripe berries. Saugus beekeepers Dorie Duggan and Ryan Duggan have several items on display in the Beekeeping Building at the Topsfield Fair, and between them have won quite a few ribbons. Both have made beeswax candles and other decorative items from beesEditor’s Note: Laura Eisener is a landscape design consultant who helps homeowners with landscape design, plant selection and placement of trees and shrubs, as well as perennials. She is a member of the Saugus Garden Club and offered to write a series of articles about “what’s blooming in town” shortly after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. She was inspired after seeing so many people taking up walking. Greens@aol.com or 978-4825787. Peter Nicolo: Peter.S.Nicolo@ RTX.com or 978-815-8234 (new email address). 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