THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, OCTObEr 21, 2022 Page 17 THE SOUNDS | FROM PAGE 15 student volunteers, we will follow up School Committee member Fisher’s “Shout Out” with the names of the student volunteers who helped out at “Saugus 4-1-1”: Logan Goodwin, Nicole Soares, Alex Wallace, Said Baghizov, Seymour Baghizov, Leticia Nunes, Violet Hawley, Matilda Fisher, Wiktoria Biegun, Jay Patel, Josh Farmer, Afnan Tuffaha and Nikki Kath. Want to “Shout Out” a fellow Saugonian? This is an opportunity for our paper’s readers to single out – in a brief mention – remarkable acts or achievements by Saugus residents or an act of kindness or a nice gesture. Just send an email (mvoge@ comcast.net) with a mention in the subject line of “An Extra Shout Out.” No more than a paragraph; anything longer might lend itself to a story and/ or a photo. We have a winner! Congratulations to Melanie Mabee for making the right identification in last week’s “Guess Who Got Sketched!” contest. Melanie is one of several readers answering correctly, but she was the only one to have her name picked in a drawing from the green Boston Red Sox cap. Here’s the correct answer, offered by the person who goes by the name of The Sketch Artist: “The answer to last week’s sketch is Tricia Murphy! Tricia has a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education and is North Shore Community College (Early Childhood Education) Certified. One day, Tricia had a dream, and like actor Kevin Costner’s line from the movie, ‘Field of Dreams,’ ‘If you build it, they will come.’ She set out to ‘build it’ and indeed they came! Now, Tricia is accepted to take up to 95 Students at her ‘Shining Stars Learning Center.’ Tricia built her dream and is flourishing and bringing life back into Cliftondale with the fruition of her dream. “Tricia was on the Front cover and Featured in ‘The Advocate Asks’ column by Saugus Advocate Editor Mark E. Vogler in the Aug. 26,2022 edition, pages 4, 5, &10. “Liam Jaynes – a former Shining Stars Learning Center student, who was only 3 when he died in a tragic car accident – inspired Tricia to have an annual ‘random acts of kindness day’ in his honor. Tricia is naming the playground /play station after Liam in remembrance of him. “There’s a specialness of this Center with staff and families bringing life to its full circle with many past students becoming teachers and/or bringing their children to the ‘Shining Stars Learning Center.’ “That really tells the story a mere 1,000 words could never reflect … It’s a story that paints a picture of hope in a loving family-like atmosphere. It’s encouraging to sense the fertile soil Tricia provides for her staff to bloom. As Tricia stated in the article [page 10], ‘We don’t have a-lot of turnover in staff. Our staff is there for years and THE SOUNDS | SEE PAGE 18
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