Page 16 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, NOVEmbEr 1, 2024 The Sounds of Saugus By Mark E. Vogler Good morning, Saugus We’re getting into the heart of a very special time of year where so many community events and activities are happening, which should help to bring the town together. Tomorrow (Saturday, May 2), there will be a special ceremony and banquet at the Saugus-Everett Elks Lodge #642, at 401 Main St., where 10 of the town’s most outstanding athletes of 10 or more years gone by will be inducted into the Saugus High School Sports Hall of Fame. This will be the first class of athletes to be inducted since 2018. There have been 255 student athletes inducted since the Hall of Fame’s inception in 1987. For passionate Saugus High sports fans, members of the school sports community, the athletes being honored and their families, this will be a special night for everyone attending. In today’s paper, we marked the occasion with an article about “the terrific twenty-five” If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Rev. Beach at revjbeach@gmail. com – phone: 781-233-1242. A new Saugus Advocate deadline There are changes going on in the production process of The Saugus Advocate, the town’s only exclusively Saugus newspaper, which is delivered to locations all over town on Fridays. I won’t bore you with the details, other than to tell you that I have to make adjustments in how I do my job to make sure the paper gets out on time. My deadlines have been moved up. So, if you have an announceTHE HALLOWEEN RUNNERS: Left to right: Imrane Rahou, Santino Diciero, Naomi Tarantino, Xavier Mazariegos-Darnell, Liam Marcu, AJ Diciero, Luiz Sena and Coach Steve Boudreau did a special fun run last Saturday (Oct. 26) at Breakheart Reservation, dressed in Halloween costumes. They are members of Coach Chris Tarantino’s Elementary School Cross Country team that attends the Belmonte STEAM Academy. Coach T.’s daughter Naomi, who is now in the seventh grade, helps out as a mentor while Coach Boudreau is the assistant coach. (Photo Courtesy to the Saugus Advocate) selected by a small panel of Sachem sports experts, which LET THE PROS HANDLE IT! ™ Say “NO” to Cleaning Out Your Gutters. includes a few former Sachem coaches and members of the Hall of Fame Committee. Hats off to those being honored tonight. Veterans Protect Your Home With LeafFilter. 20 10% OFF Your Entire Purchase* FREE INSPECTION! BEFORE AFTER + % OFF Seniors + Military ++ We off er fi nancing that fi ts your budget!1 Promo: 285 CALL TODAY FOR A 1-888-617-2908 + See Representative for full warranty details. *One coupon per household. No obligation estimate valid for 1 year. 1Subject to credit approval. Call for details. 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There will be a simple ceremony with a keynote speaker, some prayers, perhaps a High School band or color guard unit and maybe some World War II U.S. Army reenactors on hand. It’s a worthwhile event if you have the time. Stay tuned for details. And at about the same time, there will be a Field of Flags planted on the front lawn outside Saugus Town Hall – courtesy of the Parson Roby Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. This will mark the Fourth Annual Veterans Day Field of Flags organized by the hometown DAR. An Election Eve Prayer Vigil Monday The Rev. John Beach of St. John’s Episcopal Church is organizing an Election Eve Prayer Vigil that will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Monday (Nov. 4) at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Saugus (at the corner of Central and Prospect Streets). “The vigil is not a partisan exercise, but a call to remember that we carry within us hopes and aspirations for our country and its future,” Rev. Beach said, in extending his invitation to the community at large. ment, news item or notice that you want to submit for the Friday paper, it’s best to email it to me at mvoge@comcast.net by Tuesday night. If I receive something early Wednesday morning, I will try to get it in. But if you wait till Wednesday, your chances of getting something in that week’s paper are greatly reduced. Most of us don’t like change. But life is full of adjustments. In my five-decades-plus of newspapering, I’ve gone from dictating stories over the phone from my notebook, to typing out articles on the old Underwood Manual typewriter, to using IBM Selectric typewriters (you had to type flawlessly and white out any mistakes before scanning each page), to using a teletype machine, to various typewriters that hooked up with a telephone and finally through various computers – most recently a Dell 2-in-1 desktop that needs to be replaced within the coming year. So change is inevitable. And there will be changes coming as we continue to produce The Saugus Advocate. Food Pantry notes The Saugus United Parish Food Pantry will be open today (Friday, Nov. 1) from 9:3011 a.m. at 50 Essex St. in the basement of Cliftondale Congregational Church. The Saugus United Parish Food Pantry welcomes all neighbors facing food insecurity. If you are able THE SOUNDS | SEE PAGE 17
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