THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – Friday, November 8, 2019 Page 17 ASKS | FROM PAGE 16 uation team that hired the superintendent, so I’m sure he’s had plenty of input. I know he has a very good relationship with the former chairman of the School Committee [Jeannie Meredith]. I know they speak, because she works for the Town, so I know there was contact – to the extent, I can only speculate, but I would speculate that he had his hand in it [privatizing the custodians], and I want to discuss that with him, too. I just don’t want to see it continue. There is low morale when that happens. Q: Your sense is the previous board sort of gave him too much latitude in running the town the way he wanted? A: I think they did. I don’t want to call it inexperience on their part. They all came in. They were all new. None of them served on the board. Deb [Panetta] was here for a short period of time as a selectman, and she was on Mozart, Schubert begin 72nd the School Committee for several years, but I think they relied heavily on him to tell them what their job was and how they were supposed to do it, and I think that he pretty much ran the show. And I’ve been around here a long time – I don’t need anyone to show me how to do my job, and I expect the residents of Saugus voted for me for that one very reason. I know what I am talking about. Q: As you said tonight, this is the sixth time you have been elected to this board. A: Yeah, sixth time. I got to sit in every chair up there except the chair’s chair, but I am looking forward to it. And I hope that we have a good working relationship. I know that Scott and I have known each other for years. I graduated with his brother Alan. So, I am sure there are some things that we will need to square away. I’ve got some questions ASKS | SEE PAGE 18 Award-Winning Landscaping Servicing the North Shore for over 38 Years M usic Director Robert Lehmann and North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra (NSPO) begin the Orchestra’s 72nd season on Sunday, November 17 with music of Franz Schubert and Wolfgang A. Mozart. The 3 p.m. concert at Swampscott High School Auditorium will feature Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 (popularly known as the Unfinished Symphony) and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Tickets will be available at the door for $30, $25 for seniors and students and free for children age 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www. nspo.org. The concert marks the start of Maestro Lehmann’s 22nd year as the Orchestra’s Music Director. Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 was begun six years before the composer’s death in 1828; however, it contains only two fully orchestrated movements, and musical scholars have debated whether the composer intended to write a traditional four-movement symphony. Mozart’s Mass in C minor was completed in 1783. The piece depicts the traditional outline of a Mass celebration in the order of liturgy and ritual. It is considered one of Mozart’s greatest works. It is grand in scale and reveals the influence in Mozart’s work of Bach and Handel, whom Mozart studseason of North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Robert Lehmann leads the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra in the first concert of the Orchestra’s 72nd season on Sunday, November 17 at 3 p.m. at Swampscott High School Auditorium. ied diligently. The NSPO, founded in 1947, plays a season of three subscription concerts at Swampscott High School Auditorium. After the November 17 “Fall” concert, the “Winter” Concert will be held Sunday, March 1, 2020, at 3 p.m. with a program that includes Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and the New England premiere of Daniel Crozier’s Concerto for Two Clarinets, with soloists William and Catherine Hudgins. The Orchestra’s “Spring” Concert is on April 26, 2020, also at 3 p.m. The program will include Ralph Vaughn-Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, William Walton’s Viola Concerto, featuring Kimberly Lehmann, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. In addition, the Orchestra plays two holiday concerts: on December 8 at 4 p.m. at St. Richard’s Church in Danvers and on December 15 at 4 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Church in Revere. Admission to both concerts is free in exchange for a substantial donation of nonperishable food to benefit local food pantries. For more information visit www. nspo.org. NOW BOOKING NEW CUSTOMERS! DON’T WAIT! Call 781-321-2074 Pavers * Walkways * Patios * Driveways * Pool Decks Planting * Perennials * Shrubs * Trees New Lawns * Sod * Hydroseed Flowers/Annuals/Mums * Conventional Seeding * Synthetic Complete Maintenance * Cleanups (Spring & Fall) * Lawn Cutting, Edging & Weeding * Lawn Fertilizer Programs * Trim & Prune Shrubs * Mulching, Thatching Interlock Block * Fire Pits * Sitting Walls * Pillers Landscape Lighting * Design * Install * Repair * Night Illumination
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