Page 4 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2020 Heritage Heights residents puzzle out 4,000 piece puzzle Puzzle donated by Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Saugus By Tara Vocino F our residents puzzled it out last Thursday afternoon, offi cially displaying a 4,000-piece puzzle that took them three months to assemble at Heritage Heights. Donated by the Route 1 Barnes & Noble Booksellers to an American Legion Auxiliary raffl e prize, there was originally a diff erent winner. American Legion Auxiliary member Louise Davis won the non-homemade puzzle through a raffl e prize, but when she saw another member wanted it badly, she gave it to her. The new owner, Dorothy Bockus, got her friends together to make the 52-inch-by-38-inch NeusAUTOTECH 1989 SINCE CA$H FOR YOUR CAR! DRIVE IT - PUSH IT - TOW IT! Cold Hard Cash For Your Car, Truck or SUV! 2014 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE LT Excellent Condition, Most Power Options, Key-less Entry, Panoramic Moon Roof, Backup Camera, Remote Start, 126K Miles, Warranty! TRADES WELCOME $10,900 Easy Financing Available! EddiesAutotech.com 2008 CADILLAC DTS Platinum Package, Every Conceivable Option, Clean Title, Only 86K Miles, Warranty! TRADES WELCOME $8,500 781-321-8841 1236 EasternAve • Malden We Pay Cash For Your Vehicle! Kevin Martin visited this castle in Germany when he studied abroad in Germany during his junior year at Boston University. (Kenneth Martin, courtesy photo) Last Thursday afternoon at Heritage Heights, Dorothy Bockus, who wasn’t the original raffl e winner, holds up the box for the puzzle that she wanted so badly.(Advocate photos by Tara Vocino) was built for a king who loved swans.” Janet Pothier said she’d spend hours with her friend, Eleanor Bourque, puzzling the pieces together. The castle is a 19th-century romantic eclecticism palace on a rugged hill, standing at 213 feet, above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. ~ LETTER TO THE EDITOR ~ Waiting until next year to introduce hybrid learning in our schools was “prudent course of action,” given the positive COVID case Dear Editor: It is very concerning to hear that we have a case of COVID-19 in our schools. Just last Thursday there were demands that we bring kids back sooner than later. I feel that our decision not to make any changes to remote learning until after the fi rst of the year was a well thought out and prudent course of action. I had cautioned that we had Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years holidays coming up and if we were going to see some cases of COVID-19 exposure these were the prime times for that to happen. We are responsible for the health and safety as well as the education for more than 3,000 students and staff . I would much rather err on the side of caution and be prudent in our actions than to succumb to pressure to bring students back too soon and expose any one of them to possible exposure to the virus. We must also not expose staff to any unnecessary risk either. With the exponential rise in cases in our town as well as the apparent surge in Massachusetts and the country...it is imperative that we not act in haste and continue to do all in our power to provide a safe, healthy and educationally sound environment for our students and staff ...I feel that this Committee made the right decision then and will continue to err on the side of safety and caution in the future. Sincerely, Arthur Grabowski Saugus School Committee chwanstein Castle in Germany in the common room – renamed “the puzzle room” – at the housing complex. “I wanted it badly, because I liked the castle,” said Bockus, who typically does 300- to 1,000-piece puzzles. “I wanted a challenge.” Kevin Martin, whose grandmother, Dorothy, lives at the complex, studied abroad in Germany in 2014, visiting the castle that is pictured in the puzzle, which he said resembles the structure. “It’s a beautiful tourist destination,” Martin said in a telephone interview at the housing authority. “Certain parts weren’t accessible due to renovation.” Dorothy Martin, whose late husband, John, served in Germany during World War II, said it is one of the most beautiful puzzles she’s ever seen. “There’s so much to it,” Martin said. “The castle, which means ‘new swan’s stone’ in German, At left are Janet Pothier and Eleanor Bourque; Dorothy Bockus and Lorraine Martel are at right – posing by the 4,000-piece puzzle that they assembled.
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