THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE - Friday, July 7, 2017

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Eagle expectations

Saugus Boy Scout Troop 62 looks forward to honoring two of its most veteran members with scouting’s highest rank this summer

FUTURE EAGLE: Philip G. Duffy III, left, is one of two new Eagle Scouts whom Saugus Boy Scout Troop 62 expects to honor this year. With him last week at Camp Nihan is Troop 62 Scoutmaster John Kane, himself a recipient of the Eagle rank, scouting’s highest honor. (Saugus Advocate photos by Mark E. Vogler)

By Mark E. Vogler

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n 21 years as scoutmaster of Saugus Boy Scout Troop 62, John Kane says he’s had a dozen of his members achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. By the end of the summer or early fall, Kane – himself an Eagle badge recipient when he was a teen

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growing up in town – said he expects to have at least two more of his boys earn scouting’s highest honor. “Only about four percent of all of the kids who join scouting become Eagles,” Kane said in an interview last week as he relaxed at Camp Nihan. Members of Boy Scout Troop 62 and Cub Scout

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Pack 62 were enjoying a cookout and awards night. “When you earn the Eagle Scout award, you definitely earn it – especially in our troop,” Kane said. “The last Eagle Scout I had was in 2014, so to have two in one year – that’s pretty special. And I’m very proud of these two kids and what they have accomplished,” he said. Kane, who earned his Eagle badge in 1992, was referring to future Eagles: • Joshua Francis Whiting, 18, who will receive his award at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor set for 2 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, July 8) at Cliftondale Congregational Church (50 Essex St., Saugus). • Philip G. Duffy III, 17, only has to earn one more merit badge and pass his Eagle Scout Board of Review – final requirements that he expects to complete this month – before his 18th birthday (July 13). There have been 27 Eagles during the 49-year history of Troop 62, according to a list provided by Kane. “I and … two of my three brothers made Eagle. The one who didn’t, made life [the rank before Eagle]. So, for me and the rest of our troop, this is special,” he said. Kane lauded both scouts for completing “outstanding”

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Friday, July 7, 2017

Last day on the job Popular Library Director Brian Hodgdon resigns, effective today, to accept Salem position; search for replacement underway

A FUN JOB WHILE IT LASTED: Saugus Public Library Director Brian Hodgdon looks back on a night last December – when he dressed up as a conductor to give children their tickets for “The Polar Express” – as a fun night in his short career in Saugus, which ends today. Hodgdon recently resigned after about 14 months to accept an assistant library director’s job at the Salem Public Library. Here he welcomes four-year-old Tyler Pereira, one of about 50 children at the special holiday story time that focused on a magical train ride to the North Pole. (Saugus Advocate file photo by Mark E. Vogler)

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he Saugus Public Library will have to find somebody else to dress up as a conductor for “The Polar Express” when it holds its holiday story time for kids in December. Brian Hodgdon – the library’s popular director – won’t be around to play that role. Today was scheduled as his last day of work after just 14 months on the job. Hodgdon, 36, of Salem, has resigned to accept a position as assistant library director at the Salem Public Library. He will begin that job on July 17. “I’m looking forward to working closer to home!” Hodgdon told The Saugus Advocate this

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