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PaWS & CLaWS Renzo will thrive in a warm, stable home

BREED: Short hair SIZE: Small AGE: Young SEX: Male

What can we say about Renzo other than he is a smart, playful, fun-loving type of guy? He loves other cats and can often be found hanging out with our house cats. There are days when he prefers cats to humans. A home with another playful cat or two is a must. He will make a great companion to another kitty. He is smart, as he knows he is an individual and not an extension of a human’s lap.

He is also smart because he knows to stay away from the volunteers after his condo has been cleaned — he knows that means it’s time to go back into the condo. If a family or human companion gives him a warm, stable home, the Marblehead Animal Shelter believes he will learn and trust his new family.

Renzo is up to date with routine shots, house-trained and neutered. Are you interested in Renzo? Fill out an adoption application at bit. ly/3h3LR6u, and the animal shelter will contact you.

COURTESY PHOTO / MARBLEHEAD ANIMAL SHELTER

Renzo is up to date with routine shots, house-trained and neutered.

Karl Smith Doug Hill Noe Diaz

CurrEnT rECOMMEnDaTIOnS Community members offer their top media picks

BY FRANCES HILL

This is a regular series called “Current Recommendations,” asking folks about their media consumption and recommendations.

A MARBLEHEAD VOLUNTEER

Interviewed: Doug Hill

Employer: Volunteer at Marblehead Little Theatre (and formerly at Kaplan Family Hospice House). Retired from the United States Air Force and F.L. Woods, Inc.

Listening (music, podcasts): Doesn’t really listen to music, occasionally Michael Feinstein, or soundtracks like “Hamilton,” which offer so much.

Streaming (watching on TV):

Streaming the latest season of “The Crown,” although I’m not enjoying it that much – turning too soap opera-ish. Also streaming Tom Clancy’s timely actionpacked ‘Tom Ryan.’ He proclaims, “It’s pure escape!”

Reading (or Audible): “Listening to books on tape – saved my life on long drives…you know how we were all read to! Listened to ‘House of Seven Gables’ — love history, ‘George Washington Spies.’ Reading Patrick O’Donnell’s ‘The Indispensables’ because General John Glover played such a huge role here.”

Tell me something interesting about yourself or your career that people

may not know: “I’m an open book, I love this town, and I love the way things fit together. One thing leads to the next! It is another upcoming MLT production of “The Great Gatsby - an American Musical,” which will have its world premiere in June in Marblehead that has motivated me to reread this classic Fitzgerald novel as I am a part of the production team...I do tend to like to connect the dots and am forever discovering ways to do so.”

THE FISH MARKET

Interviewed: Noe Diaz, manager of The Fish Market

Listening (music, podcasts): KISS 108 -”I stick to country”

Streaming (watching on TV): “I watch a lot of youtube, and podcasts, on regular TV – NBA basketball games. Fave teams and def Celtics – who are doing very well right now!”

Reading (or Audible): “Don’t really read much — but always read the sports sections!”

Tell me something interesting about yourself or your career that people

may not know: “People in the outside world would never know I run a local fish and meat market – done this for about eight years, and I’m a good cook – nobody would know this!”

MARBLEHEAD ACE HARDWARE

Interviewed: Karl Smith, owner of the Marblehead Ace Hardware

Listening (music, podcasts): Dire Straits

Streaming (watching on TV): “Just finished ‘Jack Ryan’…going to finish ‘Ozark’ with that love-to-hate Wendy!”

Reading ( or Audible): “The second Betty Breuhaus’ book: ‘The Time is Now’ I just finished Betty’s first: ‘Curious Corpse’” Bruhas is a Marblehead author.

Tell me something interesting about yourself or your career that people

may not know: “Spent a couple of years in Africa — as head of finance for the American Cell Tower in Ghana.”