February 24, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 15 Park Windmill Nominees sought The Midland Park Junior Football and Cheerleading Association is seeking nominations for the following board positions: president, first vice president, second vice president, recording secretary, and corresponding secretary. Interested individuals are invited to contact Laura Thomas at (201) 445-0902 by March 5. The next board meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Monday, March 8 at borough hall. Library board to meet The Midland Park Library Board of Trustees will meet Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the library, 250 Godwin Avenue. The meeting is open to the public. Baseball Association to hold meeting The Midland Park Baseball Association will hold its monthly baseball meeting on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Highland School Media Center/Library. All coaches and parents who are interested are welcome and encouraged to attend. For details, e-mail midlandparkbaseball@gmail. com. Local students named to Dean’s List The following Midland Park students have been named to the Dean’s Lists at their respective colleges or universities for the fall 2009 semester: Lindsey Kathryn Beaver, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts; Lauren Criscenzo, Mitchell College, New London, Connecticut; Laura Murphy, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and Mary Shabo, Rowan University, Glassboro. Blood Drives planned There will be two opportunities to donate blood for the Midland Park Community Blood Drive. Donors may schedule an appointment for Feb. 24 at Kuiken Brothers, 145 Lake Avenue, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. or for March 1 at Faith Reformed Church, 95 Prospect Street, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. These events are held in cooperation with Community Blood Services. To schedule an appointment, call (201) 2513703. All types of blood are needed especially types O- and O+. Any healthy individual age 17 through 75 and weighing at least 110 pounds can donate blood. Donors should eat a moderate meal before donating and must bring identification showing signature. All donors receive a complimentary cholesterol screening with every blood donation. MPPEF hosts open meeting The MPPEF will hold a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m., in the Midland Park High School Media Center. The foundation will be celebrating the support of the founders, reviewing the group’s accomplishments during the last four years, and looking ahead toward the new challenges. This celebratory evening will include presentations from Midland Park faculty grant recipients, Dr. Heebink, and School Board President Rich Vendetti, and a discussion of “Access to All,” the district-wide grant. RSVP to mailto: info@mppef.org. Board of education to meet The Midland Park Board of Education will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. This session will be held at the August C. DePreker Center at Highland Elementary School. Annual Lego Contest announced The Friends of the Midland Park Memorial Library will be accepting entries to the Third Annual Lego Contest, March 1 through 3 at the library. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 5 at 3:30 p.m. in the Englishman Room. The contest is open to Midland Park residents; entrants are separated by grade level. The established divisions are pre-K and first grade, second and third grades, and fourth through sixth grades. Each creation will be judged based on creativity, use of color, design, and construction. A gift card will be awarded to the winning participant in each division. For more information, and complete contest rules, stop by the Midland Park Memorial Library on Franklin Avenue. Friends plan Book Sale The Friends of the Midland Park Memorial Library will hold a Book Sale on Friday, Feb. 26 and Saturday, Feb. 27 in the library’s Community Room. The sale will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days. Donations of gently used books (fiction and non-fiction, hard and soft cover), CDs, DVDs, Books on CD and videotapes are now being accepted. Please note: The Friends cannot accept magazines, encyclopedias, textbooks, vinyl records, cassette tapes, or Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. The group also cannot accept books that are more than five years old in the following categories: business and finance, computers, travel, health, child care, and education. Donations may be dropped off from Feb. 8 through 20 during library hours. All items will be priced to sell and all proceeds will benefit the library. Blue Jean Ball tickets on sale Tickets for the 2010 Spring Fling Blue Jean Ball are now available. This Midland Park Public Education Foundation fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday, March 13 from 7 to 11 p.m. at Saint Nicholas Church in Wyckoff. The evening will include live music by The Embracers and DJ entertainment. Tickets are $55 per person and may be purchased by contacting Tiffany Gallagher at igallag@optonline.net, Melissa Stanton at stanton264@msn.com, or by visiting www.mppef.org. All proceeds from the 2010 Spring Fling Blue Jean Ball will fund the “Access to All” grant. The cost of Phase I of this grant is approximately $70,000 and will enable Midland Park schools to purchase the technological equipment necessary to bring the schools on par with others in the area. The Midland Park Public Education Foundation is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit foundation that funds new curriculum initiatives and enrichment opportunities in Midland Park’s public schools. Summer clothes requested Area residents are asked to donate summer clothes and shoes, which will be distributed to the people of Haiti. Items will be accepted at Family Hair Care, 222 Godwin Avenue in Midland Park, through Feb. 27. Deadline is Wednesday at noon. (continued from page 7) knowledge and expertise of a municipal tax assessor who is familiar with the properties within a given municipality and local conditions that affect the community. The council does not believe the county can reproduce the local assessor’s duties in an effective and efficient manner. Copies of the resolution will be forwarded to the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, each municipality in the county, State Senator Gerald Cardinale, Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk, and the new Jersey Association of Municipal Assessors. Tax assessor Break the Highway Trend! ...not your community’s back. Recycling (continued from page 7) Midland Park residents will experience seamless service, since Waste Management has been providing curbside pickup for several years. She added that the borough has a good working relationship with the company. In order to avail itself of the most favorable bids, the borough recently split its contracts for the collection of garbage and recyclable materials, with Waste Management winning the deal for recyclables and Ippolito receiving the contract for garbage. When the borough requested bids for the collection of recyclable materials, containered collection for the school district was included as an option. After reviewing the proposal, the board of education chose to pay for a $3,120 contract with Waste Management that will run from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. The school board’s contract will allow the borough’s public schools to deposit their recyclable materials into a Dumpster, which will be emptied by the collector. Local businesses are the backbone of your community and the trend to shop the big guys on the highway hurts us all.Your local businesses have what you want... at the right price... and close to home. So, why hassle with the highways? Save Time! Save Gas! Save Money! 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