Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • April 13, 2011 Lieutenant Bernard Vandenberg was dispatched to a local business on March 27 to take a larceny report. The owner stated that sometime between March 24 and 27 a box of costume jewelry valued at approximately $2,000 was stolen. On March 28, a Post Street resident reported to Detective John Gibbons the theft of lawn decorations that occurred in October 2010. The resident said he did not report the theft at that time, but he believes he observed the decorations in Borough of Midland Park Police Department Report the front yard of a house in the area. The incident is under investigation. On March 30, a Godwin Avenue resident told Officer Kenneth Junta that an unknown person made a fraudulent transaction with his credit card at an Austin, Texas ATM. The incident was forwarded to the detective bureau. The same day, the owner of a local business reported to Officer Michael Canonico that a client’s check was returned by the bank. The check, dated Nov. 17, 2010, was in payment for repairs on a vehicle. The matter was referred to Detective John Gibbons. At 1:18 a.m. on March 31, Officer Joseph Gaeta observed a vehicle pulled over to the side of the road with its hazard lights on. When Officer Gaeta pulled up next to the vehicle, the driver put the vehicle in drive, and drove away in a reckless and erratic manner. The driver, a 29-year-old New York City resident, was transported to headquarters. Following a breath test, he was charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, failure to keep right, failure to maintain lane, impeding traffic, failure to provide a valid insurance card, and failure to wear a seatbelt. He was released under the provision of John’s Law, and is to appear in the Midland Park Municipal Court. Officer Steven Vander Pyl assisted. On April 4, Officers Gaeta and Canonico responded to a Hillside Avenue residence to serve an outstanding warrant in the amount of $500 out of Gloucester City Municipal Court. The defendant was transported to headquarters, where he made arrangements for the posting of bail. Solar panels (continued from page 3) Use of poles, Matos said, would preserve open space around the state, where 87,000 individual solar panels have already been installed and 150,000 solar panels is the desired goal. He said that the panels had been tested to withstand 110-mile-an-hour winds, and snowballs and ice, and would not topple from the poles in any event that was not utterly catastrophic. Township Committeeman Thomas Madigan said he has visited a nearby town where solar panels were already installed and he found them obtrusive and ugly. Other committeemen agreed and said they hoped the number of panels would be limited and kept away from residential areas. “The installation will stop short of 100…Given the shade conditions around this town, I don’t believe we’ll reach 100,” Matos said. The township committee brought Matos up short on at least one statement in his presentation: “These solar units are made in New Jersey.” Matos admitted that while there is now a factory in New Jersey being geared up to manufacture solar panels, the solar panels now available and likely to be installed are not made in the United States. “It’s reasonable to assume that the solar panels may not be made in the United States,” Matos said. “Most panels are made in China or Korea or some place out there.” Township Committeeman Brian Scanlan said that was only logical. “Aside from cheaper labor, the Chinese government is subsidizing solar energy and we are not,” Scanlan noted. While Scanlan had no problems with solar energy, he had had some issues with the emphasis on utility pole installation as opposed to grouping clusters of panels in an area where they would be unobtrusive. “There are schools with flat roofs, there are warehouses with flat roofs -- I would have liked to have put them there,” Scanlan said. “There are out-of-sight areas of municipal land not in front of residents’ houses,” Mayor Kevin Rooney said. The committee members concurred, and they stipulated that solar panels not be placed in front of designated historical buildings in Wyckoff. Resident Sue Van Wentin said she had spoken to people in Germany, which has sun-and-cloud patterns somewhat similar to Wyckoff’s, who said that solar panels didn’t function especially well. She said a few weeks ago that even friends in Israel, which is sunny most of the year, were disappointed with solar water heating, and urged that America continue to rely on gas, oil, and coal. “This is not an area of the country where solar panels are doing the job they’re expected to do,” she said. She also disliked the fact that the solar panels were made in China. “We send enough money to China now. It’s not a good idea to be more dependent on them.” “Do homeowners have a choice of whether they want these things connected to their houses or not?” Eileen Avia asked. “The answer is no,” Matos said. He said that with the exceptions made for heavily shaded utility poles and for historical home sites, the utility company would need every free pole it could locate to make the program work. 4/7/11 2:06 PM What do 14 deacons, one farmhouse, and 36,525 days have in common? caring. entury of Ac It all began in 1911 when 14 deacons from the Reformed tradition gathered in Paterson to discuss a topic rarely mentioned in the early 20th century: mental illness. With their commitment to provide physical, mental, and spiritual care in a small farmhouse, Christian Health Care Center (CHCC) has grown from a 17-bed psychiatric hospital to include a broad spectrum of mental-health and elder-care services with 12 expansive buildings on 78 acres in Wyckoff and Hawthorne, with a satellite location in Wayne. CHCC’s vision has brought services to thousands of people in our communities. 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