Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 10, 2011 Area George Decker will be honored by the Northern New Jersey Council, Northwest District, Boy Scouts of America with the organization’s Annual Community Service Award at a cocktail reception and dinner set for Tuesday, Sept. 27. The event will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Indian Trail Club in Franklin Lakes. “George Decker embodies the characteristics that we try to instill in our Scouts: leadership, civic involvement, character, lifetime commitment to Scouting. It’s our priviledge to honor him with this award,” commented Charles H. “Chuck” Shotmeyer, the award committee co-chairman and a past honoree. Decker has been active in Scouting for over 27 years, beginning as den leader and chartered organization representative for Pompton Lakes Pack 88 and assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 388. A District Committee member and past chairman of both Three-Rivers and Black Bear districts, Decker is a District Award of Merit and NNJC Silver Beaver recipient. Committed to youth, Decker coached Little League baseball, softball, and soccer, and was co-founder and long-term commissioner of the Pompton Lakes P.A.L. Basketball Program. A graduate of Pompton Lakes High School and The College of Insurance in NYC, he earned the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designations from The American Col- George Decker to be recognized by Boy Scouts lege in Bryn Mawr. Decker’s career with AXA Equitable spanned more than 40 years, and he served in many capacities in product development and training, and as an AXA consultant from 1982 to 2001 before retiring to a home office position in October, 2009. He continues as a semi-retired AXA advisor in the NJ/NY Metro Region. Active in his community and Passaic County since high school, Decker has been a Pompton Lakes Municipal Utilities Authority Commissioner since 1985 and served as chairman of the Water and Sewer Authority for the past 12 years. Currently on the Executive Board of the Passaic County Republican Organization, he served as a Pompton Lakes Councilman and Commissioner of the Passaic County Technical Institute School Board in Wayne for 12 years, three years as president. Charter member of the Pompton Lakes Jaycees, he has been a member of the Pompton Lakes Board of Health, chairman of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, and a member of the Pompton Lakes and Passaic County planning boards. Decker was appointed by Governor Kean to the NJ State Board of Physical Therapists. The honoree and his wife, Judy, have a daughter, Kathleen, who works for the US Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, MD, and a son, John, an Eagle Scout, who is a CPA and auditor with Ernst & Young in New York City. They also have two grandchildren. The Northwest District includes Allendale, Franklin Lakes, Glen Rock, Ho-Ho-Kus, Mahwah, Midland Park, Oakland, Ramsey, Ridgewood, and Saddle River in Bergen County and Bloomingdale, Clifton, Haledon, Hawthorne, George Decker Little Falls, North Haledon, Passaic, Paterson, Pompton Lakes, Prospect Park, Ringwood, Totowa, Wanaque, Wayne, West Milford, Woodland Park in Passaic County. For event details, call Shotmeyer at 973-427-1000 or email chuck@shotmeyerbros.com. Wyckoff artist Alice Petkus-Mason will exhibit her watercolors at the Franklin Lakes Library during the month of August. Petkus-Mason has studied under the instruction of Joel Popadics at the Ridgewood Art Institute for the past seven years. She has exhibited at the Jane Law Art Gallery Local artist to exhibit watercolors in Surf City, the Ridgewood Art Institute, the Art Center of Northern New Jersey in New Milford, and the Wyckoff YMCA. Call (201) 891-2224 or visit during regular library hours. The library at 470 DeKorte Drive in Franklin Lakes.. ����������������� ����������������������� ����������� ������������� ��������������������� � �� �������� ��������� ����� ���������������������������������������� ������������������������� �������������� ������ ��������������������� ������������������ ���������������� ������������������ ������������������ ������������ ���� ������������������������� ������������������ ���������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������� ����������������������������������� ���� ���� ���� ���� ���� ���� ���� ���� BEST NURSERY � ������ �� �������������������� ������������ � ����� �������������������������������� ��������������������� ��������������������������� ��������������������������������� �� ����� ������� ���� ������������������ ����������������� ������������������������������������� ������������� �������� ���������� ����������������������� ������������� ��������������� ���������������������������� �������������������� ���������� ������ ���� ������� � ��������������������� ��������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������