September 28, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 25 Park Windmill ‘Music in the Park’ competition set The Midland Park High School Performing Arts Parents will host its “Music in the Park XIV” marching band competition on Sunday, Oct. 9 at the high school stadium, rain or shine. The Midland Park High School Marching Band will present “Fire and Flight,” featuring music from the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” and Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.” Ten high school marching bands from Bergen and Passaic counties will also perform. The gates will open at 12:30 p.m. and performances will begin at 1 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults; $5 for Midland Park residents, senior citizens, and students. Baseball association plans meeting The Midland Park Baseball Association will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Midland Park Public Library, 280 Godwin Avenue. All are welcome to attend. For more information, e-mail midlandparkbaseball@gma il.com. Columbus Day Pasta Dinner planned Midland Park Knights of Columbus will hold its annual Columbus Day Pasta Dinner on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. in Kennedy Hall at the Church of the Nativity, 315 Prospect Street. In addition to the usual $10 “all you can eat” pasta, bread, salad and desserts, this year’s dinner will feature chicken parmesan for an additional charge of $3. Tickets will be sold after the Sunday Masses at Nativity Church or by calling Don Tagneri at (201) 445-0679. Local veterans sought The Midland Park governing body would like to honor borough veterans who have recently returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Vets or their family members are invited to call Midland Park Borough Hall at (201) 4455720 with the name, rank, address, return date, and assignment details of the borough’s military member. Scouts seek donations for Baby Bundles Midland Park Brownie Troops 106 and 568 will hold a Baby Bundles Drive during the month of October. The Baby Bundles campaign is a community effort to help local babies get a good start. New and unused baby items are welcome. Collection boxes are located at the Midland Park Public Library, Highland and Godwin schools, Midland Park High School, Dunkin’ Donuts, A&P, and Kings. The Girl Scouts will package the donated items in bundles for needy babies and distribute them through churches and social service agencies in the community. Baby items needed are: diaper ointment, washcloths, towels, diapers, baby shampoo, baby lotion, diaper wipes, bottles, clothes, infant toys, pacifiers, blankets, and bibs. James family walks for a cure The James family of Midland Park will participate in the Annual Light the Night Walk for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society on Oct. 15 in Morristown. This event raises money for LLS to fund research and bring hope to those who are battling blood-related cancers. The members of Team James invite the public to walk with them and/or make a donation toward LLS. When he was 18 months old, Shayne James was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Today, the sevenyear-old is a cancer survivor. To make a donation, visit http://pages.lightthenight.org/ nj/Morris11/smcintoshjames. To join Team Shayne, visit http://pages.lightthenight.org/nj/Morris11/TeamShayne. Clothing drive under way Sal Lauretta for Men is sponsoring a men’s Clothing Drive to benefit patrons of the Jericho Road Homeless Shelter in Paterson. Customers and area residents are asked to bring in new or gently used men’s clothing and footwear to the shop at 621 Godwin Avenue in Midland Park. The drive will continue through Sept. 30. Jericho Road provides homeless men with food, shelter, employment, counseling, freedom from addiction, and hope. To advance the outreach effort, Sal Lauretta for Men will offer a 20 percent discount off entire purchases of regularly priced items. Call (201) 444-1666 or visit www.sal4men.com for details. For more information about Jericho Road, visit http://www.hope4allcdc.org. Learn about Medicare Part D Sheila Brogan, eldercare coordinator for Children’s Aid and Family Services, will discuss the Medicare Part D prescription plans for 2012 at the Northwest Senior Center, 46-50 Center Street in Midland Park, on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 3 p.m. It is time for seniors who are new to Medicare to choose a plan and for those on a Part D plan to reevaluate their plans. Seniors will have an opportunity to enroll in a new plan during the open enrollment, which extends from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7. Brogan will present the 2012 plan costs and evaluate prescription plan options using the Medicare.gov website. To reserve a seat at the Medicare Part D workshop, call (201) 445-5690. Garbage pickup (continued from page 7) That new contract called for solid waste collection on two days a week from April through September and one pickup per week from October through March, while grass and yard waste are collected separately from the solid waste. Under that contract, recyclable materials will continue to be collected once a week and the borough will receive revenue from the collection of newspapers. The separate grass and yard waste collection began this year, but leaf collection is no longer provided by the hauler and property owners have to dispose of leaves by taking them to the borough’s leaf compost facility on DeKorte Drive or by contracting for that service privately. When this contract was awarded, Franklin Lakes Borough Administrator Gregory Hart advised that the new contract would amount to a total bid award of $1,084,200 over the term of the contract, which extends from Sept. 1, 2010 through 2012. According to Hart, the savings from going from the previous two day per week schedule to two days per week in the summer and one day per week in the winter will total $156,800 over the term of the contract, and the additional revenue from paper recycling is estimated at $70,000 over term of contract. The new contract also meets recycling objectives by recycling grass and yard waste. The cost savings from the disposal of grass and yard waste, based on an estimated 500 tons per year, will total an additional $70,000 over the term of the contract, although that cost savings will be offset partially by the cost of separate collections. Under the new contract, the Franklin Lakes Department of Public Works will continue to pick up heavy metal items, or “white goods,” such as refrigerators. F.J. MCMAHON