Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • June 1, 2011 Area Primaries uncontested; fall race in Upper Saddle River On June 7, voters will be asked to endorse their parties’ candidates for available seats on the local governing bodies. Winners of the Democratic and Republican primary elections will meet in the November general election. Independents have until the day of the primary to announce their candidacy, but Independent candidates’ names do not appear on the primary ballots. Summaries of the June 7 elections follow: Allendale The Allendale political primary will be uncontested. Amy Wilcynski, who owns and operates an ornamental gardening company with an emphasis on the environment, will seek re-election to her second term. She is the council’s resident expert on trees and other environmental matters and has been an active proponent of the revitalization of Crestwood Lake. Jacqueline McSwiggan, a recent appointee to the Allendale Board of Adjustment and a former member of the Allendale K-8 Board of Education, will run for the seat being vacated by five-term incumbent Robert Schoepflin, who opted not to run this year. McSwiggan is also president of the Municipal Alliance, a group that strives to prevent drug abuse and under-age drinking. She is retired from an executive position at the Bank of New York. No Democrats have filed for the primary and there are no internal contests in the Republican party. Ho-Ho-Kus Incumbent Ho-Ho-Kus Mayor Thomas Randall, incumbent Councilwoman Maryellen Lennon and newcomer Steve Shell, all of whom are members of the Republican Party, will seek GOP voters’ endorsement on June 7. No candidates have filed for the Democratic Party’s primary, but Independent candidates have until the day of the primary to announce their candidacy for the November general election. Randall, a practicing attorney with Randall & Randall, was last elected in 2007. Before he became mayor, he spent 13 years as a member of the borough council. A graduate of Notre Dame University and Seton Hall Law School, Randall has served as council president, police commissioner, DPW commissioner, deputy finance commissioner, and council liaison to the zoning board. The candidate’s community activities have included coaching recreation baseball and soccer and the traveling basketball team. He has also been active with the Bergen County Scouts, the Northwest Bergen Chapter of the American Heart Association, and the Northeast Republican Organization. Lennon, a 33-year borough resident, will be seeking reelection to a new three-year term on the borough’s governing body. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s College and was an elementary school teacher. The councilwoman’s activities have included troop leader for Girl Scouts, YAC Dance co-chair, and Red Cross Babysitting Course and St. Gabriel’s CCD instructor. She has run a nursery program in town for preschoolers, and served as a substitute teacher in several local districts. Lennon was elected to her first term in 2005. Shell and his wife Elizabeth have been residents of Ho- Ho-Kus since 1995, having moved to the borough from New York City. Their three daughters are being educated at the Ho-Ho-Kus/Waldwick Nursery School, the Ho-HoKus Public School, and Northern Highlands Regional High School. After receiving his bachelor’s degree, he began a 28year career in sales, marketing, and management with Stauffer Chemicals, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, American Cyanamid, and Pfizer. He is currently vice president and general manager in the U.S. Animal Health Division of Merck & Co., where he is responsible for the management of three business units and a staff of more than 250 colleagues. Saddle River Saddle River Mayor Samuel Raia and Councilmen Michael Mutter and Michael Toomey will run unopposed in the Republican primary. All the candidates are Republican incumbents who will be seeking re-election in the November general election. Raia is running for a second term as the borough’s mayor. Before being elected to the borough’s top post in 2007, Raia spent two terms as a councilman and served as a member of the planning board. During his first term on the council, he spearheaded the reorganization of the police department and the creation of the borough’s 24-hour police station and dispatch facility. He also headed the approval and development of the fire department’s public safety water lines and the Rindlaub Park improvement program. A long-time borough resident, Raia has spent over three decades as a corporate manager. He helped make Raia Industries the state’s largest concrete supplier. He later sold that business and developed Raia Properties and Raia Self Storage. Councilman Mutter received a bachelor’s degree from Saint John’s University, College of Pharmacy and a master’s from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is received a Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship AHA/HRET. Mutter is pharmacy manager and director of patient safety at The Valley Hospital. He is a member of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists and of the New Jersey Hospital Association. Toomey holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, and logged over 40 years as a sales and marketing executive (continued on page 11)