Page 20 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • December 12, 2012 Park Windmill Choral concerts announced The Midland Park High School Junior High Winter Chorus Concert will be held on Thursday, Dec. 13 in Memorial Hall at 6:30 pm. The High School Winter Choral Concert featuring the high school Concert Choir, Madrigals, and Midland Park Voices, will follow at 8 p.m. A jewelry sale will be held the same night from 7 to 9 p.m. in the main lobby. Proceeds will benefit the MPHS musical, “Legally Blonde.” The public will also have an opportunity to support the school musical by participating in Community Eat Out Week. Eat at Blue Moon Mexican Café at Boulder Run Shopping Center in Wyckoff on Tuesday, Dec. 18 and Rosarios on Central Avenue in Midland Park on Wednesday, Dec. 19. The restaurants will donate a portion of their proceeds to the musical. Participating diners will need coupons for both restaurants. Coupons are available on the Midland Park High School website. Go to faculty, click on Donna Halliwell, and then select the musical page. Coupons are also available by e-mailing Dhalliwell@midland parkschools.k12.nj.us. Midland Park High School is located at 250 Prospect Street. Winter Reading Program slated The Midland Park Memorial Library will host two Winter Reading Clubs for borough children. One program is for children ages two through six, and the other is for those in grades one through six. The clubs are intended to promote literacy and a love of reading. Children are invited to sign up now at the library. Registration will run through Jan. 11. The clubs will be launched on Friday, Dec. 14. Participants will receive a reading log to keep track of the books they read or have read to them by a family member or caregiver. For every five books listed, their name will be entered into a contest. The program will end Feb. 8. On Monday, Feb. 11, the library staff will select three winners from each club, including two runners-up and one grand prize winner. Midland Park children may sign up in person at the library located at 250 Godwin Avenue. For more information, call (201) 444-2390. Scouts aid pets in need Helpless pets need support this holiday season. Midland Park Cub Scout Pack 157 is now collecting pet food, supplies, and toys to be distributed to local pantries, rescue shelters, and those directly affected by Hurricane Sandy. Drop-off locations are 253 Paterson Avenue, Midland Park (bin located near side door) facing Linden Place. Local students may also leave donations at the collection binds at Godwin and Highland schools. The collection will take place until Dec. 18. For information, call Sue Steccato at (201) 873-8322. Library board to meet The Midland Park Memorial Library Board of Trustees will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in the library located at 250 Godwin Avenue, Midland Park. Meetings are open to the public. PAPS group hosts contest The Midland Park High School Performing Arts Parents, also known as PAPS, is conducting a fundraiser to benefit the 2013 musical, “Legally Blonde.” Tickets, which are $5 each, make excellent stocking stuffers and gifts for teachers. The fundraiser includes three prizes. First prize is an iPad mini valued at $329. Second prize is Beats Solo by Dr. Dre Headphones valued at $200. Third prize is a 19” LCD HD TV valued at $150. Only 1,000 tickets will be sold. Winners will be announced on Jan. 15, 2013 and participants need not be present to be eligible. PAPs is dedicated to enriching the experience of the arts for Midland Park middle and high school students, including those participating in band, chorus, theater, and broadcasting. “Legally Blonde” will be performed on March 22, 23, and 24. Tickets may be purchased by contacting any cast member of “Legally Blonde” or any of these committee members: Cheryl Boland, cherylshomeinteriors@msn. com; Linda Steuerwald, linda@ljscomm.com; Joyce Peterson, at Joycep3@gmail.com; Betty Ann Agresta: betty. boop43@verizon.net; and Jill Zitman, dutchmike@aol. com. Cookie Walk coming up The Midland Park United Methodist Church’s Annual Cookie Walk will be held on Saturday, Dec. 15. The event will feature homemade cookies and holiday treats that can be purchased by the pound. The sale will be held at the church located at 269 Godwin Avenue from 9 to 11:30 a.m. -- or as long as supplies last. For more information, call (201) 445-3787. Register for baseball The Midland Park Baseball Association is now accepting applications for the 2013 season for both its recreation and travel baseball leagues. Travel league applications are due Dec. 15, and recreation league applications are due Jan. 15. Applications for both programs may be found at www. leaguelineup.com/mpba. An in-person registration will be held at the DePhillips Recreation Center on Jan. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, e-mail mprec@optonline.net. Lions announce contest The Lions District 16A Charitable Foundation is sponsoring a special fundraiser. Just 300 tickets will be sold at $100 each. The first place award will be 35 percent of the proceeds, the second place award will be 10 percent, and the third place award will be five percent. The winners will be announced on March 23. To purchase tickets, call (201) 444-8601. Church hosts Hurricane Relief concert The Midland Park United Methodist Church will host a benefit concert for CUMAC and the victims of Hurricane Sandy on Saturday, Dec. 15. The concert will be held at 7 p.m. at the church located at 269 Godwin Avenue in Midland Park. Musicians Robert and Paulina Hill will open the show with songs by The Beatles, Adele, and their own blues and roots originals driven by Robert’s award-winning slide guitar. They will be followed by Blue Plate Special, a New Jersey-based bluegrass and roots music band, playing traditional favorites, original songs, and familiar contemporary tunes with a twist. Vocal harmonies will be accompanied by banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and bass. There is a suggested donation of $10 at the door. Attendees are asked to bring a non-perishable food item or blanket to help those in need in the aftermath of the hurricane. In addition to food items, CUMAC is also in need of clothing and blankets. Bank hosts Wish Tree Atlantic Stewardship Bank is collecting new, unwrapped gifts for children at all of its branches through its annual Wish Tree. Each of the bank’s 13 branches displays a small Christmas tree decorated with ornaments and gifts tags for the collection. Bank customers and associates are encouraged to take a tag and an ornament from the tree and return with a new, unwrapped gift suitable for a child from newborn to age 16. The gift collection will continue through Thursday, Dec. 14. The gifts are presented to local charitable organizations such as New City Kids, Westwood Cares, CUMAC, Harvest Outreach Ministries, and New Hope Ministries and will be distributed to needy and inner city children. Atlantic Stewardship Bank, a subsidiary of Stewardship Financial Corporation, maintains branches in Hawthorne, Midland Park, Montville, North Haledon, Pequannock, Ridgewood, Waldwick, Wayne, Westwood and Wyckoff. Winter concert rescheduled The Midland Park Elementary Schools’ Winter Concert for children in grades three through six has been rescheduled to Wednesday, Dec. 19. The event will be held in the gym at Highland School, 31 Highland Avenue, at 7 p.m. McCoy Road housing project (continued from page 7) the neighbors of the property with responsible lighting and landscaping, and one that addresses the slopes and wetlands on the site, and the abatement of the noise from I-287 so that a good quality of life is provided for the residents of the site. In addition, the developer’s plan must contain responsible architectural and environmental specifics and must receive site plan approval from the borough’s planning board. Mayor Frank Bivona explained that the borough’s contract to purchase the property is subject to the approval of the borough’s spending plan by the Council on Affordable Housing. The Franklin Lakes Council’s action on the RFP provides credibility for the borough’s intent to use the trust fund money for affordable housing. The borough has a total of $2,622,820 in its affordable housing trust fund, according to Hart. While $2 million will be used to purchase the temple property, $622,820 will be used to reduce the borough’s debt to the City of Garfield. That debt concerns the borough’s 2003 regional contribution agreement, which allows Franklin Lakes to pay to have some of its affordable housing obligation assumed by Garfield. Hart has previously advised that a revised spending plan has been submitted to the state’s Department of Community Affairs and COAH to permit the expenditure of the money from the affordable housing trust fund to acquire the temple property and to pay off the existing debt the borough has with Garfield. The contract indicates the property is being sold without a broker and in “as is” condition and that the temple will obtain planning board approval to subdivide the 49,000 square feet of the property that will remain under temple ownership. The contract constitutes a settlement with the temple of its legal objection to the borough’s 2008 housing plan, which did not include this property for affordable housing. The monies in the borough’s affordable housing trust fund come from fees paid by developers since the 1990 New Jersey Supreme Court decision that determined that mandatory development fees are authorized by the state’s Fair Housing Act of 1985 and those fees must be paid by developers based on the assessed value of residential and non-residential projects with an additional fee collected if a change in use or increase in density in a zone is granted to a developer. Under that court decision, the money must be used within a four-year period of it being collected for low- and moderate-income housing, or for the purchase of land for low- and moderate-income housing sites, affordable housing rehabilitation, payment of regional contribution agreements, providing assistance designed to make units more affordable to low- and moderate-income individuals, and/ or administrative costs that are necessary to implement the borough’s affordable housing obligation.