Franklin Lakes May 30, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 7 GOP candidates unopposed in primary election by Frank J. McMahon Two Republican candidates seeking election to two seats on the Franklin Lakes Borough Council will be unopposed in the primary election on June 5. Incumbent Councilman Charles Kahwaty is seeking his first full three-year term on the council, although he has been a councilman since he was chosen by the council in February 2011 to fill the vacancy created when Frank Bivona was sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1, 2011. He was elected in the 2011 general election to fill out Bivona’s term, which will expire at the end of 2012. Thomas Lambrix, who was recently appointed to the council to fill the unexpired term of William Smith, who resigned May1 when he was appointed borough attorney, is also seeking election to his first full three-year term. No Democrats filed nominating petitions and Independent candidates have until June 5 to file to run in the November general election. Any Democrat who receives two or more write-in votes in the primary would also have an opportunity to accept a nomination to seek a council seat in the general election. Kahwaty has been vice president of the Franklin Lakes Republican Club and is an attorney who was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1980. He has also been admitted to the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and U.S. Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court, Tax Court and U.S. Supreme Court, District of Columbia, and the New York Bar. His practice areas include personal injury law, commercial litigation, municipal court law, driving while intoxicated cases, and collections. A graduate of the Seton Hall University School of Law with a JD degree in 1979 and Georgetown University with a BA degree in 1976, he is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association and was its president from 2002 to 2003. He has also held several positions on the New Jersey State Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the American Trial Lawyers Association New Jersey, and the Republican National Lawyers Association. Lambrix has lived in the borough for 20 years. He was appointed chairman of the Franklin Lakes Environmental Commission in 2007 and still serves in that position. He is an adjunct professor of management and communications in the Anisfield School of Business at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he has taught graduate business administration courses and is teaching several undergraduate business courses. He has a degree in chemistry from Rutgers University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts. Lambrix has been active coaching in the recreation program. He was a member of the committee that analyzed the controversial split of the borough’s students between the two schools in the regional high school district. That situation, which was in effect in the 1990s, has since been reversed. Lambrix was a member of the Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education’s Horizon Project and Community Issues Committee. For 10 years, he helped write scripts and performed in the regional high school district’s FLOW Follies scholarship fundraising program. His last corporate position was as executive vice president of the Hawthorn Group, a Washington, D.C. public affairs company, where he led the firm’s energy and environmental practice. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of communications and public affairs for Union Camp Corporation, a company he joined in 1992 as vice president of communications. Before joining Union Camp, Lambrix spent 10 years with Phillips Petroleum Company in Bartlesville, Oklahoma where he was manager of external communications. Prior to his tenure at Phillips, Lambrix received a presidential appointment to the White House domestic policy staff as assistant director for energy and natural resources. He also was the founding chairman of a Washington, D.C. industry group called the Global Climate Coalition. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the Nature Conservancy of New Jersey. FLOW Notes Sports poster sponsors sought The athletic department at Ramapo High School is seeking community sponsors for its sports poster program. Funds raised by the sale of the posters will benefit athletics at the high school. All American Sports Posters has been contracted to produce the posters. For more information about becoming a sponsor, contact Ron Anello, athletic director at (201) 5561380 or All American Sports Posters at (800) 556-1380. Class of 2014 selling umbrellas The Ramapo High School Class of 2014 is holding an umbrella sale to raise funds for Project Graduation. The students are offering green and white golf umbrellas for $20 each. The 60-inch bumbershoots have a metal shaft and wooden handle. A 36-inch telescopic folding version is available for $15. Both sport the Ramapo Raiders logo. The sale will run through June. To purchase an umbrella, call Laura Corino-Policastro at (201) 485-8298.