Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • October 3, 2012 Midland Park Midland Park crossing guards will soon be equipped with LED stop signs and reflective vests in an effort to make their job safer. The borough council last week voted to accept the recommendation of acting Police Chief Michael Marra to purchase the signs and vests for each of the crossing guards. There are seven active posts in the one-and-a- half square mile borough, plus eight substitutes. “Crossing guards are extremely exposed to traffic accidents, and the council wants to do as much as it can to keep them safe,” commented Borough Administrator Addie Hanna. She noted that the JIF, the borough’s insurance carrier, has declared the crossing guard position as the most dangerous job based on statistics on the number of deaths and serious injuries the guards suffer. The battery-operated hand-held signs being considered are compact and weigh less than four pounds. The proposed signs cost $169 each. LED stop signs OK’d Midland Park High School and the Children’s Therapy Center at the Church of the Nativity in Midland Park were locked down for just over an hour Friday as police searched for a man with a rifle who reportedly fired the weapon in the woods behind the church. Acting Police Chief Mike Marra asked that anyone with information about the person call police or have the man turn himself in to authorities. Chief Marra said that the police desk received a call at 2:40 p.m. from the Children’s Center reporting that three bus drivers waiting to pick up children at closing time had seen a man with a rifle in the wooded area behind the school. One of the drivers heard a bang as he was traveling on the back road and thought he had blown Two local schools locked down while K-9 units search for rifleman a tire, but determined his tires were fine. Once back on the bus he saw in his rearview mirror a man wearing an orange vest walk into the woods. The bus drivers behind him also heard the bang and saw the man with a rifle surrounded by smoke. Both schools were locked down, Marra said, following protocol when schools are in the vicinity of someone with a firearm. Area police departments were contacted to assist in securing the perimeter of the church property and Oak Hill Road. Marra said the woods were searched with the aid of the county police K-9 unit, but no one was located. Students were allowed to leave the schools just before 4 p.m. Area Ozzie Carlson, director of golf programs at Greenhouse Golf in Waldwick and a Record columnist, will speak about “Using Golf as a Business Tool” at the multi-chamber networking meeting sponsored by the Waldwick Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Oct. 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. Hosted by chamber member Greenhouse Golf at its state-of-the-art facility at 140 Hopper Avenue, the event will also feature a talk by Greenhouse Golf’s President and CEO Rich DiMartino, who will discuss “The Critical Elements of Business Development Success.” A software entrepreneur, DiMartino has 27 years of expe- Speaker to focus on golf as a business tool rience in sales and corporate business development with Hewlett Packard. Golf training technology demonstrations will also be part of the program, and attendees will be invited to participate. The fee for members of any of the participating chambers of commerce who register by Oct. 4 is $20. Chamber members who pay at the door will be charged $25. The cost for non-chamber members is $30. The event will also include light fare, a business card exchange, and prizes. RSVP to Kim Manziano at kmanziano@optonline.net. For more information, call at Nancy (201) 847-9177.