Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • October 31, 2012 Franklin Lakes Two candidates running unopposed for council by Frank J. McMahon The two available seats on the Franklin Lakes Borough Council will be filled by two incumbent Republicans who are seeking reelection without opposition in the general election on Nov. 6. Incumbent Councilmen Charles Kahwaty and Thomas Lambrix were chosen by the borough’s Republican voters in the primary election in June, and there are no Democratic, Independent, or write-in candidates this year. Kahwaty will be seeking his first full three-year term on the council. He has been a member of the governing body since he was chosen by the council in February 2011 to fill the vacancy created when Frank Bivona was sworn in as mayor. Kahwaty was then elected in November 2011 to fill out Bivona’s term, which will expire at the end of 2012. Kahwaty 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, 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. He received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a JD degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. 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. He has been vice president of the Franklin Lakes Republican Club. Lambrix will be seeking his first full-three year term on the council. He was appointed to the council on May 1 to replace William Smith, who resigned from the council because he was being appointed to the position of borough attorney. Lambrix has lived in the borough for 20 years. He was appointed chairman of the borough’s environmental commission in 2007, and served in that capacity until he became a councilman. He holds a degree in chemistry from Rutgers University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently 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 been active in the community, coaching in the recreation program, and 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 existed in the mid-1990s. He also was a member of the Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education’s Horizon Project and Community Issues Committee. For 10 years, he participated in that school district’s FLOW Follies scholarship fundraising program, where he was active in writing the script and performing. His last corporate position was as executive vice president of the Hawthorn Group, a Washington, D.C. public affairs company. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of communications and public affairs for Union Camp (continued on page 27)