Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • October 17, 2012 Glen Rock Beginning this week, the new all-purpose field at Glen Rock High School will be in use. A trio of varsity soccer games will be the first athletic contests played on the new turf field. The first game was set for Monday, Oct. 15, when the boys’ varsity soccer was scheduled to take on Manchester Regional. The girls’ varsity soccer team will meet Pompton Lakes on Tuesday, Oct. 16, and the boys will return on Wednesday, Oct. 17 for their game against Pompton Lakes. All games will begin at 4 p.m. The inaugural week for the newly-renovated site will culminate on Oct. 20, when Glen Rock High School celebrates Homecoming. The varsity football game against Rutherford will begin at 1 p.m., immediately following a brief acknowledgement by district officials of the “soft opening” of this component of the fields project. A formal dedication ceremony will be planned once the entire athletic complex is finalized. “We are happy to have the field available for some remaining games of our fall sports season,” said Glen Rock Interim Superintendent Raymond Albano. “We are grateful to all district personnel, borough and county officials, and our contractors who made this accelerated schedule possible to the benefit of our athletes, fans and alumni.” In addition to the schedule for the week of Oct. 15, it is anticipated that some final soccer games can be played on the field after Oct. 20. Earlier this year, members of the Glen Rock Board of Education met with the borough to determine a list of tasks needed to receive a temporary certificate of occupancy by School’s all-purpose field to open this week mid-October. As of Oct. 12, the TCO was granted to the district for having met requirements including drainage sign-offs, installation of safety fencing to separate ongoing construction from the public use areas, and conditional approval by the Bergen County Soil Conservation District. The final sign-off on the new bleachers will be completed prior to the Homecoming football game. The project is still in progress, with work continuing on the track, lower field, baseball field, and perimeter of the new all-purpose field. Those who attend the upcoming athletic contests are asked to be mindful of all restricted areas. Glen Rock author John Koster will discuss his new book, “Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor,” on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. The program will be held at Glen Rock Library, 315 Rock Road in Glen Rock. The book, which has received a number of five-star reviews and has been extolled by “World War II History Magazine,” tells the story of how a senior federal employee in the U.S. Treasury Department choreographed worsening relations between the United States and Japan -- an American ally in World War I and the leading anti-communist power in Asia -- under orders of the NKVD, the Soviet espionage agency. The Soviet agent ultimately helped talk Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of last-minute accommodations in a way he knew would force the Japanese to attack due to internal politics and fear of colonization. Details of the story have been surfacing for many years, but the single most important document, the account by a lieutenant general of the KGB, had never before been translated into English. Many English-language documents have never before been published either. The book is heavily documented with papers from the Seeley G. Mudd Library in Princeton and with the translations of Russian, Japanese, and Korean documents into English. Published by Regnery Publishing in September, the book is available at Barnes & Noble and from amazon.com, where the rating at press time was 4.8 stars. Author to discuss ‘Operation Snow’ John Koster