May 30, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 17 There is no opposition in the Midland Park council primary election this year. The only contest will be in Election District 1, where two residents are vying for the female seat on the Republican County Committee. District 1 Republican Committeewoman Emmy Eliya, a Myrtle Avenue resident, is being challenged for the two-year post by Virginia Lizzandrella of Colonial Road. Eliya owns Family Hair Care, a hair salon/supply shop on Godwin Avenue. Lizzandrella is a dental hygienist. Incumbent Republican councilmen Bernard Holst, Jr. and Scott Pruiksma are running for the two available three-year terms on the council. Councilman Jack Considine, who replaced Mayor Patrick “Bud” O’Hagan on the council, is running for the one year left in O’Hagan’s term. No Democrats filed for council seats. Holst, seeking reelection to his sixth term, is president of Horizon Termite and Pest Control, a local company he founded in 1970. He has been a member of the Midland Park Lions Club for nearly 40 years and served six terms as its president. He is treasurer and past president of the New Jersey Pest Management Association and a past president and director of the National Pest Management Association. He heads the borough council’s Public Works Committee. Pruiksma, a landscape contractor, is running for his Borough council primary slate to run unopposed fourth full term. He is a member of the Midland Park Volunteer Fire Department, and vice president of the Oakland Chapter of Fellowship of Christian Firefighters. He recently received a 4-year certification from the Hawthorne Evening Bible School. He is a member of the Hometown Security Task Force of the NJ League of Municipalities, the NJ Disaster Response Crisis Counseling and the Northern NJ Phoenix team, , and he is the NJ Advocate for the Everyone Goes Home program of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. He is the borough council’s liaison to the Recreation Committee. Considine, a retired IBM executive and US Navy veteran, is a past Grand Knight of the Midland Park Knights of Columbus. He has chaired BSA Troop 157 for the last five years, has been on the board of recreation for the past three years and served as secretary of the Midland Park United Republican Club for the past four years. Since 1994, he has been a Nativity Church Eucharistic Minister. He chairs the council’s Public Safety Committee. The Primary election is slated for Tuesday, June 5, at which time Democrat and Republican voters will also select candidates to represent their respective parties for president, state senate, congress and freeholder positions, as well as the local county committee. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. June 5 is also the deadline for residents wishing to run as independents in the November general election. That deadline is 4 p.m. in the County Clerk’s office in Hackensack.