Mahwah October 24, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 5 School board candidates running unopposed by Frank J. McMahon Three candidates will be seeking election to the three available seats on the Mahwah Board of Education on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Incumbent trustees Christine Davis and John F. Dolan are seeking reelection to the school board along with John Ebanietti, who is seeking election to the board to replace Candace Larson. Larson opted not to seek reelection this year after serving five terms on the school board. The candidates filed petitions by the June primary as a result of the school board’s vote earlier this year to change its annual election to the date of the November general election. The school board opted to do so in accordance with a new state law that permits school boards to eliminate the need for a public vote on school budgets if they are at or below the state-mandated cap (currently set at two percent) and move their elections to the date of the general election for a period of at least four years. The new terms of the school board trustees who are elected in November will become effective on Jan. 1, 2013. Davis has lived in the township for 18 years and holds a BS in biology from Ramapo College. She is seeking her fourth term on the school board, where she has served on the Finance, Facilities, Public Relations, and Executive/ Planning committees. She has served the board’s liaison to the Thunderbird Scholarship Committee and to the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools. She has also been the president and vice president of several Home and School Organizations and she has been a religious education teacher at the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Dolan currently chairs the school board’s Finance Committee and is a member of the Facilities Committee. He is a long-term member of the board, having been appointed in October 1992 to serve out an unexpired term that lasted until 1995. He was elected again in 2000 and has since served four consecutive terms on the school board. He is seeking his fifth consecutive term. Ebanietti, the former president of the Mahwah Raiders Soccer Club, is a new candidate for the school board, although he has lived in the township for 20 years. His two daughters, one of whom is now in college, were student athletes at Mahwah High School. His wife Lori teaches in the Wyckoff School District. A 1982 graduate of Boston College, where he obtained a BA in economics and mathematics, he is the senior executive vice president of the Private Wealth Division of the World Bank of Canada. On Sept. 30th Mahwah Fire Ladder Co#2 held its Motorcycle Poker Run to benefit the Lt. Patrick L. Roe Scholarship Fund. In March 2005, Patrick was a leiutenant in the Fire Dept. when he died due to an accident. In his memory the members of Co#2 started a scholarship fund which was given in 2006 to a Mahwah High School senior. Since that time, 17 scholarships have been awarded. In past years, the fundraiser had been a basketball game, but event organizers wanted something more inclusive, and the poker run started to take shape. The Scholarship Poker Run attracted over 125 riders. Event organizers thank all their supporters. Get your motor running...