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The road will be closed to traffic between Wyckoff Avenue and Newtown Road from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Motorists should anticipate delays and plan for extra travel time. Residents in this area are encouraged to have their garbage at the curb before 6 a.m. on Aug. 28 to ensure pick up. The detour routes are as follows: northbound traffic on Cedar Hill Avenue will be detoured right onto Wyckoff Avenue and left onto Newtown Road. Southbound traffic on Cedar Hill Avenue will be detoured straight ahead onto Newtown Road, right onto Hillcrest Avenue, right onto Wyckoff Avenue, and left back to Cedar Hill Avenue. For updated information, visit www.wyckoff-nj.com. Learn about ‘Children of the Core’ Kris Nielsen will present an informational meeting about the “Children of the Core” school initiative on Aug. 27. The program will be held at 7 p.m. at the Larkin House, 380 Godwin Avenue in Wyckoff. Nielsen, a former teacher is opposed to corporate influ- ence over local education. He is on a nationwide book tour promoting his new book, “Children of the Core,” which addresses the Common Core State Standards, standardized testing, and the privatization movement in public schools. The meeting, sponsored by the West Bergen Tea Party, is open to the public. Artisans and vendors sought Artisans and vendors are being sought for the Oct. 19 being sponsored by the Old Stone Church/Saddle River Reformed Church in Upper Saddle River. The event will be held at the church located at 500 East Saddle River Road from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The fair will feature handcrafted and specialty items. Oktoberfest food will be prepared on the premises, and there will be a Grandpa’s Attic, and a Bake Sale. For information about reserving a table, call the church office at (201) 327 5242. Bereavement support group forming Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church in Ramsey will host an eight-week bereavement support group this fall. The group will meet on Wednesdays from Sept. 18 through Nov. 6 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the parish center located at 193 Wyckoff Avenue in Wyckoff. Compassionate facilitators who have experienced personal loss will lead the program. To register, contact Judi D’Andrea at (201) 818-9588 or call the parish center at (201) 327-0976. Waldwick Band to perform The Waldwick Band will conclude its summer season with a free concert on Friday, Aug. 30 in the parking lot of Hudson City Savings Bank on East Prospect Street in Waldwick. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. (Rain date: Sept. 5.) The program will include the band’s featured compo- sition, “The Bronze Horse Overture,” Ippolotov-Ivanov’s “Procession of the Sardar,” New Jersey composer Hugh Stuart’s “Lemon Merengue,” and selections from Lerner and Loewe’s “Gigi.” Light compositions and marches will complete the program. The Waldwick Department of Recreation, which spon- sors of the concert, encourages audience members to bring their own seating. Weather updates for the concert and information about the band’s fall season are available at www.waldwickband.org. Employment workshop scheduled Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church’s Career Resources Ministry, in its continuing effort to provide help to people seeking employment, will present the first of a four-part series of workshops on Sunday, Sept. 8 at 1 p.m. The work- shop will be held in the meeting room in the lower church and is open to anyone seeking employment and those who anticipate possible unemployment. The workshops are free and parish membership is not required. Workshops are presented by the Career Resources Min- istry, whose members are dedicated to helping those seek- ing employment. Professionals in the field will present the Board reorganizes Friends of BVMI, an auxiliary group that supports the mission of Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative, Inc. has elected its board for 2013-14. Pictured are Membership Chair Mary Stuart Gephart of Glen Rock, President Catherine B. Newman of Wyckoff, Recording Secretary Kathleen Neumann of Ridgewood, Vice President Janet Anderson of Ridgewood, and Communications Chair Jane Rosen of Ridgewood. BVMI is a volunteer, nonprofit organization that provides free pri- mary and preventive medical care to low-income, working residents of Bergen County who lack health insurance and the means to pay for care. The BVMI health center is located at 241 Moore Street in Hackensack. Friends of BVMI holds an Annual Spring Luncheon that features a noted physician who speaks on a health topic of interest to the community, and other social and educational events throughout the year. To learn more, e-mail friends@bvmi.net. workshop and will be on hand to give advice. This work- shop topic is “Create Your Communications Strategy and Resume.” Participants should bring a recent resume or job experience information. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served. For more information, call Tom Lewis at (201) 445-1864 or Carol Shea at (201) 447-4215. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is located at 1 Passaic Street in Ridgewood. Toastmasters welcome new members The members of Park Toastmasters invite Bergen County residents to the group’s Friday, Sept. 6 meeting. The session will be held at 7:15 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 55 Wyckoff Avenue in Ramsey. There is no charge to attend. For more information, visit parktoast- masters.org or e-mail parktoastmasters@gmail.com. Park Toastmasters is the local chapter of Toastmasters International, the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to helping people improve their communication and leadership skills. Wyckoff YMCA holds Open House The Wyckoff Family Y will hold a New Member Open House on Saturday, Sept. 7. Attendees may tour the facility and learn about the programs the Y has to offer. The Y is located at 691 Wyckoff Avenue in Wyckoff, and offers a collegiate-sized gymnasium for sports, two indoor pools, a fitness center, over 100 fitness classes per week, health and wellness programs for teens and seniors, and child care. Register for a full membership at the Open House and receive a $100 Y gift certificate. This offer is limited to full enrollments for adults made on Sept. 7, 2013. For more information, call (201) 891-2081. Artists sought The Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs, is seeking artists to exhibit two dimensional works at the 49 th Annual Bergen County Art in the Park Show and Concert scheduled for Saturday, (continued on page 22) August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 3 Wyckoff Township transfers $20,000 for Russell Farms by John Koster The Wyckoff Township Committee voted last week to transfer $20,000 earmarked for work on Wyckoff Com- munity Park to the start-up money for work on Russell Farms, the new park in the township’s Sicomac section. The money will be used to fund a walking path around the inside perimeter of the Russell Farms park at Sicomac Avenue and Russell Avenue, activation of the on-site well, purchase and installation of a fence, the purchase and planting of trees, asphalt improvements at the entrance of the park, and the purchase of a sign. The vote was unani- mous and there were no negative comments from the public. “This money will allow us to get this park open so that the residents of Wyckoff can enjoy it. . .turn it a little bit back to nature as opposed to a blank canvas,” Deputy Mayor Kevin Rooney at last week’s public meeting. “This grant and the municipal match will help us get started this fall so the park may be used more rapidly rather than just letting it sit,” said Brian Scanlan. “I think it’s a good idea to get going on it.” A formal dedication ceremony for the park is antici- pated next year at a date to be announced. Russell Farms was originally a fruit orchard and a farm stand. The four-acre lot was purchased by a developer, but Wyckoff officials turned down plans for condominiums on the site, and plans for single-family houses evaporated due to the lagging housing market. (continued on page 23) Committee omits jail time for sprinkler violations Wyckoff residents who let their lawn sprinklers vio- late watering restrictions may have to pay $50 fines, but unlike Glen Rock and Midland Park and Ridgewood resi- dents, they will not be facing a highly unlikely 90 days in jail or water service shut-off based on last week’s adopted version of the watering ordinance promulgated by the Ridgewood Water Company. The Wyckoff Township Committee voted last week to adopt the edited version of the Ridgewood ordinance which subjects watering violators to a fine of $50 pay- able to the Wyckoff Violation Bureau but deleted “not to exceed $500 or imprisonment for a term of not to exceed 90 days, or both.” The Wyckoff version also cut the wording that empow- ered the Ridgewood Water Company, which serves Ridgewood, Wyckoff, Midland Park, and Glen Rock, to cut off the supply of water to the premises of violators -- unlikely in any case due to safety and sanitary consid- erations. Glen Rock and Midland Park retained the original (continued on page 17) Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 28, 2013 Franklin Lakes Borough closes on temple property purchase by Frank J. McMahon The Borough of Franklin Lakes has closed on its $2 million purchase of the 14.4-acre property at the corner of Colonial and McCoy roads that had been owned by Temple Emanuel of North Jersey. The borough previously committed $2 million from its municipal affordable housing trust fund for the purchase of the temple property and $622,820 to pay down the $1,350,000 debt it owes for transferring some of its afford- able housing obligation to the City of Garfield in 2002. Mayor Frank Bivona and the borough council will now decide on a developer for the site, where special needs hous- ing will be built. The council has received two bids from developers inter- ested in constructing the special needs housing. According to Franklin Lakes Borough Administrator Gregory Hart, the council is expected to award a contract to one of those developers at its public work session in September. One developer’s plan would use the contours of the land to create a distributed network of nine structures that repre- sent a single-family home development in a semi-rural set- ting while maintaining the character of the neighborhood. That plan treats the site as two separate developments with their own entrances and exits and diverse housing styles all reflecting the characteristics of a neighborhood of single- family homes. It would include a mix of home ownership, rental apartments, and rental group homes creating a vari- ety of desirable housing for 40 individuals with special needs and different supportive service needs including six buildings, with two being for-sale homes for veterans and four buildings for special needs rentals. The other plan would create affordable, permanent, and supportive rental housing for low-income persons with dis- abilities in which every apartment would have a private unit with one bedroom and a complete kitchen and bath. In this plan each resident would have a lease for his or her apartment and there would be no time limit for residency. Prior to agreeing to sell the property to the borough in 2012, Temple Emanuel had spent several years seeking an approval of the borough’s zoning board of adjustment to build a new temple on the site. That application was denied by the zoning board after 31 meetings of a public hearing, but that denial was reversed in Superior Court and a revised plan was ultimately approved by the zoning board. Ground was never broken for the project, however, and in June 2008 the temple congregation purchased the Union Reformed Church property on High Mountain Road after that church merged with a Wyckoff Christian congregation. The temple is now located at the High Mountain Road site. In July 2012, the borough signed the contract with the (continued on page 6) August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 5 Franklin Lakes Senior citizens request rent control ordinance by Frank J. McMahon Residents of the Horizons at Franklin Lakes, a senior citizen housing complex located on Courter Road near the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Colonial Road, have asked Mayor Frank Bivona and the Franklin Lakes Council to adopt an ordinance that would limit the monthly increases in rent to a two percent ceiling on all lease renewals. About 40 seniors came to last week’s meeting of the governing body and complained about recent rent increases of between $150 and $642 per month on lease renewals, and water treatment charges of from $28 for a one bedroom unit to $44.75 for a two bedroom unit including a $3.75 ser- vice fee for an outside contractor to do the billing for the landlord. The currently listed rents at the Horizons are $1,745 to $2,040 per month for a 754 square foot, one bedroom unit with one bath and $1,955 to $2,340 for a 1,066 to 1,250 square foot, two bedroom and two bath unit. Veronica Gringeri, one of the residents of the age 55 and older housing complex, spoke on behalf of the tenants. She claimed that the rents at her complex are among the highest in the area. “We are aware that you have managed to keep our municipal budget under the state-mandated two percent cap,” Gringeri told the mayor and council, “and we respect- fully propose that the Borough of Franklin Lakes adopt an ordinance limiting per month increases to no more than a two percent ceiling on all renewals. One hundred fifteen other municipalities throughout the state already have adopted such ceilings.” Gringeri also complained about the water treatment plant charges the tenants receive, claiming those charges are more than the local per household charges imposed by the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority. Another Horizons resident, Constance Russell, told the council her rent had been raised 40 percent in the four years she has lived there and she plans to move because the rent increases are driving her out. Asked by Bivona if Horizons had provided an explanation for the rent increases, Russell said she was told it was to reach market value and that the increases were non-negotiable. At the helm Joseph Kroth, also a resident of Horizons, complained that the sewer charge is based on the number of bedrooms and not the actual consumption by the unit owners. But Bivona explained that that method of billing is not atypical of how sewer charges are imposed and, in fact, the borough (continued on page 16) The Franklin Lakes Branch of the Valley Hospital Auxiliary recently installed its new officers. Pictured, left to right: Maureen Smith, co-recording secretary; Ann Swist, program chair; Nancy Davidson, co-chair; Elaine Heimberger, co-chair; Elaine Gold, co-recording secretary; Eileen Leone, co-chair-membership; and Dorothy Bell, fundraising chair. Not pictured: Linda Leeder, treasurer; Sandi Wesner, Adeline Webb and Mercedes Coto, publicity co-chairs; June Linz, membership co-chair; and Marie Turi, refreshment chair. Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 28, 2013 Franklin Lakes Borough sets goods and services purchase policy by Frank J. McMahon The Franklin Lakes Council has adopted a policy concerning the purchase of goods and services from borough employees, the mayor and council members, and borough volunteers. The policy prohibits the borough from purchasing goods or services from bor- ough employees, the mayor, members of the council, a business entity owned by an employee or member of the mayor and council, or from any business entity in which an employee or member of the mayor and council has an interest. The policy also prohibits the purchase of goods or services that are related to the department, board, committee, or activities of a volunteer, from a business entity owned by the volunteer, or from a business entity in which the volunteer has an interest. The provisions of this policy also per- tain to the immediate family of a borough employee, volunteer, or member of the mayor and council. Mayor Frank Bivona and the borough council discussed the need for this policy at a recent council meeting because the cur- rent practice of obtaining three proposals for small purchases of goods or services from employee-owned businesses has been found to be cumbersome. During that discussion, several mem- bers of the council voiced concern about the appearance of impropriety that is cre- ated if purchases are made from employee- owned businesses or businesses in which employees have an interest. Councilman Charles Kahwaty said he felt it would be helpful to have a “bright line” rule against it, but Councilman Frank Pedone voiced concern about the impact that such a strict policy might have on local volunteers. “It’s tough enough to get volunteers to coach or to fight fires,” Pedone said, “so why say that volunteers cannot bid on contracts? It could cost us the services of volunteers who are the backbone of the town.” Pedone said he agreed with prohibit- ing the purchase of goods or services from employees, but not from volunteers. Kahwaty said he did not know how many volunteers would be affected by the policy and he added, “If someone consents to be a volunteer to get work down the road that’s not the best motive.” Pedone responded that even one volun- teer would be too many. He suggested that the policy might permit purchases from volunteers as long as the volunteer is not involved in the department making the pur- chase. Bivona voiced the opinion that there should be “zero possibility” for council members to be involved in borough pur- chases, but agreed with Pedone’s sugges- tion to prohibit purchases from employees but permit purchases from volunteers’ busi- Temple (continued from page 4) temple to purchase the property, minus about 49,000 square feet which the temple has subdivided and will retain as a single- family residential lot. The borough will use the land to build housing for people with special needs, which will help satisfy part of the borough’s affordable housing obliga- tion. That contract was conditioned, however, on the state’s approval of the borough’s amended affordable housing spending plan which the borough received on July 3 even though the state had twice notified the bor- ough that it must return any money in its affordable housing trust fund that had been collected more than four years before, and which had not been expended or commit- ted. Bivona said the majority of council felt the borough had met all the requirements nesses if the purchase is not directly related to the department of the volunteer. Councilwoman Paulette Ramsey pointed out, however, that no other sur- rounding town has such an ordinance and those towns prohibit anything that has the appearance of impropriety. Borough Administrator Gregory Hart then suggested how the resolution could be amended to prohibit purchases from employees or members of the governing body while permitting them from busi- nesses owned by volunteers as long as the purchase does not involve the department, board, or committee on which the volun- teer serves. Kahwaty agreed to accept Hart’s sugges- tion, and the five members of the council present at the meeting voted unanimously to pass the resolution adopting the policy. of the definition set by the state to have expended or committed the $1,848,731 bal- ance in the borough’s affordable housing trust fund that the state claimed was at risk of being returned to the state if it was not expended or committed by the July 17, 2012 deadline set by the state. As a result, bor- ough officials decided to proceed with the closing. Donna McBarron, an attorney with the law firm of Jeffrey R Surenian and Asso- ciates, the borough’s affordable housing counsel, sent a letter to COAH on Aug. 2 confirming the borough’s position that the trust fund money had been committed by virtue of the legally enforceable agreement with the temple to spend trust fund monies. According to Borough Attorney William Smith, the Franklin Lakes Council believes the funds to purchase the temple property were, in fact, committed by virtue of the contract that was signed with the temple prior to the July 17, 2012 deadline set by COAH for those funds to be expended or committed. August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 7 Midland Park Trustees propose goals for board, district The Midland Park Board of Education has proposed a series of 2013-14 goals for itself and for the district. Those goals, which were still undergoing minor revi- sions last week, will be considered for adoption at the Sept. 3 board meeting, school officials indicated. While any of the goals may still be revised, a draft document indicates that the proposals for the board would include the successful completion of negotiations of all contract agreements, including those involving the Midland Park Education Association, the administra- tors, and other stand-alone positions. The proposed goals also call for the board to explore facilities improvement options for the schools, support the district’s outreach and communications initiative to improve community engagement, and participate in professional develop- ment that relates to improving communications and board effectiveness. The five goals proposed for the district include improving student achievement results and student grade level cohort performance on standardized testing and in-district formative assessments; “ensuring class- room assessment is ongoing and authentic, i.e. rubrics, performance tasks, and grade-level appropriate to both content and tool, i.e. Fountas Pinnell, Achievement Series, in-district writing assessments.” The draft states that emphasis would be placed on student cohort/con- tent areas identified through analysis of state benchmark assessments and in-district assessment data. Another proposed district goal would ensure compli- ance with all aspects of the TEACH NJ Act, including the development of SGOs, or student growth objectives, for instructional staff and the implementation of a pilot program for the principal evaluation system. Midland Park Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marie C. Cirasella explained that student growth objectives are long-term academic goals that teachers set for their stu- dents in the first few weeks of the school year. These objectives are aligned with state standards and are set using available student learning data. Teachers use appropriate national, state, or district-developed assess- ments to measure how well their students meet the goals they have set for them. For the 2013-14 school year, teachers of tested grades and subjects must create one to two SGOs. Teachers of non-tested grades and subjects must create two SGOs, the superintendent said. The district is also seeking to improve the special education program and 2014-15 budget planning by analyzing current out-of-district placement costs and examining the potential for increased special education classroom capacity/placement in-district. In addition, the district would work to improve existing protocols for determining and approving out-of-district placement students. The proposed goals also include an effort to increase the district and school self-assessment scores with regard to the anti-harassment, intimidation, and bullying pro- gram. The district would re-evaluate existing programs and initiatives. According to the draft, the district would also work to improve community engagement and the dissemina- tion of school and district information. School officials would continue to increase the use of communication tools to share school and district news, and would work to increase the engagement of parents and the com- munity in special education matters by improving the format and content of the Special Education Parent Advisory Council. Midland Park Board of Education President William Sullivan explained that the board developed these pro- posed goals at an annual workshop as required of all school boards in the State of New Jersey. “In addition to board trustees, most of our adminis- trative team attended and actively participated,” Sullivan said. “Our NJSBA (New Jersey School Boards Associa- tion) field representative, Mr. Alfred Annunziata, facili- tated the workshop and began by presenting the board with the results of our self-evaluation, which we previ- ously completed online. Mr. Annunziata also compiled the goal-setting results of the workshop for submission to the board.” Sullivan noted that the cost of this annual workshop is included in the dues the district pays to the NJSBA, an organization that provides school board with training and advocacy. Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES I & II • August 28, 2013 Professional makeup artists can add a lot to weddings Have you ever had your makeup profes- sionally applied? Apart from a trial applica- tion at a department store makeup counter, many women likely have no experience with professional makeup artists. While one may not hire a makeup artist for everyday events, a wedding is an occasion that often warrants the expertise of a professional. Many brides-to-be and their attendants book the services of a hairstylist to achieve beautiful wedding day hair but may not find it necessary to enlist the services of a makeup artist, figuring they can apply makeup effectively enough. However, a makeup artist has a wealth of information in makeup application, and knowledge of what looks best under the lights and flashes of a camera. For those spending several thousand dollars on professional photogra- phy, an investment in a makeup artist can help ensure the faces smiling back from the photos look their best. Hiring a professional who understands how makeup reads in a photograph and how it looks in everyday light can help any bride put her best face forward. It also takes away some of the stress of readying for the wedding day. Many do-it-yourself brides do not use the right products and can end up looking washed out in photographs. Brides, especially those who typically do not wear a lot of makeup, may not know how much to apply, resulting in a lackluster finished product. Here are a few reasons a makeup artist can prove invaluable. He or she can pinpoint your best fea- tures and highlight them. As an unbiased observer, the makeup artist will not see your flaws, but rather will look at your best assets. A makeup artist knows that the bride wants to see herself and not the makeup. The professional is creating the best version of the bride. Makeup artists use tricks of the trade to enhance or camouflage certain features. They have an intimate knowledge of high- lighting and shading, and can “sculpt” the face by applying makeup. A professional will know the products available and be familiar with which for- mulations work best on all types of skin. A makeup artist will have many products and tools at the ready, reducing the need for the bride to shop for all the makeup essentials. There will be a trial run with a makeup artist. The bride and the professional will have the opportunity to try a few differ- ent looks and decide on one. Do-it-yourself brides sometimes leave makeup decisions to the last minute and really do not have a game plan the day of the wedding. A professional can advise on the right tone. A common mistake made by do-it- yourselfers is choosing the wrong shade of foundation. Brides may end up looking like a pasty vampire or someone who has spent too much time in the sun. A makeup artist can help find the right shade and blend it in so there are no apparent lines from the face to the neck and décolletage. A makeup artist can get those tricky false lashes to look natural. Lush, full lashes really get eyes noticed, but many women are unsure of just how to apply false lashes. Lashes may be part of the makeup artist’s insider tricks, and he or she can apply them so no one knows they are not real. August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I, II & IV • Page 9 Wedding dress silhouettes: A brief overview Few wardrobe decisions are scrutinized as much as a bride’s choice of her wedding gown. Finding the perfect gown that flat- ters the bride’s figure while stunning her guests and soon-to-be husband is a labor of love for many brides. The Bridal Association of America esti- mates a bride-to-be will spend between $1,500 and $2,000 total on her gown, veil, and accessories. Brides often spend months, if not years, shopping for the right gown. Finding the right gown means having an understanding of what silhouettes are avail- able and what flatters certain body types. After all, the bride wants to look like the best version of herself when getting mar- ried. Here is a look of some of the common types of silhouettes. Ball gown: A ball gown dress is truly a classic style, evoking images of fairy tale princesses. With a fitted bodice and full skirt that flairs at the waist, this silhouette is usually good for all body types. Because the full skirt will hide the hips and thighs, women with a pear shape might gravitate toward this style. The ball gown style may not be ideal for petite women, as the skirt may overwhelm their figures. A-line: Another very forgiving sil- houette that is appropriate for many body types is the A-line gown. A-line cut dresses should be the go-to style for anyone look- ing to minimize perceived flaws. The cut of the dress will fit to the waist and gradually fan out from the hips to form the outline of an uppercase “A.” When in doubt, A-line gowns are classic and sensible and a favor- much. However, it does flare out enough from the waist to hide areas around the hips and thighs. This is another good choice for a wide array of figures. Tea length: Brides who do not want a gown that reaches the floor can opt for a tea length dress, on which the skirt generally falls between the ankle and the knee. Sheath: Lean brides who want simplicity in their gowns can opt for a sheath silhou- ette. The narrow shape of the gown from the neckline to the hem will definitely accentu- ite among brides. Trumpet: Women who prefer something a little more form-fitting may select a trum- pet silhouette. This dress is fitted through the body and then the gown flares out at mid-thigh level. Women with taught stom- achs and hourglass figures can benefit from this style gown, but those who do not want anything tight in the hips and thighs will want to select something else. Mermaid: A bit more fitted than the trumpet, this silhouette is close to the body from the chest down to the knee. The skirt then flares out slightly by the knee. Tall, thin women generally look best in this type of gown. Modified A-line: A balance between a traditional A-line and a more fitted gown, the modified A-line does not flare out as ate the body shape. Therefore, women who are shy may want to select a different option. Petite women who may be overwhelmed by more fabric can usually wear a sheath gown with success. Although a bride may have a wedding gown style in mind, it is a good idea to try on a number of different silhouettes to find the one that is most flattering. Bridal salon employees are usually well-versed in matching body type to a gown and can prove invaluable when selecting a dress. Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 28, 2013 Villadom Sports Rescue Race winners receive keys to Long Branch Jennifer Rau, Alexandre O’Connor, Hayley Masi, and Hannah Elliott each received a key to the City of Long Branch for their recent first place finish in the United States Lifesaving Association’s National Championship’s Women’s Rescue Race. The rescue race is a four-person event in which one lifeguard swims out to a flag, another lifeguard swims out to rescue her, and two lifeguards then carry the “victim” up the beach over the finish line. All four women, who are lifeguards at Long Branch, represented Monmouth County in the three-day competition, which was held this month in Manhattan Beach, California. During the competition, Rau and O’Connor finished second in the Women’s Surfboat event, which requires rowers to complete a two lap race around set buoys in the ocean. Competitors from Boca Raton, Florida edged the Monmouth County team to take first place. Rau is a graduate of Midland Park High School and of University of Scranton. She has been a lifeguard for eight years and participated in the USLA Nationals in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Competitors in the USLA Nationals traveled to California from several states, including New Jersey, New York, Florida, and Texas - and from Canada. The com- petition features multiple events for men and women, including rowing, swimming, relays, and an Ironman event. Above: Jennifer Rau, Alexandre O’Connor, Hannah Elliott, and Hayley Masi hold their keys to the City of Long Branch. Left: O’Connor and Rau competing in the Women’s Surboat event. Great season The Midland Park Panther 10U travel baseball team recently completed a win- ning season. The Panthers were the New Jersey Subur- ban Baseball League spring champions and took second place in the summer season. They also won the Bergen County Memorial Day Clas- sic Tournament and the Branchburg Baseball Tour- nament. August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 11 Midland Park Sidewalk replacement program eyed to improve safety Midland Park borough officials plan to begin imple- menting a formal sidewalk replacement program next spring to improve safety conditions for school children and others who use the public right of way. Sidewalk upgrades and maintenance are the responsibility of the homeowner. Borough Administrator/Clerk Addie Hanna said the plan is to identify potential hazards, and then notify the homeowner the work must be done by a certain time. She said the borough would waive the required construction fee, but would have no other involvement in the project. Hanna said she and Rudy Gnehm, the department of public works superintendent, would be going out in early spring to inspect the sidewalks within a targeted voting district, moving on to the other districts in sequence each year. She said that, about 10 years ago, the program was slated to be carried out by the zoning officer, but was never implemented. Godwin Avenue resident Irene O’Marra commented at a recent council meeting that sidewalk quality should be uniform throughout the borough. Hanna said when residents apply for sidewalk permits, they are given borough-approved specifications their con- tractors must follow for putting in the walks. On the advice of the borough attorney, the municipality does not recom- mend contractors, she said. Scott Meyer of Erie Avenue asked whether the town had a policy of installing sidewalks where they are lacking. He said cars travel at 40 or 45 miles per hour on Erie and the sidewalk there is not continuous, with about four houses lacking a sidewalk. He said children on the way to school Gaccione to join staff at high school The Midland Park Board of Education has approved the appointment of Michael Gaccione as assistant princi- pal/athletic director for the seventh and eighth grade stu- dents at the middle school/high school. Gaccione, who was appointed at last week’s board meeting, will receive a salary of $88,000, prorated effective Oct. 21, 2013, or sooner, through June 30, 2014. “The position of assistant principal/athletic director must serve students in terms of both academics and ath- letics,” Midland Park Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marie Cirasella said. “Mr. Gaccione brings a strong background to his new administrative position in Midland Park, having served as a teacher of high school mathematics for the past eight years and a coach at the varsity level. He is trained the in Danielson teacher evaluation system, has presented workshops on team teaching in an inclusive classroom, and completed his administrative internship with excel- lent evaluations. We are pleased to welcome him to the administrative team in Midland Park and look forward to a smooth transition.” Gaccione replaces Peter Galasso, who assumed the combined position of athletic director/assistant principal at Midland Park High School last summer. Galasso was primarily the head of the athletic pro- gram, with some responsibility as the seventh and eighth grade assistant principal. In July of this year, Galasso was appointed assistant principal for grades 9-12. Prior to joining the staff at Midland Park High, Galasso was a social studies teacher at New Milford High School for nine years. He also coached football and baseball and was the head wrestling coach. He was named teacher of the year for that district in 2011. Galasso played football while an undergraduate at Sienna College in Albany, and received his master’s in administra- tion from Saint Thomas Aquinas College in New York. must walk on the street. “There should be a town effort to have sidewalks,” he said. “They improve the town’s aesthetics as well as pro- vide safety.” Mayor Patrick “Bud” O’Hagan said sidewalk installa- tion is not an issue the governing body can force, since not all residents want sidewalks in front of their homes. “Some people prefer the rustic look of not so much side- walk in a suburban neighborhood,” O’Hagan observed. Others, he said, are not eager to maintain a sidewalk in front of their house nor to pay the additional taxes asso- ciated with having a sidewalk, which is considered an improvement for tax purposes. O’Marra also asked that residents be reminded to trim their bushes and trees so as not to interfere with pedestrian traffic. Hanna said press releases and an e-blast would be sent out advising residents of this responsibility. Reaching residents last week, the e-blast said: “Please take note of your shrubbery that is located along the property line next to a sidewalk or the edge of the road. Please make sure you trim the vegetation so the sidewalk/roadway is easily pass- able by pedestrians and cars. This is an important safety condition that must be addressed by all property owners.” Page 12 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 28, 2013 How to make a dormitory room your own Children spend roughly 17 to 18 years living under Mom and Dad’s roof. When the time comes to go away to college, young men or women find themselves on their own for the first time in their lives. Once youngsters move into their dorm rooms, many attempt to add a few per- sonal touches to their new home. All too often, a dorm room is drab and uninspiring. Universities tend to make rooms sparse so they are easy to maintain. Very often, walls are made of concrete or brick, and the space may not be very large. In addition, dorm rooms are often shared with a roommate, and the idea of spending semester after semester here may not be so appealing. Students tend to arrive on campus with fixed budgets and not a lot of spending money for new furnishings, so dorm rooms often become populated with hand-me- downs. This may only add to the room’s poor aesthetics. Making a dorm room your own does not require a lot of money or know-how. It starts with a vision, a few comforts from home, and some collaboration with your roommate. The following are a few tips for young men and women looking to turn their dorm rooms from drab to fab. Know the dorm rules before making any permanent changes. Rather than face fines at the end of the school year, know what you can and can’t do to your room before making any changes. For example, schools may frown on holes in walls or other structural changes, so invest in stick- on hooks for hanging photos on walls. Consider using a dorm room planning website. Certain websites enable students to share a collaborative shopping cart with roommates so they can coordinate colors and avoid buying two of the same items. Remember: The bed is the pivotal piece of the room. Most dorm rooms fit little more than two beds and two desks. There- fore, the bulk of your design will come from outfitting your bed with a comforter that adds color and life to the room. If you have not decided on a color scheme with your roommate, you may want to opt for neutral colors, or even basic black-and- white, which will blend with anything. Invest in other creature comforts. A nice area rug and a few decorative lamps can remove the institutional feel of over- head fluorescent lights and cinderblock walls. Task lighting enables you to get work done at your desk or to read on the bed. Consider curtains to add a homey feel. While blinds certainly have their utility, fabric curtains can help absorb noise and make a dorm room feel more like home. If your room has an attached bathroom, hang a shower curtain and use thick towels to make the space seem more like home. Carve out a spot for a mini refrigerator. Students should not survive on cafeteria food alone. Bring a mini refrigerator for those late-night cravings. This will save you from overpaying at vending machines or at the nearby convenience store. Ask Mom what laundry detergent she uses. Smells can trigger powerful memo- ries and emotions. Washing linens and clothing with the same detergent used at home can make school feel more familiar. Remember to bring personal photos. Frame photos of friends and family mem- bers and place them around your area of the dorm room. This way you will have familiar faces smiling back at you when you need a little pick-me-up. August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 13 Learn the early warning signs of bullying Children grow and develop their per- sonalities in various ways. While many youngsters are teased or receive some good-natured ribbing at some point in their school careers, some teasing can turn into bullying. The National Education Association estimates that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimida- tion by other students. Furthermore, over 70 percent of students report incidents of bullying at their schools. Although chil- dren in lower grades have reported being in more fights than those in higher grades, there is a higher rate of violent crimes in middle and high schools than in elemen- tary schools. According to the association Make Beats Not Beat Downs, harassment and bullying have been linked to 75 per- cent of school shooting incidents. Bullying can take many forms, and learning the warning signs as a parent can help prevent harassment and potentially dangerous situations. Verbal: If your child reports being called names, being the recipient of racist, sexist or homophobic jokes, or being spoken to in an offensive or suggestive way, this can be a form of verbal bullying. Cyber: Social media, e-mail and text messaging have become ways for bullies to spread malicious messages or photos. In the era of digital media, this type of bully- ing has increased considerably. Physical: Some bullies engage in physi- cal attacks, including hitting, kicking, spitting, or other forms of physical con- frontation. Destroying personal property also is considered physical bullying. Indirect: Gossiping and spreading nasty rumors about a person is another form of bullying. This type of bullying may go hand-in-hand with cyber bullying. Parents can recognize certain signs that their child is being bullied at school. Bullied children frequently make excuses to avoid going to school. While the desire to stay home is something many children may express, those who are bullied may do so much more frequently. Bullied chil- dren tend to avoid certain places and may be sad, angry, withdrawn, or depressed. They may have trouble sleeping or expe- rience changes in appetite, and bullied youngsters’ academic performance may suffer. Parents may also notice that chil- dren return from school missing some of their belongings. Parents may not want to imagine their children bullying other students, but bul- lies do exist. Children who bully other kids have strong needs for power and negative dominance. They may find satisfaction in causing suffering to others. Some signs that your child may be a bully include: • Easily becoming violent with others • Having friends who bully others • Blaming others quickly • Comes home with items that do not belong to him or her • Getting in trouble with teachers or school administrators • Picking on siblings • Not accepting responsibility for actions There are ways parents can teach their children to act properly when faced with a bully. Parents should explain that bullying is not the child's fault and he or she does not deserve to be picked on. Next, parents can let children know that being assertive, but not violent, with bullies may diffuse the situation, as some bullies thrive on the fear of their victims. If the bullying behav- ior continues, the student should speak to an adult or authority figure. Parents of bullies may need to be espe- cially mindful of their children’s behavior. Counseling could be necessary to deter- mine what is compelling kids to bully others. Page 14 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 28, 2013 Revulsion from revisionism? A colleague recently sent me a quote that I found abso- lutely hilarious. “It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evi- dence rather than the other way around, like so many revi- sionists today. It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narra- tive form, to discover a theory of a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.” -- Barbara Tuchman. Let us take Tuchman at her word and look at her back- ground and at some of what she wrote, notably the two books that won her Pulitzer Prizes in 1963 and 1971. Let us arrive at a generalization and a theory. Tuchman’s grandfather was Henry Morgenthau Sr., a brilliant attorney and real estate investor and U.S. Ambas- sador to the Ottoman Empire. During the Turkish outrages against the Armenian population, Morgenthau denounced the Turks and raised millions of dollars for the relief of the Armenians. Morgenthau also wrote a book in which he tried to blame the Kaiser’s Germans as the instigators of the Armenian outrages. I know people who lost relatives in the Turkish outrages and none of them blamed the Germans. Some of them cred- ited German missionaries for rescuing Armenian women and children. I know of no Armenian historian who cites the Kaiser’s Germans as instigators. Tuchman’s father, Maurice Wertheim, was the owner of The Nation, for many years the voice of the American far left. The late Susan Sontag was a brilliant woman who told the truth as she saw it. Sontag said after the collapse of the Soviet Union that you could have obtained a better under- standing of brutal Soviet Russian repression by reading the middle-class, small-town Saturday Evening Post and Read- er’s Digest rather than The Nation. I am impressed by Son- tag’s honesty and courage. Favorable mention of Reader’s Digest on the left used to be grounds for verbal lynching and probably could have cost you your tenure at Columbia or NYU. Tuchman’s uncle was Henry Morgenthau Jr., close friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the key stooge for Harry Dexter White, Stalin’s top man in the Roosevelt adminis- tration. Morgenthau Jr. was so dense that he probably did not know White was a Soviet agent, but he was a talking head for a man lauded after his death as a hero of commu- nism by Vitalii Pavlov, White’s key contact and a retired lieutenant general of the KGB. Under White’s manipulation, Morgenthau Jr. was the first federal official to suggest Japa- nese-American relocation, described by the American Civil Liberties Union as the worst abuse of Constitutional rights since the end of slavery. White was subsequently denounced by the FBI as a Soviet agent to President Harry Truman shortly after FDR died. A statement by FBI Special Agent Ladd made it offi- cial in 1950. Pavlov confirmed it in 1996 in a memoir. The Nation still denies White’s guilt as a vile calumny against a brave little liberal. After her graduation from Radcliffe, Tuchman worked at the Institute of Pacific Relations, where her boss was Owen Lattimore. Lattimore was denounced by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others as “the man who lost China.” There is a certain arrogance in the idea that China was ever ours to lose. White recommended Lattimore to FDR as the man to send to China to advise Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan. Before the Anti-Comintern Pact -- later known as The Axis -- Chiang had been sustained by German military advisors who helped him fight the Chi- nese communists to a standstill. Hitler pulled them out. Before they left, the Germans told Chiang to write off North China because the food base was inadequate and the Japanese lacked the manpower to control the land. The Germans told Chiang to fight the Japanese from the south where food was ample. Lattimore then nominated General Joseph Stilwell as Chiang’s military adviser and told them to keep fighting in the north. In the interest of being objective, Lattimore and Stil- well both spoke Chinese and Stilwell -- unlike Lattimore - - was a patriotic American. In the interest of being honest, Chiang and Stilwell, separately and together, bungled the war against Japan on the Asian continent so badly that the Japanese were still winning when the bombs began to fall on Japan. Xue Yue, the one Nationalist Chinese general who was ready for a hero’s death, asked the Americans to air-drop supplies so he would have enough ammunition for a last stand in Hengyang. Nobody was interested. Stilwell pre- ferred to fight a grudge match against the Japanese who had kicked him out of Burma two years before. Stilwell, now in failing health, was effectively sacked, and was replaced by U.S. General Albert Wedermeyer. Jonathan Fenby, an English newsman who covered China and spoke Chinese, said Stilwell was a good man but not a good general. The new American general presented the Chinese Nationalists with his own plan to defend China. Madame Chiang Kai-shek looked over the Wedermeyer Plan and said, “This is just what the Germans told us to do.” Meanwhile, White cut off Chiang’s credit and ruined what was left of the Chinese economy. Once the Japanese were defeated by U.S. submarines and air raids, efforts to ward off the Chinese communists were soft-peddled. Lat- timore also recommended that the U.S. write off Korea, a country where most people were pro-American and anti-communist. He stripped post-war occupied Japan of machine tools and aluminum so that when both the Chi- nese Nationalists and the Americans requested Japanese rearmament during the Korean War, there was no indus- trial base to make rearmament possible. Then Lattimore retired to Mongolia, which may be the only country in the world where he is still commemorated. The communists got to control most of the Eurasian continent. Tuchman does not seem to have considered Lattimore’s exploits as in any way suspicious. She seems to have seen Japan’s war effort as a decision to get out of bed in the morning, without mentioning that Japan was the lead- ing anti-communist power in Asia and that Theodore Roosevelt had agreed to let the Japanese have Korea and Manchuria in return for helping Britain and America keep the Russians out of China and India. In “Stilwell and the American Experience in China,” Pulitzer Prize for 1971, the Japanese had come to China purely to rape and murder, the Chinese Nationalists were all corrupt and expendable dunces, Stilwell was the on-stage hero, and the Chinese communists were obviously the off-stage heroes, though the Chinese communists murdered far more people than Chiang and many more than Hirohito. In “The Zimmermann Telegram,” Tuchman exposed a flamboyant German-Japanese plot to take over Mexico. In “The Guns of August,” Pulitzer Prize for 1963, German atrocities in Belgium -- some of them actually happened -- are recounted, but Russian atrocities in East Prussia are treated as a good joke on the German residents. With “The Guns of August” stuck in school curricula like a lump of cholesterol in the carotid artery, students are insu- lated from revisionists like my friend Thomas Fleming. Fleming’s book, “The Illusion of Victory,” deals with the origins of the war far more objectively than Tuchman’s pre- dictable disclosure that the Germans were the bad guys and the other nations were dupes. No serious historian believes that any more. Terence Zuber, a former U.S. infantry and counter- intelligence officer, makes a strong case in “Inventing the Schlieffen Plan” for Russian military preparations as the catalytic threat for German militarism of the Kaiser’s era, and some modern Russian revisionists agree with him. Pat- rick Buchanan is obviously out of the question, even though he felt the world would have been a better place if Hitler and Stalin had slugged it out without American interven- tion. To people outside the far left, Russia was the big threat after the fall of the Kaiser. Of his former friend Kaiser Wilhelm II, Winston Churchill, who like Wilhelm was a would-be athlete par- tially crippled in one arm, said, “It was not his fault; it was his fate.” Of the world after the World War I Armistice and the Bolshevik Revolution, Churchill said, “After conquer- ing all the Huns, the tigers of the world, I will not be beaten by the baboons.” Churchill wanted the world to wake up to the threat of Bolshevism, which also helped bring Hitler to power, though you are not supposed to say that in polite company. Tuchman wanted the world to sleep on -- and after the fall of the Soviet Union to forget the roles some of her rela- tives and family friends played in the attempted betrayal of America and the free world to the Soviets. In 1985, while she was still alive, Saturday Review, not exactly a fascist tabloid, named Tuchman “One of the Most Overrated People in American Arts and Letters.” This was before Pavlov confirmed that White was a Soviet agent and probably before anybody knew that Morgenthau Jr. had instigated Japanese-American relocation. White’s back- stabbing of Chiang and Lattimore’s patent treason were widely understood from McCarthy’s time, but revisionists who dared to look behind statist propaganda were discour- aged from saying so. Tuchman was a Marxist apologist. Churchill fought Hitler and opposed Stalin. He also wrote better. Letters to the Editor Setting the record straight Dear Editor: While I appreciate the attention your newspaper has given to my $400+ water bill, you have one important fact wrong: My issue has nothing to do with an estimated water bill. My problem with the water company is that they decided at the beginning of the year to skip sending out water bills until the second quarter so they can implement a new bill- ing system. The problem I have with that practice is that they never considered what would happen if a customer had an undetected water problem (i.e. broken water pipe in crawl space) during that time -- which is exactly what happened to me. While it certainly wasn’t the water company’s fault that my water pipe broke, it was their responsibility to come up with a more consumer-sensitive transition plan on how they were going to change their billing process without leaving customers in the dark about their usage during this period. What do I think would be a fair resolution to my situa- tion? Since the water company failed to have in place any monitoring mechanism to detect irregular water patterns during this no-billing period, I think a fair compromise would be to bill me for the same amount of my water bill during this period a year earlier. I have left several messages on Mr. Schrieber’s (Ridge- wood Water Company) voice mail with this suggestion, but he still hasn’t returned my calls. As a newspaper that has always been there for the small- town homeowner, I hope you will continue to bring atten- tion to my problem. Paul Felice Midland Park August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 15 Park Windmill Movie Night set The Midland Park Elementary PTA invites students, their families, and the community to Family Movie Night on Friday, Sept. 6. The outdoor screening of “Monsters, Inc.” will be held on the Highland School field at 8 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs. Admission is free, and refreshments will be available for purchase. In the event of rain, the movie will be shown in the Highland School gymnasium. Soccer referees sought The Midland Park Soccer Association is seeking ref- erees for the fall in-town recreation program. Games are played on Saturdays from September through November. Applicants must be in eighth grade or older and must have a Rutgers S.A.F.E.T.Y. Card and have completed the free online concussion awareness training course. Inter- ested individuals may contact Heather at (201) 445-4532. Recycling center update The Midland Park Recycling Center is now accepting commingled materials. Items may be placed in the blue bin located at the center located at 20 Greenwood Avenue. New hours for the center are: Tuesdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday hours are noon to 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The center is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Association holds elections, announces outing The Midland Park Basketball Association will hold elec- tions for the offices of president and secretary on Wednes- day, Aug. 28. The election will be held at the DePhillips Center on Dairy Street from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Parents and guardians of registered Midland Park students are eligible to vote. On the ballot is for president is Rich Formicola; vying for the secretary’s position are Dana Farinella and Linda Herlihy. On Sept. 26, the Midland Park Baseball Association will hold its annual Golf Outing at the Emerson Golf Club in Emerson. The cost is $125 per player and includes all course fees and a barbecue lunch. Registration forms are available at www.leaguelineup.com/MPBA. The association has sponsorship opportunities are avail- able. For more information on becoming a sponsor, e-mail midlandparkbaseball@gmail.com. Proceeds from the event will benefit the baseball program. Fall courses available Registration is now open for the Midland Park Continu- ing Education fall 2013 semester. MPCE sponsors outings to Broadway shows, day trips, overnight excursions, and a wide array of courses for adults and children. Offerings include SAT prep classes, arts & crafts, computer educa- tion, exercise, languages, music, dance, and more. MPCE is also presenting online classes. Look for the brochure in the mail or visit www.midland- parkschools.k12.nj.us and click on the continuing education tab. For details, call the MPCE office at (201) 444-2030. Friends of Library to meet The Friends of the Library will meet from 7:45 to 8:45 p.m. on Aug. 27. The group will gather in the community room at the Midland Park Memorial Library, which is located at 250 Godwin Avenue. All are welcome. This volunteer group’s purpose is to provide equipment and programs that may not be covered by the library’s budget. Wireless Internet access, informational program- ming for children and adults, and seminars are some of the Friends’ past contributions to the community. For more information, contact Jennifer Triolo at (201) 444-6835 or jmtriolo11@gmail.com or Library Director Sue Lazzari, at (201) 444-2390 for more information. Training announced for volunteer coaches The Midland Park Recreation Department will hold a Rutgers S.A.F.E.T.Y. Course at the DePhillips Center, 50 Dairy Street, on Aug. 28 and 29. The classes will be held at 6:30 p.m. Volunteer coaches are required to complete the Rutgers S.A.F.E.T.Y. Course, clear a background check with fin- gerprinting and to complete online concussion awareness training. To register for the Rutgers course contact Recre- ation Director Kathy LaMonte at mprec@optonline.net or (201) 652-2747 to register To complete the background check, visit the Midland Park Police Department and complete the required paper- work. The online concussion awareness course may be found at http://www.cdc.gov/concussion/HeadsUp/online_train- ing.html. Certificates of completion must be sent to midlandparksoccer@gmail.com. Student assistance available The Student Assistance Program at Midland Park High School will offer summer appointments on Wednesday, Aug. 28 from noon to 4 p.m. The student assistance counselor, Mr. Rush, will be available to meet with students and parents to discuss a variety of topics, including personal, social, and family concerns, grief, separation and divorce issues, friendships, relationships, and substance abuse. To schedule an appointment, call (201)444-7400, extension 206 and leaving a message, or e-mail Crush@midlandparkschools.k12.nj.us. Press releases for this column may be e-mailed to editorial@villadom.com. Deadline is Wednesday at noon. Page 16 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 28, 2013 Obituaries Rosemary B. Altomare Rosemary B. Altomare, nee Elsenhans, of Franklin Lakes, formerly of Palisades Park, died Aug. 16. She was 59. She received an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson Uni- versity and worked for many years as a financial analyst for Continental Grain Company in New York. She is survived by her husband Antonio and her daughter Amanda Alto- mare. Arrangements were made by Feeney Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718. Mina H. De Ruiter Mina H. De Ruiter of Wyckoff, formerly of Hawthorne and Totowa, died Aug. 16. She was 85. She worked as a secretary/receptionist for World Vision and then as a book- keeper at the Eastern Christian High School in North Haledon. She was a member of the Living Word Reformed Church in North Haledon and was a member of the church choir, a former Sunday school teacher, and a prayer warrior. She is survived by her friends Roger and Lois Hartley of North Haledon, her second cousin Jane Anne Lee of Flor- ida, and her church family at the Living Word Reformed Church. Arrangements were made by Browning Forshay Funeral Home in Hawthorne. Memorial donations may be made to the Mission Fund at the Living Word Reformed Church in North Haledon. Deborah Anne Lillis Deborah Anne Lillis of Toronto, Canada, formerly of Ridgewood, died Aug. 7. She was 55. She was born to Nancy and William Lillis and she and her sisters, Susan and Jennifer, grew up in Ridgewood. She was an under- graduate at Colgate University, the American College in Paris, and McGill University, and completed a graduate degree in linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is survived by her husband Tom White and her sons Aidan and Conor. Memorial donations may be made to the Regis- tered Nurses’ Foundation of Ontario or to Girls on the Run, Ontario, Canada. Michael Joseph Mollo Michael Joseph Mollo of Wyckoff, formerly of Har- rington Park, died Aug. 16. He was 72. He had served as a medic in the Air Force National Guard. He was a 1958 graduate of Memorial High School in West New York and a 1962 graduate of Villanova University with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He played on championship baseball teams and on his high school football team, where was named MVP. He was also a member of the Daily News All Metropolitan Football Team. He played in men’s sports leagues, including softball and football. He was a coach for his daughters’ softball and soccer teams in Harrington Park. He was a member and president of the Harrington Park Swim Team Boosters for many years. Before retir- ing, he was an account executive with New Jersey Bell Telephone in Paramus for 17 years. He was a member of Saint Elizabeth R.C. Church in Wyckoff. He is survived by his wife Eleanor (nee Fox) and his daughters Karen Cer- chio of Wyckoff, Eileen Michelle Mollo of Brewster, New York, and Betsy Ferg of Loveladies. He is also survived by five grandchildren and his brother Frank Mollo of Upper Saddle River. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to Smile Forever Foundation, P.O. Box 306, Closter, NJ 07624. John Barry O’Brien John Barry O’Brien of Woodland Park, formerly of Mahwah, died Aug. 15. He was 32. He was a 1999 gradu- ate of Clifton High School and a graduate from Lincoln Tech in Mahwah. Early in his career, he owned his own landscaping business and more recently worked for Pres- tige Toyota in Ramsey. He was a member of the West Pater- son Volunteer Fire Department. He is survived by his wife Maria O’Brien and his children Shawn and Olivia O’Brien. He is also survived by his parents Eugene and Barbara- Ann (Raleigh) O’Brien, his sister Mary Ann Hodes, and two nephews. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to the West Paterson Volunteer Fire Department, 5 Brophy Lane, Woodland Park, NJ 07424. Marguerite ‘Mickie’ I. Sneider Marguerite “Mickie” I. Sneider, nee Van Emburgh, of Ramsey died Aug. 16. She was 94. Until 1984, she and her late husband Howard owned and operated the funeral home at 109 Darlington Avenue in Ramsey, which is now being operated as the Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home. She is survived by her daughter Jill Smith of Ramsey and two grandchildren. She is also survived by two great-grandchildren, two step great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. She was predeceased by her husband Howard F. Arrangements were made by Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Memorial donations may be made to the Ramsey Ambu- lance Corps, 41 North Island Avenue, Ramsey, NJ 07446 or to the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge, Inc., 2 Shelter Lane, Oakland, NJ 07436. Robert Benedict Timpson Robert Benedict Timpson of Franklin Lakes, formerly of River Edge and Oakland, died Aug. 19. He was 94. He was a graduate of Hackensack High School and attended Colgate University for two years. From 1938 to 1941, he worked as a clerk for the Hackensack Trust. In 1943, he began work- ing for the Erie Railroad. After World War II, he took a job at Flintkote Roofing Co., where he worked for 23 years as a traffic manager. He continued his career in the traf- fic department of Hewitt Robins Corporation and finished at T.J. Lipton Co. He was a member of Grace Community Church in Franklin Lakes. He was a member of Indepen- dent Royal Arch Lodge No. 2, Free & Accepted Masons in New York, New York. He is survived by his daughters Patricia Blackwell and Lyle Timpson, and two granddaugh- ters. He is also survived by six great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife Orre Knox (Lamb) Timpson. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to the Oak- land First Aid Squad, P.O. Box 5, Oakland, NJ 07436 or to the Grace Community Church Mission Fund, 886 Franklin Avenue, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417. Robert A. Winter Robert A. Winter died Aug. 16. He was 71. He served in the U.S. National Guard for six years. He graduated from Ramapo High School in 1959 and was the artist who designed the Ramapo High School Bobcat logo. He attended the School of Visual Arts and became one of the top photo retouching airbrush artists in the industry, beginning his career at Rio Studios in Manhattan. The onset of computer art led him to adapt to Web design. He was employed by Thomas Publishing for the past 18 years. He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church in Wyckoff and his Ramapo alumni group. He is survived by his wife Susan (nee Horton), and his daughters Jennifer of Jersey City and Samantha of Hoboken. He is also survived by his brother Gerald and a nephew and niece. He was predeceased by his daughter Meridyth. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge, Inc., 2 Shelter Lane, Oakland, NJ 07436. Rent control (continued from page 5) will charge on that basis when the sewer system is com- pleted in the borough. Laurie Hirsch told the council, “It is very disturbing to be faced with exorbitant rent raises, and we want you to help us. You may be in the same position not too long from now.” Robert Gordon, also a Horizons resident, asked what the council would do to help. “We hear you and we are sympathetic and agree with you, but we don’t have control over them in any way,” Bivona said. The mayor explained that he and the council had just received Gringeri’s letter about the Horizon residents’ com- plaints and a lot of research would be required in order to understand what the council could do for them. He asked the seniors to provide him and the council with specific information about the rent increases and he promised to move as quickly as possible. However, he declined to give any estimate as to when any action could be taken on the request because he said “a lot of work needs to be done.” Councilwoman Paulette Ramsey emphasized that this is “new territory” for the council, but she emphasized that the original intent of approving this housing complex was for senior citizens. She added, “We want all of you to stay in Franklin Lakes.” August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 17 Franklin Lakes Scribe Library sets children’s programs The Franklin Lakes Public Library will present several programs for children this fall. Children ages two-and-a-half to five are invited to join Tot Time on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. Each ses- sion will include stories, songs, finger plays, and a craft. Session 1 will meet Sept. 24 and Oct. 1, 8, and 22. Registra- tion begins on Sept 10 for Franklin Lakes residents. Session 2 will begin in November. P.I.N.T. Center is for children ranging from newborns to two-year-olds. The program meets on Mondays at 9:30 a.m. The 45-minute sessions begin with an informal play period, followed by a presentation of simple stories, songs, rhymes, and finger plays. This program is available to Franklin Lakes residents only. Session 1 will meet on Sept. 23 and 30 and Oct. 7 and 14. Registration will begin Sept. 9. Upcoming sessions will be held in November and December. Registration may be completed by phone at (201) 891- 2224, by visiting the library at 470 DeKorte Drive during regular hours, or online at www.franklinlakeslibrary.org. PTA fundraiser set On Friday, Sept. 27, Let’s Yo, located at 833 Franklin Lake Road in Franklin Lakes, will sponsor a Colonial Road School PTO fundraiser. The yogurt shop will donate to the PTO 10 percent of all sales made between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. that day. To participate, present the ad found on the PTO website, www.flpta.org/crs. Third quarter tax bills mailed The Franklin Lakes Tax Collector has announced the grace period for the third quarter tax bills has been extended to Aug. 30. Payments received after Aug. 30 will have interest charged back to Aug. 1. The tax collection office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Special evening hours will be available on Monday, Aug. 19 and Wednesday, Aug. 28 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. For more information, contact Meena Sivakumar at (201) 891-0048, extension 1216 or msivakumar@franklinlakes. org. Tax Collector Elaine Erlewein is available at (201) 891- 0048, extension 1229 on Mondays from 1:30 to 4 p.m. and Thursdays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Donovan to address club Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan will be the featured speaker at the Sept. 9 meeting of the Franklin Lakes Republican Club. The session will be held at 7:45 p.m. in the Franklin Lakes Ambulance Corps Building on Bender Court. After serving as Bergen County Clerk, Donovan was elected Bergen County Executive in 2010. She oversees and administers the county business operations in conjunction with the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Donovan will discuss the current state of the county, along with important programs and issues that will impact local municipalities and residents. She will also answer audience questions. Club members and registered Republicans who are interested in joining the FLRC are encouraged to attend this program. Light refreshments will be served. For additional information, contact Pete Swist at (201) 337-5140, or Kim Vierheilig at (201) 447-6400. Sprinkler violations (continued from page 3) wording promulgated by the Ridgewood authorities, but officials said actual jail time is extremely improbable. “We didn’t change anything,” said Glen Rock Admin- istrator Lenora Benjamin. “It’s really not worth doing. Are we every going to throw anybody in jail? No.” The ordinance as adopted in all four towns recognizes four stages of emergency restrictions to be declared by the Ridgewood Village Manager. Stage I, Moderate, provides for mandatory restric- tion of irrigation to Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at properties with odd-numbered addresses and Wednes- days, Fridays, and Sundays at properties with even-num- bered addresses. Irrigation using a hand-held hose shall be allowed at any time. No irrigation shall be allowed on Mon- days except for the use of a hand-held hose. Stage I regulations shall be effective each year begin- ning June 1 and continuing through Aug. 31, unless resi- dents are otherwise notified. Stage II, Severe, provides for mandatory restriction of irrigation to Tuesdays and Saturdays at properties with odd-numbered addresses and Wednesdays and Sundays at properties with even-numbered addresses. No irrigation shall be allowed Mondays, Thursdays, or Fridays except for the use of a hand-held hose. Irrigation using a hand-held hose shall be allowed ay any time. Stage III, Pending/Critical provides for mandatory restriction of irrigation to the use of a hand-held hose on Tuesdays and Saturdays at properties with odd-numbered addresses and Wednesdays and Sundays at even-numbered addresses. No irrigation of any kind shall be allowed on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Stage IV, Critical, prohibits irrigation at any time. Exceptions for irrigation using a hand-held hose may be allowed under conditions prescribed by the Village Man- ager of Ridgewood. The Village Manager of Ridgewood is also empowered to declare elevated levels of restrictions based on the water supply and weather conditions. Glen Rock and Midland Park joined Wyckoff in legal action against Ridgewood protesting increased water rates and charging that Ridgewood had been passing water fees from outside towns on to Ridgewood agencies not directly involved in supplying water, including the Ridgewood police and municipal administration. This practice was curtailed when Ken Gabbert took over as village manager in 2010. He has now been fired by a 3-2 vote of the Ridgewood Vil- lage Council despite the protests of the other two members: Thomas Riche and Bernadette Walsh. J. KOSTER Page 18 THE VILLADOM TIMES I, II, III & IV • August 28, 2013 Ashton Kutcher plays title role in ‘Jobs’ by Dennis Seuling “Jobs,” based on the best-selling biography by Walter Isaacson, opens in 2001 as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) is introducing a rapt audience at Apple headquarters to the company’s latest gadget, the iPod. The film then flashes back several years to the begin- ning of what would become a revolution is the commu- nications industry. The movie is a straightforward, routine chronicling of the highs and lows that Jobs experienced on his journey to shake up both big business and the American public with new and exciting computer-based products. Unfor- tunately, Jobs’ private life away from Apple is barely shown, even though there is a lot of dramatic material to be mined, such as his refusal to acknowledge paternity of his daughter and years of estrangement from her, his disloyalty to associates who helped him reach his goals, and his calculated payback to those who crossed him in business. Because these aspects are never explored in depth, Kutcher has little to work with other than Jobs’ hunched walk, beard, and barely controlled explosive nature. Much of what is in the film may already be familiar to viewers, so director Joshua Michael Stern has a tough task in creating suspense. The film merely trots out one significant business event after another. The film does not address the entrepreneur’s cancer diagnosis and his stubborn refusal to seek traditional medical treatment, which probably would have extended his life. It never gets to that point, prefer- ring instead to leave the audience with a view of his reinstatement, after years of corporate infight- ing, as CEO of Apple. Kutcher has never been an acting heavyweight. He is fine in light comedy and unchallenging roles, but is above his head as Jobs. Viewers may remember Jobs from his televised introductions of new prod- ucts, but do not know the man as his associates and family did. And it is here that Kutcher has to do more than recite dialogue from a script. His perfor- mance often seems per- functory and ill thought out. While stronger actors work with expression, dra- matic pauses, and reflec- tion in their portrayals, Kutcher is content to do an adequate, if not particu- larly impressive, imper- sonation. The best performance in the film is by Josh Gad (Broadway’s “The Book Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad in a scene from ‘Jobs.’ of Mormon”), who por- trays Jobs’ early partner, Steve Wozniak. Gad plays Wozniak as a self-described Other fine performances are turned in by Matthew tech nerd who is happiest when he is tinkering with a Modine, J.K. Simmons, Dermot Mulroney, Ron Eldard, circuit board or getting caught up in Jobs’ ideas for what and Lukas Haas. is possible. A scene in which Wozniak tearfully tells Rated PG-13 for some strong language, “Jobs” is a Jobs that he is leaving because their friendship seems to hasty overview of the life and achievements of Steve have dried up is both touching and revealing. Wozniak Jobs rather than an in-depth biography. It hits the major has retained his humanity despite having become richer events and observes a reasonably accurate chronologi- than he ever anticipated, while Jobs has become con- cal structure, but offers little insight into the forces that sumed with visions of things to come. Human contact drove Jobs to become one of the most successful entre- has become an inconvenience. preneurs of the last 100 years. Cook Up Some Business! Advertise your restaurant in The Villadom TIMES. You’ll reach over 47,000 households. 201-652-0744 www.villadom.com August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I, II, III & IV • Page 19 Inept kidnappers plan caper in ‘Pain and Gain’ Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) and Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) join forces to pull off a kid- napping in ‘Pain & Gain.’ by Dennis Seuling “Pain and Gain” (Paramount), an action flick from director Michael Bay, is based on true events concerning a kidnapping plot gone terribly, violently wrong. Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub) is a businessman and a client at the gym where Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) works as a trainer. Kershaw brags about his wealth and Lugo sees in him a fast path to the life he wants. He enlists the help of fellow body- builders Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) and Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie), whom he manages to convince that kidnapping Kershaw will be a piece of cake. Bay straddles a precarious fence, bal- ancing laughs -- derived mostly from the ineptness of the three plotters -- with some gruesome, bloody moments that transpire when poor plans go afoul. The film goes beyond the typical caper in its detail and nearly unbelievable twists as Kershaw turns out to be a far more stub- born victim than anticipated. As things go awry and Lugo and his two equally dumb cohorts have to improvise, they devise Rube Goldberg-type quick fixes that lead to greater complexity and throw them into a panicky tailspin. “Pain and Gain” thrives on incongrui- ties and coincidences. The film fascinates because of the sheer stupidity and audacity of this threesome. There are no extras on the two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. “The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season” (Anchor Bay) is a five- disc set containing 16 episodes from the season that began on Oct. 14, 2012. Based on a series of graphic comic novels by Robert Kirkman, the show has become a huge hit on the AMC cable channel. Its graphic images, gruesome makeup, and action sequences distinguish it as one of the better zombie efforts on both big and small screens. This season is much improved over Season Two. Action in Season Three is brisker, zombie scenes more abundant, and character development richer. But it is the zombies that are the main draw here, and even with better scripting and pacing, impatience sets in when the zombies are off screen for too long. Outstanding episodes include the season premiere, “Seed;” “Killer Within,” which dispatched two main characters; and “Clear,” a road trip episode that focuses on Rick, Michonne, and Carl. As with previous “Walking Dead” DVD sets, extras are abundant. They include eight behind-the-scenes featurettes, audio commentaries on five episodes, and deleted scenes. “Kon Tiki” (Anchor Bay) is based on the true 1947 adventure of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (Pal Sverre Hagen), who determines at great risk to prove a theory is possible. When the sci- entific community rejects his theory that South Americans were the first to settle in the Polynesian islands, Heyerdahl resolves to prove its validity and save his reputation by making the voyage himself. Recruiting a group of five men, he constructs a simple balsa-wood raft to original pre-Columbian specifications, insisting that only primitive materials be used, and sets off on a journey that will last 101 days across the treacher- ous Pacific Ocean. The expedition suc- ceeds in demonstrating that ancient people could have made the long, hazardous sea voyage. The sequences at sea are the film’s most memorable, but there is also an impressive re-creation of 1940s New York City as Heyerdahl seeks funding for his journey. Like “Life of Pi,” “Kon Tiki” is very much a man versus nature saga, the main differ- ence being that Heyerdahl and his small crew willingly put themselves in danger to support a theory that the scientific estab- lishment dismisses. Special features on the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack include a visual effects fea- turette and background on the actual Kon Tiki voyage. “At Any Price” (Sony Pictures) is set in Iowa, where Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid) is fighting to have his seed-selling business survive amid increasingly tough economic circumstances. His traditional way of farming is threatened by big busi- ness interests that encroach on his cus- tomer base and squeeze him into making difficult moral decisions about how to suc- ceed in farming in 21st century America. Zac Efron (“High School Musical”) plays Henry’s son Dean, who has no inter- est in farming and aspires to a career as stock car racer. Henry’s other son, football hero Grant (Patrick W. Stevens), is sup- posed to be coming back from college, but goes backpacking through Argentina instead. Henry must act alone or lose his farm. Director Ramin Bahrani succeeds in illustrating real challenges to American (continued on Crossword page) Page 20 THE VILLADOM TIMES I, II, III & IV • August 28, 2013 DVD releases (continued from Restaurant page) farmers and in depicting a working-class family dealing with changing times, lack of family interest in maintain- ing the farm, and the need to make difficult decisions about the survival of the business. Quaid’s careworn face conveys years of hard work, worry, and disappointment as his Henry tries to cope with a fast-changing world. Blu-ray extras include commentary with director Bahrani and Quaid, a Q&A session at the Toronto Inter- national Film Festival, and rehearsal footage. The film is also available on DVD. “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh” (Disney), available in a 35th Anniversary Blu-ray/DVD combo pack edition, is a lushly animated feature based on the characters created by A. A. Milne. Fortunately, this Disney adaptation is truer to the original than many of the studio’s classics. Disney has been criticized for years by purists who resent the liberties the studio has taken in adapting classic fairy tales and children’s stories. This 1977 film was originally released during a lull in creativity at Disney, when its feature films lacked the sparkle of earlier times. 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Districts that would be due for garbage collection on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, will have garbage picked up on Tuesday, Sept. 3. There will be a special recycling pickup for Districts 2 and 6 and 3 and 7 on Wednesday, Sept. 4. All other pickup schedules will remain the same. Wyckoff Town Hall and the recycling and conservation center will be closed on Sept. 2 in observance of Labor Day. Town hall and the recycling center will reopen Tues- day, Sept. 3 at 9 a.m. The Recycling and Conservation Center on West Main Street will returns to winter hours beginning Saturday, Sept. 7. The center will be open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Celebrate Erev Rosh Hashanah Temple Beth Rishon, located at 585 Russell Avenue in Wyckoff, invites the community to celebrate Erev Rosh Hashanah on Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 6 p.m. Friends and family are invited to enjoy the holiday meal after this short service. For more information, call the temple office at (201) 891-4466 or visit www.bethrishon.org. Bible Study group welcomes members Registration is now open for the 2013-14 North Jersey Evening Community Bible Study, which will begin Sept. 10. New members are invited to attend an Introductory Coffee on Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Cornerstone Christian Church, 495 Wyckoff Avenue in Wyckoff. This 30-week study is open to men and women from all back- grounds and will meet on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The CBS aims to make all participants feel comfortable, regardless of background, education, church involvement, ethnicity, or economic status. This year, the group will be studying the books of James, Proverbs, Philippians, and Ephesians. The four-part CBS format includes commentary, home study questions, men’s and women’s core group discussions of the home study questions, and a weekly lecture by the teaching director. This format offers an excellent opportunity for beginners to study the Bible. There is a $25 registration fee. A $2 weekly donation is requested to offset the cost of the study materials. Scholar- ships are available for those with financial need. To regis- ter, contact Beth Turconi-Adams at turconi@optonline.net or (201) 615-4185. Wyckoff Y sets Golf Outing The Wyckoff Family YMCA will present its Annual Roger E. Clarke Fall Classic Golf Outing on Thursday, Oct. 3 at the Hackensack Golf Club. This year’s honorary chair is Vince Forlenza, chairman, chief executive officer, and President of BD, a global medical technology company headquartered in Franklin Lakes. The outing will feature a lunch buffet followed by 18 holes of golf on the prestigious Hackensack course, along with a post-game cocktail awards reception, auctions, and awards. This is a key benefit for the Wyckoff Y’s special needs programs. The Y provides comprehensive and far-reaching oppor- tunities for specially challenged children and their families with programs such as Billy’s Buddies, for children with Down syndrome and their families; Shining Star Express for a variety of special needs; “21+” for young adults with special needs; and its Personal Partners fitness program. The Y also serves as home to the Quest Autism Founda- tion, a non-profit organization providing occupational and social skills programs for young adults with autism. Registration is $295 per golfer, or $1,300 per foursome (includes tee/hole billing). Sponsorship opportunities are also available. Contact Nancy Addis at (201) 891-2081 to register and for sponsorship information. Russell Farms (continued from page 3) The land was found to be contaminated by fertilizer from its agricultural days. Once the developer had met local and Department of Environmental Protection stan- dards, Wyckoff bought the land with a combination of state, county, and local funds. Plans call for a passive park with landscaped and natural trees for strolling and recre- ation. Wyckoff Community Park, which is much larger and already developed, was deemed to be substantially func- tional and less in need of the money. The township committee also voted separately to spend $17,500 from the Bergen County Open Space Park Improvement and Development Grant and $17,500 in local matching funds to replace baseball backstops at the fields at the Sicomac and Eisenhower schools. The town- ship committee deleted the alternative or tandem use of the money for a small-sized artificial turf soccer practice field at Memorial Field. “It’s one or the other,” said Mayor Rudy Boonstra. “We’re opting for the backstops.” In other business, the members of the township com- mittee informally agreed to consider the future of a small vacant lot on Morse Avenue and Clinton Avenue with a split-rail fence. The lot is owned by the municipality and is sometimes used as backup parking for the Wyckoff Board of Education office. The lot is badly paved and said to be too small to permit the construction of a house and garage without major variances, but the members of the township committee agreed that some way of producing revenue should be considered. “This is a lot that is under-utilized and we’re always seeking ways of generating revenue in town,” Rooney said. The lot is located in the Wyckoff Business Triangle, where triangle regulations stipulate that developers who wish to turn former private homes into offices dedicate attached land to on-site parking. The committee vote approved a study rather than a stated purpose for the lot. Page 24 THE VILLADOM TIMES I, II, III & IV • August 28, 2013