Page 12 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • June 12, 2013 Area Voters endorse candidates in primary election Voters throughout the state went to the polls on June 4 to endorse their candidates for the November general election. A summary of the local council elections follows. Franklin Lakes The borough’s Republican voters cast 404 ballots for Ann Swist and 408 ballots for Joseph Cadicina. Both ran unopposed for the nomination. Cadicina is an attorney and managing member of the law firm of Laufer, Dafena, Cadicina, Jensen & Boyd, LLC in Morristown. He is a member of several county, state, and national bar associations, and he has served on the planning board and zoning board in Saddle Brook. He previously served on the board of education in Garfield. Swist holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and is a retiree of Bristol Myers Squibb, where she was the director of strategic information and competitive intelligences reporting directly to the senior vice president of licensing and acquisitions. Her political involvement includes being a member of the County Committee representing District 2, and being membership chair of the Republican Club of Franklin Lakes, where her husband, Peter, serves as president. Midland Park The two Midland Park Borough Council seats up for election in November will be uncontested, with only Republican incumbents Nancy Cronk Peet and Jack Considine to appear on the ballot. Peet, running for her fifth term on the council, garnered 243 votes. A lifelong borough resident and a Registered Nurse, Peet is vice president and director of risk and claims management for William H Connolly & Co., LLC. Currently the council president, she chairs the council’s personnel committee and serves as liaison to the board of education. Considine, seeking his first full term, received 238 votes. He is a retired IBM executive, US Navy veteran and a past Grand Knight of the Midland Park Knights of Columbus. He chairs the council’s Public Safety/Fire/ Ambulance Committee and is the liaison to the Municipal Alliance. The Democratic Party had not submitted any candidates prior to the primary, and no independent candidates filed by the June 4 deadline. In all 295 Republicans (15 percent of registered voters) and 66 Democrats (7 percent) turned out at the polls. Wyckoff Wyckoff’s registered Republican voters endorsed incumbent Mayor Rudy Boonstra in last week’s primary for one of the five seats on the Township Committee. Boonstra received 513 votes out of the 700 votes cast by 6.29 percent of registered GOP voters. A life-long township resident, he has served for almost 40 years on the Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department. No Democrats ran this year and no write-in votes were recorded either. Van Saun visit The students of Grace Nursery School in Wyckoff recently visited Van Saun Park in Paramus. These students from Mrs. Gangeri’s class had a wonderful time.