Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • May 29, 2013 Area The Republican council candidates in Franklin Lakes, Midland Park, and Wyckoff will run unopposed in the GOP’s June 4 primary election this year. No Republican challengers filed, and no Democrats filed for their party’s primary. Independent candidates have until the day of the primary to announce their candidacy in the November general election, when voters will elect their representatives to the local governing bodies. Franklin Lakes In Franklin Lakes, Ann Swist and Joseph Cadicina will be seeking the Republican party’s nomination on June 4. Cadicina received his under graduate degree from Seton Hall University and is a graduate of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, a private non-profit educational corporation in Michigan. He is an attorney and managing member of the law firm of Laufer, Dafena, Cadicina, Jensen & Boyd, LLC in Morristown. Cadicina 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. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Northern New Jersey American Heart Association and is on its Gala and Walk committees. 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. At Squibb she was responsible for $2 million budget, management of a staff of 10, the library operations/clinical record, and IM division support. She has extensive experience in management, planning, analysis, program design, and implementation. She has been a board member, fund raiser, and co-chair of the Women’s Club of Franklin Lakes; co-chair of the Branch Valley Hospital Auxiliary; vice president of the Valley Hospital Auxiliary Executive Board; a Valley Hospital volunteer in the Kurth Cottage Café; and a member of the College Club of Ridgewood Program Committee. She has also been a committee member of the Ramapo College Performing Arts Dinner Series, chairperson of the Public Events Committee for Franklin Lakes, a trustee of the Franklin Lakes Library Board, and a member of the Newcomers and Neighbors Club. 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 Two Republican incumbents are running unopposed in the June 4 Republican primary election. No Democrats filed. Only Councilwoman Nancy Cronk Peet and Councilman Jack Considine filed for the two available seats. Peet is seeking her fifth term on the six-member council. Considine is running for his first full term, having GOP candidates to run unopposed in primary been appointed in 2012 to fill Mayor Bud O’Hagan’s unexpired term on the council. A lifelong borough resident and a Registered Nurse, Peet is currently Vice President and Director of Risk and Claims Management for William H Connolly & Co., LLC. A council member since 2003, she is a past president of the Midland Park Board of Education, on which she served for 18 years. She was also chairwoman of the Midland Park Board of Adjustment for seven years and is currently a member of the Midland Park Planning Board and the Board of Health. She chairs the council’s personnel committee and serves as liaison to the board of education. Considine is a retired IBM executive, US Navy veteran and a past Grand Knight of the Midland Park Knights of Columbus. He has chaired BSA Troop 157 for the last seven years and now leads the Advancement Committee for the western half of the Northern New Jersey Council of the BSA. He served on the board of recreation for three years and is the secretary of the Midland Park United Republican Club. Since 1994, he has been a Nativity Church Eucharistic Minister. Considine chairs the council’s Public Safety/Fire/Ambulance Committee and is the liaison to the Municipal Alliance. Wyckoff Wyckoff Mayor Rudy Boonstra will be the only official candidate running for Wyckoff Township Committee. Boonstra, a Republican, was the only GOP candidate to file for his party’s upcoming June 4 primary. Boonstra is now serving his second term as mayor, a post he last held in 2010. He is life-long Wyckoff resident and a former member of the local and regional boards of education. Appointed to an unexpired term, Boonstra later won a contested primary and a contested election. Boonstra has also served for almost 40 years on the Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department and is active in many local causes and charities. Schools benefit from ‘Follies’ Executive Director Carla Pappalardo and FLOW Follies representatives presented a check for $40,500 for scholarships to be distributed to graduating seniors at both Ramapo and Indian Hills high schools. There will be 50 $750 scholarships, 25 at each school, and eight mini-scholarships at each school. Pictured are Ramapo Principal Lou Moore, Carla Pappalardo, Cathy Hommes, Pearl Hart, Ronni Douma, Sue Valenta, Tricia Levine, Janet Hoogerhyde, and Indian Hills Principal Al Evangelista. FLOW Follies producers not pictured are Kathy Imhoff, Marcia Loria, and Cherie McCusker.