Ho-Ho-Kus January 16, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 3 Police department will promote Bodart, LaCroix by Jennifer Crusco Michael LaCroix and Jaime Bodart will become the HoHo-Kus Police Department’s two newest sergeants. Both men are expected to be sworn in at the Jan. 22 council session. The police department, which is headed by Chief John Wanamaker, has four squads, two of which do not currently have a sergeant in charge. The two promotions will remedy that situation. LaCroix is a graduate of Pace University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. He was a dispatcher for Ho-Ho-Kus from 1991-95. In 2004, he returned to Ho-Ho-Kus, where he is currently serving as a patrolman. He is also a certified child car seat installer. Bodart is a graduate of Don Bosco Prep, Bergen Community College, and New Jersey University. He began his work with the department in 1994 as a dispatcher, and was sworn in as a police officer in 2000. He began serving as the department’s lead detective in 2011, following the promotion of Michael Pattman to the lieutenant’s post. Pattman had previously been the department’s detective sergeant. Bodart was recognized for his life-saving efforts in 2011. During Hurricane Irene, Bodart and Sergeant Christopher Minchin learned that a woman was having a heart attack. The woman was in Ridgewood, just across the Ho-Ho-Kus border. However, due to flooding from the storm, access via the North Maple Avenue Bridge was blocked. The two men drove to the Warren Avenue Bridge, which was then closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and inched their way across the 18-inch catwalk on the side of the bridge in order to reach the patient. They administered oxygen to the woman, and a Ridgewood police officer then took the woman to the hospital. The upcoming promotions follow the pair of changes made on New Year’s Day, when Owen Morrissey became the department’s newest police officer and Garrett Sweetman was appointed police dispatcher. Chief Wanamaker has been taking action to bolster the department’s personnel in anticipation of several retirements that may occur in 2013. The Ho-Ho-Kus Board of Education reorganized last week, with returning trustee Mary Ellen Nye and first-time trustee Cinzia Parise D’Iorio taking the oaths of office. After the new members were seated, the board elected Colleen Federer as president and Ellen Walsh as vice president. Federer is currently serving her second term on the board of education. She was elected in 2007 and reelected in 2010. Walsh, the board’s immediate past president, was first elected to the board in 2008 and became board president in 2010. She won reelection in 2011. D’Iorio began her service in Ho-Ho-Kus as a board member of the Ho-Ho-Kus Education Foundation. She served from 2001-10, including three years as vice president and two years as president. During her tenure, she worked closely with the administration, staff, and parents of the Ho-Ho-Kus Public School to provide programs that were not covered by the budget. Board reorganizes; Federer at helm She has been class mother and Tic Toc Art Docent for each of her children. She is a member of the Home & School Association and has served on the Get Out and Vote Committee for the school. She was also an assistant in the classroom at the Ho-Ho-Kus/Waldwick Cooperative Nursery School from 2008-11. D’Iorio is an active parishioner of Saint Gabriel the Archangel Church in Saddle River, where she is a Eucharistic minister and a religious education teacher. D’Iorio graduated from Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business, where she currently sits on the Market Research Center Advisory Board. She worked for Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals for 14 years, holding in business analytics, business development, market research, and sales. For the past 10 years, she has served as principal of CPD Research & Consulting, a health care market research firm. Nye was appointed to the board in 2010 to fill the (continued on page 10)