Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • June 26, 2013 Allendale The Allendale Borough Council is seeking design proposals that incorporate a 16-foot steel girder from the World Trade Center as part of the Allendale Memorial to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11. The steel girder, which weights about 2,000 pounds, was obtained after lengthy negotiations and was brought to Allendale with an honor guard of police officers and volunteer firefighters. Councilwoman Amy Wilczynski, who had worked on the project for several years, said the steel from the destroyed World Trade Center towers had been stored at Hangar 17 of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Field. The council will be reviewing designs to add the girder to the Allendale Memorial, which was one of the first to be completed after the 2001 terrorist attack. Allendale lost one resident, 37-year-old Donald Arthur Delapenha, in the attack on the World Trade Center. Mayor Vince Barra’s brother-in-law, Craig Silverstein, was one of 11 Wyckoff residents killed in the attack. Allendale police officers and volunteer ambulance corps members were deployed to provide rescue efforts or to provide backup for emergency units. J. KOSTER Designers must use WTC girder Rotary awards scholarships The Allendale-Saddle River Rotary Foundation has announced its scholarship winners for 2013. Waldwick High School graduate Erica Dischino and Sarah Shepp, who is graduating from Northern Highlands High School, each received a $1,500 award. The recipients were chosen based on their academic record and community service which exemplified the Rotary’s primary tenet: ‘Service Above Self.’ The Allendale-Saddle River Rotary welcomes new members. The group meets on Wednesdays at Louie’s Place, 29 West Allendale Avenue in Allendale, at 8 a.m.