Allendale September 4, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 7 Events for 9/11 to include Guadagno, dedication The Borough of Allendale will hold two services on Sept. 11 to honor the memory of the people killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks, and the courage of the Allendale emergency responders who took part in rescue effort. Both ceremonies will be held at the upper pond at Crest- wood Lake Park. A ceremony at 10 a.m. will feature Lieutenant Gov- ernor Kim Guadagno as an honored guest. A former professor of law at Rutgers, Guadagno was also the first woman sheriff in Monmouth County and a federal pros- ecutor in Brooklyn, New York before being elected lieu- tenant governor of New Jersey in 2009. Guadagno will dedicate the 20-foot steel beam taken from the ruins of the World Trade Center in lower Man- hattan after the catastrophic attack by terrorists who hijacked airliners and crashed two of them into the Twin Towers and a third into the Pentagon. Allendale was able to obtain the WTC beam after some prolonged negotia- tions, and it was shipped to the borough earlier this year. The second ceremony, the traditional candle-lit cer- emony, will take place at 7 p.m. that day. Allendale resident Donald De La Penha and Craig Silverstein, a Wyckoff resident who was the brother-in- law of Allendale Mayor Vince Barra, were among those killed in the 911 attacks. Jeremy Glick, the older brother of an Upper Saddle River student then attending North- ern Highlands Regional High School, was credited as one of the Flight 93 passengers who took on the hijack- ers bare-handed and diverted a fourth hijacked airliner to crash in an empty field in Pennsylvania, possibly saving the White House or other federal buildings in Washing- ton. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Robert Blondin, an Allendale policeman now employed in Mahwah, was among those rescuers who entered the col- lapsed ruins of the World Trade Center searching for vic- tims and locating remains. Allendale Ambulance Corps personnel were on immediate standby. All were honored for their service at a subsequent ceremony in Allendale. Council votes liens to collect for property maintenance The Allendale Borough Council has voted to impose liens on four property owners who let their lots go to seed so that the borough road crews had to mow them and clean them up. The property owners were not present at the vote on Aug. 22 and the council was in hearty agreement that Allendale taxpayers should be reimbursed, at least in the long run, for work done to keep privately owned land within the borough from becoming an eyesore and low- ering property values and aesthetics. The largest lien burden was placed on 200 West Cres- cent Avenue, at $3,662, with separate liens of $2,000, of $1,559, of $59 and of $44 placed against the property. These liens must be covered by payment to the borough when the land is sold. The property at 135 West Crescent Avenue was bur- dened with $1,113, including liens of $56, $523, $56, and $449 for work done at four separate times. Liens of $1,500 and $123 were placed on the property at 83 East Crescent Avenue for a total burden of 1,623. A single lien of $450 was placed against land at 65 New Street. J. KOSTER