June 12, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 11 Mahwah School board candidates running unopposed by Frank J. McMahon Four incumbent Mahwah Board of Education members will seek reelection unopposed in the general election set for Nov. 5. Incumbent board members Charles Saldarini, Douglas D’Angelo, and Suzanne Curry will be seeking full threeyear terms on the board and Richard DeSilva Jr. will be seeking election to the one-year unexpired term of former board member Kenneth Angelo. Saldarini is a 1981 graduate of Mahwah High School who has been a Mahwah resident since 1973. He will be seeking his third term on the school board. He has two children, both of whom attend the Mahwah schools. He has been the chairman of the Mahwah Republican County Committee and the Mahwah Municipal Alliance, which is an organization dedicated to helping the youth of Mahwah make good decisions. D’Angelo is a 1981 graduate of Mahwah High School and is a long-time township resident. He has two children in the school system, and he will be seeking his fourth term on the school board, where he has been the chairperson of the Policy Committee a member of the Teachers’ Negotiations Contract Committee. The candidate is also a soccer coach with the Mahwah Boosters and has been a member of the Mahwah Environmental Commission. Curry has been a resident of Mahwah for 13 years and is a life-long resident of Bergen County. She has two teenagers in the school district. She is seeking her third term on the board, where she has served as a member and chair of the Public Relations Committee. She was also on the board’s Instructional Com- mittee for three years and was its chairman. Curry has also served on the Policy Committee. DeSilva was appointed to the board in 2012 to fill the position on the board left vacant by former trustee Kenneth Angelo. He is seeking election to Angelo’s one-year unexpired term on the board. The son of a former school board member, DeSilva has a daughter in third grade and twin daughters in first grade. He graduated from Mahwah High School in 1993 and subsequently graduated from Clemson University. He is the manager of a car dealership in Emerson. The Mahwah Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Mahwah Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation will honor the 2013 MRCC/MRCCF Ramapo College of New Jersey scholarship recipient at a June 12 luncheon. This event will be held at the Ramsey Golf & Country Club at 105 Lakeside Drive, Ramsey from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Chamber hosts scholarship recipient This year’s scholarship winner is Boschanny Santana of North Bergen. Santana plans to major in finance and will be on hand to accept her award. The Chamber affiliation is Prestige BMW. Chamber members and non-members will have the (continued on page 16)