Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • March 19, 2014 Wyckoff Township wins award for safety incentive program by John Koster The excellent safety record posted by Wyckoff’s munic- ipal employees has earned the township a Gold Safety Award from the Joint Insurance Fund. The award is the 21 st commendation Wyckoff has received from the regional organization since the inception of the program. This year, the township received a dividend the Bergen County JIF in the form of lower insurance rates. The his- tory of compliance is said to have saved Wyckoff $647,491 since the program was instituted in 1995. The award was presented last week because Wyckoff has sustained very low lost time frequency and had achieved 100 percent completion of the Joint Insurance Fund’s 2013 Safety Incentive Program. “The everyday little things they do add tremendous value to the taxpayers of Wyckoff,” Mayor Douglas Chris- tie said of Township Administrator Robert Shannon and the other members of Safety Committee. “For example, the (Wyckoff Department of Public Works) crews are very cognizant of safety and it is reflected in their daily func- tions. Safety seminars are conducted to implement work skills for employee safety as well as limit insurance costs (continued on page 23) Three individuals get prison terms Two men who beat a 19-year-old Ridgewood man with an iron pipe and a baseball bat in Wyckoff’s Lincoln School parking lot two years ago each received four years in state prison. A third party to the planned assault who turned himself in was given non-custodial probation. The man given pro- bation had not taken part in the beating. The Wyckoff woman who set up her former boyfriend to be beaten by a new boyfriend and a buddy got a one- year prison sentence in the Bergen County Jail for the same crime by Bergen County Superior Court Judge Edward Jerijian. The Ridgewood victim told police that the Wyckoff woman had invited him to meet her at the Lincoln School parking lot after 10 p.m. in July of 2012 to drive around in her new car. But while they were walking around the darkened parking lot, the Ridgewood man and the Wyckoff (continued on page 23)