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Wednesday, November 05, 2003 Page: 6A
NORTHWEST AREA SCHOOL BOARD
Five candidates running on the Democratic and Republican tickets easily
beat two young Independents.
Newcomer Raymond Bierbach will join incumbents Randy Tomasacci, Charles
Brace, Al Gordon and Duane Evans on the board. All handily won against
independents Michael Kreidler and Mark Lehnowsky.
Tomasacci was the highest vote-getter while Gordon and Evans were the two
lowest among major-party candidates, with a little more than 1,000 votes each.
Even at that, they nearly doubled the roughly 500 votes garnered by each of
the Independents.
Kreidler and Lehnowsky, both college freshmen, had argued that their youth
gave them an edge. Having just graduated from Northwest, they said, they know
which board policies helped students succeed and which hurt.
Tomasacci teamed with Brace, Gordon and Bierbach. The group ran primarily
on the incumbents’ success in keeping taxes level while negotiating a new
teacher contract and hiring a new superintendent.
Evans ran alone, contending the other incumbents had strayed from promises
made when they were elected four years ago. He said other incumbents had
increasingly tried to solve problems by “throwing money” at them.