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January 30, 2007 Former Basketball Star Enters Race for City Council Dem legislative aide played at Liberty High and Moravian College. By Daryl Nerl of The Morning Call A former star athlete at Moravian College and Liberty High School, who now works as a legislative aide for state Rep. Steve Samuelson, on Monday made official his candidacy for Bethlehem City Council. J. William Reynolds, who has been better known as Willie, officially launched his Democratic campaign with the unveiling of a Web site and an announcement at Bethlehem Brew Works. He is the first council candidate to make an announcement. Reynolds, 25, is a Democratic committeeman for the city's First Ward and also serves on the South Bethlehem Neighborhood Center board of directors. He graduated magna cum laude from Moravian College in 2003 and has worked for Samuelson, D-Lehigh, for the past four years. ''I am running because I want to make sure that my children get to grow up in the same type of community that I have had the pleasure of working and living in my whole life,'' Reynolds said in a news release. Reynolds was a star basketball player at Liberty, where he was all-conference, and Moravian, where he lettered for three seasons. As a senior at Moravian, he won the Stupak Award for outstanding achievement in political science. He also twice won the Paul Marcincin Award for being the top scholar athlete on the basketball team. ''I am running for City Council because I love Bethlehem and the success of our city is a personal matter for me,'' Reynolds says on his campaign Web site home page. ''It is the place where I walked to every school I ever attended, from my first day of kindergarten at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School to the day I graduated from Moravian College.'' On his Web site, Reynolds said he will walk ''through every neighborhood and down every street in the coming months'' to meet with voters. No less than five other Democrats are contemplating running for Bethlehem council this year, including the three incumbents, Robert Donchez, Gordon Mowrer and Magdalena Szabo. Former City Councilman Ismael Arcelay and former Deputy Community Development Director Dana Grubb are also contemplating running in the Democratic primary. No Republicans have stepped forward.
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