A variety of subjects were covered at Thursday's Walnutport Workshop meeting.

Law Committee Chairman Harold Greene announced that Ryan Hawke, a local resident who graduated in December from the Allentown Police Academy, applied to become a part-time police officer for the borough.Council President Matthew Newhard asked Hawke several questions before the council unanimously approved his hiring and Mayor Wayne Weidner swore him in.When asked later about Hawke's hiring, Police Chief Pete Wayda said Hawke had approached him about a position and that he "seems to have the right credentials" for the job.William Turk, Streets Committee chairman, said he would like to commend the borough road crews for all of their hard work cleaning up this winter's heavy, icy and never-ending snowfalls.In addition, he said he'd also like to thank Lehigh Township for using its tractor with a snow blower to clean several borough streets, including Main, Washington and Cherry streets, which are snow emergency routes."If we had anybody else do it, it would have cost us $5,000 or $6,000, if not more," Turk said.Assistant Road Foreman Michael Wentz added that he, too, is appreciative of Lehigh Township's assistance and that he and the road crew try to help them out also whenever possible.Wentz, who is also the longtime borough grant coordinator, announced that, "As of tonight, I will no longer be grant coordinator."When Newhard, who had for several minutes had a somewhat heated discussion with Wentz earlier in the meeting, asked if he cared to elaborate on his resignation, Wentz said he did not.After the meeting, Turk, who had originally convinced Wentz to sign on for the position back in 1998, said he wanted to talk to him because he "can't afford to lose him as the grant coordinator."