Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • June 16, 2010 Emmanuel asks... Can You Help? Our hat’s off to Glen Rock WICS (Women in Community Service) -- a great partner to ECF in our work to help families. WICS members just completed their bi-annual food drive, which netted over 130 bags of groceries. They also supported the Birthday Club by having their members create a complete kit for a child’s birthday party. If you are interested in this program, it’s a great way to involve your child in philanthropy. This family needs help: Bobby is 11 years old and has bone cancer in his leg. He is about to enter sixth grade after spending some time on home instruction because of his illness. When he is not in the hospital for chemotherapy, Bobby likes to spend his time at home on the computer and playing with Legos. Since there are no kids his age in his neighborhood, he has to play by himself. He used 4-29-09 karen/janine to enjoy the interaction with friends in school, but now he EmmanuelHelp2x.75(4-29-09) has to find his own fun. Bobby’s dad works, and his mom has taken on the full-time role of overseeing his medical 3 x .75 care. Bobby has one older brother who will be entering high school at the end of the summer. Because of the income loss this family faced with mom out of work, they could use gift certificates to any chain grocery or department store. Our case worker is helping them find alternate resources, but your help is still needed. They have requested summer clothes for Bobby (adult size medium T-shirts). Bobby also likes board games of all types. We are able to make a difference with families like Bobby’s with your contribution to the Family Financial Assistance Program. With your continued donations of food and your financial support, ECF will continue to meet the needs of families like Bobby’s who might even be neighbors of yours. Please consider helping. We are also in need of a new, good quality copy machine for the Northern Regional Center. Save our van: A few years back, we were able to acquire a van due to the generosity of a local church. Since then, we have used the van to make countless deliveries of groceries and other items to ECF families. Now we need your help to keep the van in operation (maintenance, licensing, gas, and oil). If you want to help by contributing or by organizing a fundraiser, please let us know. Help us to help others! Event news: Please attend our Wine & Art Night in Franklin Lakes at the Endless Vine on the new date, Tues- day, June 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. The suggested donation is $40, and we expect this event to sell out quickly. The family Stroll-a-Thon will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 26 in Franklin Lakes. Call us for details and to reserve your tickets. To help: Volunteers are welcome to assist in the Regional Center as follows: Tuesday, 10 to 1; Wednesday and Friday, 10 to 5; Thursday, 2:30 to 5; and Saturday, 10 to 1. Call (201) 612-8118 before you stop by. Please do not leave items at the center without checking with us first. Our storage space is limited. Our current hours are Monday, 10 to 1; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10 to 5; and Thursday, 10 to 2. The Northern Regional Center is located at 174 Paterson Avenue, Midland Park, NJ 07432. Visit us on the web at: www.emmanuelcancer.org. As always, thank you for helping the children and their families! Graydon Pool (continued from page 3) imposed on other municipal facilities. “Graydon Pool is one of the few facilities senior citizens can use,” Brandes said. “If you go out and get options, you have no money to proceed at this time.” She estimated that it would be at least three years before any construction would be economically viable, and that conditions could change over that time in such a way as to make proposals written in 2010 anachronistic. Brandes said the hidden agenda might be to get a concrete pool for competitive swimming practice and that this could be accomplished, perhaps, in the private sector through development at the Habernickel or Schedler properties – but not at taxpayers’ expense in the middle of the present economic slump. The tacit consensus of the council was that no RFPs would be going out for Graydon changes in the near future. 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