Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 10, 2010 Area For the eleventh year, the Creative Living Counseling Center will honor local teens with the Annual Humanity Awards. Honorees include David Engle of Glen Rock, Adam Milano of Allendale, Caroline Elizabeth Perry of Ridgewood, Emma Rainoff of Tuxedo (New York), Alexandra Russell of Allendale, and Rachel Walsh of Waldwick. This year will mark the 200th student honored. The award honors students who have made significant contributions to their communities through actions demonstrating caring, compassion, justice, peace making, and community building. Students are nominated by their faith congregations, schools, or other youth organizations. The recipients will be recognized at a gala reception on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Cedar Hill Church, 422 Cedar Hill Avenue in Wyckoff. The celebration will include musical entertainment with Local teens to receive Humanity Award from CLCC Broadway star Julie Hanson and talented teens. As a leader in SPARK, a student leadership organization at Bergen County Academies, Milano is responsible for mentoring incoming freshman and leading or supporting multiple big events throughout the year. After participating in Lead for Diversity, Milano became passionate about recognizing the rights of others. He worked with his school’s administration, faculty, and student body to plan and implement a multi-pronged program, including starting a Gay-Straight Alliance Club and holding a “Day of Silence” in which over 1,000 students participated. Milano enjoyed the challenge of working with students as a teacher in a small village in Peru on a summer trip with Rustic Pathways, where he also refurbished buildings. He continues to contribute to his faith community, Trinity Episcopal Church, by teaching the junior high church school class; training, organizing, and supervising acolytes; singing in the adult choir; and serving as a mentor to the 2010 confirmation class. Russell is a member of Highlands Presbyterian Church, where she was ordained to the office of deacon and served a year on the board of deacons. Recently, she organized the church’s youth to lead the younger children in watching a film about bullying. The children were encouraged to share their experiences of being bullied and think about creative responses to bullying behavior. A senior at Northern Highlands Regional High School, Russell was a mentor in the Big Brother/Big Sister program, served as a student ambassador in the Transition Project, and this year will take part in the Highlands Heroes project, where seniors who were student ambassadors travel to the middle schools and perform skits about bullying and other situations. For the past two years, Walsh has volunteered at Camp Acorn, a recreational and social program for children and adults with special needs. She volunteered there in the summer and every Saturday during the school year. During the past year, she has been working at Shooting Stars Gymnastics, where she assistant teaches a gymnastics class for children with special needs. She has volunteered at the Alpine Learning Center, and helps provide respite care for families with children with special needs, specifically autism and cerebral palsy. Lightning detection (continued from page 5) sounds and/or a strobe light is flashing, the field is closed. No person shall remain or continue field activities when a field is closed,” the measure states. “Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate any provisions herein shall, after conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment for a term of not more than 90 days, or both.” The heart of the system is housed at HoHo-Kus Police Headquarters. The system was installed several weeks ago, but was not activated as officials awaited the related signage and software updates. Police dispatchers have all received training regarding the new warning system. The council recently approved a resolution that will allow the borough to devote a $14,000 Bergen County Open Space grant toward the cost of the system. The grant was received in 2009. The borough must make a dollar for dollar match of the county grant, but the balance of the cost of the detection system has been raised through a private fundraising campaign. Resident Carol Tyler has been working with the Ho-Ho-Kus Office of Emergency Management and the Ho-Ho-Kus Recreation Department to bring the lightning detection system to the borough. Tyler spearheaded the highly successful private fundraising campaign, which raised sufficient funds for the project in just a few months. Donated funds in excess of the amount needed to fund the system are being kept in a trust fund for future maintenance and repairs, according to an informed source. The system was made by a Wisconsin manufacturer and installed by the manufacturer’s local affiliate. The portion of the system located at North Field will reportedly run on solar power, while the installation at the public school will be hooked into the building’s power source. J. CRUSCO At the Bergen County Academies, Walsh gives Open House tours to prospective students every November. She is a member of Aid 4 Aids: Awareness through Music and was involved in a student-written production that was performed for the school to raise awareness of AIDS. She was a member of Earthknights, the environmental club at BCA and did a voiceover for Nickelodeon’s “Nick News: Our Thirsty World” episode to raise awareness of the global water crisis. Walsh has been elected academy representative for the Class Council at BCA. At Saint Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Ridgewood, Walsh has served in the choir and the church’s Teen Outreach group, assisting children and families at the church’s social events. A member of the Adult Outreach Committee, she has discussed and evaluated grant applications, awarding grants to numerous local charities that have asked for funding. This past summer, she attended Saint Elizabeth’s service trip to Maine. She served at a food pantry and helped refinish the basement of a church. She is a regular blood donor. The Humanity Awards is the major fundraiser to support the work of CLCC in counseling individuals, couples and families both individually and with outreach programs. For tickets, call (201) 3272424, extension four. Admission is $25 for adults and $15 for students and seniors in advance; $30 and $20, respectively, at the door. 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