Area December 21, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 11 Atlantic Stewardship donates to Eva’s Village to allow parents in the programs the opportunity to choose gifts for their children. “Atlantic Stewardship Bank is pleased to support the mission of Eva’s Village, especially during the holiday season.” said ASB Tithing Administrator Diane Kerner. Located in Paterson, the mission of Eva’s Village is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, treat the addicted, and provide free medical and dental care to the poor with respect for the human dignity of each individual. To learn more about Eva’s Village, visit www.evasvillage.org. Atlantic Stewardship Bank, a subsidiary of Stewardship Financial Corporation, maintains banking locations in Hawthorne, Midland Park, Montville, North Haledon, Pequannock, Ridgewood, Waldwick, Wayne, Westwood, and Wyckoff. Established in 1985, ASB is a full-service community bank serving both individuals and businesses. The bank is a subsidiary of Stewardship Financial Corporation. The bank’s website is www.asbnow.com. Diane Kerner, ASB tithing administrator; Joseph Mazza, Eva’s Village special events coordinator; Mary Beth Steiginga, ASB financial analyst; and Paul Van Ostenbridge, ASB president and CEO. Atlantic Stewardship Bank recently made a donation of toys and gifts to Eva’s Village’s Holiday Shoppe. Each year, the volunteers at Eva’s Village solicit donations to provide toys and gifts for the children living in the Hope Residence and to those whose parents are in Eva’s Village shelters and treatment programs. Volunteers set up a Holiday Shoppe Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan has vetoed pay raises for management employees at the Northwest Bergen Utilities Authority and used her veto to end the practice of providing cash stipends and health benefits to the NWBCUA’s nine commissioners. NWBCUA was the last authority in the county that provides stipends for commissioners along with health benefits at the expense of taxpayers. Earlier in the year, Donovan abolished stipends to the County Construction Board of Appeals. In her veto message sent to NWBCUA Chair William Dator, Donovan said, “The Authority has provided for itself raises which will cost the taxpayers a total of $89,000 between increased salary and the fringe costs associated with such raises. As I have advised you in previous veto messages, I will not condone nor permit this to occur during these difficult economic times. I have advised fixed annual employees of the county that they will not receive raises Kathleen Donovan vetoes pay raises, benefits for NWBCUA commissioners in fiscal 2012; neither shall the fixed annual employees of your Authority. “Nowhere in the minutes of the meeting is there mention of the commissioners abolishing the practice of providing for themselves a stipend for their service, which also permits them to receive health benefits at taxpayer expense. I have advised you in previous veto messages and correspondence with your counsel that I steadfastly maintain there is no reason for the taxpayers of Bergen County to be required to shoulder this burden, and I will not ask them to do so. In view of the commissioners’ continued failure to affirmatively act and refuse to accept their stipends, I am compelled to ask for and expect their resignations.” Donovan said she is keeping her promise to the people of Bergen County. She noted, “We cut $30 million from the Democrat spending plan we inherited when we took office in January and we will continue to look at every expenditure and make necessary cuts to bring further savings.”