Page 12 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • July 13, 2011 to plan parties? Do you have experience in marketing or event planning? If you are interested, please call us. ECF is seeking bilingual caseworkers all over the state. Do you know someone who might be able to help? This is a paid contractual position. We currently need a few window air conditioners. Please let us know if you have one to donate. You can help in a variety of other ways. Consider turning your next event into a fundraiser for ECF, and ask guests to bring checks or gift cards to be used by our families. Your efforts help us to help families like Conner’s in many ways, including sending a caseworker to visit the families at home or in the hospital. This support for the kids, their siblings, and parents is crucial. Kids are welcome to help, too. Many have held sales or lemonade stands and contributed the proceeds to ECF. If your Boy Scout or Girl Scout Troop needs to earn badges, visit us in Midland Park. Scouts can get creative and have fun helping our families as they learn about philanthropy. Emmanuel Cancer Foundation was named for a boy named Emmanuel who lost his life to cancer almost 28 years ago. ECF relies on the local community to help support our families. Many of them do not (continued on page 13) Our hat’s off to: Glen Rock Women in Community Service for their amazing Food Drive! We really appreciate their generosity. We also thank Robert Schablik, Declan Hamilton, Thomas Cleary, Will French, Dan Literati, Liam Shea, Peter Harris, Chris Salamone, Nick Salamone, and Nick Tsiskakis. These teenagers from Ridgewood Boy Scout Troop 7 stocked our pantry for their service project. A special shout-out goes to MSO of Glen Rock for their Golf Fundraiser. Thank you to Drew Altman from Glen Rock for bringing us his Wii and some toys. Drew told us he loves to help kids. Thanks to Colleen Manley and the Medco Mail Channel for their Food Drive! Conner is an 18-year-old who has leukemia. He completed chemotherapy, and is now struggling with secondary complications such as pain in his right knee and hip. He is unable to walk. Life has been very difficult for Conner, who deals with pain on a daily basis and is unable to carry out normal daily activities. He recently developed problems with his left arm. Conner’s bone prevents the blood from passing through his arm, and he is unable to lift any heavy items. At this moment, he cannot sleep due to excruciating pain. Conner’s dream is to become a hairdresser, and he would like to go to school for his license. At the moment, he is trying to figure out how to pay for school. We distribute about 140 bags of food to our families each month. You can help us fill our pantry. When you go grocery shopping and something non-perishable is on sale, please buy some extra items and drop them off for our families. ECF uses monetary contributions to cover the costs associated with providing free services to any New Jersey child who has cancer. Approximately 70 cents from every dollar goes towards direct care for our families. If your company has a charitable giving program, please let us know. Our next big event will be a Wine & Cheese fundraiser in November. We are also planning our Second Annual Bash, which will be held in early February. Call us if you would like to get involved. We are looking for volunteers to help us plan. It doesn’t matter if you work full-time or if you are a stay-at-home mom or dad. We just need a few hours of your time. Do you like The Midland Park Public Education Foundation (MPPEF) recently sponsored a successful bicycle fundraiser raising more than $2,000. The Fastuca family of Midland Park is the lucky winner of two Trek 3500 bicycles from the Ridgewood Cycle Shop. All monies raised from the fundraiser will support Phase 2 of the Access to All campaign, a $70,000 district-wide grant to fund Interactive White Boards so that every student attending Midland Park Public schools has access to this cutting-edge educational tool. The MPPEF is grateful to the McKinnon family of Midland Park and the Ridgewood Cycle Shop for helping the foundation pedal its way to academic excellence. Pictured picking the winning ticket are, from left, Laurie Kamp, president of the MPPEF; Danielle Bache, principal, Highland School; and Andrew McKinnon of the Ridgewood Cycle Shop. For more information about the MPPEF and the ATA Campaign, visit www.mppef.org. MPPEF pedals its way to excellence