Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • September 21, 2011 We are excited about joining our new friends at the Ridgewood Art Institute for our next big event: a November wine and cheese reception. 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 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. 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 Kasey’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, which was named for a boy named Emmanuel who lost his life to cancer almost 28 years ago, relies on the local community to help support our families. Many of them do not have the financial or emotional support to help them get through a major illness like cancer. Please remember: We do not charge anything for our services. We rely on you! ECF representatives are available to discuss our programs at your next fundraiser or event. Just give us a call for more information. If you have a few hours a week to spare, consider becoming a volunteer, or just stop by and meet with us, take a look at our pantry, and see what ECF is all about. 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. The Northern Regional Center is located at 174 Paterson Avenue, Midland Park, NJ 07432. Visit us at www.emmanuelcancer.org. As always, thank you for helping the children and their families! Our hats off to: Rebecca, Raelene, Morgan, Leah, and Amber from Wyckoff. These sixth grade girls brought us $127 that they raised from their Bake Sale. Thanks, girls! We also thank the women at Evergreen Court for their ongoing Food Drive. Kasey is a five-year-old girl who lives in Linden and just started school this month. She was diagnosed with Pre B All, a type of leukemia. Kasey is doing well, but her family is having a hard time financially. Her caseworker, Bridget, reported that the family’s home needs a roof repair. Their leaky roof impacts Kasey’s health. We are looking for contractors or roofers who are willing to put time and effort into this project. Kasey and her family would be very appreciative. Many of our families are in the Paterson and Wallington areas. Their homes were hit hard by Hurricane Irene, so we need your help more than ever. These families are dealing with major financial struggles in addition to having a child with cancer. We would also appreciate six tickets to “Spider-man” for William and his family. 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. ECF distributes about 140 bags of food to our families each month. Please help us fill our pantry by picking up some non-perishable food items for the ECF families while you are shopping for your own family. Wyckoff The Wyckoff Board of Education has appointed an assistant business administrator and two new teachers. The board appointed Jason Bohm as an assistant business administrator for the K-8 school system at a salary of $70,000 a year. Kyle Bleeker had announced his resignation as bookkeeper at the officer effective Sept. 30, and Bohm will assume the assistant business administrator’s post on Sept. 26. Martha Guzman has been appointed as a leave replacement Spanish teacher at Eisenhower School with a salary School board appoints assistant business administrator, teachers of $47,655. She will serve until the teacher she is replacing returns. Pamela Del Grande has been appointed as a 0.6-time leave replacement teacher in language arts at Eisenhower School at a step 1 salary of $47,655 pro-rated to reflect actual time worked. Grace White has been upgraded from part-time literacy coach to full-time literacy coach for the district. J. KOSTER