July 13, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 3 Glen Rock From July 22 through Aug. 1, Glen Rock resident Bonnie Sirower will join Maywood resident Kevin Williams, a psychotherapist, and his partner, Maywood Mayor Timothy Eustace, a chiropracter, as part of a group of 15 volunteers on a mission to to Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve. The group will build pre-school and kindergarten classrooms for children at the Nkenijii School, which provides education to about 300 Maasai children from ages five to 16. The mission also aims to provide medical treatment for the children in the school. This trip is being sponsored by the Maywood Rotary Club. Sirower, 62, is proprietor of Liaisons for Funding, LLC, an independent fundraising consultant who has worked with the YWCA’s Tribute to Women and Industry (in central New Jersey) for the past five years. She is an alumna of Barnard College. She will hold the position of district Borough woman to visit Kenya as part of Rotary project governor for all 55 Rotary Clubs in Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson counties in 2012-13. She served on the board of the YMCA of Paterson for 17 years, and on the board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals of New Jersey. Her hobbies are crocheting, beading, and crossword puzzles. During the visit to Kenya, Sirower will be responsible for teaching games and activities to small children. This project is the fifth Maywood Rotary Club volunteer trip to Kenya run by Eustace and Williams, along with their son Carey, a student at Bergen County Technical School who started the Maywood Rotary Kenya Project in 2003 – when he was just eight years old. Previously, the duo led a group of volunteers to the Empopongi Elementary School, about 45 minutes away from the Nkenijii School. At the Empopongi School, this stalwart group of volunteers built classrooms and libraries, provided school supplies and nutritious food for the children, and supplied uniforms for all of the students, a prerequisite for attending school in Kenya. One of their biggest accomplishments was digging a well at the Empopongi School, thus providing safe and drinkable water to the school’s students and nearby village residents for the first time without having to walk more than several miles to retrieve it. In Kenya, clean water can save more lives than three full time doctors. Volunteers for this project come from all parts of northern New Jersey. Among the local residents is Wyckoff’s Cathy Newman, a pediatric clinician with Valley Home Care. Newman recived her BSN from Boston College and earned her MSN from East Carolina University. This will be her second trip to Kenya with the Maywood Rotary Kenya Project. For more information on helping to build and help the Nkenijii School in Kenya, or to become part of the volunteer corps visiting next year to install a water pipeline, visit www.MaywoodRotaryKenyaProject. org. To follow the day-to-day progress of the volunteers, visit the website and select “2011 Volunteer Trip Diary” from July 22 through Aug. 1. Tree Trust nears campaign goal The Glen Rock Tree Trust announced it is nearing its goal for the 11 Neighbors 11 Trees campaign, the group’s year long effort of the Glen Rock Tree Trust to raise funds to plant 11 trees on public land throughout Glen Rock in memory of the 11 Glen Rock residents who died on Sept. 11, 2001. To date the trust has received donations or pledges of trees from Cub Scout Pack 1, the Hamilton School Home School Association, the Girl Scouts of Glen Rock, PSEG, The Environmental Club of Central School and several individuals. The Trust is looking for contributions from individuals of any size and is seeking donations from organizations that might want to underwrite the cost of a tree. The trees will planted in time for the tenth anniversary of 9-11. Each tree costs $200. Requests for more information may be sent to TheGlenRockTreeTrust@gma il.com or contributions marked for the 11 Neighbors 11 Tree campaign of the Glen Rock Tree Trust, may be dropped by borough hall, Harding Plaza.