Business November 2, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 17 Pascack Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Pascack Community Bank, has announced the election of Ramsey resident Larry Inserra Jr. to the boards of directors of Pascack Community Bank and its Inserra named to Pascack Community Bank’s board holding company, Pascack Bancorp, Inc. Inserra is the president and CEO of Inserra Supermarkets, Inc., a family-owned business founded in 1954. Inserra Supermarkets is one of the largest supermarket chains in During the month of November, Mayer’s Karate and Fitness will host a Kick-a-Thon to help generate funds for Reed Academy and to elevate community awareness about autism. Reed Academy recently announced the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art facility in Oakland. Funded solely by private donations, the new facility includes space to incorporate all aspects of educating individuals with autism. One in every 110 children is diagnosed with autism each year. Reed Academy is at the forefront in providing the most effective science-based intervention for individuals with autism so they may become independent, productive, and contributing members of their families and communities. Kick-a-Thon raises funds along with autism awareness Mayer’s Karate and Fitness offers one of the area’s largest exercise/martial arts programs for special needs children, including many children with autism. Children are experiencing benefits in the areas of overall strength, coordination, concentration, and positive interaction with other children. Mayer’s Karate has been instructing children in the martial arts since 1984, and incorporated its highly specialized program for children with special needs in 2006. Currently, Mayer’s Karate is instructing over 40 children with varying levels of disabilities. Contact Reed Academy at (201) 6440760 or Mayer’s Karate and Fitness at (973) 238-8600 to support the effort of helping children with autism and special needs. the metropolitan area currently operating 22 ShopRite stores. Inserra also holds a number of leadership positions, both professionally and philanthropically, including board member and treasurer of Wakefern Food Corporation, and first vice chairman of the board and chairman of the Human Resources Committee at Hackensack University Medical Center. He has also received several philanthropic awards and honors such as Humanitarian of the Year from Diabetes’s Research Institute, Mahwah Chamber of Commerce, Community Blood Services Foundation and Tomorrow’s Children’s Fund. “We are delighted to have someone with the depth of Larry’s business experience join our board,” said Chairman of the Board Jon F. Hanson. President and CEO Bruce M. Meisel added, “Larry is an accomplished individual in the business, civic, and philanthropic communities in Bergen County who clearly has deep rooted ties to the community we serve so we are looking forward to his contributing to our bank’s continued success.” Pascack Bancorp is the holding company for Pascack Community Bank, a New Jersey chartered commercial bank founded in 2002 which provides personalized banking services, with a strong emphasis on relationship banking, to consumers and small to medium size, many family owned and operated, businesses primarily located in Bergen and northern Essex counties. A seventh branch, located at 64 Crescent Avenue in Waldwick, is slated tol open in January 2012. Pascack Community Bank’s lending activities are geared toward small and medium-sized business customers, professional practices and consumer and retail customers. Its products include term loans, residential and commercial mortgages, and working capital and home equity lines of credit. Deposit services offered include various types of personal and business checking accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit in addition to 24/7 telephone banking, online banking with bill pay, and 24-hour drive-up/walk-up ATMs. The bank is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and is an Equal Housing/Equal Opportunity Lender. For more information, call (201) 722-4722 or visit www.pascackbank.com.