Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • June 20, 2012 Ridgewood People who give of their time and talent make all the difference in the lives of vulnerable children. For Children’s Aid and Family Services, volunteers help in countless ways, from teaching tae kwon do to children in foster care to repairing bicycles for children living in group homes. The agency recently honored some of its outstanding volunteers. The honorees included four Glen Rock residents -Marsha and Ted Burke, and Jillian and Natalie Luftman; and three Ridgewood residents -- Elizabeth Crimmins, Marybeth Lyons, and John Mills. Marsha and Ted Burke have three birth children and an adopted son. They were foster parents of babies with medical needs before adopting their son. The Burkes are committed to finding families for adopted children. Mr. Burke Children’s Aid & Family Services honors local volunteers Left: Jillian and Natalie Luftman with Erica West of Children’s Aid and Family Services. Above: Marsha Fisher of Children’s Aid and Family Services presents Volunteer award to Ted and Marsha Burke. Right: Elizabeth Crimmins and Bob Jones, Ph.D., president & CEO of Children’s Aid and Family Services. donates his time producing videos of children waiting to be adopted. Those videos are featured on www.cafsnj.org. Many families thinking about adopting view the videos before taking the first step and contacting Children’s Aid and Family Services. Crimmins is a third grader at Somerville Elementary School in Ridgewood. She recently had a birthday party and asked her friends to bring diapers and formula for Children’s Aid and Family Services’ Baby Basics program in lieu of birthday presents. Her donations helped low-income families. Jillian and Natalie Luftman are in second grade and kindergarten, respectively, at Coleman Elementary School in Glen Rock. These students led supply drives for foster children living in Children’s Aid and Family Services’ group homes and young adults turning 18 and “aging out” of foster care. Lyons has been volunteering at The Depot craft and gift shop for 24 years. The Depot, located at 22 Prospect Street in Midland Park, is the largest all-volunteer women’s exchange in the country. Its proceeds benefit Children’s Aid and Family Services. Lyons has served as co-director, secretary, volunteer chair, and is currently hospitality chair of The Depot. Mills is manager of the Ridgewood Cycle Shop. For the past several years, he has routinely repaired and maintained foster children’s bicycles without charge. Over the years, Mills has also donated bicycle helmets, bicycles, and snow saucers to the foster children. Andrew McKinnon, the owner of Ridgewood Cycle Shop, has supported all of these efforts. “On behalf of Children’s Aid and Family Services, I thank all of these individuals for their generous contributions of time and talent to the agency and the children and families we serve,” said Bob Jones, Ph.D., president and CEO of Children’s Aid and Family Services. “They, and all the other volunteers who help in countless ways, make the work we do possible.” (continued on page 19)