Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • September 12, 2012 personal computer and some financial support to purchase some new school clothing. You can help in a variety of ways. 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 toward direct care for our families. If your company has a charitable giving program, please let us know. Each month, we distribute about 140 bags of food to our families. You can help us fill our pantry. When you go grocery shopping and something non-perishable is on sale, please grab some extra items and drop them off at our outreach center. Staples such as sugar, flour, salt, cooking oil, detergent, pancake mix/syrup, and rice are always needed. 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 our families in many ways, including sending a case worker to visit the families at home or in the hospital. Kids can help, too. Many have held sales or other events 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. ECF representatives are available to discuss our programs at your next fundraiser or event. 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. This September, we will need a volunteer on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m. 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! or opposed the initiative, but they also requested some additional time to consider the concept. The dozen or so supporters who came to ask for the plaque thanked the council members for their attention. Ridgewood installed a plaque on the walk from the parking lot to North Maple Avenue to commemorate the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, and has named sections of streets after Holocaust rescuer Varian Fry and after a Ridgewood High School student killed in an automobile accident near Linwood Avenue. Most recently, Ridgewood veterans installed a plaque honoring the village’s casualties of World War I. tion and 11 years of teaching experience. Parents of participating children are invited to bring non-perishable food items for the church’s monthly drivethrough collection, which is held in the parking lot from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food is forwarded to the Social Service Association of Ridgewood and Vicinity’s food pantry. Ridgewood Christian Reformed is located at 271 Lincoln Avenue. For more information call (201) 445-1832. Our hat’s off to the Hamill family in Ridgewood who helped us stock our pantry during our very slow months. A huge thank you goes to the Wyckoff Seniors and MSO of Glen Rock for their ongoing food collections. We are getting ready for our fall fundraisers. Please call if you would like to get involved. Fall needs: Some of our families could use prepaid phone cards for Cricket Mobile, and gift cards for TJ Maxx, Marshalls, IKEA, and gas stations. We also need new sheets for twin and queen size beds, Good Night Pampers Stage 4, new pillows, dish towels, and bath towels, and an air purifier. Meet Josh: Josh is a 12-year-old who was diagnosed with cancer several years ago. After his long struggles with treatment, he is now in the early stages of remission. Josh wants to play soccer, but his parents are not convinced that he is physically and emotionally strong enough to handle this contact sport. Josh mentioned that he wished his was taller since most of the children in his age group are much taller than he is. He often jokes that maybe he needs to be placed in a stretching machine in order to catch up. Josh just started sixth grade. He was retained a few years ago since he missed a lot of school work due to his medical condition. His desire is to get a personal computer, printer, and software -- including some fun items. Josh said he would share the computer with his sister, brother, parents, cousins, aunts, and uncle, all of whom live in the same household. Josh shows immediate appreciation for any little thing people do for him, and he would truly value the receipt of a Ridge Wall plaque (continued from page 7) miniature plaques of dedication as already covered by local ordinance, would be a possible alternative. But he and the other council members asked for some time for both sides to consider future memorial plaques in the Village of Ridgewood. He offered to meet with the girls. None of the other council members formally supported Church programs (continued from page 6) children. For the past seven seasons, Stegink sang with the Opera Grand Rapids Chorus. Monsma has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in educa-