Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • August 8, 2012 she enjoyed playing the games on the iPad. 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! In a subsequent interview, Shell told Villadom TIMES that emergencies on the west side of Hillsdale will be covered as Ho-Ho-Kus serves in the capacity of “second ladder.” He explained that, if an emergency occurs that calls for mutual aid, but no agreement is in place, the potential responding department would be required to contact Bergen County for permission to assist. Shell noted that Hillsdale is not part of the Northwest Bergen Mutual Aid Association of which Ho-Ho-Kus is a member. “This protects all parties and speeds response time,” Shell said of the renewed agreement with Hillsdale. Ho-Ho-Kus Fire Chief Chris Raimondi noted that the agreement will allow his department to automatically be able to respond to fire emergencies in Hillsdale, rather than wait to seek the county’s permission. “When there’s a fire, seconds count,” Raimondi said. Our hat’s off to our many readers who help us each week and bring in donations. We don’t know what we would do without your generosity. Thanks to Bill Auld and his team from the Joseph Lapinski Foundation for including ECF in their 24 Hours of Kindness event. Summer needs: We need window air conditioning units, new or in good working condition, for our families. Some of our families could also use prepaid phone cards for Cricket Mobile. We are looking for clothing gift cards to TJ Maxx and Marshalls for fall and back to school items. Several of our families would appreciate Ikea gift cards to help with their furniture needs. Gas station gift cards are also needed. We are in need of new sheets for twin and queen size beds and Good Night Pampers Stage 4. We also need new pillows, dish towels, and bath towels. Please help us fill the children’s backpacks with school supplies like filler paper, markers, and glue sticks. Meet Jennifer: Seven-year-old Jennifer was diagnosed with liver cancer when she was two. Emmanuel Cancer Foundation began working with the family soon afterward. Jennifer was student of the month for reading all her books in April 2012. She loves wearing her mother’s high heels, and she loves Strawberry Shortcake toys. Believe it or not, Jennifer has battled cancer four times. Her treatments have consisted of weekly visits to the hospital for chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant where her mother was compatible for the transplant, and an emergency kidney transplant. Jennifer also had the nasal tube for feeding, and additional chemotherapy due to post transplant lymphatic disorder. When her cancer returned in her left mandible, she again went through treatment. A viral infection has damaged a cranial nerve, and soon she will have surgery on her left eye. Doctors question radiation treatments because they cannot do chemotherapy forever. Surprisingly, Jennifer has lots of energy and is constantly moving around and is very inquisitive. Mom is her primary caretaker and is unable to work in order to take Jennifer to continual hospital visits for chemotherapy, when she’s sick, or for checkups. Dad is the only one who works and tries to get to the hospital when he can. Jennifer loves Thomas the Train and wants Emily the Train toys and books. She also wants an iPad because another kid in the hospital shared his iPad with her, and Mutual aid (continued from page 5) Hillsdale officials have expressed concern that the decision to close Church Road could present problems for emergency access from one side of the borough to the other, and from the borough to Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. When Hillsdale Avenue floods, Church Road becomes the major alternate access route for emergency services. With Church Road closed, officials said detours through other local municipalities could be necessary. The mutual aid agreement with Ho-Ho-Kus will allow Hillsdale the assurance of extra fire protection on that borough’s west side.