December 5, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 17 During the month of November Atlantic Stewardship Bank conducted its annual food drive to help replenish the local food pantries following the recent Thanksgiving holiday. The beneficiaries of this year’s food drive included the Social Service Organization of Ridgewood; The Center for Food Action in Englewood; CUMAC, Star of Hope Ministries and Oasis, a Haven for Women & Children in Paterson; the Pequannock Township Food Pantry; Harvest Outreach Ministries in Paterson; Westwood Cares and New Hope Ministries in Haledon. Atlantic Stewardship Bank is now collecting new, unwrapped gifts for children at all of its branches through its annual Wish Tree. Each of the bank’s 13 branches displays a small Christmas tree decorated with ornaments and gifts tags for the collection. Bank customers and associates are Bank helps those in need of food, holiday gifts encouraged to take a tag and an ornament from the tree and return with a new, unwrapped gift suitable for a child from newborn to age 16. The bank’s gift collection will continue through Dec. 14. The gifts are presented to local charitable organizations such as New City Kids, Westwood Cares, CUMAC, Harvest Outreach Ministries, and New Hope Ministries and will be distributed to needy and inner city children. Atlantic Stewardship Bank maintains banking locations in Midland Park, Montville, North Haledon, Pequannock, Ridgewood, Waldwick, Westwood, Wyckoff, two offices in Hawthorne, and three offices in Wayne. Established in 1985, ASB is a full-service community bank serving both individuals and businesses. The bank is a subsidiary of Stewardship Financial Corporation trading on the NASDAQ. Two bank employees with some of the food items that were contributed to this year’s drive.