Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • September 12, 2012 vices 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. 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 for ECF 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. 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 details. 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. 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! Emmanuel asks... Can You Help? 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 food collections. We are getting ready for our fall fundraisers. 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 karen/janine 4-29-09 in the early stages of remission. Josh wants to play soccer, but his parents EmmanuelHelp3x.75(4-29-09) are not convinced that he is physically and emotionally strong enough to handle this 3 x .75 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 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 because he had missed a lot of school due to his 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 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 ser- November election (continued from page 4) where he is on the Ramapo College Board of Governors and is currently serving on the college’s President’s Strategic Plan Task Force. He is a past president of the Ramapo College Alumni Association. He is a member of the Grace United Methodist Church in Wyckoff, where he is a Confirmation teacher, and he is a Girl Scout Daisy Dad. Sbarra has lived in the township for 20 years and is the owner of Sport Clips in Wyckoff, which opened last year. He previously was the senior manager of FedEx in Fairfield and a manager at Commerce Bank and at Wachovia Bank. He has volunteered for the DARE street and roller hockey program and for the Mahwah Sports Boosters as a basketball and softball coach. He is a founding trustee of the Mahwah Ice Hockey Association, a volunteer ice hockey coach at Mahwah High School, and a fundraiser for the United Way in Fairfield. Van Duren is one of the owners of the Ramsey Auto Group of local car dealerships. He has been a Mahwah resident for 37 years and has three children, two of whom are in the Mahwah school system. He has been a member of the Mahwah Municipal Alliance for two years and a member of the township’s planning board since the beginning of this year. Van Duren said he has also been involved in sports and the schools in the township, and his wife is currently president of Ambulance Corps Company #4.