Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • April 3, 2013 years of providing exceptional free services to families all over New Jersey. If you would care to make a contribution to honor this milestone, imagine how much good we could do with $30 from every reader! ECF is seeking volunteers to help with a party for our families. Can you provide food, gifts, activities, or crafts for our kids and their families? Please let us know. You can help us in a variety of ways. Turn your event into a fundraiser, and collect checks or gift cards for our families. Your efforts help us to help families in many ways, including sending a case worker to visit the families at their home or in the hospital. This support for the kids, their siblings, and parents is crucial. Get your kids involved, too. Some have held sales or events and donated the proceeds to ECF. Is your Cub Scout or Girl Scout Troop looking to earn badges? Call us for some ideas to get creative and have fun while learning about philanthropy! We are also available to speak about our programs at your next event. 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 in Midland Park. Visit us on the web at www.emmanuelcancer.org. As always, thank you for helping the children and their families! Our hat’s off to Ho-Ho-Kus Cub Scout Pack 54 Bear Den 2 for the beautiful Easter baskets. Special thanks to Rod and Linda Bolten for supplying hams to our families receiving food each month. We also thank Stephanie and Pete Belasco for purchasing food gift cards to help our families enjoy a nice Easter meal. Several of our families were affected by Hurricane Sandy. They still have many needs. Please consider calling us to see how you can help. The following items are needed to help these and some of our other local families: new or gently-used clothing for boys ages 10 and up, new twin and queen-size sheets, stage 3 diapers and baby wipes, cake mix and icing for birthday bags, a computer hard drive, a twin bed and dresser, DVD players, microwaves and toaster ovens, test strips for one of our diabetic children, a silverware set. Meet Nicky: This ECF patient has been battling cancer for many years. His hospital stays are becoming more frequent, and he is housebound, unable to walk any distance as his respiratory system is greatly compromised. He is on oxygen 24/7 and had a tracheotomy to help him breathe. He requires constant monitoring, suction to help him breathe, and has a nurse every evening and several times a week. He was so ill after his last flare up that he lost 44 pounds, making all his clothes too large. He would greatly appreciate some new comfortable clothes, specifically some sweats with an elastic waist and P.J. elastic waist pants/bottoms with sports teams/logos. He now wears a men’s size large. He also needs some white low-cut sweat socks in men’s size 10-13. He could also use a small table to hold his oxygen machine. Emmanuel Cancer Foundation is now celebrating 30 Third annual History Day event to include eight local homesteads by John Koster The third annual History Day house tours will be held on May 18 this year, and tickets are now on sale week at historic sites and by mail. The $10 ticket price allows tour participants to visit as many as eight historical homesteads in northwest Bergen County. The sites are some of the oldest and most important in northern New Jersey and most are used as local museums of cultural and family history. On the day of the tour, presenters will offer a look at some of the handicrafts and skills employed in Colonial and Revolutionary War times. The tour sites will include: • The Schoolhouse Museum, 650 East Glen Avenue in Ridgewood, an actual schoolhouse from Victorian times that has been converted into a museum featuring clothing, crafts, toys, Indian artifacts, and silverware and pottery from pre-Columbian days to the end of the 19th century. • The Hermitage, 335 North Franklin Turnpike in HoHo-Kus, a Gothic Revival mansion built around an older Colonial home where George Washington once stayed and Aaron Burr courted his first wife, Theodosia Prevost, during the American Revolution. • The Fell House, 475 Franklin Turnpike in Allendale, former home of Patriot John Fell, a member of the Second Continental Congress who helped ratify the U.S. Constitution and spent time in a British prison until his daughter helped win his freedom through the influence of her Loyalist husband. This house was recently saved from the bulldozer by dedicated residents and is being gradually restored to its standing as one of the finest mansions in the county. • The Hopper-Goetschius Museum, 363 East Saddle River Road in Upper Saddle River, another impressive larger home. Grilled hotdogs and soda will be served in the picnic area during the tour hours from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Hermitage is one of the houses featured on the tour. • The Old Stone House, 538 Island Road near Route 17 southbound in Ramsey, a museum that features a detailed look at construction techniques and vintage toys. • The Mahwah Museum, 201 Franklin Turnpike in Mahwah. • The Van Allen House, 3 Franklin Avenue in Oakland, near the terminus of Route 208, a colonial-era farmhouse typical of the homes that middle-income settlers lived in as they worked the land. • The Zabriskie House, 421 Franklin Avenue in Wyckoff, which offers a look at extensive crafts and family living from the Revolutionary War era through the Civil War era. Tickets will also be sold at Abma's Farm Market, 700 Lawlins Road in Wyckoff, Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by mail by writing to the Old Schoolhouse Museum, 650 East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450. Checks should be made out to the Ridgewood Historical Society.