Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • April 24, 2013 with a financial contribution, contact: laura@emmanuelcancer.org, or telephone Laura at (201) 612-8118. 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 rely on our local community to help support our families. Many of them do not have the financial or emotional support to help them get through a major illness like cancer. Please remember, we do not charge anything for our services. We rely on you! Emmanuel Cancer Foundation is now celebrating 30 years of providing exceptional free services to families all over New Jersey. We welcome members of the community to make a contribution to honor this milestone. Just imagine how much good we could do with $30 from every reader! ECF is seeking volunteers to help with a 2013 holiday party for our families. If you can provide food, gifts, activities, or crafts for our kids and their families, please call. 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 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: The Christian Health Care Center for their ongoing Food Drive and to nine-year-old Deanna for bringing us books and pajamas for our kids. Our families who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy still have many needs. Please call us to see how you can help. The following items are needed to help these and 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 a dresser • DVD players • Microwaves and toaster ovens • Test strips for one of our diabetic children Meet Leslie: Leslie is a 14-year old girl with stage IV brain cancer. Prior to her diagnosis, she was an extremely outgoing and active girl. She was a dancer and gymnast, and pursued modeling. She is now unable to walk. Twice a week, Leslie goes to Manhattan for treatments to try to slow the loss of leg function. She also travels all the way to Pittsburgh to receive a clinical trial for the rare form of cancer that has debilitated her. From her dance instructor to her elementary and middle school teachers, all who come into contact with Leslie and her family are immediately drawn to the inner and outer beauty of this young girl. Leslie’s mother has to carry Leslie everywhere around the home, and would greatly benefit from a wheelchair. Throughout the day, Leslie has multiple mini-seizures that leave her very frightened. Her only source of comfort through these episodes is the touch of her mother’s hand. If you can provide this family with a wheelchair, or if you can help FLOW Notes Mad4Kids hosts Art & More benefit The Mad4Kids after-school club will host its Third Annual Art & More Fundraiser at Eisenhower Middle School, 344 Calvin Court in Wyckoff, on Thursday, April 25. Hours will be 7 to 8:30 p.m. Mad4Kids (Make a Difference for Kids) is comprised of students from Eisenhower Middle School and Ramapo High School who believe it is important to help needy counterparts from around the world. The event will feature the sale of artisanal crafts and gifts, an exhibit of student artwork, a premiere of a documentary on kids in Guatemala, prizes, and an auction. The $5 admission fee entitles the attendee to a MAD4Kids bracelet and a two-week membership to the Edge gym in Oakland. Art contest participants will be admitted free. For more information, e-mail madness4kids@gmail.com or call (201) 785-4097. Community invited to Relay for Life The American Cancer Society invites the FLOW community to participate in its Relay for Life event set for May 17 and 18 at Ramapo High School, 331 George Street in (continued on page 20)