February 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 11 Area VFW honors Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest winners The Midland Park/Wyckoff VFW Post 7086 recently held an awards ceremony for the 2012 Patriots Pen Essay Contest as part of Eisenhower Middle School’s annual Patriots Day event for eighth graders. This year’s essay theme was ‘What I Would Tell America’s Founding Fathers.’ This year’s top three essays were from students attending Wyckoff’s Eisenhower Middle School. The VFW thanks and congratulates the over 60 students who expressed their patriotism and wrote essays to submit to this competition. Right: First place winner Angelo (AJ) Ferrara with his uncle and veteran Edward Staar and the other VFW members and veterans who attended the event. Left: Second place winner Alexandra Harris and her grandfather, Pastor Donald Harris, a U.S. Army veteran. Below: Third place winner Sarah O’Connell.