Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • July 24, 2013 Wyckoff Partners in Pride recruits community members Wyckoff’s Partners in Pride organiza- tion has recruited new members from the community to ensure that the club’s tub gardens around town will be kept watered. Wyckoff Township Administrator Robert Shannon is among the volunteers. He will be maintaining the planter outside Wyckoff Town Hall. This year, eight new volunteers signed up the join the group’s beautification efforts. The PIPs need 30 volunteers to maintain their pocket gardens and tubs during the summer. “All over town, individuals and busi- nesses and organizations as well as the PIPs are busy tending and beautifying small gardens and containers,” said Mary Bugel, who helped found the PIPs with her husband Tom. “Bare areas that are planted with lovely flowers and shrubs have the added benefit of indirectly combating litter.” Bugel praised the efforts of PIP Susan Litt, the club’s planting chairwoman. This year, Litt used pie plates of flowers to fill the 56 tubs the group has situated through- out Wyckoff. In response to the PIPs call for new recruits this spring, Susanne Brown and Diane Bograd initiated the landscaping of the island between the Wyckoff Library and ambulance corps headquarters. The island was planted with a purple plum, hydrangeas, and annuals. For 26 years, members of the PIPs have been organizing local beautification and cleanup projects and environmental educa- tion efforts. The club launched Wyckoff’s annual Team Up to Tidy Up program with the support of township officials over two decades ago. Partners in Pride is a non-profit civic association dedicated to beautifying the township. To volunteer, contact Jill Rous- seau at (201) 891-4231 or Jbuddr1@aol. com. Fireworks tickets on sale Administrator Bob Shannon tends to his flower tub for Partners in Pride. The 56th Annual Wyckoff Fire Depart- ment Fireworks Display and Band Con- cert Fundraiser will be held Aug. 31 on Memorial Field, located behind Memorial Town Hall at 340 Franklin Avenue. Attendees are invited to come early for the concert, which will start at 6:45 p.m. The fireworks are scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. (Rain date: Sept. 2.) Tickets may be purchased in advance for $10 each. Children under 10 will be admitted free of charge. Tickets may be purchased at the following locations: the Township of Wyckoff Clerk’s office, 340 Franklin Avenue; the Wyckoff YMCA, 695 Wyckoff Avenue; Blue Moon Café, 327 Franklin Avenue; the Market Basket, 300 Sicomac Avenue, Wyckoff; Yudin’s, 378 Main Street; Waldwick Prime Meats, 384 Main Street, Wyckoff; and Parkwood Deli, 342 Erie Avenue, Midland Park. To purchase tickets by mail, send a check made payable to the Wyckoff Vol- unteer Fire Department: to P.O. Box 6, Wyckoff, NJ 07481. This event is the fire department’s annual fundraiser. The Wyckoff Volun- teer Fire Department is comprised of 100 volunteers who receive 140 hours of basic firematic training at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute and continue their training every Monday evening in Wyckoff to develop and fine- tune skills such as search and rescue, fire suppression, fire attack, fire ground communications, and advanced vehicle rescue techniques. These highly trained and skilled volunteers serve the commu- nity by assisting their neighbors in the protection of life and property. This year marks the 105th year that volunteers of the Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department have served the Township of Wyckoff and its residents.