May 22, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 25 Wyckoff Wanderings Rotary holds Banner Exchange Party The Rotary Club of Wyckoff-Midland Park plans to attend the district’s Banner Exchange Party. The June 18 event will be held at Macaluso’s, 161 Rea Avenue in Hawthorne. Cocktails will be available at 6 p.m. and dinner will follow at 7 p.m. During the party, Len Agrusti will be installed as the organization’s district governor. Members interested in attending should contact Andrew Garlick at amgarlick@garlickgroup.com for details. Butts to present musical history Conductor and lecturer Robert W. Butts will present “From Shakespeare to Sunset Boulevard: The Story of the Broadway Musical” on Thursday, May 30. This free event will be held at the Wyckoff Public Library at 7:30 p.m. The Broadway show emerged from plays with songs to full-blown musicals at the beginning of the 20th century with a vitality drawn from the spirit and talents of lyricists, composers, and performers. Its Golden Age arrived via the creative personalities of Rodgers, Hammerstein, Lerner, Loewe, Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Bernstein, Webber, and Sondheim. Maestro Butts, is the conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey and a music faculty member at Montclair State University. Register in person at the library’s reference desk or by phone at (201) 891-4866. The library is located at 200 Woodland Avenue. This program is funded by the Horizon Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Join the Spring Lake Stingrays Swimmers ages six through 18 are invited to try out for the Wyckoff Y’s summer Spring Lake Stingrays swim team on Saturday, June 15. Prospective Stingrays will try out from noon to 2 p.m. at the Wyckoff Family YMCA’s Spring Lake at 691 Wyckoff Avenue in Wyckoff. Swim- mers must bring a bathing suit, cap, and goggles. In case of inclement weather, tryouts will be held indoors at the Y’s Boye Pool. Team practices will be held Monday through Friday, June 24 through July 30. Swim meets are held on Monday and Thursday nights at 5 p.m. To be eligible for the team, children age eight and under must complete 25 yards of freestyle and backstroke without stopping. Swimmers who are nine and older must be able to swim 50 yards of freestyle, 25 of backstroke, and 25 of breaststroke. For more information, call Kathy Kallman at (201) 8912081 or kathyk@wyckoffymca.org. Donations sought for Strong Kids campaign The Wyckoff Family Y is halfway to its Strong Kids Campaign fundraising goal of $150,000, and is seeking community support to reach the final goal by mid-June. A contribution to the Wyckoff Y’s Strong Kids Campaign provides meaningful, lasting impact for an individual or family right here in the community. Last year Strong Kids Campaign dollars provided financial assistance for children and families in need. This includes child care, after school care, and summer camp. The program helped sponsor over 150 kids from Paterson to attend Camp Wydaca free of charge; subsidized costs for over 100 children and young adults in Y Special Needs Programs to include individuals with autism, Down syndrome, and other developmental disabilities; offered critical therapeutic exercise programs for those who cannot afford them (including those recovering from cancer, heart disease, and other debilitating conditions); created affordable programs and vital social services for active older adult members; offered educational programs at no charge to the community, including “The Parent Connection” and health and wellness discussions; created a new initiative to provide a network for military veterans that offers a variety of supportive services; and hosted many community events to raise funds and awareness for cause-driven issues, as in the Buddy Walk, Wyckoff Day, and Pietro Maugeri Walk. The Wyckoff Family YMCA is a non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable organization. No one who is experiencing financial hardship is ever turned away for inability to pay. For more information, or to donate to the campaign, call the Y at (201) 891-2081 or visit www.wyckoffymca.org. Register for sports programs Registration for Wyckoff Recreation’s flag football, football, cheerleading, and summer sports camp programs will be May 21 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Eisenhower School cafeteria. The school is located at 344 Calvin Court. There will also be an opportunity to sign up for the remaining spaces in this year’s summer programs for boys and girls. Those programs include baseball, basketball, tennis, volleyball, soccer clinics, roller hockey, kickball, and a cheerleading clinic. Registration materials will also be available for Bergen’s Best Soccer Camp, the Wyckoff YMCA football and basketball camps, the North Jersey Lacrosse Camp, and a multi-sport camp for children ages three through 14. Camps will be held in Wyckoff. The Flag Football program is open to Wyckoff residents who will be entering kindergarten through grade two in September 2013. Each grade level will practice separately. The program will run on Saturday afternoons at Community Park from mid-late September through early-mid November. Children are permitted to play K-2 flag football and soccer at the same time; the times will not conflict. Parents interested in coaching are welcome. The junior football program is open to Wyckoff children who will be entering grades three through eight in the fall. Two identical wallet-size pictures are required at the time of registration. Registrants, even those who participated last year, must also bring a copy of their birth certificate. The fee for this program is $185. Girls who will be entering grades five through eight are invited to participate in football cheerleading. Practices will begin in August and the season will run through midNovember. The fee for this program is $80. Program flyers are available at www.wyckoff-nj.com. For details, call the recreation office at (201) 891-3350. We welcome press releases from our readers. Items may be sent to editorial@villadom.com. Deadline is Wednesday at noon the week prior to publication.