This week at the Bergen County Animal Shelter there are many pets who are looking for a great home to call their own but these are the featured pets of the week.Cats:The shelter describes Adriana as:Adriana came to the shelter with Babaloo when her owner passed away. She is about 4 to 6 years old. Adriana is good with kids, dogs and other cats. She is up to date with shots and will get a microchip before leaving the shelter.The shelter describes Leo as:Leo is an amazing guy. He is about 7 years old and has lived with dogs before. Leo is calm and sweet. He is up to date with shots. Leo will …
There was something for everyone Saturday at the Eastern Christian Children's Retreat's annual Country Fair. The festival, held at Memorial Field, featured vendors of all stripes, games for kids, food, music and more. The fundraiser benefits the Mountain Avenue facility, which cares for developmentally disabled adults.
It's the stuff of adventure stories: rescuing victims from the ruins of fire, flood or terrorist act, reuniting siblings separated for more than a half century by the horrors of the Holocaust. And it's all in your own backyard at the American Red Cross of Northern New Jersey. "These are the real heroes," said chapter Chairman Keith Lynott of the volunteers who rush to disaster sites, teach others to perform first aid and CPR and help military personnel and their families during deployment and in times of trouble. "It's very patriotic," Lynott said, noting the Red Cross has a federal statutory…
It is Wednesday, July 21 and pushing 8 a.m. at the Glen Rock Municipal Pool on Doremus Avenue, and dozens of teenagers have been up since before 6 a.m. "They get up at 5:45 a.m. to be here," said Kathy Kallman, the coach of the Wykcoff YMCA's Shark Program. "They must put in about 27 hours of swim practice and exercise a week." In the middle of July, when most teenagers and high school students are sleeping through the summer break, these young adults are preparing for the 2010 National YMCA Long Course Swimming Championship, which will be held from July 26 to July 30, 2010 held at at the …
Two Wyckoff businesses are reaching out to assist efforts to help clean up the oil spill that has devastated the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico since a deadly April oil rig explosion. "We wanted to do something to help," said Kathy Dolan, a co-owner of Vanity Fur, a pet grooming salon on Franklin Avenue. "We were so devastated by what we saw." Hair salon owner Paul Ferraro, of MANE on Madison, said that he was pleased his store could help, as well. Both Vanity Fur and MANE on Madison have been in touch with a nonprofit organization, Matter of Trust, that seeks to link volunteers with needy…
"T'Green Olam," says Mark Niederman at the Temple Beth Rishon synagogue. It's a play on words of the Hebrew phrase "tikkun olam," which refers to the notion that you should leave a place better than you found it. "You don't want to diminish it any way. You want to improve it," Niederman said. It's also Temple Beth Rishon's Environmental Committee's environmental mantra: improve the world. And that's just what Beth Rishon is doing, and they're imploring the community to follow suit. With a certificate pending from Greenfaith, an environmental interfaith advocacy and education group, the temple…
