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Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Members 2015-2016

Row 1 (L-R): Chris Stout, Rob Saydah, Matt Nolfo, Bill Haggerty, Ashok Patel, Anne Bosch, Lisa Sammataro, Mary Ann Copp, Ron Verdicchio, Jon Lyttle, Carleton Clinch and Doug Cronk.

Row 2, (L-R): Ron Widman, Greg Tarris, Ken Espenak, Steve Castellucci, Neal Lewis, Louis Gerber and Jay Fowler.Not Present: Tammy Butler, Bill Commer, Maureen Cornicelli, Rob Elfers, Kathleen Entwistle, Dave Feeney, Dan Fishbein, Vince Giordano,

Glenn Godart, Tomas Hainich, Ryan Mitchell, John Plum, Vernon Reed, Barbara Sacks, John Saraceno, David Sayles, Ed Silver, Andy Topp, Michael Tozzoli, Gary Perazzo, Betty Wiest and Charles Nalbantian.

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Who We AreWe’re a network of 45 men and women from Ridgewood, Ho-Ho-Kus, Glen Rock and surrounding communities. We come from a diverse range of professions and share the goal of making a difference in our communities and the world.

We’re part of Rotary International, the world’s first service organization, which was founded in 1904 and now has 1.2 million members in 200 countries. Rotary International helped establish the U.N., grants more scholarships than any other private charitable organization and is the driving force behind eradicating polio and other infectious diseases worldwide. Please visit www.rotary.org for updates on Rotary International’s latest worldwide initiatives.

What We DoThe Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club has raised and disbursed over $1 million to local, national and international causes since our founding in 1987. Our grants focus on education, student leadership development, health and human services, and aid to the needy and underserved in our community. We collect food for local food pantries, support services to the elderly and aided families and communities affected by natural disasters, such as Hurricane Sandy.

We also volunteer our services to local families in need through Habitat for Humanity of Bergen County and Family Promise of Bergen County. We assist in cleaning up rivers, streams and parks in our area, and travel to Haiti and other countries to support orphanages and schools, and provide medical and dental care.

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How you can helpSupport our primary fundraisers, including: • Raffle calendars • Benefit dinners and events • Campaigns for donations of food, clothing and other supplies for the needy • Join us in hands-on work to aid those in need in our community

On the Cover Since our club meets at 7:30 a.m. on Thursdays, our mascot is a colorful rooster. This year, he is shown in volunteer first responder mode, in recognition of those in our communities who dedicate themselves to keeping us safe.

The 2016 Raffle Calendar Cover is dedicated to honoring our volunteer firefighters and ambulance/EMS corps serving Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood and Glen Rock.

To learn more about us Visit our Web site, www.ridgewoodamrotary.org.

Volunteer first responders have frequent drills to hone skills. Here they practice rescuing a victim of a serious auto accident.


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You see them on aerial rigs three stories up, wearing 50 pounds of turnout gear, fighting a roof blaze. Or stabilizing and extricating an accident victim from a mangled vehicle. Or helping police cordon off a road where a downed power line is sparking dangerously. These are just some of the vital roles volunteer first responders serve in Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood and Glen Rock.

These volunteers not only help keep us safe, but also respond to large-scale incidents in the New York metropolitan area. Many of our volunteer first responders provided crucial assistance during and after the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center terrorist attacks. The Ho-Ho-Kus Memorial Volunteer Ambulance Corps was among the first New Jersey ambulance corps to arrive on Ellis Island, where boatloads of workers from the World Trade Center area were being evacuated, provided emergency medical treatment and sent to hospitals if needed.

The three-town service area of the Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club is

fortunate to have nearly 200 dedicated volunteer first responders on call day or night to serve their neighbors in times of emergency. When we dial 911, chances are that a well-trained volunteer emergency responder will answer the call along with professional police and fire

forces in our area. In addition to answering emergency calls, volunteer first responders spend hundreds of hours training in emergency medicine, hazardous materials and biological events, search and rescue, fire suppression, emergency preparedness, mass casualty

situations and handling terror threats. After initial training, there is periodic recertification and continuous learning about new regulations and standards, best practices and new medical and communications equipment and technology.

The community service our volunteer emergency responders provide our communities is of incalculable value. Why do they do it? The Ho-Ho-Kus Volunteer Fire Department explains it through the 105 year-old department’s motto: “Neighbors helping neighbors.” Ridgewood Emergency Services (RES) echoes this sentiment: “With all the uncertainties surrounding us these days…there is one certainty you can count

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on—RES volunteers are here to serve you and your family in time of need.” Exemplifying this need, RES volunteers answered 1,400 ambulance calls last year ranging from auto accidents to cardiac events.

Ridgewood Fire Department volunteer firefighters are an equally dedicated group. Within their first year of service, they attend the Bergen County Fire Academy two evenings a week for six months plus four Saturdays. They have an important role in keeping fire apparatus and fire stations ready for the next emergency, assisting on fire calls, and helping educate the public on fire safety.

Volunteer first responders represent a cross section of our communities. For instance, the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps (GRVAC) includes, teachers, attorneys, business owners, engineers and nurses plus high school students in the youth squad. Members range in age from 16 to 70. Each year, the GRVAC answers 600 emergency calls and also is on

hand at structural fires, home football games and other major town events.

The 40-member Glen Rock Volunteer Fire Department handled 240 calls in 2014 ranging from home and business fires to hazmat duties and extricating victims from vehicle accidents. Founded in 1910, the department is part of a rich tradition of volunteer fire departments dating back to the 1700s in Colonial America. Almost 75 percent of firefighters in the U.S. are

volunteers. In Glen Rock, like other volunteer fire departments, all firefighters have full-time careers and family responsibilities, but have joined because it’s a family tradition, and/or because of their interest in firefighting as a crucial way to protect their neighbors’ lives and property.

In both emergencies and community events—like benefit runs, fireworks displays, parades and street fairs—we can witness our volunteer first responders at work or standing ready to help if needed. If you have an interest in volunteering with your local fire department, auxiliary police force or ambulance corps, consider joining one of our outstanding Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood and Glen Rock organizations. Members move out of the area or retire so new volunteers are always needed. And everyone can support their fundraisers that so crucial in maintaining the first-rate emergency equipment and services our volunteer first responders and communities deserve.





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Ridgewood A.M. Rotary 2014-2015 Funding Grants• Center for Food Action food pantry serving needy in North Jersey• Children’s Aid and Family Services• Free encyclopedic dictionaries for all third-graders in Ho-Ho-Kus,

Ridgewood and Glen Rock• Disaster Relief for earthquake victims in Nepal• Family Promise shelter program for homeless working families• Restoration of historic Ridgewood Village sculpture• Gift of Life – Mission trips providing life-saving heart surgeries to

children in developing countries

• Pwoje Espwa Orphanage, School and Medical Center, Haiti• Consolation House Orphanage for Girls, Haiti• Project Interact Community Service Organization for 300 Ridgewood

High School students• Kasschau Band Shell Summer Programs• New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault• Outreach NE – Meals for the Homebound Elderly• Pony Power Therapies for children with development disorders and

illnesses• Social Service Association for Ridgewood and Vicinity Food emergency

assistance program for the needy in eight North Jersey towns• SaylesStock Concert and Fair to raise awareness

and research funding for salivary gland cancer• Four-Year College Scholarships for needy high school students• ShelterBox USA – Providing emergency shelter, water purification and

cooking implements for families displaced by disasters• Soles4Souls program to provide shoes for the needy in the U.S. and

internationally• West Bergen Mental Healthcare

Board Members for 2015-2016OFFICERS

President Ken EspenakPresident-elect Vernon ReedVice President Tammy ButlerSecretary Lisa SammataroTreasurer Jay FowlerAssistant Treasurer Bill HaggertySergeant at Arms John PlumImmediate Past President Matt Nolfo

DIRECTORSSteve Castellucci Barbara SacksMary Ann Copp Rob ElfersKathy Entwhistle Rob SaydehVincent Giordano Chris Stout

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Each fall, our club members personally deliver encyclopedic dictionaries to school children in local area schools. The Ridgewood A. M. Rotary Club has distributes over 800 free dictionaries to all third-graders in Glen Rock, Ho-Ho-Kus and Ridgewood public schools since 2006. It is part of Rotary’s nationwide effort to support literacy. Studies show that students who have their own dictionaries become better readers and are more successful in their studies.

We also support Read To Know, an organization that provides age-appropriate books and volunteer readers to pre-schools in Hackensack and Paterson. Our club joined a book drive to replace library books lost by Paterson pre-schools and schools during Hurricanes Sandy and Irene.

Helping Scholars in Need

Our club has awarded over $275,000 in scholarships to more than 115 local high school students, providing $1,000 a year for four years to each of three students each year. Scholarship awards are based on academic promise, need, community service and resilience in the face of life’s challenges.

Because scholarships are so essential to many students and their families, we have begun a special endowment campaign to expand our scholarship program in future years.

Developing the Leaders of Tomorrow

The Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club sponsors three community-service organizations for youth—Interact at Ridgewood High School (RHS), and React Clubs at both Benjamin Franklin and George Washington Middle Schools. These clubs provide opportunities for students to learn organization and leadership skills by assisting individuals and charitable organizations in our area. The RHS Interact Club has 300 energetic student members who spearhead dozens of major community service projects each year.

The club sponsors local high school students for the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy, a week-long program that develops leadership, team-building and interpersonal communication skills. We have also hosted and housed young people from abroad, who are spending their junior year as exchange students at RHS.

Addressing Hunger and Homelessness

In these hard economic times, the Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club has redoubled our commitment to addressing hunger and homelessness in our community. We’ve launched a “Perpetual Food Drive” where members bring donations of food and other essential items to weekly meetings for the food pantry operated by the Social Service Association of Ridgewood and Vicinity (SSA). A club grant also paid for a new freezer at the food pantry. All told, the club has provided SSA with grants and food worth $14,000 over the past two years.

The club supports Family Promise, a sheltering program in Bergen County, and for the past three years has bought, prepared and served holiday meals for 150 homeless people in Hackensack. Last year, we helped to host several homeless families at a local church. We prepared dinner, entertained the children and helped with homework. Then we got them off to a good start in the morning with breakfast and packed lunches.

Sweat Equity in our Community

Working with Habitat for Humanity in Bergen County, club members have helped convert a large but rundown home in Waldwick into a beautifully refurbished multi-family home for lower-income North Jersey residents. We also helped with construction of Habitat townhomes in Paterson.

We routinely help families in crisis due to catastrophic illness and job losses, providing landscaping services and assisting with fundraising efforts on the families’ behalf. Over the years, we have refurbished homes of several families, mowed and helped with fundraisers aimed at getting families back on their feet.

During Rotary International’s Centennial Year in 2004-2005, we celebrated this milestone by converting an empty tract of land into a Healing Garden for Children’s Aid and Family Services on Prospect Street in Ridgewood.


Greening the Garden State

Club members have spearheaded efforts to clean streams and rivers in Bergen County, as part of Rotary International’s global focus on improving water quality. Our club also helped support the Conservatory for Ridgewood Public Lands in planting thousands of daffodils that became a focal point of last spring’s Daffodil Festival. We provided a grant to the Ridgewood Wildscape Association that supported the planting of native shrubs along the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook to help stabilize soil along the banks and curtail erosion and silting of the waterway.

Rotary—Making a Difference Nationally and Internationally

The Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club contributes to countries affected by disasters, such as tornadoes and flooding in the American Midwest, the earthquake in Haiti, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and the earthquake in Nepal. Members of our club were “on the ground,” volunteering at orphanages we support in Les Cayes when the earthquake struck in January 2010.

Disaster Strikes Home

For many years, we have raised funds and sent supplies to disaster areas worldwide. Three years ago, Hurricane Sandy upended the lives of so many of us in the Tri-State area. The Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club donated funds, materials and supplies to aid in the sheltering and rebuilding efforts following this super storm. Many of us donated and packed new clothing, bedding, cots, water and other essential items for to help Sandy victims who were living in shelters. Later, one of our members, who is a contractor, organized the rebuilding of municipal facilities in Little Ferry and Moonachie. Another member whose firm does interior finishing work rebuilt the kitchen of the Little Ferry Firehouse.

Gift of Life

The Ridgewood A. M. Rotary Club is an active participant in Rotary’s Gift of Life program, which provides life-saving heart surgery to needy children from around the world. Our club has sponsored and/or hosted17 children since the start of the program, with the latest being a six-year-old boy from Ghana, who is now back home, healthy and doing well in school.

Each year, we provide a grant and volunteer at the SaylesStock concert in Ridgewood, which raises awareness and funding for salivary gland cancer, which all too often evades early detection.

Orphanages in Haiti

Project Hope is a multi-faceted program aiding 2,300 children in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. Club members have traveled to Haiti regularly to help construct new dormitories, school and job-training facilities and to mentor the children. Children in Project Hope schools are some of the best students in Haiti, and may play an important role in building a more successful future for that country.

In 2009, a graduate of Project Hope and his wife founded Consolation Center Haiti, an orphanage for girls, who are particularly vulnerable to exploitation if their families can no longer care for them. Club members’ donations have provided living quarters for several dozen girls at this new orphanage. One of our club members travels there several times a year to build new facilities and to install solar power and clean water equipment.

Building Schools in Cambodia and Kenya

We partner with charitable organizations to support other worthy projects overseas. Our club has helped to fund a new school in Cambodia, an effort started by parents and students in Ridgewood public schools. We also have partnered with the Ridgewood Rotary “Noon” Club in building a residential school in Kenya, including a grant to rebuild part of the school that was damaged by a major storm.



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Rotary members are dedicated to community service, so you will find them helping in food pantries, spearheading fund drives, building affordable housing, sheltering the homeless—and as volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians in their communities. Steve Castellucci of the Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club has served in the Mountain Lakes Volunteer Fire Department since he graduated from high school.

Betty Wiest, past president of the Ridgewood A.M. Rotary Club, circumnavigated Manhattan in her kayak this summer, raising $1,000 toward Rotary International’s fight to end polio worldwide. She is shown taking a well-deserved break in this arduous 28.5-mile trip battling wave action and strong cross currents.

Len Agrusti, Past District Governor of Rotary District 7490, which includes our club, has been a member of the Wayne First Aid Squad for nearly 20 years. He also is a member of the New Jersey First Aid Council and an instructor for the American Heart Association. He spearheaded a program to teach CPR to all Rotarians in our district.

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