Giving Back

FAIR LAWN & GLEN ROCK, NJ – With pandemic safety guidelines in place, the American Cancer Society has canceled all in-person fundraising events. However, the Fair Lawn and Glen Rock Relay For Life will go on in a virtual setting. On Saturday, May 30 at 6 p.m., the chapter will host a modified, interactive Relay For Life, live on its Facebook page @RFLfairlawnglenrocknewjersey.

Editor's Note: Photo taken prior to social distancing.

GLEN ROCK, NJ - A group of high school juniors have used their time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic to sell wristbands to raise money for Bergen County healthcare workers.

Nirvan Chandiramani, one of the members of the group, said they decided to start Glen Rock Hungry2Help as a way to help the local communities ...

NORTH JERSEY - Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) teamed up with Wahlburgers, the restaurant founded by Mark Wahlberg and his brothers Donnie and Paul, and Crescent Capital to hand out meals to frontline health care workers and first responders in North Jersey, including Bergen New Bridge Medical Center.

"North Jersey has been one of the hardest hit areas in our country, and I'm ...

WOOD-RIDGE, NJ -  Crafty residents in Wood-Ridge have been spending their days hand making one of the newest in-demand products in the healthcare industry: ear savers. As of May 10, the group has crafted and donated over 3,000 ear savers to hospitals, rehab centers, and nursing homes in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California.

Ear savers work by holding the ...

ELIZABETH, NJ - When Sima Farid, a social worker at UMDNJ/Rutgers Hospital in Newark, informed her thirteen-year-old daughter Sophia that Governor Murphy was sending 86 Army medics to the hospital to assist with COVID-19 patients, she began wondering how could she be of assistance.

Sophia informed her mother that she was interested in taking her allowance and having a seamstress ...

ROXBURY, NJ – Ledgewood resident Rebecca Groner, a world-class marathoner, is planning to run a “Virtual Pittsburgh Marathon” past five Bergen County hospitals May 3 to raise money for hospital workers battling COVID-19.

Groner has raised more than $2,000 so far through a GoFundMe site. On the page, the Pittsburgh area native and former hospital nurse, who now ...