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Little Falls Food Pantry Needs Donations
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- Shelves are bare at the Food Pantry at St. Agnes in Little Falls, so organizers are putting out the call for donations.They are in need of peanut butter, canned vegetables, canned beans, rice soup, canned meat, cereal and other non-perishables, organizers said. They also need pet food, wet or dry.
Food donations can be dropped off at the church office between 8:30-11 a.m. during the week or placed in the 24/7 food drop-off box outside the church office, 65 Union Ave., Little Falls.
Call the church office at (973) 256-5020 for details or to make other drop-off arrangeme…
Edward Charles Thompson, 82, Longtime Ridgewood-Area Priest
RIDGEWOOD, N. J. -- The Rev. Edward Charles Thompson, longtime Catholic priest in northern New Jersey, died Dec. 11 at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. He was 82.Father Ed, as he was known, was born Dec. 15, 1932, the only child of the late Harold and Helen (Hagan) Thompson. He grew up in Newark, and earned a bachelor's degree in divinity at Seton Hall University and a master's in divinity at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington.
He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood May 23, 1959 at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart by Archbishop Thomas Boland.
Soon after, he was assigned as paroc…
Dolores Alfis, 67, Northvale Senior Center Director
NORTHVALE, N.J. -- Dolores Alfis, a longtime Nothvale resident and senior center director, died Saturday, Dec. 12. She was 67.Alfis, director of the James F. McGuire Senior Center for more than a decade, lost her husband David, a Northvale firefighter, earlier this year. Friends and relatives had started a GoFundMe page for her to help with her own medical expenses.
Alfis (nee DeRienzo) started working at the senior center in 1991 as an office worker and volunteer. She became director in 2002.
She was known as the organizer behind several community events, such as the holiday tree lighting …
