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By Cheryl ConwayAproclamation fromthe township mayornaming a day after

him and then presented anOutstanding Citizen award,17-year old MalcolmSutherland-Foggio im-presses those who meet himand learn about his missionto raise money and aware-ness for pediatric cancer re-search.At the Thurs., Feb. 25,

Florham Park BoroughCouncil meeting, MayorMark Taylor declared Sat.,Feb. 27 as Malcolm Suther-land-Foggio Day. That daywas picked to bring atten-tion to Malcolm’s seventhannual Make Some Noise:Cure Kids Cancer Founda-tion “Lucky 7-Noise Night”dinner/auction held thatsame night at the ParkSavoy in Florham Park.Borough officials, Coun-

cil President TomMichalowski and Coun-cilmember Charlie Maloneattended the gala and pre-sented Malcolm with an“Outstanding CitizenAward,” joining about 90people and raising $80,000. Malone had suggested to

borough officials that Mal-colm deserves recognitionfor his dedication to pedi-atric cancer, explains SheilaWilliams, municipal bor-ough clerk.

Borough Recognizes Noise By One Teen In HisFight For Pediatric Cancer Research

“Malcolm has lived inour town; some know him;some of the others did notmeet him before,” saysWilliams. “But when theydid that night of the councilmeeting, when Malcolmspoke about his mission,Williams says “I’ve neverseen any of them speech-less. People were just weep-ing,” from his story andexperiences in battling can-cer. “He gave a very mov-ing speech at the councilmeeting that left myself, themayor and council and au-dience members in tearsand unable to speak for sev-eral minutes as Malcolmdescribed his first stay at thehospital that was treatinghim for cancer.” Williams says, “He is

quite the local hero! He is a

very bright young man, whodespite being in a consider-able amount of pain, man-aged to think of others andstart this foundation for pe-diatric research.”

Battling cancer forseven years, Malcolm wasdiagnosed in 2008, at theage of 10, of having PelvicEwing’s Sarcoma, a highlyaggressive and malignantbone tumor. The youngestof three boys, Malcolm wasa healthy kid at soccer prac-tice when “I felt my hippop,” he describes. “Thecoach carried me off; momtook me to the orthopedistthe next day.” When an MRI unveiled a

massive tumor in thegrowth plate of his hip,Malcolm was sent to Chil-dren’s Hospital in Philadel-

phia, underwent chemother-apy and removal of his hip,describes Malcolm, a seniorat the Delbarton School inMorristown.

“I got through it,” hesays. “I’m doing as well ascould be expected.” Besidesfacing some health relatedissues, mostly due to thechemotherapy that “killedmy immune system,” Mal-colm says “I don’t let it killme; I live life the best Ican.” He is done with treat-ments but goes back for acheckup every six monthsto make sure the cancer hashad no long-term effect onhis organs, he explains. While going through his

treatments, Malcolm wascompelled to share the storyof pediatric cancer, publicly

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It’s a case of “Canines against Cancer.”The third annual Florham Park “Barkfor Life,” a canine event to help fight

cancer, returns to the Florham Parkgazebo at 111 Ridgedale Ave. on May 21,from noon to 3 p.m.; rain date May 22.The American Cancer Society

fundraiser will once again be hosted byco-founders and Hanover Park HighSchool juniors Brendan Sardo, JasonSardo and Derek Saul, as well as 105.5FM WDHA radio personality Terrie Carr.The event is open to dogs and their

owners, and features contests for the dogs,demonstrations, craft and shopping ven-dors, food, music and other fun activities.The objective is to build on the

$25,000 raised to help fight cancer fromthe past two events, and provide a uniqueday out for dogs, canine caregivers andthe community.For the most updated information, like

“Bark for Life of Florham Park” on Face-book and follow “fpbark4life” on Insta-gram.Dog owners are encouraged to register

now online for a $10 fee, which includesa dog-themed gift bag while supplies last.To register online, visit www.relayfor-life.org/barkflorhamparknj.On-site registrations will be accepted

for $20 for the first dog and $5 for eachadditional dog. Anyone interested in joining “Bark for

Life" as a vendor, volunteer, or sponsorare asked to contact Sarah Greulich at theAmerican Cancer Society [email protected] or 973-285-8030.By supporting Bark for Life, help the

American Cancer Society save lives,which helps move closer to the ultimategoal of a world with less cancer and morebirthdays.

The Florham Park Senior CitizensClub has planned the upcomingmeetings to be held at the Commu-

nity Center at 11 a.m. with light refresh-ments served.March 23, Flavian returns with his Mind

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speaking out and raising funds through the sale of wrist-bands, while enduring 14 rounds of chemotherapy, surgeryto remove his hip, endless side-effects, rehabilitation andkeeping up with his schoolwork.He had realized that awareness for pediatric cancer was

lacking and that only three percent of cancer research fundsare directed to childhood cancers in regards to researchingfor cures.Two months into his treatment, Malcolm says “I saw

kids dying around me.” That’s when he started selling $3rubber wristbands and in just three months raised $13,000,donating all proceeds to the Children’s Hospital ofPhiladelphia for pediatric cancer research.Just a few weeks after his surgery, one night while in his

hospital bed, “something broke the silence; you heard amom scream. Michael was three years old and his momwould never see him grow up.”That was when Malcolm came up with his idea for the

Make Some Noise: Cure Kids Cancer Foundation; he in-corporated Sept. 24, 2009, at the age of 11. His plan was tohost musical benefits to raise money to raise awareness andfund pediatric cancer research. In nearly five years, Malcolm’s foundation has raised

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Malcolm tours the country meeting with researchersand touring lab facilities, to better understand the crisis andthe promise of what lays ahead in medical research. Duringhis travels, Malcolm carries his tribute quilt “The NationalAngel Quilt,” to honor the memories of children who diedfor the lack of cures. The quilt - which is more than 60 feetlong, featuring images, names and ages of 120 of these chil-dren to date - has travelled to 20 states so far, and will con-tinue to grow and tour until cures have been found.To support his mission, Malcolm has been busy travel-

ling 55,179 miles; flew on 21 planes; interviewed on radio,television, newspapers and magazines; given 39 speeches;attended 27 fundraisers; spent 180 volunteer hours in re-search labs; written a book; has become an accomplishedartist featuring portraits of childhood cancer survivors;mentors cancer kids; visits cancer kids in the hospital; de-livers gift baskets, bikes, toys, event tickets and stuffed an-imals to kids in treatment, and even spends his own moneyto buy i-pads for other kids. In Mayor Taylor’s proclamation, he states, “sadly,

20,000 – 30,000 kids have died from pediatric cancer in the

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liver his message nationwide to help raiseawareness and money for pediatric cancerresearch for kids who are currently facingthe disease.”Continued in the proclamation, the

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research. Malcolm is now in remission, butcontinues to be a beacon of hope and fightseach day for children who are facing pedi-atric cancer. Florham Park is so incrediblyproud to have such a courageous and givingyoung man as one of its citizens.”Malcolm was honored to be recognized

by his community.“I thought it was great; I never really had

an honor like that,” he says. “To have a daynamed after me was really special.” To havetwo councilmembers recently attend thegala and award him with an outstanding cit-izen plaque, he says, “was a humbling

honor.” It reiterates how “it’s real importantwork and helps spread the awareness of pe-diatric cancer.” In addition to the annual gala, the Make

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numbers started buying handbags,” she says. By 2014, thisgrew to a sold out crowd. This led to an annual event in June,raising tens of thousands of dollars for charity.After setting enough money aside, Spagnoletti decided to

open Lucy’s Gift to sell handbags on a regular basis for char-ity.“My idea for selling handbags for charity has exploded,”

says Spagnoletti. “I put the seed money in for the boutique,”in hopes to get money back to cover her salary and health in-surance. After that, all proceeds will go toward helping oth-ers.“I don’t have wealth,” explains Spagnoletti. “I created a

business where all the net profits will go to the foundation,which go to our charities.”Inside her boutique, Spagnoletti decorated using pink, blue

and purple hues. She explains the pink represents children inneed; blue for the victims of crime; and purple for the purpleheart.Through her foundation, MJSF has expanded its charity

to children with special needs at P.G. Chambers School inCedar Knolls to support children in need; is helping victimsof crime by supporting domestic violence and sexual assaultsafe houses such as SAFE in Hunterdon; and aid charities thatsupport the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose agents –and families – “inspire Marisa with their heroic efforts to pro-tect us domestically,” as explained in the MJSF mission state-ment.“When you buy something, you want to know where your

money is going,” she explains.Spagnoletti selected P.G. Chambers as a charity recipient

after meeting one of the mothers who sends both of her kidswho are in wheelchairs to the school, which provides the mostcomprehensive education and therapy programs for childrenwith disabilities.“We met by chance,” says Spagnoletti about Annabella

Rossi, the mother of the two students at P.G. Chambers. “Atthat moment she was having a bad day; I was having a badday.” Out of the 35 volunteers at MJSF, Rossi became her eighth

volunteer.“She started coming to my house; we became friends.”

Spagnoletti honored Rossi in 2013 when she presented her

with the Maurice Spagnoletti Foundation Caregiver Award.“Annabella is a role model to me.”Every year, Spagnoletti presents the caregiver award to an

individual, a teacher, mother or nurse. In June 2015, she gavethe award to a woman named Tiffany who created a park fordisabled children near the Jets Training Facility. Tiffany’sdaughter also attends the P.G. Chambers School.Lucy’s Gift specializes in mostly handbags, and jewelry.

Featured are 200 handbags on display varying in color, priceand function, from popular name brands like Gucci, authenticlines, fake leather to unheard labels. Prices of bags range from$50 to $2,000.“Handbags are my life,” she says. “The sky is the limit for

us; we even carry men’s wallets,” and bags for men. “Withintwo months, we were able to triple our inventory.”Customers can also find unique costume jewelry pieces

and accesories, ranging from $18 to $350, as well as distinctunique items such as a wine tote, her number one seller foundin a Texas boutique.

“I travel the country and find really neat boutiques,” shesays, bringing back those rare items, such as a little mirrorthat attaches to an Iphone, to resell.“When you come to my boutique, everything is sacred,”

says Spagnoletti. “Our dream is to bring luxury to all women.I grew up lower income; I didn’t have money to spend. I al-

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ways dreamed I’d be able to provide fashion to everyone.”Instead of a bow or ribbon, every bag or purchase is

adorned with a barrette.To her surprise, Spagnoletti’s mission is taking off. Con-

cert-singer Naomi Miller, who was singing in Italian on thestreets in Morristown, attended her grand opening; Spagno-letti has been getting emails of support from around the coun-try; and she recently appeared on the NBC Today Show withAl Roker.“After five years, I’m finding peace. My husband was bru-

tally assassinated. Honoring him was my life mission. TheFBI is still investigating the case,” she adds.A prominent banker for Doral Financial, Maurice was shot

and killed at the age of 57 by unknown assailants, June 15,2011, while sitting in his car in traffic on the highway. Em-ployed with the company for just one year, he had been as-signed to work in Puerto Rico in Jan. 2011, says Spagnoletti.“Justice is coming I believe that. The people who killed

my husband will be brought to justice. We seek justice for all.Hope is something we have and something we have to workfor. Hope with positive action prevails. The men and womenI’ve come to know are beyond extraordinary; they are the realheroes. ”Part of Spagnoletti’s mission is to put an end to violence.“My husband was everything to me,” says Spagnoletti.

“You don’t heal from violence. It is prevention, awarenessand treatment that will lead to end violence. In my very smallway I’m going to make an impact. It’s my mission to end vi-olence and I will. I want my husband’s memory honored.Nothing brings my husband back; my daughter needed herfather.”She says, “My husband died a hero.” To honor him, MJSF

plans to award a $1,500 Future Hero scholarship to a juniorcollege student in need from Morris County who aspires acareer in preventing or stopping violence. Eric Mohberg,whose fiancé was brutally murdered 26 years ago, joined herMJSF board and is helping her create the scholarship.At last year’s annual Handbag Auction held in June at the

Hanover Manor in East Hanover, $30,000 was raised for thecharities. Participants paid $75 for all “you can eat,” dancing,raffles, silent auction of handbags and other items, and pre-sentations by charity organizations.Through her mission, Spagnoletti has rechanneled her

anger to provide a healthy environment for her daughter. Sheexplains, “I can only focus on positive so she can grow upand be positive.”“It’s amazing what could be done for the memory of one

hero. Through all of this I’m really finding peace. I was solow and so sad, but now I’m back. If I’m working 24 hours aday, it’s not work, it’s what I love to do. I know I never let

him down. I feel my husband smiling when I can do thingslike this. I do my little part in helping them; every year I feellike I’m doing more.”On her boutique wall hangs a framed poem titled “Life

Does Not Frighten Me At All.” A girl that Spagnoletti metone year ago at P.G. Chambers School read her that poem.“Honestly they teach me more,” she says. Since then, Spag-noletti has adopted a class there and “I go and visit her. Noth-ing frightens this little girl who has all these issues. I wouldsell my life for her.”

Spagnoletti has come up with a program in which com-panies pay people to volunteer.“Corporations can give not to the foundation, but to the

P.G. Chambers School. For that donation, we will train thatstaff. Let’s get people to commit to volunteer work.”As a way to market and add new revenue source for her

boutique, Spagnoletti recently started Lucy’s Gift TreasureChest, in which she provides non-profits, fair priced trickytray or auction items. Her idea came about after she gave ahandbag to a church who asked her for a tricky tray donation.Lucy’s Gift is open Tues. and Wed., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.;

Thurs., Fri. and Sat., 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and Sun. 11 a.m.to 4 p.m.For more information, visit mauricejspagnoletti.com or

email [email protected].

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have seen our reliability and commitmentto avoid foreclosure by paying $30,000every three months, which is directly ap-plied to the principal, along with a monthlypayment of $7,000,” says Ramos. “SOShas done this faithfully, although it hasbeen challenging.”Ramos, a pioneer advocate for battered

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she put the word out that she wanted toshare her house. “The ones who came tome were the ones who got battered,” saysRamos. “Women called to say ‘I can’t stayin my house.’”One roommate turned into 23 women in

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had too many people at her house they“threatened to put me in jail,” she says. Thetown cited her for “overcrowding” becauseshe had three or more unrelated people liv-ing together.“I told the town ‘If you want a place for

them you have to drag them out kickingand screaming;’ so they put them in amotel,” Twin Lakes Motel in Paramus.Ramos did not turn her back on them

and instead continued to help them.

Angel To Save Shelter...continued from page 6 “We would have to pick them up and

take them to look for housing, counseling,”says Ramos. “They [the town] didn’t givethem food or services, counseling.” The Catholic Church would bring food

and battered women would work togetherto help other women. Over the years, in 1977, her initiative

became Shelter Our Sisters. She moved outof her house to Bergen County in a houselocated on a church’s property in Bogota.About 10 to 15 women in children livedthere.Her organization grew, and established

a board of directors, but after a disagree-ment, the board fired Ramos in 1986. Ramos separated and formed SOS a

year later. With her children grown, shemoved to her house in Ringwood “and peo-ple started calling me. I let some peoplestay in my house. We knew we had to get ashelter.”They opened a thrift store in Haskell.

“We raised more money,” and even theboard from her first organization wouldsend her people to help.With a state regulated budget of up to

four million dollars, Ramos was able tomanage her organization but as state regu-lations got stricter, operations got toughersuch as paying the mortgage. “I’ve always been an advocate for

women and children,” says Ramos, whoteaches social issues and dynamics of do-mestic violence at Ramapo College inMahwah as an adjunct professor. “Every-body has been touched by domestic vio-lence in one way. “One woman was going to be killed by

a gangster guy,” explains Ramos. Otherwomen and children she brought into hershelter were rich but their husbands were“molesters and child abusers. No onewould take them. We reach out to peoplewho need help. We help a lot of pregnantwomen and children.” Through her shelter program, Ramos

says “thousands have been saved” duringthe past 46 years. With two hotline num-bers, Ramos has made herself available tohelp others.The mission of SOS is to break the cycle

of domestic violence, poverty and abuse byrestoring balance and harmony through in-dividual empowerment. She currently helps 155 women and

children in seven shelters located in New

Foundland, Wanaque and West Milford;two daycare centers in Wanaque and WestMilford; a thrift store in a church; and onefood pantry in Wanaque.To support her organization, Ramos re-

ceives some money from the PassaicCounty Dept. of Human Services, privatedonations, counties and social services,“but not enough to keep it going. We havea transportation grant but they took it away.We have five vans; we need help. We’vebeen running for three and a half years witha non-paid staff,” down from a paid staff of55 that were let go when SOS lost funding,she says. Ramos says she currently has 17 non-

paid volunteers who drive the shelter resi-dents to look for jobs, to court, doctorappointments, social services, schools; theyfix things, watch children.“They are exhausted but they believe in

the shelter,” says Ramos, just like she does.“I have seen women that have come to

me and their lives are a wreck, depressed,suicidal,” she says.“People are still calling,” continues

Ramos. “Every day I get four or five calls.We take almost everybody. We take peoplewho no one else will take. We take peoplewithout welfare vouchers. We don’t wantto see them killed, beaten or frozen todeath.“Yesterday, a 70-year old woman had no

heat, we took her,” adds Ramos. She alsotook in another woman with five children,“who would be out in the street forced tolive with child molesters.”One of her houses is for all older

women, some in wheelchairs, others withoxygen. “Nobody will take them.”Many of the women and children her or-

ganization helps “don’t have families,” areon section eight, have families or friends“who don’t like them; who don’t want tohelp them. We have a lot of dysfunctionalfamilies.”Ramos explains, “I see them heal, get

strong and get their lives together. We livein a violent society; there’s a lot of vio-lence. The work I’m doing I feel it’s a mis-sion but right now I need an angel. I justneed someone to pay off the mortgage orhold it. We just really need someone tohelp.”To make a donation or to help, call

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