What Is Advance Care Planning and Why Is It Important?

The goal of Conversation of Your Life is to encourage more individuals to engage in fruitful conversation with their friends, family, and doctors about end of life wishes through advance care planning.  Conversation of Your Life is generously supported by The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey. To learn more visit: www.njhcqi.org/COYL

The Village of Ridgewood Health Department and Parks & Recreation in conjunction with Valley Hospital and Feeney Funeral Home are holding a free workshop to learn how to start the conversation with family, friends, caregivers, and doctors about what you value in life. Topics to be covered include the legal, medical, ethical, emotional, practical, and, spiritual aspects of advance care planning.  Leading the discussion will be David Feeney, CFSP, CPC of Feeney Funeral Home.

Location:            Anne Zusy Youth Center, First Floor 131 N. Maple Ave.

Ridgewood

Date:                   December 13, 2018

Time:                  11am to 1pm

Cost:                   Free with Lunch provided by Valley Hospital.

This event is open to adults of all ages. Please invite your neighbors, family and friends.

Registration is required, please contact the Ridgewood Health Dept., by emailing mdowns@ridgewoodnj.net. ANY questions, please call Dawn Cetrulo, Health Officer at 201-670-5500 ext. 245.

All Village offices will be closed November 22nd and November 23rd in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.  On November 23rd, there will be eastside garbage pickup and recycling pick-up for Area 8 and the Recycling Center will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  On November 24^th, the Recycling Center will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  All Village offices will re-open on November 26th at 8:30 A.M.  The Police Department will be open on all of these days.

Due to weather and road conditions, Village Hall Offices will be opening at 9:30 today, November 16th, 2018.

On Tuesday, September 18, 2018, the Village of Ridgewood will officially launch Our Village, Our Future, a Village-wide visioning process that will inform the creation of its next Master Plan. The website www.visionridgewood.org will serve as the main online portal for Our Village, Our Future.

The primary goal of Our Village, Our Future is to implement a community visioning process that reaches out to a broad range of Ridgewood residents and other stakeholders (e.g., businesses, institutions, etc.) and encourages them to think about and discuss the values, principles, goals, and priorities that should shape the future of Ridgewood. This community visioning process represents the one of the first steps toward creating a new Master Plan for the Village.

The final outcome/product of this visioning process will be a Vision Plan. This document will summarize the community engagement process and synthesize the results of this process in terms of identifying and explaining the values, principles, goals, and priorities that should shape the Village’s next Master Plan.

It is anticipated that the visioning process will take approximately 6 to 7 months to complete. The process of creating the next Master Plan will start after the visioning process is complete.

Residents and other interested parties can visit www.visionridgewood.org to learn more details about Our Village, Our Future and are encouraged to sign up to receive e-mail updates.

Please contact Deputy Mayor Susan Knudsen at sknudsen@ridgewoodnj.net or 201-670-5500 for more information.