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Ridgewood Fire Department Competes in Fairway Firefighters Food Face-Off in Paramus
Sunday, June 16, 2013 Last updated: Sunday June 16, 2013, 8:35 PM
BY LINDA MOSS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
When it came to an annual barbecue battle, the Park Ridge Fire Department was smoking hot again this year. And it was all for a cause close to their hearts: the 4½-year-old daughter of one of their members.
At the Fairway Firefighters Food Face-Off in Paramus on Sunday, defending champion Park Ridge took home a huge winner’s trophy for the third year in a row, outperforming the Hackensack Fire Department, which came in second, and the Ridgewood Fire Department.
But Mark “Cookey” Eisen, who headed up Park Ridge’s three-time champion team, wasn’t most stoked about winning again. What was meaningful to him and his team is that once again they will raise money for the charity of their choice: the Mary Therese Rose Fund, which helps special-needs children. That fund helps pay bills for Sydney, the daughter of Park Ridge firefighter George Wolfe and his wife Julie.
“I know it’s bragging rights, but it’s been a charity that’s important to me,” Eisen said. “I was in the hospital when she was born. This is the young lady that’s my inspiration for this.”
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