Fundraiser in Memory of Ridgewood Child to be Held Wednesday

A Franklin Lakes bar will host a dinner benefiting the Kelly Creegan Foundation, a charity memorializing a six-year-old girl who died tragically in a driveway car accident in 2011.

No Fuss Lunches, a Hawthorne based company comprised of 25 parents that sells and delivers alternative, nutritious meals to school children at nine schools Ridgewood, Glen Rock, and Midland Park, will provide the food.

“I think the reason we’ve expanded so quickly is that in a way we’re surrogate moms,” said co-founder Gabriella Wilday, explaining that the company, consisting of local parents providing home-cooked school lunches, has gone from seven to over 200 hundred daily lunches in the seven months since its founding.

No Fuss will hold a tasting of its lunch options on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Endless Vine, a Franklin Lakes bar known for its selection of high-end wines. All the proceeds from the $20 admission will go to the Kelly Creegan Foundation.

Creegan was killed in November 2011 when a friend’s au pair accidentally struck the child while pulling into an Overbrook Road driveway in Ridgewood.

The foundation’s mission is, simply, “spreading kindness through the community,” and past efforts have included a coat drive, a charity softball game, and a St. Patrick's day collaboration with a Ridgewood salon.

Foundation chairman Scott Lucas said that the foundation, wrapping up its first year of fundraising, hopes to pursue child-oriented charitable causes that will honor Kelly's memory.

"It's how we can help kids live out the spirit Kelly had," Lucas said.

Wilday said that the event is an opportunity to learn more about nutritional lunch options for their children while honoring the memory of a child that died tragically.

“It fits with our values,” she said, “and we thought this would be a wonderful way to support the foundation.”