Clare’s Home in Elizabeth got early Christmas presents yesterday — something made especially for each of them. A quilting group formed by members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Berkeley Heights delivered quilts for each of the shelter’s children, who have AIDS and range in age from 2 months to 3 1/2 years. With just nine members, the group manages to make and do nate about 35 quilts a year, according to Romankow, whose husband, Theodore, is the Union County prosecutor. Most of the recipients are in hospitals such as the Valerie Center in Morristown, the Mountainside Children’s Specialized Center and the Paige Whitney Center in Basking Ridge. Clare’s Home for Children will enter the foster care system and some will be placed with a parent. Clare’s Home for Children opened in Elizabeth 20 years ago and, with two locations added elsewhere in New Jersey, has sheltered more than 950 children, from birth to 12 years old, who have AIDS. read more

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