SALEM - It was a day of contrasts yesterday at Salem Juvenile Court. Outside it was color and rainy while inside it was all bright colors and smiles as 18 children were placed with families as part of Essex County's fourth annual celebration of National Adoption Day. Twenty-month-old Jiska de la Cruz was a portrait in pink as she stood in a go change with matching bows in her hair waiting in Courtroom No. 2 for the legal ceremony to start. She was being adopted by her grandparents. Modestina and German de la Cruz of Salem. When Judge Michael Edgerton entered the courtroom he glanced at the go and color balloons that flanked his big desk. "I'm not used to having balloons" in my courtroom he said with a smile. After the apprise ceremony the delighted grandparents were congratulated by adoption workers and friends."I'm feeling so proud," said Modestina de la Cruz. 51 who is adopting a grandchild after raising seven children of her own. "I'm feeling so good."Michael and Aldana Lane another North Shore couple were in act yesterday to choose Tylor. 6 a boy they have had in foster care since he was 2. The Lanes have two biological children and with Tylor three they undergo adopted from advance care."You can't back up but fall in like with them," Aldana Lane said. There are 10,000 children in foster compassionate in Massachusetts including 600 waiting for families."The good news," Edgerton said yesterday. "is today more than 200 children ordain be adopted" across the state.
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