{"id":8959,"date":"2016-07-19T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2016-07-19T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:34:10","slug":"brick-salutes-coast-guard-auxiliary-flotilla-on-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/07\/brick-salutes-coast-guard-auxiliary-flotilla-on-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Salutes Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla on Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8960\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uscgaux_brick.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uscgaux_brick-1024x594.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Brick US Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 16-05. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uscgaux_brick-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uscgaux_brick-400x232.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uscgaux_brick-768x446.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Brick US Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 16-05. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Members of the Brick Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla have been keeping local waters safe for 50 years, and were recently honored by the Brick Township Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been dedicated to our community in Brick, but also in all of Ocean County,\u201d said Mayor John Ducey, explaining that Flotilla 16-05\u00a0began in Island Heights and moved to Brick in 1980 as it was expanding.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard Auxiliary consists of more than 1,000 flotillas around the country, staffed by volunteers who hold boating classes and perform boat inspections, safety patrols, attendance at\u00a0community events and cooperation with local law enforcement and Coast Guard members to supplement manpower on the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always working with the Brick police department to help out,\u201d said Flotilla Commander\u00a0Terry Bearce.<\/p>\n<p>July 13 was declared \u201cCoast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 16-05 Day\u201d in Brick by Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the flotilla, <a href=\"http:\/\/a0531605.uscgaux.info\/\">visit its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/07\/brick-salutes-coast-guard-auxiliary-flotilla-on-anniversary\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brick Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla have been keeping local waters safe for 50 years, and were recently honored by the Brick Township Council. \u201cThey have been dedicated to our community in Brick, but also in all of Ocean County,\u201d said Mayor John Ducey, explaining that Flotilla 16-05\u00a0began in Island Heights and moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,2303,2304],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-coast-guard-auxiliary","tag-flotilla-16-05"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uscgaux_brick.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}