{"id":9400,"date":"2016-09-29T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2016-09-29T01:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T05:32:54","slug":"brick-to-organize-volunteer-snow-corps-to-help-seniors-disabled-residents-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/09\/brick-to-organize-volunteer-snow-corps-to-help-seniors-disabled-residents-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Organize Volunteer &#8216;Snow Corps&#8217; to Help Seniors, Disabled Residents This Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7419\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7419\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Local residents dig out of a snowstorm that dumped 20 inches on Ocean County. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local residents dig out of a snowstorm that dumped 20 inches on Ocean County. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Mayor John Ducey announced this week that he is seeking to form a township-wide &#8220;Snow Corps&#8221; made up of volunteers willing to remove snow from driveways and walkways of elderly and disabled residents in town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have enough volunteers out there in Brick Township to make this happen,&#8221; said Ducey, calling on all &#8220;able-bodied men and women&#8221; to sign up to help. &#8220;We\u2019re eventually going to ask for people in need of these services, but we need to know we have the volunteers first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ducey said the program will only work if a sufficient number of volunteers sign up to help. Residents are welcome to use their snowblowers or good, old-fashioned elbow grease to help.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who would like to sign up as a volunteer is being asked to call the township at\u00a0732-262-4713 to put their name on the list.<\/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\/09\/brick-to-organize-volunteer-snow-corps-to-help-seniors-disabled-residents-this-winter\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Mayor John Ducey announced this week that he is seeking to form a township-wide &#8220;Snow Corps&#8221; made up of volunteers willing to remove snow from driveways and walkways of elderly and disabled residents in town. &#8220;I think we have enough volunteers out there in Brick Township to make this happen,&#8221; said Ducey, calling on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7419,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[24,2464,2465,1868],"class_list":["post-9400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-snow-corps","tag-volunteer","tag-winter-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4934.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2rC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400","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=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}