{"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 \u201cSnow Corps\u201d made up of volunteers willing to remove snow from driveways and walkways of elderly and disabled residents in town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have enough volunteers out there in Brick Township to make this happen,\u201d said Ducey, calling on all \u201cable-bodied men and women\u201d to sign up to help. \u201cWe\u2019re eventually going to ask for people in need of these services, but we need to know we have the volunteers first.\u201d<\/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 \u201cSnow Corps\u201d made up of volunteers willing to remove snow from driveways and walkways of elderly and disabled residents in town. \u201cI think we have enough volunteers out there in Brick Township to make this happen,\u201d 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_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}]}}