Hurricane Sandy

Volunteers Offer Support To Southern Ocean County

Saturday's community clean up proved to be successful, with more than 1000 volunteers.

More than 1,000 volunteers aided in a clean up held Saturday on Long Beach Island and the surrounding areas, including Tuckerton Beach, Cedar Run, West Creek, Stafford Township and Barnegat. Although the attendance via Facebook was confirmed to be approximately 1000 people neither Todd Stone, creator of the event,  or Chris Huch, Executive Director of Alliance for A Living Ocean, could believe the amount of people that participated.  "Not only the amount of people showing up is impressive, but the amount of supplies they brought is overwhelming, people from all over the state and all over the region," Huch told Patch. Volunteers gathered outside Farias Surf and Sport. The Jersey Shore Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation provided coffee and…

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Community Clean Up Set for Tomorrow

Community clean up on November 24th gains support from local businesses and groups providing aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy.

A lifelong lifeguard for Long Beach Township in Holgate,  Todd Stone was away at Midwestern University-College of Dental Medicine at Illinois, when Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Long Beach Island. After an overcaffeinated study session on bicuspids and molars, Stone's concentration faltered. Seeing his home in the middle of a devastating natural disaster was more than disheartening. With his community in mind, Stone employed social media to create an event.  The LBI Community Clean Up came from a desire to repair the one thing that joins locals and summer residents together, he said, the beach. Almost 1,000 people so far have noted that they will be attending the clean up on Saturday, November 24th.  Determined to put something cohesive…

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