COAST GUARD RECRUITS TO SPEND HOLIDAYS WITH LOCAL FAMILIES

The Coast Guard and American Red Cross will place more than 150 Coast Guard recruits with several dozen South Jersey families for Thanksgiving as part of Operation Fireside Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May has approximately 160 recruits in training from more than 29 states and U.S. territories including two recruits from New Jersey and one recruit from Pennsylvania. Operation Fireside has placed recruits with South Jersey families during the holiday season since 1981.