FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip ~ Cape May, New Jersey ~ 11MAR 2008

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Cape May, New Jersey

Coast Guard Training Center Cape May is the home of the Coast Guard enlisted corps - it is the U. S. Coast Guard enlisted accession point and recruit training center. The finest young men and women in service to the United States of America pass through the gates each year. The goal at Cape May is to graduate apprentices with the pride, commitment and basic skills to serve the American Public in the U.S. Coast Guard.

United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May is the home of the Coast Guard enlisted corps and is the Coast Guard's only enlisted accession point and recruit training center.

Sewell Point, the area occupied by the Training Center, has a long history of naval presence. During the American Revolutionary War and throughout the nineteenth century, Cape May Sound was used as a harbor of refuge. In 1917, the Navy established a "section base" in Cape May, to provide training, vessel support and communication facilities for coastal defense.

Initially, the Navy converted an abandoned amusement center, built along the oceanfront, for military use. The old skating rink became the mess hall and sleeping quarters, the stage was made into a galley, the "human roulette wheel" -- a scrub table and the "barrel of fun" became a brig. When the old wooden structure burned down in 1918, the Navy built standard military facilities along the harbor front (some of these buildings still stand today).

Read More About the Cape May Training School!

The Cape May Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in New Jersey at the tip of Cape May, in the town of Cape May Point. It was built in 1859, was automated in 1946, and continues operation to this day. There are 199 steps to the top of the Lighthouse. The view from the top extends to Cape May City and Wildwood to the north, Cape May Point to the south, and, on a clear day, Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to the west.

The lighthouse is owned by the United States Coast Guard, which maintains it as an active aid to maritime navigation. The Coast Guard leases the structure and the grounds (but not the navigation equipment) to the State of New Jersey which, in turn, sub-leases the structure and grounds to the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC).

MAC raises funds for the restoration and upkeep of the structure and allows visitors to climb to the top. On the way, MAC has placed interpretive exhibits about the lighthouse's history, the lives of the former keepers, and other maritime history of the Jersey Cape.

Learn More About the Cape May Lighthouse Here!

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[PROCON]

WOO-HOO!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Evening Lauren.{{{HUGS}}}

[laurenmarlowe]

United States Marine Corps Band~National Anthem

[The Mayor]

March 11, 2008

Agents Of Grace

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READ: Luke 15:11-24

When he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck

Jesus’ most memorable story, The Prodigal Son, ends with a banquet scene, featuring as its hero a good-for-nothing who has soiled the family reputation. Those judged undesirable by everyone else—like the prodigal son—are infinitely desirable to God. When one of them turns to God, a party breaks out (Luke 15:22-24).

In the Old Testament, levitical laws guarded against contagion. Among the things that would contaminate a person were contact with certain animals, carcasses, or the sick. But Jesus reversed the process. Rather than becoming contaminated by what was unclean, He made the unclean whole.

I sense in Jesus a fulfillment, not an abolition, of the Old Testament laws. God had hallowed creation by separating the sacred from the profane, the clean from the unclean. Jesus did not cancel out this hallowing principle; rather He changed its source.

Because of God’s great grace, we can be agents of His holiness, for He now dwells within us. We can seek, as Jesus did, for ways to be a source of holiness. The sick and the maimed are not hot spots of contamination but potential reservoirs of God’s mercy. We are called to extend that mercy, to be conveyers of grace, not avoiders of contagion. Like Jesus, we can help make the “unclean” clean.

For Further Study

According to Philippians 2:14, how should we “do all things”? What is the result for us, and what does that mean for our world? (v.15).

 No one is beyond the reach of God’s grace.

Bible in One Year: Numbers 31–33; Proverbs 24:13-22

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Here!

[PROCON]

Thanks for tonight's thread, Lauren!!

(((HUGS)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[Mrs.Nooseman]

wesome thread.

Love the road trip.

[laurenmarlowe]

Arlington, VA (March 4, 2008)-The Coast Guard accepted delivery of the first upgraded HC-130J long-range surveillance maritime patrol aircraft Friday. The aircraft's new mission equipment and sensor packages are designed to deliver enhanced search, detection and tracking capabilities to perform maritime search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and homeland security missions. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

(March 4, 2008) SAN FRANCISCO - A crewmember of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Aspen, a buoy tender stationed at Sector San Francisco, prepares the ship to get underway on Tuesday here. Their upcoming mission is to travel north up the California coast into Humboldt Bay, Calif. (Coast Guard photo by Seaman Robert Brazzell)

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Master Chief Petty Officer William Bodley, center, of Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf has his new Master Chief collar devices pinned on by his wife, Zina, left, and Chief Warrant Officer John Williams, right, March 3, 2008. Bodley has served the U.S. Coast Guard for more than 25 years. U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Anderson.

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy PROCON!!

FIRST!!

[PROCON]

Here!

Evening, MS!!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

LOL
*HUG*
Good evening, Pro!

[laurenmarlowe]

Evening Mrs. Noosie! *HUGS*

SECOND!!

[westmichman]

Some good video/music for troops and families...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0&feature=related

[SevenofNine]

Whoa i reading Smoking Gun.com they claim they have interiew of one of GOvernor Spitzer ladies of the night she claim that dude was one kinky dude with one time he want go bare back sex with no protection and rough up the ladies that probably reason he got busted one of ladies turn him in LOL!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thank you.

I would have been first if it wouldn’t have been for the phone.;)

[SevenofNine]

More breaking news from Kydto news wire US dollar getting kill with down 20 percent against Japanese YEN no it not Godzilla’s fault

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy Mayor! Thank you!

THIRD!!

[luvie]

Very cool thread, Lauren! Thanks for all your hard work and
research to give us all this information!

PS...love the lighthouse. :D