“Long Beach Island is such a wonderful place,” Surf City resident and Alliance for a Living Ocean President Casey Courts Deacon writes in the text accompanying a GoFundMe – at gofundme.com/f/support-our-local-lbi-service-industry-workers – she set up earlier this month. “We live by the tides and the rhythm of the Atlantic lulls us to sleep every night. We’re all so lucky to live here. Well, a large proportion of our local economy is dependent on the service industry, and they need our help.”
Deacon grew up on the Island, and worked in the food service industry in high school and college.
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