A Christmas tree lighting and car cruise benefiting a plan to help and house homeless veterans are scheduled for Friday, Dec. 2 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 308 Route 72 in Barnegat Township. The rain date is Friday, Dec. 9.

They are at the site of the proposed Jeff’s Camp, which Martin Weber looks to establish in memory of Jeff Poissant, who was Weber’s longtime partner. He died in 2017 at age 56 after a battle with cancer. The two men met in the late 1980s while both were in the U.S.