Day: December 6, 2008

New Jersey Guard Celebrates Alliance With Albania

 Special to American Forces Press Service

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., Dec. 5, 2008 – The New Jersey National Guard is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its alliance with the republic of Albania through the State Partnership Program.
The State Partnership Program, launched by the National Guard Bureau and the U.S. State Department in the 1990s, was started to foster alliances between U.S. states and former Soviet countries, officials said. 

Soldiers and airmen with the New Jersey National Guard have worked with their counterparts in Albania since 1993 to modernize the former communist nation\’s defense forces and prepare it for membership in NATO. 

Albania is scheduled to join the 26-nation alliance in April. 

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Gloucester City Holiday Parade/video

Gloucester City Christmas Parade/video
In years past the parade traveled the lenght of Broadway. This year it started at King and Powell Streets and headed out through the inner streets of the City. In the video a light snow/sleet falls as the parade (two fire engines, a police scooter, several corvettes, a truck with children and Santa Claus) heads north on Lane Avenue towards Thompson. The caravan ended at the Mary Ethel Costello School were a large crowd of children and adults waited for Santa\’s arrival.

At the school there was a Christmas Tree Decorating Contest, photos with Santa, a Ginger bread House Contest, cookie contest, gift and craft vendors, and carolers.

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