Festival In Barnegat To Benefit Retreat For Homeless Veterans

BARNEGAT, NJ — The nonprofit, Just Believe, is hosting a Labor Day Weekend Festival in Barnegat on Saturday featuring live music, free food and a classic car show.

Entry to the festival is free. Donations given at the festival will benefit Jeff’s Camp, a transitional housing facility that will one day serve homeless veterans in the local area.

The festival will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 308 Route 72 (the property on the corner of County Road 532 and Route 72), the future site of Jeff’s Camp.

In May, Barnegat resident Marty Weber signed a letter of intent to donate 36 acres of wooded property to be dedicated as Jeff's Camp, a transitional housing facility for veterans struggling with addiction and mental illness.

The vision for Jeff's Camp includes an 8,000-square-foot building, which would have a treatment facility and a thrift store run by Just Believe, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Ocean County. The thrift store would employ the veterans living on the property.

People can make donations to Jeff's Camp while they’re at the festival or online. Any money raised will help pay for the engineers, architects and permits needed to start the housing project by October.

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