{"id":869579,"date":"2026-08-24T10:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869579\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:28:14","slug":"coast-guard-auxiliary-expands-life-jacket-loaner-program-across-nl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869579\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Auxiliary Expands Life Jacket Loaner Program Across NL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/battle-harbour-labrador-boat-harbour-ocean.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Coast Guard Auxiliary Expands Life Jacket Loaner Program Across NL\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary is teaming up with Transport Canada to establish stations around the province to supply personal flotation devices on loan. <\/p>\n<p>The need is even greater with more people taking to the water during the expanded recreational cod fishery.<\/p>\n<p>President Jim Chidley says PFDs save lives and to-date ten stations have been set up with life jackets, but they\u2019re looking for additional donations from the public. <\/p>\n<p>He says the goal is to have PFDs available in as many locations as possible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have a number, nor will we ever put a number on it, but we\u2019re trying to get into every community that we can.\u201d Said Chidley, \u201cYou know, people say \u2018I wants to take a loan of your PFD\u2019, well you (also) got to wear it. Don\u2019t just take \u2018a loan\u2019 of it \u2013 it\u2019s not a seat cushion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary is teaming up with Transport Canada to establish stations around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-869579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}