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Long Branch I Dec. 29, 2005 www.app.comreporter Li ml Covering Long Branch, West Long Branch Oceanport Best Bet New Year's Day beachwalk, American Littoral Society, 1 1 a.m., Building 18, Sandy Hook; call (732) 291-0055. SOME JOBS REQUIRE WORK ON HOLIDAY. 4 seam v-1 THESES ft 7 7 I 'i i FLYING HIGH KEAGLE HEADING OVERSEAS. 6 a i Area man cleans up with soap opera role By V1NCE MILLER STAFF WRITER If the new cast member in the soap opera "As the World Turns" looks familiar to West Long Branch residents, he should.

He is Jordan Woolley, son of Borough Councilman Joseph and Barbara Wool-ley. Woolley, 24, started playing the role of Nick Kasnoff in the soap, seen on CBS-TV on Tuesday. The show airs from 2 to 3 p.m. weekdays. Woolley is a 1999 graduate of Shore Regional High School, where he played the lead role in the Shore Players production of the musical "Anything Goes." His mother is associate producer of the student drama group, which is rehearsing for its next production, "Evita," scheduled for the weekend of March 4 and 5.

Barbara Woolley said her son followed his older sister, Nicole, onto the stage at Shore Regional. Barbara Wolley said Jordan watched See Actor, Page 2 IT) MAN WITH A PLAN SANTA GIVES TOYS TO LONG BRANCH KIDS. 8 Jordan Woolloy (right, as Nick Kasnoff) rehearses a scene for "As the World Turns" with Mark Collier (as Mike Kasnoff) and Ellen Dolan (as Margo Hughes), (photo courtesy of Procter gamble productions).