The inaugural Winter Warrior Festival on Saturday in Ocean City will provide a great way to escape cabin fever.
The event runs 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Ocean City Civic Center (Sixth Street and Boardwalk).
The festival is free to attend, and will include special sales from local merchants, crafters, and food vendors. It’ll be a taste of summer in the heart of winter. While the festival runs indoors, a series of race events will be going on outside.
Come cheer for teams from local businesses and community groups as they compete for bragging rights in challenges that include a fire-truck pull and tire-flip relay. Watch individuals compete in obstacle-course challenges.
It’s not too late to sign up to compete in any of the races.
The event includes:
- Kids Obstacles: A fun, non-competitive course includes a rock wall, hazard walls, cargo net, agility poles, teeter plank, monkey bars, floating steps, tire run, and noodle tower.
- “Winter Warrior Challenge”: Show your grit on a cold 2.5-mile course with 10 obstacles. Look for things like sand mounds, tires, teeter-totters and monkey bars along the way. This race is reserved for participants ages 14 and older. All survivors receive an exclusive Winter Warrior Challenge finisher T-shirt.
- “Winter Warrior” Team Challenges: Teams of four from local businesses, organizations, churches and other groups will compete in events such as a fire-truck pull and tire-flip relay.
Registration for all events is open now, and discounted fees will be available through 4 p.m. Feb. 14. For complete information and registration, visit ocnj.us/OCNJWinterWarrior.
NATURE FAMILY FUN DAY ON SATURDAY
The annual Nature and the Environment Family Fun Day will be held next door to the Winter Warrior Festival on Saturday, and the two events could make for a great outing for the whole family.
Family Fun Day is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Ocean City High School cafeteria. This year’s fifth annual event will include a wide range of nature and environmentally focused hands-on, interactive, fun and educational experiences for both children and adults.
The free event is sponsored by Ocean City’s Environmental Commission and held in partnership with the Ocean City Free Public Library and the Cape May County Park & Zoo, the Wetlands Institute and Rutgers University Agricultural Extension.
The tentative lineup of participants includes:
- Hands-on activities
- Small zoo animal interaction
- Marine life interaction
- Recycling arts and crafts
- Nature and environmental take-aways
- Demonstrations, exhibits, experts and take-aways for the whole family
- Bringing back the original Jersey tomato – lecture & seed giveaway (Rutgers Univ.)
- Environmentally friendly shellfish replenishing – demonstration (ACT Engineers)
- Protecting the watershed and cleaning up the bay – demonstration (AmeriCorps)
- Trash decomposition and the environment (Ocean City Environmental Commission)
- The ins and outs of recycling (Cape May Municipal Utilities Authority)
- How to compost (Ocean City Environmental Commission)
- Native plants exhibit (Ocean City Environmental Commission)
- Energy efficiency (South Jersey Gas)
- Energy efficiency (AC Electric)
- Water efficiency (New Jersey American Water)
- Solid waste and wastewater management (Cape May Municipal Utilities Authority)
- Electric-vehicle charging
OCEAN CITY JOB FAIR SET FOR MARCH 16 AT MUSIC PIER
The Ocean City Regional Chamber of Commerce is partnering with Ocean City High School to assist businesses in filling seasonal employment positions. The Ocean City Job Fair is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at the Ocean City Music Pier. The event is open to everyone and the Chamber strongly encourages employers and potential employees to sign up now.
Businesses can register to participate here. Students can register to attend here. For further information, call the Ocean City Regional Chamber of Commerce at 609-399-1412.
