While we should be aware of environmental issues and global warning year round, Ocean City presents its Earth Day Celebration on Sunday, April 20, from noon to 4pm at the Bayside Center. The event will be open to the public at noon with an awards ceremony beginning at 1pm honoring environmental leaders. Boating tours through the back bays will be offered through the Wetlands Institute at the Earth Day Celebration as well as throughout the summer. The event also includes activities for children such as an inflatable bounce castle, entertainment with the Turtle Singers and Tucker's Tales puppet show, and other activities. There will be over 20 exhibits by environmental organizations. Local Ocean City restaurants will provide food.
Also on hand will be piano man Danny Kean and Elvis performer Ted Prior. A solar-powered video camera has been installed to record live action at the osprey nest directly across from the Bayside Center. The live footage will be displayed on a flat screen television inside the Center. Go green by riding your bike to the event. You can also bring your old cell phone and donate to it to the City's recycling program that benefits the Help Them Call Home campaign.
-- Lori Hoffman
Ocean City Earth Day, Sunday, April 20, noon-4pm, Bayside Center, Bay Ave. between 5th & 6th streets. Free admission. For more info, call 525-9333.
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The 68-year-old Prior was more than a local star in the southern New Jersey area, especially in the family resort of Ocean City, Cape May County, where he was a constant on the scene for his Elvis Presley-inspired performances at the beach town resort's many special events.
Goochie's Goes Green Since setting up shop in the Brigantine Town Center about three years ago, Rip Reynolds has consistently done the right thing. From a strictly food standpoint, Goochie Brothers’ authentically prepared Italian fare has been so well received, the owner’s surname seeming to not match the specialty region became irrelevant. Lately Reynolds has taken the dual initiative of helping the environment while lowering his future bottom-line expenses. He is doing this through what’s dubbed "Greenhead Initiative" — replacing all his petroleum-based packaging products with biopolymer goods made from plant matter that disintegrates in months instead of lifetimes, and comes from material that would otherwise have been discarded. The initiative also includes participating in the N.J. Clean Energy Program, which allows Goochie’s to rely on 100 percent wind-generated power. “Brigantine has about 150 businesses, and typically a business uses petroleum-based packaging that would equate to about 5,000 gallons of gas a year,” says Reynolds. “That’s a tremendous number, so if everybody did this sort of thing, it would save a lot of gas.” As with anything, says Reynolds, the more efficiently the biodegradable packaging is mass-produced, the less it will cost down the road. “Right now I’m working with some...
An iron-man run of towering proportions has sadly come to an end, as Ted Prior, who’s been performing spot-on renditions of Elvis for more years than Elvis was alive, will be missing his first Ocean City First Night Celebration since the New Year’s Eve tradition began.
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