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Ocean City Happenings: “Broadway Love Songs Cabaret” Returns to Music Pier

As Valentine's Day approaches, the Greater Ocean City Theatre Company invites everybody to celebrate love with some of the most enchanting, unforgettable and lovey-dovey songs to ever grace the Broadway stage.


Select performers from OCTC's Professional Broadway Series and student programming will return to the Ocean City Music Pier stage in an intimate cabaret of favorites from the Great White Way at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15.


The love of Broadway will fill the historic Music Pier at Moorlyn Terrace and the Boardwalk. Plenty of free parking will be available nearby.


Tickets are $15 for seniors and kids under age 12, and $18 for everyone else. All proceeds benefit OCTC. Advanced reservations are strongly suggested.


To reserve your tickets, visit oceancitytheatrecompany.com. Bring that special someone, your family, a friend or simply let Broadway be your Valentine this year.

   "Winter Warriors" pull a fire truck. (Courtesy of Ocean City) WINTER WARRIOR CHALLENGE AND ENVIRONMENT FAMILY FUN DAY ALSO COMING UP FEB. 15


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The Winter Warrior Challenge will return for its second year on Saturday, Feb. 15, and registration is open for the event’s fun and wintry competition.


Winter Warrior include four components: an obstacle course race for children, a “Winter Warrior” obstacle challenge for parents and individuals, team challenges such as a fire truck pull, and a sports festival for participants and spectators (including a kid- and family-friendly fire truck pull).


  • 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, dummy rescue and tire-flip relay.
  • “Winter Warrior” Festival: Vendors, hot chocolate, music and heaters will be on hand for participants and spectators.

Registration for all events is open now, and discounted fees will be available through 4 p.m. Feb. 12. For complete information and registration, visit ocnj.us/race-events.

    Arts and crafts and other kid-friendly activities highlight the Ocean City Nature & The Environment Family Fun Day. (Courtesy of Ocean City)
 
 

The sixth annual Ocean City Nature & The Environment Family Fun Day is set for 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday Feb. 15 in the cafeteria at Ocean City High School (501 Atlantic Avenue).


The event is free and provides a great chance to get the kids out to do something educational, interactive and have loads of fun on President’s Day Weekend. This year’s program will include a wide range of nature and environmentally focused, hands-on experiences for both children and adults. Last year’s event drew more than 850 parents and kids.


Some of the activities include:


  • Small zoo animal interaction
  • Marine life interaction
  • Recycling arts and crafts
  • Nature and environmental take-aways
  • Food drive: Please bring non-perishable and staple foods and personal products to donate
  • The importance of pollinating insects – show-and-tell
  • Planting you own pollinator garden – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
  • Bringing back the original jersey tomato – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
  • Environmentally friendly shellfish replenishing demonstration
  • Protecting the watershed and cleaning up the bay demonstration
  • Trash decomposition and the environment
  • The ins and outs of recycling
  • How to compost
  • Native plants exhibit
  • Solid waste and wastewater management
  • Electric vehicle charging location maps


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