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Celebrate Earth Day w/ a Festival and a Clean Up in Point Pleasant Borough

The Point Pleasant Borough Environmental Commission is hosting the 2014 Earth Day Celebration will be held at Riverfront
Park, River Road in Point Pleasant Borough; the event will be held on April 26th from noon to 4 p.m. with a rain date of
April 27st.

This event will be preceded by the semi-annual Beach
Sweeps hosted by Clean Ocean Action at the river beaches of River Ave.
and Maxson Ave from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.** as well as the Ocean First
Shred Day from 9 a.m. to 11a.m.***, both on Saturday.  

The Earth Day event showcases vendors of green products/ideas,
environmental organizations, and local and small businesses while also
trying to instill environmentally responsible ideas and practices into
our younger generations. There will be activities, games and rides for
the kids. In addition, there will be food prepared by Jersey Shore BBQ,
Shore Fresh Seafood, Cool Concessions LLC and Shore Point Foods as well
as music performed by the Sherman Brothers, the Soup Sandwich Band and
DJ Trish.


The Commission always welcomes donations, and is still accepting applications for all
exhibitors and vendors.  For more info, please contact Chris Constantino
(732-232-0243) or pointboroec@gmail.com (please title the subject - 2014 Earth Day Inquiry).  All proceeds fund the annual scholarship awarded to
Borough High School seniors, the prizes for the winners of the photo
contest, and the operations and incidentals of the event itself. 

Like and Share the Commission's Facebook Page; updates are located at https://www.facebook.com/PointPleasantBoroughEnvironmentalCommission and http://www.env.ptboro.com.


**The kick off for the Borough's Beach Sweep
will be held on Saturday, 4/26 at 9 a.m. at the River Ave. river beach
on the Manasquan River and will proceed to the Maxson Ave. river
beach.    Please wear gloves, hard soled shoes and dress for the
weather.  Beach Sweeps takes place rain or shine!  Great opportunity for
community service!

***Also, take part in Ocean First Bank's Shred Day on
Saturday, 4/26 from 9 a.m. to 11a.m. at the 2400 Bridge Ave. branch of
Ocean First Bank, to protect your identity and your planet.    Go Green
and help protect against identity theft by shredding and recycling your
old financial records and paperwork in their giant shredder.

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