{"id":16829,"date":"2020-08-12T00:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=16829"},"modified":"2020-08-12T00:10:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:10:41","slug":"bricks-2020-summerfest-finally-falls-to-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/08\/bricks-2020-summerfest-finally-falls-to-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick&#8217;s 2020 Summerfest Finally Falls to Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5342\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5342\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks. (Credit: jeff_golden\/Flickr)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks. (Credit: jeff_golden\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials have formally canceled its annual Summerfest series for the remainder of 2020. The news came after weeks of hope that state restrictions on outdoor activities would ease as the coronavirus pandemic was brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting of the township council Tuesday night, the governing body voted in favor of extending the contract for the would-be fireworks provider, Schaefer Fireworks, of Ronks, Pa., for anther year, effectively locking in the rate of 2020 which was less than previous summers. The contract calls for a number of fireworks displays not to exceed $22,000 in cost.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, Mayor John Ducey confirmed that Summerfest would not go on this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor has not changed the restriction of 500 [people] for outdoor gatherings,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have between 3,000 and 7,000 per week for Summerfest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/08\/bricks-2020-summerfest-finally-falls-to-virus\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials have formally canceled its annual Summerfest series for the remainder of 2020. The news came after weeks of hope that state restrictions on outdoor activities would ease as the coronavirus pandemic was brought under control. At a meeting of the township council Tuesday night, the governing body voted in favor of extending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,3978,4090],"class_list":["post-16829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-summerfest-2020"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4nr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}