{"id":10120,"date":"2021-12-02T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=10120"},"modified":"2021-12-02T05:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:57:44","slug":"polar-plunge-will-return-to-seaside-heights-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2021\/12\/polar-plunge-will-return-to-seaside-heights-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Polar Plunge&#8217; Will Return to Seaside Heights in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6298\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Participants in the 2019 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6298\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6298\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Participants in the 2019 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111-681x454.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in the 2019 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The annual Seaside Heights Polar Plunge, an annual tradition that raises millions of dollars for Special Olympics New Jersey, will return to town after being canceled and moved to a virtual platform last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Seaside Heights officials received a request from the organizers of the event to hold the plunge just before gathering for a borough council meeting Wednesday. Mayor Anthony Vaz said Special Olympics New Jersey requested to hold the event on the borough&#8217;s oceanfront Feb. 26, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re back!&#8221; an excited Vaz said. &#8220;We\u2019re happy to have them, and hopefully the pandemic will not interrupt things again this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-nsmcMFDk-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1000' height='562' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/nsmcMFDk?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The most recent plunge event, held in 2020 just before the pandemic arrived in the United States, raised $2.5 million, beating a previous record of $2.3 million raised in 2019. The Polar Plunge is also a major economic factor for boardwalk businesses, with just under 10,000 participants flocking to the boardwalk along with several times as many spectators looking on. Though solidly a &#8220;winter&#8221; institution, the plunge kicks off a number of important pre-season events in town, including the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade and Easter celebrations in the following months.<\/p>\n<p>Registration and donation opportunities are already open at the plunge website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plungeseaside.org\/\">www.plungeseaside.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2021\/12\/polar-plunge-will-return-to-seaside-heights-in-2022\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Seaside Heights Polar Plunge, an annual tradition that raises millions of dollars for Special Olympics New Jersey, will return to town after being canceled and moved to a virtual platform last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Seaside Heights officials received a request from the organizers of the event to hold the plunge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[5,23],"tags":[2008,1959,36,20],"class_list":["post-10120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seaside-heights","category-things-to-do-seaside-lavallette","tag-2022-polar-plunge","tag-featured","tag-seaside-heights-boardwalk","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seaside_heights_polar_plunge_2019_111.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-2De","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}