{"id":7230,"date":"2019-12-30T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T17:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2019-12-30T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T17:10:24","slug":"seaside-heights-first-night-to-feature-fireworks-balloon-artists-insectropolis-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2019\/12\/seaside-heights-first-night-to-feature-fireworks-balloon-artists-insectropolis-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights ‘First Night’ to Feature Fireworks, Balloon Artists, Insectropolis and More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fireworks. (Credit: jeff_golden\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n

Seaside Heights will host one of its biggest First Night Ocean County celebration ever this year, with planners expecting a\u00a0polar bear, super heroes,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Insectropolis<\/span><\/span> demonstrations, and much more at this year\u2019s family-<\/span><\/span>friendly<\/span><\/span> celebration, beginning Tuesday after<\/span><\/span>noon.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Coca Cola Polar Bear and outdoor winter celebration adds a fifth, outdoor, location to the four arcades that have traditionally hosted entertainment for the New Year\u2019 eve afternoon event. In addition to the popular balloon artists, caricaturists, jugglers, and other entertainment,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Insectropolis<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(<\/span><\/span>New Jersey\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Bug Museum<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 super heroes, and fun activities with\u00a0<\/span><\/span>JerseyShoreCountry<\/a><\/span><\/span>.com<\/a> will provide fun indoors. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weather permitting, the celebration will climax with fireworks at 5 p.m. fired from the beach.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 12 noon to 5<\/span><\/span>\u00a0p.m. event has been a popular New Year\u2019s Eve afternoon attraction on the Boardwalk for more than a decade.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0It<\/span><\/span>\u00a0is a family<\/span><\/span>-oriented<\/span><\/span>, alcohol-free New Year\u2019s Eve celebration observed throughout the United States. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Participants in First Night Ocean County purchase a wrist band\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and passport that<\/span><\/span> entitles them to join in the First Night activities at four Seaside Heights arcades: Casino Pier, Coin Castle, Lucky Leo\u2019s, and Shake Shoppe. <\/span><\/span>Passports stamped at all five First Night venues are eligible for entry into a drawing for a children\u2019s beach cart of prizes or adult beach cart of prizes, each valued at more than $250.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wristband\/passport purchasers receive a minimum of $15 in arcade play and participation in the entertainment, plus adults receive a coupon for a one-day Seaside Heights beach badge. <\/span><\/span>Children<\/span><\/span>\u2019s wristbands\/passports are<\/span><\/span>\u00a0$6<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and adults $10.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wristbands<\/span><\/span>\u00a0are<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a<\/span><\/span>vailable\u00a0<\/span><\/span>at\u00a0<\/span><\/span>participating arcades during the even<\/span><\/span>t and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>while open during the week\u00a0<\/span><\/span>plus\u00a0<\/span><\/span>at\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>County Connection in the Ocean County Mall (cash or check only)<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0On street-<\/span><\/span>parking and parking in municipal parking lots is free during the event.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More details are available<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on-line at exit82.com<\/a>. First Night is produced by the Seaside Heights Business Improvement District.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Seaside Heights will host one of its biggest First Night Ocean County celebration ever this year, with planners expecting a\u00a0polar bear, super heroes,\u00a0Insectropolis demonstrations, and much more at this year\u2019s family-friendly celebration, beginning Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 The Coca Cola Polar Bear and outdoor winter celebration adds a fifth, outdoor, location to the four arcades that have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5341,"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_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":[18,5,23],"tags":[1276,20],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-heights","category-things-to-do-seaside-lavallette","tag-first-night","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2637637797_b49cceb939_b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1SC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","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=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}