{"id":8076,"date":"2020-08-28T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2020-08-28T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:01:36","slug":"seaside-park-to-extend-lifeguards-badge-checkers-into-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/08\/seaside-park-to-extend-lifeguards-badge-checkers-into-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Park to Extend Lifeguards, Badge Checkers Into September"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New parking kiosks along Ocean Avenue in Seaside Park. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Seaside Park officials are expecting a busy post-Labor Day shoulder season this year, and have decided to keep both lifeguards and beach badge checkers on duty every weekend in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked to Joe, head of our beach patrol, and Mike, the head of the captains, and they are already to go,\u201d said Mayor John A. Peterson.<\/p>\n

At first, it was proposed that only guards should remain working in September, but several members of the borough council insisted that beach badges be sold and checked. One reason for this was was not financial, but to ensure that there are controls on beach attendance to comply with the borough\u2019s social distancing plan for its beachfront.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf our beaches are open, I think we should have badge checkers. Period, end of discussion,\u201d said Councilwoman Gail Coleman. \u201cI think there\u2019s an avenue of making money, and then when Island Beach [State Park] closes \u2013 it still closes on the weekend \u2013 I think it would keep the beach at a nice pace, clean and not overcrowded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the decision on whether to keep the badge checkers on duty will be financial, said one councilman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we find we are losing money, they will not work the last two weeks of September, bu the lifeguards will stay on,\u201d said Councilman Ray Amabile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think money is a problem,\u201d he added, a nod to the borough\u2019s successful beach badge sales numbers thus far in the summer of 2020, a trend in most Shore towns.<\/p>\n

Officials are expecting many seasonal residents to remain in town since they are working remotely and beaches to attract more crowds as a result. The decision came as more than 180 school districts across New Jersey confirmed they would not reopen to in-person learning, including the Toms River Regional school district.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, many of the schools will still not be open, and that\u2019s where the concern came from for many residents,\u201d said Peterson. \u201cIt\u2019s been a focus on safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Seaside Park officials are expecting a busy post-Labor Day shoulder season this year, and have decided to keep both lifeguards and beach badge checkers on duty every weekend in September. \u201cI\u2019ve talked to Joe, head of our beach patrol, and Mike, the head of the captains, and they are already to go,\u201d said Mayor John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2272,"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":[18,6,5],"tags":[1778,30,50,32,1779],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-government","category-seaside-heights","tag-badge-checker","tag-beach-badges","tag-lifeguards","tag-seaside-park-nj-news","tag-september-2020"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5399.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-26g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","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=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}