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Pink Friday is coming to Surf City May 1st to help fight breast cancer awareness. Local businesses have until April 22 to register at paintthetownpink.com.  It’s free and business owners get a free bag of promotional items to display hopefully luring customers.

Link to full Sandpaper article here-https://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/may-1-is-pink-friday-in-surf-city/1329315?source=WeeklyHeadlines

Also early dolphin sightings have been reported over the weekend. Seems even the colder water temps of spring have not kept the warm blooded sea mammals away.

There have been quite a lot of frozen pipes being discovered this spring as residents return to their summer homes after the brutally cold winter and turn the water on. If you have a pipe that burst and can’t find the shut off at the curb, Surf City township workers will help you in locating the water main to the house. This property was problematic for a while and multiple attempts were made to locate the shut off. Finally with perseverance it was located successfully and the water was shut off.

If you were lucky enough to be at in Surf City on Easter weekend and got to the beach you were able to witness the beautiful cloud cover, waves, and surfers enjoying the warm weather on Saturday.

Link to nice little video from that day- https://youtu.be/3HpGSzrxJU8

Last day of March was a beauty in Surf City as the sun rose. Here are some images for all that are not here yet.

Casino Pier amusement park damaged by Sandy announces expansion plans. Pier to be reconstructed over land to cut costs and increase safety.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/new-jersey-more/item/80067-casino-pier-amusement-park-damaged-by-sandy-to-rebuild-but-not-over-water?l=mf

In mid February Surf City local Mark Temme braved a walk across the frozen Barnegat Bay. There was some controversy as to the safety and legality of this brave venture.  Here are links to the articles in The Sandpaper.

https://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/man-walks-across-the-bay/1312856

https://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/don-t-call-bay-walk-stupid/1318520

Also a video here with some of the beautiful sunsets we’ve been having here in Surf City. Quite scenic, tranquil, and empty.

https://vimeo.com/123103247

While a large portion of LBI is scheduled for beach replenishment, Surf City is only going to get a small section worked on. Work will begin in April and sand will be pumped to the municipalities of Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven and Surf City over for a combined project construction length of 12.2 miles. Full story here in this link to The SandPaper.

https://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/lbi-beach-replenishment-start-now-planned-for-april/1314668?source=WeeklyHeadlines

The largest snowfall of the winter fell on LBI on March 6th. Almost 9″ blanked the island. Here’s a video slideshow of the event posted on facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153170803617682&l=1657484900405271250

And here is an image of the new placards that should have been received by residents at this point.

Excellent drone view of the causeway bridge construction and frozen bay from this winter. Video was taken on February 17th, 2015 by Chris Lemcke.

Mixed bag of stuff this week.

Coldest February in a long time has had the bay frozen solid and Surf City local Mark Temme braved the elements and crossed it on foot on Feb 21st. He had a PFD on under his jacket, with an ice pick just in case. It was SOLID!

Emergency placards for re-entry to LBI have been mailed and should already be in homeowners possession.

A home that was being worked on in Stafford Twp had a reported gas leak at around 10AM on Feb 24th.  The home exploded w/emergency workers on site. It was a miracle no one was killed. Link to story and video here-

http://patch.com/new-jersey/barnegat-manahawkin/watch-video-shows-house-explosion-after-manahawkin-gas-main-break-0?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hs&utm_campaign

Sunsets have been no less than spectacular recently.

On Feb. 9 NJ Dept of Transportation’s key points discussed were:

• Project to be completed by 2020
• New main bridge in the double-span system should be finished in May 2016
• Traffic flow will be temporarily reduced to one lane during construction
• There will be a 6-foot sidewalk on the westbound side for pedestrians and  bicycles
• Once completed the new bridge will have two lanes heading eastbound and two lanes heading westbound.

  

Complete Sandpaper article found in this link:

https://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/causeway-bridges-update-traffic-to-switch-to-new-bridge-in-may-2016/1303391?source=WeeklyHeadlines

Excellent video of winter storm Juno shot from a helicopter the day after the storm. Aerial footage shows Atlantic City to Island Beach State Park.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/#!/news/local/SkyForce10-Aerials-of-Jersey-Shore-Snow/289983251