The Ocean City Environmental Commission will sponsor a free family-friendly Nature and the Environment Family Fun Day 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17 in the Ocean City High School cafeteria. This year’s fifth annual event will include a wide range of nature and environmentally focused hands-on, interactive, fun and educational experiences for both children and adults.

The event is proudly sponsored by Ocean City’s Environmental Commission and held in partnership with the Ocean City Free Public Library and the Cape May County Park & Zoo, the Wetlands Institute and Rutgers University Agricultural Extension.

The tentative lineup of participants includes:

• Hands-on activities
• Small zoo animal interaction
• Marine life interaction
• Recycling arts and crafts
• Nature and environmental take-aways
• Demonstrations, exhibits, experts and take-aways for the whole family
• Bringing back the original Jersey tomato – lecture & seed giveaway (Rutgers Univ.)
• Environmentally friendly shellfish replenishing – demonstration (ACT Engineers)
• Protecting the watershed and cleaning up the bay – demonstration (AmeriCorps)
• Trash decomposition and the environment (Ocean City Environmental Commission)
• The ins and outs of recycling (Cape May Municipal Utilities Authority)
• How to compost (Ocean City Environmental Commission)
• Native plants exhibit (Ocean City Environmental Commission)
• Energy efficiency (South Jersey Gas)
• Energy efficiency (AC Electric)
• Water efficiency (New Jersey American Water)
• Solid waste and wastewater management (Cape May Municipal Utilities Authority)
• Electric-vehicle charging
  

Ocean City, New Jersey
861 Asbury Avenue
Ocean City, NJ 08226
(609) 399-6111
www.ocnj.us