Hot Enough For Ya?

Just wondering how many of you were shoveling snow this past winter and vowed not to complain about heat and humidity and now five months later have broken that vow. Yes we are experiencing an early summer heat wave and there’s no escaping it outside…even at the beach, although the water was beautiful over the weekend. However this is the kind of start to summer that businesses really needed because last June it rained nearly every day for the entire month.

Speaking of the beach, I spent Friday and Saturday on 2nd Avenue in Seaside Park. Several weeks ago I did a segment on the borough’s installation of pay stations for parking along the beach and boardwalk in the south end which previously had been free. You now have to pay $1.50 per hour to park near the ocean with enforcement 24 hours a day. It does lead to an interesting scenario as regular beach-goers fill side streets first and leave the pay spots for those who arrive much later which is the exact opposite of how it had been for years. When I left Friday there were only a couple of the paid spots occupied even though the beach was packed.

Went to the movies for the first time in at least a couple of months over and weekend and caught “Knight and Day” which stars Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz. No Academy Awards for this one but it’s full of action and is a decent summer movie. Cruise & Diaz are good to look at and the movie is pretty fast-paced so again it’s good if not great entertainment.

Many of New Jersey’s top senior football players will take part in tonight’s 32nd Annual North-South Classic at Kean University. A dozen recently-graduated players from the shore area are expected to suit up for the South stars including Howell quarterback Jimmy Ryan, lineman Jimmy Lawson (Manchester), Rob Cassidy (TR North), Alex Pangaro (Donovan), Mike Stuppiello (Lacey) and Matt Betz (Pt Boro) and Kyle Barnes of Point Beach.
Many of the same players will also participate in the U.S. Army All-Shore Gridiron Classic at Matawan High School on July 16th.