Press Release
SAYREVILLE – Our annual Salt Water Day festival is being held on Saturday August 8, 201 2PM till the fireworks. This year we are bringing back the Horseshoe Tournament long a staple of the day’s event but was eliminated several years back. It’s back now. Sign up and win that cash prize.
This year’s entertainment will consist of Shining Star (a R&B group with a great horn section playing a lot of Earth Wind and Fire music) playing from 5p to 7p then Asbury Fever (Springsteen and Jersey Shore party music) from 730PM right up to the fireworks show.
Salt Water Day is a family fun filled day with rides for the kids, a food court with an eclectic array of fair foods led by the Laurence Harbor Fire Departments Clams and Shrimp bar. There will be an array of crafts and private vendors along the beachfront walkway.
The event is held in conjunction with the Laurence Harbor First Aid Squad, the Township of Old Bridge and the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders for the past 13 years only missing SWD 2013 because of the damage to the beachfront from Super Storm Sandy and the year that Floyd hit because we had changed the date that year.
All eyes will be on the end of the night though, when the annual Fireworks show lights the sky. This is the only sanctioned fireworks show in Old Bridge Township and attracts about 10k people to the waterfront park area. It also attracts hundreds of boaters who get to have front row seats on the comfort of their boats big and small. The local resident’s on Shoreland Circle have their annual picnics knowing that it’s safe because the neighborhood is shut down to vehicular traffic and they have a great time going back and forth to the festival and then having the comforts of their home for the show.
Parking is always tough in the area and there is a shuttle bus that goes all day along Matawan Rd/ Laurence Pkwy from Cheesequake Village to the beachfront and from Cliffwood Beach, Whale Creek Bridge along Ocean Blvd to the 7-11 on Rt 35 to the LH beachfront. There is parking at Exit 120 and the surrounding area and at St. Lawrence RC Church after the 430P mass. Please use the shuttle since it alleviates the traffic at the circle by the beachfront and allows an orderly exit at the end of the nigh
Compounding the problem this year is the closing of the westbound lane of the GSP bridge, which we hope, we are able to overcome for that day only. We will keep you posted.
The fireworks show is funded by donations of local businesses and through donations made by the local residents. At present we are about $5-6k short of our goal but we have people out shaking the trees and hopefully we will reach the expected goal by the day of the show. Donations can be made to the LHFAS PO Box 1146, Laurence Harbor, NJ 08879 mark fireworks in the memo field.
