Ocean City Happenings: A Busy Winter Weekend Ahead

The Winter Warrior Challenge will return for its second year on Saturday, and registration remains open for the event’s fun and wintry competition.

Winter Warrior includes an obstacle course race for children, a “Winter Warrior” obstacle challenge for adults, and team challenges such as a fire truck pull.

• Kids Obstacles: A fun, non-competitive course includes a rock wall, hazard walls, cargo net, agility poles, teeter plank, monkey bars, floating steps, tire run, and noodle tower. Kids also will get a chance to test their strength in their own fire truck pull.

• “Winter Warrior Challenge:” Show your grit on a cold 2.5-mile course with 10 obstacles. Look for things like sand mounds, tires, teeter-totters and monkey bars along the way. This race is reserved for participants ages 14 and older. All survivors receive an exclusive Winter Warrior Challenge finisher T-shirt.

• “Winter Warrior” Team Challenges: Teams of four from local businesses, organizations, churches and other groups will compete in events such as a fire-truck pull, dummy rescue and tire-flip relay.

Registration for all events is open now, and discounted fees will be available through 4 p.m. Wednesday. For complete information and registration, visit ocnj.us/race-events.

    Arts and crafts and other kid-friendly activities highlight the Ocean City Nature & The Environment Family Fun Day. (Courtesy of Ocean City)
  

The sixth annual Ocean City Nature & The Environment Family Fun Day is set for 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, in the cafeteria at Ocean City High School (501 Atlantic Ave.).

The event is free and provides a great chance to get the kids out to do something educational, interactive and have loads of fun on President’s Day Weekend. This year’s program will include a wide range of nature and environmentally focused, hands-on experiences for both children and adults. Last year’s event drew more than 850 parents and kids.

Some of the activities include:

1. Small zoo animal interaction
2. Marine life interaction
3. Recycling arts and crafts
4. Nature and environmental takeaways
5. Food drive: Please bring non-perishable and staple foods and personal products to donate
6. The importance of pollinating insects – show-and-tell
7. Planting you own pollinator garden – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
8. Bringing back the original jersey tomato – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
9. Environmentally friendly shellfish replenishing demonstration
10. Protecting the watershed and cleaning up the bay demonstration
11. Trash decomposition and the environment
12. The ins and outs of recycling
13. How to compost
14. Native plants exhibit
15. Solid waste and wastewater management
16. Electric vehicle charging location maps

The Ocean City Historical Museum invites the public to celebrate Black History Month with a free interactive performance titled “The Harriet Experience.” Re-enactor Crystal Hines will bring Harriet to life.

The event is at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Chris Maloney Lecture Hall at the Ocean City Community Center. A meet-and-greet with live music and light refreshments will follow the presentation.