Island Beach State Park Beach Plum Festival Coming Up On Sunday

ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK, NJ -
On Sunday, come celebrate all things beach plum, when the annual Island Beach State Park Beach Plum Festival gets underway at free festival gets underway at 9 a.m. at several locations in the park.

The festival features beach plum picking, jelly-making demonstrations, arts and crafts show, food, entertainment, children's games, bird banding demonstrations, environmental and nonprofit exhibits and kayak rides. You can even sample some beach plum ice cream.

For more information, call 732-793-5525 or e-mail www.info@friendsofislandbeach.org.

Although the festival is free, Friends of Island Beach State park members will be on hand if you want to make an $8 donation to help support the event, which is the group's main fundraiser of the year.

There's also an impressive list of vendors selling a variety of crafts and foods. Here's a list of some of them:

• Blind Bob's Pottery
• Crystal Creations
• Celtic Chairde Creations
• Colecraft
• Contemporary Silver Jewelry
• dad & me
• Dee's Doggie Deelights
• Carol Mindnich / Pelican 3 Photography
• Elaine lucas
• Foot Fashions by Pam
• Friendly Cottage

• Gift Broker
• Richard King
• Jo's Jelly Jar
• Waterbourne
• Donna Davis
• City 2 Shore
• Clark's Gifts
• Designs By Doris
• Lavender Lady
• Tastefully Simple
• Valerie's Gallery
• Waterbourne LLc