EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - The only time you’ll ever sit at a BMX track is the minute or so spent on the bicycle during a race.

And that is an action-packed minute, with spins and jumps and a rhythm section that will make your teeth clatter.

There was plenty of excitement at EHT BMX last Saturday, May 18, as the track hosted a Redline Cup qualifier for bikers young and old from all over the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

OCEAN CITY -  The city’s beaches are scheduled to be opened noon Friday, May 25, with the “unlocking” of the beaches by Ocean City Beach Patrol officials.

The event includes and a celebratory parade of sorts, with flags and an assortment of costumed characters, including the annual businessman’s plunge into the ocean.  Participants dress in business suits, carry brief cases and march into the ocean to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance to welcome the new season.

Ocean City High School students Mia Antolini and Ollie Tomasello make their red carpet appearance and smile for friends and family as they head in to the Flanders Hotel in Ocean City for their prom Saturday, May 18. For more photos, see the 2013 OCHS prom photo album.

With one week to go before the unofficial, official start to the summer tourist season, Mother Nature appears to ready to make amends for last year’s natural disasters with a Memorial Day South Jersey tourist officials would dream about. She plans a three-day festival of sun for Saturday through Monday, May 25-27.

Just in time.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — The Cape May County Veterans Bureau will hold its annual Memorial Day Service 2 p.m. Monday, May 27at the Cape May County Veterans’ Cemetery, 129 Crest Haven Road, Cape May Court House.

At the second Stop FEMA Now meeting held in South Jersey, founder George Kasimos called the math being used to calculate future increases in flood insurance “Chinese algebra.” He meant it as an insult.

But it’s the Chinese, having mastered algebra in the 13th century, who should be highly insulted.