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Welcome to the 2016 Hereford Inlet Lighthouse Maritime Festival
June 18 & 19, 2016
Set-Up:
Friday, June 17 from 1 pm until 6 pm
Saturday, June 18, from 6 am until 9 am.
You will be shown your space location when you check in on Friday or Saturday. I and other volunteers will be out and about looking for you. Please be courteous to our other vendors; drop off your booth materials and park your car off the festival grounds. Please do not block Central Ave. ALL vehicles must be off Central by 9 am on Saturday.
Show Hours: Saturday 10 to 5 pm & Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. This is a rain or shine event. Let’s hope for lots of sunshine!
We will have Police Security Friday & Saturday nights. You may leave your tents and merchandise if you wish (at your own risk.) We haven’t had any problems at the last six shows.
Secure your booth against the weather. Bring weights, tarps, whatever you need. Mother Nature is unpredictable – so be prepared. We are only a couple hundred feet from the Ocean. All booths are in the street, so stakes won’t work. Cheap back yard barbeque tents are no good at these shows, use professional vendor tents or good quality “EZ-Ups.” Your application states your booth size. We do not allocate free extra space for trailers and hitches.
Breakdown:
Sunday, June 19 from 4 pm until 6:30 pm.
You will NOT be allowed to bring your vehicle onto Central Avenue before 4:15 pm on Sunday (we need to clear the street of pedestrians.) Any vehicle on Central Avenue (or festival grounds) prior to 4:15 will be ticked by police. In addition, if you breakdown prior to 4 pm on Sunday, you will not be invited back to the show again. Please be courteous and professional and wait until the show is officially over to pack up. Breakdowns at shows always seem to be total anarchy. Please be patient. Do not block or park in the South bound lane of Central Avenue. You will be ticketed by Police. We do not and cannot “fix” or pay for tickets issued by Police.
A LIMITED amount of free parking may be available at the NorthEast end of Central Avenue. Other than those FEW spaces, you will have to park in one of the city or private lots or on the side streets, where available. Unfortunately, we do not have a Festival parking lot. Please park legally so that you don’t get ticketed or towed. No on-site parking is available and only vehicles or trailers that are part of your exhibit space (for example food trucks) may stay on site overnight. We do not and cannot “fix” or pay for tickets issued by Police.
Restrooms: There will be “porta-pots” located at the north and south ends of Central Avenue.
Electricity is only available to those food vendors who requested it with their application – on a limited basis. Please bring heavy duty extension cords: you may need 25’ to 50’ of extension cord.
Publicity: We are running ads for two weeks on South Jersey radio station WIBG plus having live radio broadcasts from the Festival Saturday and Sunday. We will have two advertisements in the Press of Atlantic City’s “At the Shore,” a half page ad in the Wildwood’s “Sun by the Sea” newspaper and ads in several of the regional “Shore News Today” newspapers. The Festival will also be listed on two local billboards and on the Wildwoods and State of New Jersey tourist web sites. We also have an active Facebook page and web site. If you have a web site, Facebook page or mailing list – we hope you will join us in promoting the event. If the weather is good, we should have a fantastic turnout! If the weather is bad, blame mother nature. Sunday is Father’s Day. You may want to consider some kind of special to entice Dad’s Day business!
Accommodations: The Island Breeze Motel located at 411 East 26th Avenue in North Wildwood has generously offered our vendors and guests discounted rooms for the weekend of the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse Maritime Festival at $249.00 + tax for the weekend. This is a great rate for an island motel in the summer season. Use the promo code "lighthouse" when requesting your rate. They also offer "pet friendly" rooms if you're bringing one. The Motel is near everything and fairly close to the show in North Wildwood. Please contact them at islandbreezemotel.net or call 609-522-2700
The Wildwood’s Tourism Web Site for Accommodations is: http://www.wildwoodsnj.com/wildwood-accommodations.cfm
Food Vendors: Please make sure that you have complied with the Cape May County Department of Health’s rules and Regulations. They may be contacted at 609-463-6413. If you would like to offer your fellow vendors (and or festival staff) a discount on food, please let us know and we’ll let them know. I’m sure it will be greatly appreciated.
NJ Sales Tax ID: The state of NJ requires all retail vendors to collect and pay our state’s 7% sales tax. They do occasionally walk these festivals and check for sales tax ID numbers. It is your responsible to comply with State regulations.
Location: The Festival takes place at the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse and along Central Avenue in North Wildwood, New Jersey. The Lighthouse and Festival office is at 111 North Central Avenue.
From Garden State Parkway North
Parkway South
Take Exit 6 (North Wildwood)
Turn right at end of exit ramp onto Route 147
Follow this road until you are in North Wildwood where it becomes New Jersey Avenue
Stay on New Jersey Avenue until Chestnut Avenue.
Make a left on Chestnut and proceed two blocks to Central Ave.
Cross Central and enter Lighthouse Parking Area
From Garden State Parkway South
Parkway North
Take Exit 4 (Wildwoods/Rio Grande)
Turn right at end of exit ramp onto Rio Grande Avenue, following signs to the Wildwoods
Continue on Rio Grande Avenue over the drawbridge and into Wildwood
Turn Left onto Atlantic Avenue through Wildwood until it ends at 1st Avenue in North Wildwood
Turn left on 1st Avenue
Turn right onto Central Avenue
Lighthouse is on Central Avenue near 1st Avenue
Lighthouse parking on Central Avenue
We are a “Maritime Festival” and our show theme is obviously nautical. If you can contribute to this in any way, decorations, products, etc., it will be appreciated and may enhance your sales.
Any questions or comments please email or phone me.
I hope you have a great show and a fantastic summer!
Les Kammerman
Manager & Co-Director
Hereford Inlet Lighthouse Maritime Festival
111 North Central Avenue, North Wildwood, NJ 08260
Lighthouse phone: 609-522-4520 / Les Kammerman phone 609-892-9866
herefordfestival@aol.com www.herefordlighthousefestivals.org
Presented by the non-profit Friends of Hereford Inlet Lighthouse
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