Paul Goldfinger photograph. Paris.

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By Paul Goldfinger,  Editor Blogfinger.net

In 2021 we had a discussion about crosses on beach badges.  See link below.

Now, in May 2022, there still is a cross on the badge, but it is much less obvious. It is an interesting topic.

Should OG beach patrons be required to wear a beach badge with a prominent cross?

2022 Senior Season Beach Badge. Blogfinger photo.©

Today, May 9, 2022, after struggling with Viply on line, I went over to the CMA to collect two senior badges.  It’s good that an employee was there to fiddle with my iPhone in order to take the necessary steps to prove that I had paid. The last step involved a scan using my phone. Even a badge purchase is now complicated.

Then I was handed the badges. At that point the high tech was done, and I was given a low tech piece of advice, “Don’t lose your badge.”

The badges were in a plain brown paper envelope.   When I took one out, there was the cross again, but smaller than 2021.

Doesn’t the beach badge represent that the public space (beachfront) is allowed by the State to be managed by the CMA and that, as was argued with FEMA over public funds for boardwalk repair, the beach is a public thoroughfare?

And, as such, shouldn’t it  be represented as non-denominational?

Once again we experience the CMA’s dual personality, public and private, which continues to create a  murky situation in the town of Ocean Grove.

TIERNEY SUTTON    “Where or When.”