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Christine Amante

LIJen5am620_2024-06-20-05-13-02

And this morning we are in Long Beach as the city continues to try and keep everyone safe. Let's have a little fun though. We are there for our best beaches summer series because summer officially starts today. Just tells Jen Selig is there right now and she's with the chief of lifeguard. So important, Jen, super important, especially like a day like today when we know we're gonna see hotter weather later. A lot of beach goers are gonna be coming here to Long Beach and like you said, guys, I'm with Rich. You are the chief lifeguard here and boy, what a beautiful morning to be here. Uh You can't have it with the sun coming up and uh it's, it's gonna be a great day. You guys have a bunch of lifeguards, lifeguards that have been here for a long time, brand new lifeguards. You've been here for 41 years. So obviously Long Beach keeps bringing you back. The, the, the best part time job in the summer is for anybody, especially for these young kids too. Uh It's uh it's like a rite of passage here in Long Beach. Majority of our lifeguards, their parents were lifeguards. Uh These three gentlemen back here, their relatives are on the beach with them. So it's, it's, uh it's, uh, it's family kindled together and training is super important. What are they doing behind us right now? These gentlemen are working on what is called on entries. So this is what they would be doing uh, on the uh in the water. Their rescue cans would be on either on top of the mound or on the bottom of the mound. And if they see somebody in distress in the water at a moment's notice they run, grab the top, put the loop around their neck and they're in the water. Training is crucial here, right? Training is the number one thing that uh we take a lot of pride in. Um because uh it's part of the job now for Long Islanders maybe who have never been a long beach in the water here before, persuade them to come here. What would you say? Come? Uh We got the best beaches in the United States. Um Just look at it. It's just absolutely gorgeous. Uh We want you to come here um And just have fun in 41 years. What are you hoping for this summer time? Uh Everybody comes to the beach leaves the beach. That's what we want here in Long Beach. Ok. So we're gonna hang out here on the sand for a little longer and send it back to you guys in the studio check on us in a little bit.

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LIfood620_2024-06-20-05-55-58

It's another Thursday at the beach every week. This summer we are going to another beach here on the island just to show you how great they are. And today we are in Long Beach News. Twelve's Jen Selig is at one of the boardwalk staples right now. Riptide. She's showing us all the good eats you can get at the beach. Yeah. If you guys are familiar with Long Beach walking on this boardwalk, you see these colorful benches, you know, you're right by your riptide. So let's go inside and see some of the yummy food that they prepared for us. Stacy. You are the owner with your husband, Brian. Talk to me about all the delicious food we got going on here. So, what we have is this is our lunch menu. We have a shrimp taco. We have a veg out taco, which is for all your vegetarians. We have seared ahi tuna tacos, fried cauliflower and our famous chicken fingers and French fries. And you don't have to walk far to get this good food if you're laying out on the beach. No, it's super convenient. And we have food that is for every dietary restriction. So we're able to get you from your smoothies, your aaii bowls, your fresh fresh juices, your breakfast, your lunch and your dinner. What's the best part about having the restaurant right here on the boardwalk? Um It's definitely being a part of the community and seeing people come in and enjoy Long Beach for what it is and how much we have to offer and being able to help people really take it to the next level. Being able to experience the beach and have good food and good vibes. So, should we take a bite of something? And I need a spoon for that. Asai Ball Stacy. I remember last year you gave me an Asai Ball boy. It was one of the best ones I've ever had. But let's take a bite of something else right now. So would you say this one was, this is fried cauliflower? And then we have over here we have French toast sticks. Oh, we got some breakfast over here, right. Let's take a bite of this. This looks yummy. Oh, that's so good. I love nutella and peanut butter. It's a bit of this too. All right. Let's send things back to the studio. Enjoy breakfast here. French toast sticks on the beach. There are worse ways to start your day, Jen.

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LIVolleyball620_2024-06-20-06-44-10

Hey, it's another Thursday at the beach every week. We are highlighting our beaches this summer and we're at another one and we're in Long Beach this morning news. Twelve's Jen Selig. Is there talking about the sport that thousands of Long Islanders flock to Long Beach to play every summer. Hey, Jen. Hey, Aaron. Yeah, we know beach volleyball is always a good time here in the city of Long Beach. Here's a fun fact. I actually play on a team Monday night here. And Mike Reinhard, you councilman here in the city and you play on a league too. And we know it's a good time. It's a great time. Long Beach in the summer. The sport is beach volleyball. Uh, not only the great leagues that we have in Long Beach from Monday through Friday, but also just every Saturday and Sunday, most families set up their own net. It's social. It's generational. I play with my kids and eventually, you know, we train our kids to be so good that then they say, ok, old man, I'm going to get my own net, you know, circle of life and everyone can play too. I really want to put some emphasis this, that we got Rich Hoffman out there and I think he just kind of spiked the ball but it went out. But again anyone can play absolutely all levels. It's a great sport. Like I said, social family and Long Beach is the place to go to play some beach volleyball for sure. All right. Pass the ball to Mary. Mary. You run East End volleyball with the whole family of yours. And it's cool because it's co ed. Right. You need girls and guys to play on the team. Yeah, absolutely. Anybody could play. There's a minimum of two females required. So you have to have ladies out here. Um, and yeah, it's a lot of fun. Any age, any gender, what would you say? The best part about, you know, being part of this is just being outside, be able to hang out with your friends at the beach. It's beautiful. It's always like fun at the beach. Right. I can't have a bad time. I mean, you got the water in the background. You're playing with your friends. And I really love, I know when I play on Monday nights that I'm playing with college kids and then I'm playing with older adults. So it's, it's really for everybody. Yeah, absolutely. Anybody can play. There's actually have been like three generations of families playing in our leagues now at this point, which is really awesome to see people is like from grandparents. To the parents, to their kids. Is it too late for someone to start playing? No, definitely not. We still are taking uh, single players. If anybody is new to the area and wants to meet new people. It's a great way to meet new people and make some new friends. Awesome. So let's go play some ball and send it back to you guys in the studio. Let's see how rich is doing, Jen. I was kind of looking over your shoulder to watch him play. Could you imagine going to the beach and there's Rich Hoffman and you're setting him up for a spike. Unbelievable. Look, there he is. Look, he's all in with a big smile on his face. I love this. Get it, go, go. Here it is. Yes. Oh, Rich Hoffman. For the points. That is amazing. Rich is never gonna come back here.

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LIGoodpaddleboard620_2024-06-20-07-15-05

Exactly. And on the first day of summer we want that. We want to show you all you can experience this summer. We're there for our best beaches summer series because again, today it officially starts and look at old glory there waving what a pretty shot there as we continue to highlight all that long beach has to offer. I mean, we have seen everything from the lifeguards on duty talking about what to expect in and out of the water. We have heard from a live band. We have seen Rich Hoffman Spike A volleyball. It's been a very fun morning in Long Beach and much more to come. We've also talked about how you can stay safe with, uh, some sunscreen tips. Let's go to Jen Selig right now who is live, uh, there on the boardwalk on the beach, Jen. I hear you may be getting some surf lessons. Yeah, we're just hanging out doing some surf lessons on the sand. We got some kids in the water and I'm with Will, you're with Scoot and surf and you brought the kids out to teach us to teach me how to surf. Yeah, I got the the squad here. They're gonna go through a quick thing. Their safety board control and popping up. We got Palmer Doyle and Charlie here. Uh, tell, tell us about safety real quick. Um So you never dive off your board because you never know how deep the water is. Um, use the water as a cushion when you fall off the board and when you fall off the board, use elephant trunk so your head doesn't hit the board. Yeah. Always protecting that face. And then what about board control? So when you're paddling out, always make sure the board's straight into the waves. So when you like when you're paddling out, the board doesn't like tip over, always wanna aim your board straight. And Charlie's gonna go through, what are we doing here? We're, we're teaching her how to pop up. So I'm gonna show her how to paddle and then you're gonna pop up. Let's see the pop up. You got this well, doing my job for me. Thank you. OK? And you gotta get up really quickly, right? So Charlie will take, let's see it, Charlie like flat, flat on the ground. Oh man, you're gonna paddle. Ok? And then you're gonna take your back foot and take your front foot and you're gonna bring it up and just try to pop up ready to go, go go wide sands, wide sands like this wide sands. I wanna fall over. Ok? So just, it's fine if you take it slowly because like that you're just learning. So, all you have to do is just like, don't, don't stand like this always do a wide stance. I have to keep practicing. I don't wanna embarrass myself more on camera. All right. All right. Come on Charlie. Oh, I love it. Great job. Great job. All right. One more time, Jay, let's do it. Water stances. You got it.

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LIShannonbeach620_2024-06-20-07-35-18

Yeah, we're going to be talking a little bit about everything. Beach, fitness, being well and enjoying the beach and having a good time as well. And speaking of being well, the host, one of the hosts of Be Well, Chanel Lanier, which is on news 12 at 9 a.m. and one pm during the week. So, thank you for joining us. And you know, the great thing about your show, it's be, well, it's about the entire body, mind, body and soul. So, next week you're doing special things at the beach. Tell me a little bit about that. Yes. Next week it's all beach. So we're telling you all the essentials you need to take to the beach, the things you don't want to leave home without the things you can do at the beach. And of course, working out at the beach because a lot of people think you got to skip your workout day. Don't, there's tons of people working out here. They're running up and down the boardwalk and you don't need a lot of equipment to work out. Exactly. We know you can do cardio and run up and down. You can use these things to stretch right here. But you can also do strength training because I like to add a little weights to it. But we don't have weights here at the beach. Well, you could use your gym bag and use that as weights and do curls. Which gym bag. But you can also use a bench to do simple exercises. So simple. Just by starting to sit down. Right. You literally go up and down. That's like a squat there. And you can do some little tricep dips right here. You should just go down and push up and that's working, working the back of the arms right here, using the force of this bench to push up. Oh Another one I like is push ups because you don't want to get in the sand to get all sandy. So you can do close grip or wide grip if you have a larger bench and you can do push ups like that tricep, push ups, wide grip, push ups, all those different things. You can even get your legs in. Don't forget the legs, put one leg up, hold on to the railing and you can do a split squat like that as well. So you can, and that will help out the hamstring and build the muscles around the knee as well. So that is fantastic. Easy stuff like that. That's just a sampling. So that is on during the week 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on news 12 you could watch that. And of course, if you have great weather, it's always a lot easier to exercise. Let's talk about the weather and be careful when it's so hot outside.

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LIEvventsatbeach620_2024-06-20-07-54-29

It's another Thursday at the beach every week. This summer, we are going to highlight another beach here on Long Island. And today we're in Long Beach News. Twelve's Jen Selig is there now jamming out on the boardwalk. This is great being able to be at the beach in the morning with a band. Nothing could be better. Aaron, honestly, like we're having a really good morning here with Brendan. You are the city council president and boy, there is so much to do here on this beautiful beach. Good morning to you. Good morning. Well, not only is Long Beach, the, the land of surf and sun is the land of music as well. Music and culture. We have tons of music on the beach in the bars and the restaurants on the boardwalk in the park. We have tons of music right now. The town and country band is playing and they will be doing our first concert of the summer on the beach on Grand Boulevard on July 3rd start at seven o'clock. And this is pretty cool because I think this is their first time performing here in Long Beach or I, I believe it is, um, I, we have, uh, 10 concerts this summer and it alternates between the west end and the east end. We have a great, uh, one of my friends rock and roll band. Uh, Shattered. Does The Rolling Stones? They have, uh, a Taylor Swift tribute band. They have dueling piano, something that I love for everybody. All different genres, everything, uh, rock and doo wop and, uh, Irish music. Uh, what is it? The, uh, Harper's Ferry, uh, Irish folk band, a little bit of everything. All right, let's walk on over here. This is Dave. He's part of the band, Dave. What are you looking to? What are you looking forward to when you're performing here in Long Beach? What are you looking forward to when you're gonna perform here on Long Beach? Oh, it's our first time playing Long Beach. We can't wait. It's also the kickoff to the July 4th weekend and we couldn't be happy to celebrate our country's freedom for this event. It's going to be great first time performing in Long Beach. So country's coming back. We're loving seeing it come back in Nassau County. More, more people are looking for country music and we're looking for more opportunities to play out this way. Awesome. So, it should be a really good time. What's the date of that town and country band date? When are you, July 3rd July 3rd. Everybody. We're going to send it back to you in the studio so we could continue jamming out this morning. All right, Jen. Enjoy the show. They sound great and looking forward to that later this summer.

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