By GINA MAURER

Assistant Features Editor

Seven months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey Shore, many oceanfront businesses are opening up, and in doing so are securing teens’ summer jobs.

Sophomore Pat Weber of Avon is an employee at the Avon Pavilion, which was torn down due to structural damage from the storm. The restaurant and snack bar will operate out of trailers this summer.

“[The owners] knew they wouldn’t be able to finish it on time, so they decided to wait and rebuild it next year,” he said.

Weber said working in a different structure will be a challenge for the employees because of the changes they must adjust to, but he anticipates it will be a good summer.

“You would go in last year and know exactly where everything was and how it works. This year it’s going to be a bit discombobulated,” said Weber.

In case the Avon Pavilion did not open for summer, Weber applied for other jobs. Junior Alex Cros of Oakhurst is currently doing so.

Cros works at Sea Gulls’ Nest, a restaurant on the Sandy Hook beachfront. The restaurant will not be open this summer, Cros said.

“We are pretty much in the same situation [as in November]; there’s no opening date set because there is still no water or sewer,” said Cros.

The Monmouth Beach Bath and Tennis Club had to rebuild its restaurant and snack bar, according to employee sophomore Margaret Svikhart of Shrewsbury, but its former foundation still remains.

The club is set to open June 22, almost a month later than its usual opening during Memorial Day Weekend. Avon Pavilion’s opening date is around mid-June.

Summer jobs are up in the air for students like Cros and more definite for others like Weber and Svikhart. Either way, the shore is continuing to recover from the devastation of Sandy.

“Shoreline businesses tried really hard this winter to repair everything to get ready for the summer, and I think they did a good job with it,” Weber said.