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Community prepares for golf outing Cocktails and dinner at Inwood Country Club will begin at 5 p.m., with raffles and The Lynbrook Community community recognition schedChest Mayor’s Golf Outing uled for the evening portion. “It keeps getting bigger and returns Aug. 11 for a day of golf and charitable giving better,” Greenfield, who has been involved with a c ro s s t wo L o n g the outing for more Island courses, with than a decade, said. organizers anticiProceeds support pating another nearthe Lynbrook Comcapacity turnout. munity Chest, a T he event, cononprofit charitable sponsored by the organization that Lynbrook Chamber provides financial of Commerce and assistance and the village, will take essential services to p l a c e a t I n wo o d villa g e residents Country Club and facing economic Seawane Club, in hardship. The outHewlett Harbor. ing is one of the The courses have charity’s most vital a combined capacity fundraisers of the of 180 golfers, and JEff GREENfIELd ye a r, G r e e n f i e l d e ve n t C h a i r m a n Chairman, said. Jeff Greenfield said Mayor’s Golf Outing “This is a time that participation is for the village to nearing that limit. Dinner reservations remain come together, raise funds for a available for those looking to worthwhile cause and have a take part without hitting the little fun in the process,” Mayor Alan Beach said. links. This year’s honorees include The outing begins with registration at 9:30 a.m., followed Dr. Paul J. Lynch, Cindy Schby brunch at 10:30 a.m. and the reiner and local business Johnshotgun starts at 11:30 a.m., at ny McGorey’s. They were chothe Seawane Club, and noon, at sen because of their service to the Inwood Country Club. Continued on pAge 24
By AINSLEY MARTINEZ
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Village officials attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 30 to celebrate the opening of Jessica Anastasio’s Little Lotus, a children’s yoga and play studio at 137 Lakeview Ave.
Little Lotus makes room for children’s mindful movement By AINSLEY MARTINEZ amartinez@liherald.com
After more than a decade in the classroom, Jessica Anastasio has traded lesson plans for yoga mats and opened Little Lotus, a children’s yoga and open play studio, at 137 Lakeview Ave. “I just saw the magic of what movement can do for kids, and how it can help them learn and how it could help them grow,” Anastasio said. A resident of Lynbrook and a former elementary school teacher for 11 years, Anastasio said the shift began in her classroom,
where she incorporated movement-based learning to help her students stay engaged. That eventually led her to a kids’ yoga certification at Mindful Yoga with Liz in upstate Poughkeepsie, followed by 200 hours of adult yoga training and several specialty certifications, including baby yoga and Talk Yoga, a program that combines speech and language development with yoga-based movement. Little Lotus opened last August in a fully renovated former lawn mower repair shop. Anastasio spent four months transforming the industrial space with the help of her Continued on pAge 19
ynbrook chamber and the village come up together with the common goal of helping others.