The Garden City Recreation Department is proud to announce it will offer a morning session of our very poplar Pee-Wee All Sports Sampler program for children ages 4 & 5 who are Residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. This program will begin on Tuesday, March 2nd and will run for four weeks. Program time will be 10:45 a.m.

This program will be instructional, incorporating new skills and free play in a non-competitive atmosphere. A different sport will be offered each week. Please note: your child must be 4 years old by the start of the session in order to participate.

The cost of this program will be $32. To register for this program, please fill out the registration form and submit with payment to the Garden City Recreation Dept. at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

PRESCHOOL

ARTS AND CRAFTS

The Recreation Department’s Spring Session of Preschool Arts and Crafts will be the week of March 2nd. This seven week program is open to children ages 3 1/2 to 5 year old who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. The program will be offered the following days and times:

Tuesdays Noon to 12:45 p.m.

Thursdays 12:15 to 1 p.m.

Each week the children will make a fun project to take home. The cost of this seven week program is $35. To register, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

ADULT DANCE CLASSES

in CLUETT HALL

Are you looking for a fun way to stretch and tone your body? The Recreation Department is offering dance classes to help move those muscles and get back into shape. Our adult ballet class is a fun way to exercise and the classes are geared to remember the “little ballerina” in you, whatever level that might be. Our stretch and tone class offers simple dance movements, stretching and other exercises to music designed to add flexibility to your body.

The schedule of classes is as follows:

Adult Ballet beginning 3/2 Tuesday at 9:15 am

Adult Stretch beginning 2/11 Thursday at 9:15 am

All classes are lead by Felicia Lovaglio, Director of our Dance Conservatory and adjunct professor at Adelphi. Each class is one hour long and will be held in Cluett Hall. The classes will run for 10 weeks at a cost of $ 80. To register for any of these classes, fill out the form below and return to the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue with a check made payable to the “Inc. Village of Garden City”.

SIXTH GRADE REC. NIGHT

The Garden City Recreation Department is sponsoring a Middle School Rec. Night for Sixth Graders on Friday, February 26th in St. Paul’s Fieldhouse.

This party will be chaperoned by the Recreation staff and will run from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Admission is $5.00. A DJ will provide music and refreshments will be available for a nominal charge. The gym will be open for basketball, volleyball, dancing and other games.

Please note-Once the children are in our facility for this activity, they will not be allowed to leave unless accompanied by an adult. Please come into the building to pick up your child. For further information, please call the Recreation Office at 465-4075.

ADULT PASTEL CLASS

The Garden City Recreation Department is offering an adult art class. This ten week program will teach the beginner as well as the advanced student the art of painting portraits and landscapes/still-life in pastel from photographs.

The first lesson will include a portrait and landscape demonstration. At that time, a supply list will be provided.

Demonstrations will be available as needed throughout the program. Each student will receive the individual attention required as they move at their own pace and level of expertise.

Arleen Rueth Urban, the instructor for this program, is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and a winner of numerous awards. Her portraits hang in many Garden City homes, as well as throughout the United States. A portrait of Elvis Presley permanently hangs in Graceland, and Barbara Walters is among her celebrity commissioned subjects.

This class is open to adult residents who reside in the Inc. Village of Garden City. The class will run from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. each Friday beginning February 19 at St. Paul(s Cluett Hall. The cost of this ten week program will be $105. To register for this program, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. For further information, please call 465-4075.