Friday, August 31, 2018
Vol. 94, No.50
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MARDI GRAS, GARDEN CITY STYLE
New restaurant coming to north end of Franklin BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
residents and yoga students from Samudra, Shannon Biehl and KC Hesterberg. Each has completed 25 hours of the Yogi Beans Kids Yoga Teacher Training at Samudra Yoga, under the supervision of Lauren Chaitoff. The eventual five-week Garden City program at Samudra Yoga is planned to be a weekly series organized by Yogi Bean Kids Yoga. “The Yogi Beans children’s program offers classes all the way up, from Mommy & Me to tweens. They reached out to us to see if Samudra can host sessions for them to teach yoga teachers, training them to
Foodies of the world may soon unite in the village, as a new barbecue restaurant opening near the corner of 12th Street and Franklin Avenue seeks to fill multiple voids including fast, healthy foods for those on the go to a sit-down, relaxing Texas barbecue and bar experience. Emmanuel “Manny” Voumvourakis, a Manhasset resident, is the owner of Smok Haus. During the current renovation phase of his location at 7 12th Street, next to his landlords at Fairchild & Sons Funeral Home, he spoke with The Garden City News on Monday, August 27. Manny says the phonetic spelling of the restaurant and brand name isn’t a reference to German or European influence. Instead the restaurant, which is targeting October 1 to open, wants to develop its taglines and be known as Garden City’s hub for “wholesome comfort food cooked low and slow” and as a “gourmet roadside eatery” with the roadside being Franklin Avenue, which is increasing as a hub for restaurants and small businesses. Manny’s influence to become a restaurateur started at home, as his mom was a fantastic cook. The restaurant industry roots came from his dad’s line of work. “I’ve been a foodie for life, primarily because of my parents -- my father worked for a New York City-based general contractor who built close to 100 Manhattan restaurants in his career, and he’s had close to 40 years’ experience building restaurants. I developed a very discerning palate and taste for food quality at an early age,” he said. Manny fell in love with the art and science behind barbecue cuisine 15 years ago, on his trips to Hancock, New York (an hour east of Binghamton and near the Delaware River/Pennsylvania border). That was the gathering spot for his ‘boys’ weekends’ or hunting trips and mini-vacations with friends, and plenty of barbecue was served up each time as the group smoked meats. He
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Garden City girls got into the spirit of Mardi Gras at the Friday Night Promenade on August 24. See pages 46-47
Starting school year with yoga, mindfulness BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Garden City parents seeking a new opportunity for enrichment and an outlet to bring some balance to their children’s lives can attend an event on the first weekend of the school year, right in the village, aimed at teaching methods of decompressing to the under-10 demographic. Samudra Yoga at 62 New Hyde Park Road, in the western business district of Garden City, will host two “pop-up” workshops to introduce children and their families to the world of yoga. The special events, scheduled for Saturday afternoon, September 8, are titled “Namaste
Yoga & Play.” Children ages four through six will be in the class from 2 to 3 p.m. while kids ages seven to nine can participate in the 3:15 to 4:15 time slot on September 8. Sylvia Ehrhart, co-founder of Samudra Yoga and a Garden City mom of three children said the team is thrilled to offer this program to the village three years after the center opened. She says the September 8 workshop is a trial run to see how a kids’ yoga program will be scheduled for the studio this fall, and parents’ feedback on timings and commitments will be key. What’s particularly exciting for Ehrhart is that Namaste Yoga & Play will be led by two fellow village
Resurrection Church offers Back to School blessing PAGE 14 GC Schools welcome new staff with tour of village PAGE 40-41