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LakeForestLeader.com NEWS<br />
the lake forest leader | January 17, 2019 | 3<br />
Time to get up and go<br />
Lake Bluff starts off the new<br />
year by encouraging health and<br />
wellness for residents<br />
Sari Mishell, Freelance Reporter<br />
Many people start off the New Year trying<br />
to lead a healthier lifestyle than the<br />
year before.<br />
The Lake Bluff Park District jumped on<br />
board and encouraged this common resolution<br />
for a healthier year by mounting the<br />
inaugural GO Fitness Festival.<br />
The GO Fitness Festival featured raffles,<br />
classes, vendors and nutritional information<br />
from around Lake Forest and<br />
Lake Bluff. In conjunction with the GO<br />
Lake Bluff and GO Lake county initiative,<br />
the festival was aimed to promote healthy<br />
activities and lifestyle for residents. The<br />
event took place on Saturday, Jan. 12 at<br />
the Lake Bluff Recreation Center.<br />
“I decided I wanted to try and check<br />
out their yoga classes. … I think this is<br />
a great facility and the event is the best<br />
of intentions. And I live really close, so<br />
every time I come over here, it pushes me<br />
a little more to wanting to be here,” said<br />
Gail Gamrath, a Lake Buff resident.<br />
Along with fitness classes like yoga,<br />
cycling and total body workout, the GO<br />
Fitness Festival also gave local businesses<br />
a chance to showcase their passion for<br />
health and wellness.<br />
Paul Sniffen, one of two wellness consultants<br />
from the Heinen’s Fine Food supermarket,<br />
passed out apples to attendees<br />
of the festival.<br />
“As a wellness consultant, that’s just a<br />
passion of mine. I always believe in getting<br />
to know the community around me,”<br />
Sniffen said.<br />
Along with Heinen’s, another local<br />
vendor, the Nordic Ski Club, came to the<br />
GO Fitness Festival to generate excitement<br />
about their company. Bob Clifford<br />
and Jeff Scott represented the group with<br />
skis presented at their table.<br />
“For us, our goal is to bring awareness<br />
to our sport, try to attract people that have<br />
never skied before, try to get them to be<br />
interested in the sport, when there actually<br />
is snow,” Clifford said, gesturing to<br />
the bare golf course outside the recreation<br />
center.<br />
In the past, Lake Bluff had other new<br />
Daphne Johnson, (right) of Yogaphoria,<br />
explains the benefits of Reiki Healing<br />
during the inaugural GO Fitness Festival,<br />
Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Lake Bluff<br />
Recreation Center.<br />
year fitness events for a membership drive<br />
to the recreation center; however, 2019<br />
was the first year the community put on<br />
a GO Fitness Festival, which solely involved<br />
healthy choices and options. For<br />
the event, members of the Lake Bluff Park<br />
District, such as Cati Christensen, the fitness<br />
center supervisor, approached local<br />
vendors and explained what the event was<br />
about.<br />
“We just wanted this to be a community<br />
awareness event for people to pass on<br />
information, educate others in the community.<br />
It’s a free day where people can<br />
come on in. It’s not so much a membership<br />
drive as much as an awareness [of<br />
healthy choices].” Christensen said.<br />
Along with classes and opportunity to<br />
educate community member, the GO Fitness<br />
Festival also featured a raffle with<br />
donated gift cards and gifts from local<br />
merchants such as Flotstone, Pasquesi’s<br />
Home and Garden, Inovasi, Otherdoor,<br />
Be Market, Bluffington’s Cafe, Hansa<br />
Coffee Roasters, the Lake Forest Lululemon<br />
and Lake Forest Book Store.<br />
The GO Fitness Festival also generated<br />
a sense of community among residents.<br />
After her yoga class, Gamrath stayed and<br />
talked to other Lake Bluff residents.<br />
“I think it’s kind of cool to see other<br />
residents of Lake Bluff. There were a ton<br />
of people in the yoga class. I’m still here<br />
because I’m seeing people that I know.<br />
This is just a great community rec center<br />
and it’s nice to be a part of this,” Gamrath<br />
said.<br />
Prizes that the attendees of the inaugural GO Fitness Festival could win from entering<br />
a raffle. Photos by Alex Newman/22nd Century Media<br />
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