Saw Mill’s own special pampering hideaway located in the Front Lobby.

Exquisite service and oh, so convenient.

Through July, get a combination manicure and
pedicure for the special savings price of $25.

COCOS NAILS is all about great nails.

Contact the Front Desk receptionist for booking:
Phone: (914) 241-0797

You Have Been Summoned To…

Shake-it With The Ansari Zumba Party Patrol!

Tickets $25

Photo by Jamie Kilgore Photography

Members and non-members welcome!

Who? Shimmy your way to bliss with Helen and her two daughters, Shahidah and Tarajee.

What? Zumba is an off the wall, untraditional, energizing, globally known, Latin-dance inspired total body “fitness-party!”  Zumba incorporates hypnotic Latin and international music with dynamic, yet simple dance movements for dancers and non-dancers alike.  It’s magically motivating exercise in disguise!

Where? Saw Mill Club

When? July 10, 2009

5:30pm Purchase Zumbawear

6:30pm - 8:00pm Special Zumba class

8:00pm - 11:00pm Cocktails and a live DJ around the pool

Why? Because it’s bikini season and burning calories has never been so much fun fun fun!

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ZUMBA…it’s the best party in town!

On a physical level, there are many benefits to prenatal yoga:

• Increases overall strength, flexibility & well-being
• Reduces low back pain & sciatica
• Reduces aches & fatigue in the thoracic & cervical regions of the spine
• Reduces swelling & inflammation around your joints
• Aids in digestion
• Helps prepare you physically for giving birth

Classes will begin Friday July 10th

Monday evenings at 7pm
Friday mornings at 10:45am

The class is 1 hour 15 min

The class will be $15 for members and $25 for non members.

This workshop will allow you to explore yoga in a safe environment with attention given to the specific needs and sometimes restrictions of the pregnant body.

If you would like to take part in Prenatal Yoga at the Saw Mill Club, please contact Yoga Director Kathleen Goldring:
Phone: (914) 733-4054
Email: kgoldring@sawmillclub.com

Welcome to the Grand Opening!

The Tiki Café and Bar Poolside

Join us this coming Friday night

June 26th

Hors d’oeu⋅vres and half price drink specials.

Live Music.

Come discover the cool new outside experience and join in all summer long!

The Examiner
By Heidi Michaels

He’s known at the annual “Run for Your Life” 8-mile run around Lake Mahopac as “The Guy with the Flag.” He’s a runner who runs the entire course holding up “Old Glory.”

“It’s a tradition that people have come to expect,” the Guy with the Flag commented. “This year’s race marks his 25th Anniversary.

Who is this mysterious flag-carrying good-hearted soul? He has never registered for the race under his real name, he signs “Old Glory.” He always starts at the very end of the pack enabling every entrant to see her and share in the July 4th tradition. His name is John W. Albanese. And his story is fascinating.

What started out as a friendly urging from a father to a son to “come on, run this race with me” has turned into an annual event that has become a tradition, filled with nostalgia and patriotism. Back in 1985 when John first said yes to his father, Joe Albanese, John said, “If we’re going to run this race let’s do it right and carry our flag.” That they did together for ten continuous years until Joe retired to South Carolina.

In twenty-five years there have been at least three flags. Their first flag was a 3” x 5” 1976 Betsy Ross flag. John and Joe ran with it the first three years until it became tattered and worn out. Joe, a former Marine and Eagle Scout, folded the flag and buried it with military honors. The second flag was lost in the shuffle during a move. However, John did not realize the flag was missing until the night before the race. Fortunately a late night excursion to Target found him the last flag on the shelf.

Throughout his quarter-century tradition, John, a personal trainer at the Saw Mill Club, has inspired others to join him. Friends, co-workers, and clients are among the inspired. One runner who has often run with John and helped carry “Old Glory” is Paul Warren. John and Paul share the race, the flag and a common ancestor that dates back to the Mayflower adding to the nostalgia and patriotism of the event.

Naturally running with a flag, one would think, slows a runner down. Not John Albanese. His personal record for the hilly course was set in 1998 with an impressive 53:26. That’s a 6:40 minute mile! To most, simply completing an 8-mile race is an accomplishment in itself. Having a large flag and pole in your hands adds to the challenge. Of course a summer day in July is hot but “The wind is the hardest,” John reported.

John has not missed a race in twenty-five years. Although one year the start time was changed and John arrived after the official start. Determined to continue with the tradition, John jumped out of the car at mile 2 and finished the race with flag in hand. John won’t let anything stand in his way of honoring this tradition. In fact, he has delayed shoulder surgery until after this year’s race. Obviously, running and carrying the flag is only one part of this story. John’s pride, dedication and commitment to honoring our great country inspires us all to come out and run with or cheer for “Old Glory”.

The Putnam County Classic, “Run for Your Life” event begins at 8am on July 4th at the Mahopac High School. For additional information visit www.runner.org/putnam.htm.
And don’t forget to cheer for John as he celebrates his quarter century run.

Saturday, August 15, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

825 Union Valley Rd,
Carmel, NY

$20.00 per person
Kids under 2 free!

RAIN OR SHINE!

Included Activities:

• An 18 hole miniature golf course
• Tennis courts
• Basketball courts
• Batting cages
• Softball/soccer fields
• Playgrounds
• Boating
• Petting farm
• Giant water slides
• 4 state-of-the-art heated swimming pools
• Activity game tents
• Arts and crafts
• Air castles
• Beach
• Adult volley ball game
• Dancing/Karaoke to one of Westchester’s best DJs
• AND MUCH MUCH MORE…

All money raised goes towards the American Cancer Society’s Patient Navigation Partnership with Northern Westchester Hospital

For more information, please contact  Jacqueline Smith:

Phone: (914)397-8845
Email: jacqueline.smith@cancer.org

If the lights were any lower, Helen Ansari’s Zumba/kickbox class at Mount Kisco’s Saw Mill Club could be mistaken for a Miami Beach disco—floor-pounding beats, a bevy of bright clothes and more backfields in motion than a Dolphins’ spring practice session. All that’s missing are the umbrella drinks … and they might have to lose those basketball lines on the floor, for ambience’s sake.

But this ain’t no party, nor is there a disco that requires this amount of hard work, even if it’s to Salsa, Merengue and Macarena rhythms. After 15 minutes, Ansari, decked out in a lime-green top, is glistening with sweat, all the while shouting out encouragement to her students. “I need to see your shoulders and back muscles! Come on! Pump it, girls!”

Maybe the volume isn’t disconcerting to Ansari—she was once a member of Jackson State University’s marching band, aka “The Sonic Boom of the South.”

Ansari, born in Hattiesburg, Miss., has been teaching aerobics and physical fitness for more than two decades, and the fitness bug runs in the family; her daughters, Shahidah and Tarajee, also teach, sometimes alongside their mother.

While instructing the women to “bring their elbows around into their armpits” and other feats of physics, Ansari herself gets quite the workout, and one could scarcely believe that she is 56 years old, a grandmother and a breast cancer survivor.

“Pop it!” she shouts joyfully, walking over to one of the students and flashes a smile, encouraging while correcting small flaws in technique. This is a one-hour class, and the students barely get a breather. In fact, not all of them can manage to stay for the entire sweaty 60 minutes, but many feed off Ansari’s positive vibes.

“Helen is an inspiration to all she teaches and comes in contact with,” said Jamie Kilgore, a local photographer who has known and trained with Ansari for 12 years. “She is like a magnet; she attracts people to her and the energy and spirit she gives off have people flocking to her. When you are around Helen, you have no way of keeping any of your own bad energy.”

Nor does Ansari, a former winner of the Miss Black America contest, get a breather throughout a week of 15 classes (Zumba, spin, yoga) and as a personal trainer to some of northern Westchester’s fit and famous. In fact, on this day alone she’ll teach four classes after rising at dawn.

Her aerobics career began at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, teaching the wives of military personnel, and continued in Ismia, Turkey. After returning to the U.S., she began a competitive aerobics career at age 40, eventually finishing fourth in the national masters divisions of the Reebok Aerobics Championship in 1995.

Just four months after that triumph, Ansari was stunned to learn she had breast cancer. However, buoyed by the support of her students, she was back teaching within a month. “They love my spirit,” she said. “They tell me my class is like going to church.”

Ansari is using that spirit to promote awareness of breast cancer, which strikes more than 200,000 women each year. (Shortly after her operation, Ansari lost a sister to the disease.) On Sept. 12, the Ansari family and the Saw Mill Club will pool resources at a “Zumba-thon” at the club to raise money and awareness for Northern Westchester Hospital’s expanding Cancer and Wellness Center. Along with her daughters, she is hoping the September event will strike another blow against the disease.

“We have to continue to raise awareness and fight this battle,” she said. Nearly one in eight U.S. women will be affected by breast cancer. By leading a class, she said, “I wanted to give something back this year.”

Ansari has always been an innovative teacher, devising a yoga stretch class at the Saw Mill Club, which she describes as “a soothing fusion of yoga, fitness stretch and self-healing.” She caught on to the latest trend, Zumba, a year ago, and the popular class brims with 70 students at its weekend sessions.

The Zumba-thon, a three-hour dance/ workout party co-sponsored by the American Cancer Society, will begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 12. Participants are certain to have fun while getting a workout to this inspired dance/ fitness craze founded by Colombian Beto Perez in the 1990s.

Retired science teacher and Saw Mill Club long time member, Nat Sloan, won Gold Medals in shot put, javelin, and high jump at the recently completed Empire State Senior Games.

Not content with the gold, Nat also won silver in the 100 and 200 meter dash and the Blue Ribbon in the Football Toss. Nat credited his trainers at Saw Mill Club and coaches at Somers High School with “being instrumental” in his success.

Here’s to next year, Nat!!

Join in to spectate or cut your own rug!

DATE: June 20

TIME: 5-7 PM

Saw Mill Club Aerobic Studio

Ten dollars at the door.

Contact us for more information:

Waldemar Tylinski (914) 426-0596
Danuta Tylinski (914) 426-5021

Specializing in recreational and technical SCUBA instruction & travel, sales & service

Open water certifications being offered at Saw Mill Club

Days: Tuesday and Thursday
Dates: July 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30
Times: 6:00PM–10:30PM
Ages 10–16: Jr. Open Water Certification
Ages 16 & up: Open Water Certification

Fees: $325.00 Includes Classroom and practical pool instruction

Tanks, regulator, weights and bc are provided for this class. Personal gear including mask, snorkel and fins are also required and are available for purchase at Abyss SCUBA.

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Contact Randy Ruiz for more information:

Phone: (914)355-1743
Email: abyss-scuba@yahoo.com