GCAA Intramural Basketball Playoffs

Boys 3rd Grade Boys 4th

Boys 4th Grade Boys 5th Grade

Boys 5th Grade

Boys 6th Grade Boys

Boys 7th and 8th Grades

Girls Grades 4th thru 6th

Girls Grades 4-6

Family Movie in Cluett Hall

Garden City Recreation and Parks invites you to a showing of “DC League of Super-Pets” at St. Paul’s Cluett Hall on Wednesday, Feburary 22. Showtime will be 1 p.m. The movie runs approximately 105 minutes and is rated PG.

Admission is free. Our Recreation staff will supervise.

“Chess Wizards” Afterschool Program Spring Session

Garden City Recreation and Parks has again partnered with the very popular “Chess Wizards” to offer a spring session after school program for Garden City children in grades 1 to 5 who want to learn the game of chess! Chess Wizards is a fun way to have kids experience the excitement of chess.

Kids will play in mini tournaments, have interactive lessons with chess pros and play cool chess variants like bug house. It is proven that chess enhances cognitive development in children, improves both verbal and mathematical skills, and increases all levels of academic performance! Playing chess stimulates the mind and helps children strengthen skills such as focusing, visualizing goals, abstract thinking, and forming concrete opinions.

This eight-week class will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning Tuesday, April 4, and will cost $193. Instructors (who are called “Wizards”) provide all the materials necessary for your child to participate in the class. Come join the fun!!!

To register for this class, please visit

Chess Wizards’ website at www.chesswizards.com.

GC Pool Now Hiring Lifeguards for the Summer

Lifeguards are needed for the upcoming Garden City Recreation and Parks Pool season. If you are interested in becoming a lifeguard at the Garden City Pool, please contact Steve Espey, Recreation supervisor, at 516-483-2525 between the hours of 10:30 and 6:30 pm, Monday through Friday to set up an interview.

Recreation Pickleball News

Beginning the week of January 22, Recreation and Parks will add a Sunday morning and a Thursday afternoon session of pickleball. The schedule will be as follows:

• Sundays – 9:30 to 11:30 a.m .beginning January 22

• Thursdays – 3:15 to 5:45 p.m. beginning January 26

The above sessions will run through the end of March and then be evaluated for participation.

We will continue to run pickleball from 9:30 to noon, Tuesdays through Fridays.

All sessions will be open to residents only and will allow continuous round robin use during that session. No group may reserve a court and play on their own. The cost per session will be $6 daily or with a pass, $5.

Did you know that Hemlock and Edgemere Parks both have pickleball courts? Residents are invited to use the courts and nets, paddles and balls must be brought by the players.