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Shane Fewel, 8, left, and Isabella Bacerra, 6, right, take instruction from their yoga teacher.
Peyton Bass, 8, of Yorba Linda, strikes a yoga pose with other children at Full Circle Yoga. PHOTOS: ANA VENEGAS, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
FROM HAPPY BABY TO
At left, Peyton Bass, 8, of Yorba Linda, tries to tune out distractions and focus on her breath in a children’s yoga class at Full Circle Yoga.
CHILD’S POSE AT THIS STUDIO, THEY START ’EM YOUNG.
Below, sisters Paige Bass, 6, left, and Peyton Bass, 8, right, both of Yorba Linda, share a yoga pose together at at Full Circle Yoga.
BY DANIEL LANGHORNE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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ull Circle Yoga is in a nondescript business park on Prospect Avenue near Imperial Highway. Its black facade with white signs announcing each tenant gives way to a tranquil oasis with the light trickle of a water fountain and a skylight providing the only light. Full Circle, nearly 8 years old, offers yoga for all ages. But two-and-a-half months ago, because she enjoyed doing yoga with her baby when she was a new mom herself, owner Kristen Fewel revived a yoga class exclusively for children (The first hourlong class is free; thereafter, classes are $10. Parents can join in for an extra $5). This new iteration is geared toward children from 6 to 10 yeas old. It uses poses that are less demanding than those most adults would associate with yoga. To keep it fun, children get to do head stands against a wall, get hand massages, and ring a small gong and listen closely until the ring goes completely quiet.
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At left, Isabella Bacerra, 6, of Brea, watches yoga teacher Jessica Lowerre for instruction in a class at Full Circle Yoga.
Yoga instructor Jessica Lowerre assists student Isabella Bacerra, 6, left.
City Council members approve the City Council votes to raise design for new $2.7 million park pay, benefits of successors BY DANIEL LANGHORNE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
The Yorba Linda City Council has approved the design of Vista Del Verde II Park near Lakeview Avenue and Bastanchury Road but isn’t expected to commit funds until it approves its 2013-14 budget around the end of May. The estimated $2.7 million project would include a picnic shelter, a full basketball court, a small lawn, a parking lot and private restrooms. After getting a budget approved, putting the project out to bid and accepting a contract, the earliest the city could break ground would be late spring of next year, said Bill Cal-
BY DANIEL LANGHORNE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
COURTESY OF MIKE KUDRON
A field near Lakeview Avenue and Bastanchury Road will be the future site of Vista Del Verde II Park.
kins, director of parks and recreation. City staffers presented an array of construction options for the park that included building it in phases or all at once. Mayor Tom Lindsey said the entire council was emphatic at
last week’s council meeting that the entire park should be built at the same time if it meant saving the city money. The architect is supposed to deliver a plan for that full build-out as the council mulls over city spending.
The Yorba Linda City Council has unanimously voted to give the next council a pay raise and has restored some benefits, such as a car allowance, for the first time since the economic recession amid rising confidence in the city’s finances. Council members serving after December 2014 will receive a $25 pay bump from the current $500 monthly stipend. That raise will go entirely toward the council members’ retirement funds provided by the city, and not into council
members’ pockets, said Mark Aalders, assistant to the city manager. City councils are barred by state law from giving themselves raises but can do so for their successors. “The kind of time and energy that goes into being a councilman is just pennies on the dollar for the time that we spend,” Councilman John Anderson said. Besides the pay bump, the City Council will also have expenses like city pins, business cards, car expenses and travel expenses that are preapproved covered by the city’s budget for the first time in four years. Council members had
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The kind of time and energy that goes into being a councilman is just pennies on the dollar for the time that we spend.” JOHN ANDERSON YORBA LINDA CITY COUNCILMAN
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