{"id":60,"date":"2018-08-21T00:59:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=60"},"modified":"2018-08-21T00:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:59:34","slug":"congressman-ed-towns-to-host-seniors-at-the-healthynyc-expo-saturday-sept-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Ed Towns To Host Seniors at the HealthyNYC Expo Saturday Sept 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congressman Ed Towns<\/strong> might be retired, but he is keeping himself very busy. It was recently announced that he will be hosting his <a href=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/honorable-ed-towns-announces-2nd-annual-charity-golf-classic-support-youth-program-brooklyn\/\">2nd Annual Charity Golf Classic<\/a>, in support of a Brooklyn youth organization, and it was just confirmed that the retired Congressman will be hosting seniors at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/healthy-nyc-expo-brooklyn-edition-tickets-48316728636\">HealthyNYC Expo<\/a>, Saturday September 8, 2018 at the Brooklyn Sports Club<\/strong> in East Brooklyn. This is a FREE event for families and seniors, as part of the HealthyNYC initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy to have the Congressman on board as the host of our &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/senior-pavilion-at-healthy-nyc-expo-in-brooklyn-sat-sept-8\/\">Senior Pavilion<\/a>&#8216; section of the HealthyNYC Expo&#8221;, stated <strong>Wayne Jordan, Director of New York for Seniors. <\/strong>&#8220;The Congressman is a great speaker and truly exceptional when it comes to connecting and engaging with seniors. His presence adds another level of support for the HealthyNYC initiative. The fact is, seniors love him, and they always have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seniors, caregivers and Senior Center Directors are encouraged to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/healthy-nyc-expo-brooklyn-edition-tickets-48316728636\">Register Here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to be a part of the &#8216;Senior Pavilion&#8217; at the HealthyNYC Expo, or <strong>Contact Wayne Jordan at 718-285-9351<\/strong> or <a href=\"mailto:wayne@jig.media\">wayne@jig.media<\/a>.\u00a0 If your senior center would like to request printed flyers to distribute to your seniors, contact Wayne Jordan and someone will drop them off to your center.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/o\/jig-media-12357517312\">Healthy NYC\u00a0Expo series<\/a> of events are designed to create excitement and engagement around the topic of health care. By galvanizing community influencers, elected officials, families, and health care professionals, we are able to equip New Yorkers with the tools necessary to live their best life possible.<\/p>\n<p>Some partners include Fidelis Care, UnitedHealthcare, MetroPlus, WellCare, Healthfirst, MediGap Life, Alwayz Fit 4Lyfe, New York for Seniors, Councilman Rafael Espinal, Brownsville advocate Chris Legree, Tradition Home Care, and a host of NYC agencies and companies providing refreshments and healthy snacks.<\/p>\n<h2>Event Activities Include:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Giveaways<\/li>\n<li>Live Jazz (In Senior Pavilion)<\/li>\n<li>Family Full Body Exercise Class by Alwayz Fit 4 Lyfe<\/li>\n<li>Medical Screenings<\/li>\n<li>Exercise Stations<\/li>\n<li>Senior Pavilion Section<\/li>\n<li>Cooking Demonstrations<\/li>\n<li>Family Activities<\/li>\n<li>Youth basketball clinic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>For Information About Becoming an Vendor, Sponsor, or Community Partner, Contact\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jig.media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">JIG Media<\/a> at 718.285.9351 or send an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:vjones@jig.media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">vjones@jig.media<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Saturday Sept. 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 10am-3pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Brooklyn Sports Club &#8211; 1540 Van Siclen Ave., Brooklyn NY 11239<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:<\/strong> FREE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Become a Sponsor:<\/strong> Contact <a href=\"mailto:vjones@jig.media\">vjones@jig.media<\/a> or call 718-285-9351<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Ed Towns might be retired, but he is keeping himself very busy. It was recently announced that he will be hosting his 2nd Annual Charity Golf Classic, in support of a Brooklyn youth organization, and it was just confirmed that the retired Congressman will be hosting seniors at the HealthyNYC Expo, Saturday September 8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-health","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}