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Space is available for the Fall 2011 Fit Club at Moultrie Middle School starting in August, and for the first time ever, you don’t need to be a student at the hosting school. Any rising 6th through 8th grade student living East of the Cooper River is eligible to participate in the 16-week program at Moultrie Middle School. This is a great opportunity for those that qualify. If you know of anyone interested in being a part of the Fall Fit Club, please call Ashley Gunnin at 724-9267 for an application or more details.

Big Chef Michelle Weaver and Little Chef Chelsea celebrated her 18th Birthday with a winning dish at the 2011 Piggly Wiggly Big Chef Little Chef Challenge presented by IKON Financial Group! The two chefs created the most amazing and unique dish that was a crowd-pleasure: a sugar-free, vegan avocado chocolate pudding covered with strawberries. Yes, chocolate pudding made from avocados! You couldn’t tell it wasn’t the real thing, and tasted amazing.

A huge thank you to all of our event sponsors: Piggly Wiggly, IKON Financial Group, SC Social Scene, Southwest Airlines, Lowndes Grove Plantation, Snyder Event Rentals, Pearlstine Distributors, Cypress Restaurant, Grapevine Distributors, Carolina Craft, Square Onion, Awendaw Green, Earthly Artifacts, J Fletcher Designs, Limelight Custom Sign Company, Perception Wines, Ryan Nelson & Chef Marvin Woods and all of the amazing and participating restaurants and chefs: Michelle Weaver of Charleston Grill, Ken Vedrinski of Lucca, Nico Rome of FISH, Marc Collins from Circa 1886, Cary Zapatka from Square Onion, Craig Deihl from Cypress, John Zucker of Cru Cafe, Ben Berryhill from Red Drum, and John Ondo from Lana. We couldn’t have hosted this evening without all of their partnership and support!

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Louis Yuhasz interviewed on NEWS 2 on his Oprah Show appearance and what Oprah means to Louie’s Kids.

Watch the interview here!

Louie’s Kids is taking their Fit Club program East of the Cooper for the first time. Any child between 6th and 8th grade in a Charleston County School will be eligible for the program. Read the details here.

We are so grateful to everyone that spreads the news of our happenings here at Louie’s Kids. Thank you to the kind folks in the Park West neck of the woods for sharing our latest information.

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Join Louie’s Kids for its third annual Piggly Wiggly Big Chef/Little Chef Competition presented by IKON Financial Group. Charleston’s top chefs will come together for a one-of-a-kind gastronomic evening. Guests at this event taste delicious culinary creations courtesy of the big chefs and their little counterparts, all of whom are Louie’s Kids participants. You also will enjoy tastes of Perception Wines and other hors d’oeuvres courtesy of Square Onion. All proceeds benefit Louie’s Kids programs to fight childhood obesity.

2011 Participating Chefs: Nico Romo of FISH, Marc Collins of Circa 1886, Cary Zapatka of Square Onion, Craig Deihl of Cypress, John Zucker of Cru Cafe, Ben Berryhill of Red Drum, Michelle Weaver of Charleston Grill, Sean Brock of Husk, Ken Vedrinski of Lucca and John Ondo of Cafe Lana.

Enjoy music by Sons of Summer and Doug Jones while watching the most amazing river view and sunset in town!

$50; $45 advance. Call (843)724-9267 or go to https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/LouiesKids/OnlineRegistration.html to register. Buy your tickets early. This event sells out!

Just discovered this and had to share! Thank you again for the support of the folks at Adventure Radio and to Jen and Scott of The Wake-Up Call for sharing the day and heat with us. we are so thankful for your presence. This video made my night.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have decided to postpone this event until later in the year. Thank you for your support. We will post new information on this event as we make new plans!

CHARLOTTE, NC. – Want to join hundreds of other devoted yogis for an afternoon of down dogs, headstands and mountain poses to raise money for a children’s charity? Louie’s Kids organizers are readying for the first Yoga Marathon in Freedom Park in Charlotte, NC. This will be the 10^th yoga marathon for Louie’s Kids, the 2^nd in a city away from home.

On Saturday, June 4, 2011, participants will fill the park from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. as a group of Charlotte’s most popular yoga instructors lead the way in Freedom Park, rain or shine.

The Louie’s Kids’ Yoga Marathon in Charlotte will benefit a Louie’s Kids’ Run Buddies program in Charlotte this fall. The latest initiative of Louie’s Kids, Run Buddies is an athletic mentorship program matching adults with young kid seeking a healthy lifestyle. Run Buddies works with kids who need an adult to join them and adults that want to share in their love of being active, to get outside and get fit.

“We have received such enormous response from the Charlotte Community after a recent article in the April 2011 issue of Runners World that we felt the need to bring this Yoga Marathon and Run Buddies Program to Charlotte,” explains Louis Yuhasz, founder of The Yoga Marathon and Louie’s Kids. “I am certain this inaugural marathon will be an extraordinary event for the Charlotte community as it has been in Charleston for the past eight years.”

Recently, Louie’s Kids hosted an inaugural Yoga Marathon in historic Forsyth Park in Savannah, GA. 100 people participated in the Savannah Yoga Marathon and the event raised $16,000, which will benefit Savannah-based COPE (Childhood Obesity Prevention and Education). COPE will be utilizing the donations raised from the Savannah Yoga Marathon to fund a Louie’s Kids’ Fit Club for 25 kids through a Title 1 school in Savannah this fall. To date, Louie’s Kids has raised over $100,000.00 for programs that benefit overweight and obese children in Charleston, SC, their home base. Donations were recorded from 37 states in the 8^th annual Yoga Marathon this past October in Charleston, SC.

Participants interested in partaking in the June 4^th Charlotte Yoga Marathon can register by creating a personal fundraising page by visiting www.louieskids.org/charlotte. Friends and family can support their individual efforts to complete 108 Sun Salutations, a yoga sequence combining 12 postures. Sponsors also can donate money for each Sun Salutation or minute of yoga completed.

To find out more about participating or becoming a sponsor of the Charlotte Yoga Marathon visit www.louieskids.org/charlotte or contact Ashley Gunnin at 843-724-9267.