Five Towners go outside for play and exercise

While the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has many people quarantining at home and working and attending school remotely, a few people ventured outside in the Five Towns on April 6.

Hewlett resident Chazz Schoenefeld, 76, played golf for nearly two hours at the 9-hole course at Nassau County’s North Woodmere Park. Calling golf his “challenging obsession,” and the only game he can play at his age, the retired teacher was out on the Monday morning because, “It’s a gorgeous day and I’m tired of staying in the house. I need it for my health and I need it for my sanity.”

At Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park, professional trainer Louis Levine, 61, was using the iron gate that surrounds now an empty playground to hold his rubber exercise bans as he did a variety of stretching drills and light jogging. “The bans give you tension and stretch every muscle in your body,” said Levine, a Cedarhurst resident, adding that he has exercised his entire life and has trained with NYPD’s tactical unit and the federal Air Marshals.