Category: Organization
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Largest swimming lesson held to teach water safety
See Local12 Local pools took part in a worldwide event to promote safety in the water. It was also an attempt to break the record for the largest simultaneous swimming lesson. Children packed several local pools for a 30 minute swim lesson. Last year’s record-setting crowd drew more than 32,000 swimmers and represented 13 different…
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Mother works for swim safety after her two children drown
See Local12 It’s been a mission Barbara Jeff has been on for three years: making sure children learn to swim and that money won’t be a barrier in getting them lessons. Her two boys, Cameron and Bryce, drowned in 2011 in a neighbor’s pool. Sadly, Barbara has learned since then nine children drown every day…
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Spotlight on child sex abuse in Swimming Australia
Read for instance SBS and The Guardian The response of the Directors of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Queensland and New South Wales to sexual abuse allegations against former Olympic swimming coach Scott Volkers will come under scrutiny next month at the royal commission into child abuse. Swimming Australia will also come under the spotlight when…
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Lakeside Swim Club celebrates 90 years
See WDRB There are a lot of places to take a dip during the summer, but there aren’t many that look,or have a story like Lakeside Swim Club in the Highlands. “It was a working rock quarry,” Asst. Manager, Mary Graves said. That was in the early 1900s, till a spring started to fill the…
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FINA announces Mastbank (Russia) as title sponsor of the 2014 Swimming World Cup
Press release from FINA The FINA President Dr. Julio C. Maglione was today in Moscow (RUS) to sign an agreement with Russian commercial bank MASTBANK, which becomes the title sponsor of the 2014 edition of the FINA Swimming World Cup. “We are very happy to establish this partnership, which confirms and consolidates the value of…
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American Red Cross Free Swim App Brings Water Safety Information to Mobile Devices
See redcross.org The American Red Cross has released a free new Swim App to promote water safety for parents and caregivers of young people learning how to swim. The app allows iPhone, iPad, Android and Kindle Fire users to track their child’s progress in Red Cross swim lessons and play safety-themed games to test their…
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Young swimmers learn water safety with ‘The Josh Project’
See NBC24 The Josh Project is back in the pool offering swim lessons to young kids, and it’s making a bigger splash than ever. Enrollment in the non-profit organization’s swimming lessons program is higher than ever before. The Josh Project’s founder Wanda Butts says the program’s impact is reaching new depths as the 2014 classes…
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Adults Can Learn To Swim For Free with Operation Splash
See KTLA There are more than 40 locations where children and adults can learn to swim for free. Gayle Anderson has the details on a summer program known as “Operation Splash”. Gayle Anderson was at one of the many pools participating in this summer’s ninth annual Kaiser Permanente’s Operation Splash, a FREE summer program offered…
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Swim instructors prepare for summer of teaching
See KTTC School may be out for summer, but for many children and teens there are more lessons to learn in the pool. Participants in the Water Safety Instructor class at Rochester Recreation Center are completing a six month course in water safety and instruction. The student instructors are diving in to the fundamentals of…