Category: Swimming Pools
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Marijuana found growing in swimming pool after police raid on Pennsylvania home
Police in western Pennsylvania found truckloads of marijuana growing in an unlikely location. Officers raided a home in Beaver County on Friday, finding a huge crop of plants inside what used to be a swimming pool. Then, it all went up in smoke. Police took the $100,000 worth of plants and burned them. “It’s the…
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The Salvation Army Kroc Center Swim Test
The Kroc Center has implemented a new and improved swim test for guests and members to complete to gain access to the deeper parts of the pool.
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Dive in: It’s now free to swim at Corpus Christi city pools
You can now swim at any city pool for free. The Corpus Christi Parks and Recreation Department eliminated entry fees to municipal pools as part of the city’s $1.1 billion budget for 2020. The budget was adopted by City Council on Sept. 17. See Caller Times
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Rooftop swimming pool leaks at Dania Beach apartment complex
A rooftop swimming pool leaked at an apartment complex in Dania Beach.
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Tragic death leads to small town Olympic swimming pool | The Pool
After the tragic drowning of a 12-year-old girl in a local swimming hole in the early 1950s, the town of Portland decided to act. The local cement works donated a parcel of land and a huge supply of equipment to quickly construct a local swimming pool to ensure families had a safe place to swim.…
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Saving the pool to save the community | The Pool
Heywire winner Lauren Paynter, Nyah, Vic Across Australia, small towns are dying out. Unfortunately, so is mine. But when my local pool, the community hub for so many, was under threat of closure, I knew I had to do something. I still remember the first time I touched the bottom of the deep end and…
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‘Magic’, ‘medicinal’ water keeping tourists and towns afloat | The Pool
Taking to the waters of a mineral pool is a human tradition stretching back thousands of years ago. Today, it’s often grey nomads seeking out the reputed healing powers of mineral pools and their bubbling waters.
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The way that athletes use pools for rehabilitation | The Pool
Every weekend our football stars run onto the turf across the country and battle. They collide at break-neck speed, tackles are made, marks are taken, there are winners, there are losers. Most of all there are many, many sore bodies and many, many sore egos.
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The ladies chain baths of the Illawarra | The Pool
By 1840’s the Ladies Chain Baths were a significant local tourist attraction in the Illawarra and a common subject on early twentieth-century postcards of Wollongong.