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PCB, asbestos issues push back opening of Crompton Park pool

PCB, asbestos issues push back opening of Crompton Park pool
WORCESTER – Construction of a $2.5 million municipal swimming pool at Crompton Park has run into a delay because of issues associated with the old pool facility, including the abatement of asbestos and caulk containing potentially harmful polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

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Swimming will soon be dead in Portage la Prairie: former coach

Swimming will soon be dead in Portage la Prairie: former coach
First of all let me say that the letter of April 9, referencing the pool area of the PCU Centre facility, was dead on. Most, if not all swimming is dead in Portage la Prairie. The Southport Piranhas Swim Club was started in 1975 by Capt.[...]

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Swimmer’s body found in Hamilton Pool

Swimmer’s body found in Hamilton Pool
The body of a swimmer reported missing on Saturday at Hamilton Pool was found on Sunday. Peter Cho, 21, was swimming with his younger brother and college friends when he went under the water and never resurfaced.  On Sunday divers recovered his body at the popular swimming hole in Dripping Springs.  Cho was about to graduate from the University of Texas.  His father says he had already been …

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Woman who drove car into EB swimming pool is identified

Woman who drove car into EB swimming pool is identified
The woman who drove a car into a backyard swimming pool in East Bridgewater was identified by police as Marjorie Ponder, 63, of 21 Tenzi Terrace, East Bridgewater.  At 4:45 p.m., she was in xxxx condition at Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital after being taken there with “potentially serious” injuries, officials  said.  Authorities said she was driving a 2005 Kia when the vehicle went …

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Pool play sunk Yale star Backman

Pool play sunk Yale star Backman
NEW HAVEN — The season-ending injury suffered by Yale senior forward Sean Backman, the Ivy League hockey player of the year, was not practice-related but the result of a dangerous fall at the school swimming pool.

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Girl Drowns in Omaha Hotel Pool

Girl Drowns in Omaha Hotel Pool
A 4-year-old girl drowns in an Omaha hotel swimming pool.

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Girls swimming takes second at sectionals

Girls swimming takes second at sectionals
After two days of fast swimming in the MIT pool at the North Sectional Swimming and Diving Championships, Weston’s Red Tide had much to be excited about.

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Crash car lands in swimming pool

Crash car lands in swimming pool
A WOMAN driver has been breath tested after crashing her car into a swimming pool at a house in Merriwa, in Perth’s northern suburbs.

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One more go for Waterloo swimming pool improvements

One more go for Waterloo swimming pool improvements
Call it ballot box déjà vu. For the sixth time in four years, Waterloo voters are being asked to approve paying for improvements to the city’s public swimming pool, a 316 N. Library St. complex built about 40 years ago.

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Toast of the Coast – Boys Swimming: Waccamaw’s Adam Dear rules the pool

Toast of the Coast – Boys Swimming: Waccamaw’s Adam Dear rules the pool
Waccamaw’s Adam Dear grew up in the pool, beginning swimming when he was 4-years-old and moving up quickly with local swim clubs.

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