Children with special needs learn valuable skills to prevent drowning at new adaptive swimming class
Drowning is one of the leading causes of death for children with autism and experts say education is the best way to prevent them.
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Sponsored Content: Remember Those Wobbly Wooden Starting Blocks?
Competitive swimming equipment has evolved significantly over the years - the addition of goggles for visual clarity, compression swimsuits for reduced drag and lane lines with specialized disks that quell waves are a few examples. Fortunately, starting blocks technology has also greatly improved over the years!
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'Where have all the lifeguards gone?': Shortage forces northern B.C. pools to reduce hours
Pools in northern B.C. are dealing with a shortage of qualified lifeguards, forcing some facilities to scale back their hours as they try to recruit new people to the job.
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Dottie Weiner, Marco Island's beloved swim instructor, dies at 97
Dottie Murray Weiner, swim instructor to thousands in Marco Island, died Nov. 24, according to a YMCA news release. She was 97.
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Little boy surprised by first responders who saved him from drowning
Corpus Christi EMS surprised Damien on his eighth birthday, months after saving him from drowning at Padre Balli Park Beach.
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Lifeguard training turns 'real-life' after fisherman swept off rocks at Piha
A fisherman was swept off rocks at Piha Beach but managed to have his life saved by lifeguards taking part in a training exercise.
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For a nominal fee, your agency can post a job opening on the AOAP website and in the AOAP Weekly. To learn more about this service
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Coordinator II, Recreation Manager (Aquatics & Driver Education) – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(Open Until 11:59 pm CST on Thursday, December 12, 2019)
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Troubled waters: Open water swimming faces do-over of 2016
Haley Anderson has been through this before. In the lead-up to the Rio Olympics, all the talk about open water swimming focused on the conditions rather than the competition. Now, it's happening again with the Tokyo Games less than a year away. This time,
there is concern about the potentially dangerous heat.
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What Meditation Can Do for Your Leadership
One of the things that stands in the way of many leaders’ success — and therefore the success of their companies — is their ego.
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Charlotte employees build bikes for students in youth development program
Charlotte employees helped build 75 bikes Saturday morning for students in a youth development program.The program, Right Moves For Youth, is a school-based program that works with local law enforcement and the community to help middle school and high school students succeed.
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Making the most of mentorship - Take stock of professional relationships to get - and give - the best you can
Nothing beats a good cup of coffee, except for one shared with good company.
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Brooklyn parents upset by second-graders’ naked locker room encounters
The principal of Brooklyn’s PS 169 is in hot water over a swimming program for second-graders that exposes them to more than just the backstroke.
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The tectonic shift in retail is shaking up how stores hire seasonal workers
With consumer preferences shifting, holiday hiring needs have also changed, with more emphasis on speed and e-commerce.
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