Tag: Lifeguard Shortage
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Colorado grants over $800,000 to swimming pools in rush to open before July Fourth
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With the Fourth of July weekend days away, the state awarded over $800,000 to dozens of swimming pools to help the pools open amid an ongoing shortage of lifeguards. Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday that Colorado gave $849,313 in grants to 71 local swimming pools…
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Front Range pools forced to close, postpone openings, amid nationwide lifeguard shortage
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A lonely lifeguard chair at the 20th Street Gym watched over an empty pool Thursday, indicative of a lifeguard shortage which is squeezing the breath from many Front Range facilities at the start of summer. From Aurora to Denver to Boulder and Englewood, pools are…