We’re just about wrapping up Drowning Prevention Week and at the town pool, it’s a popular topic that carries on through the whole summer.
The pool at the Fair Grounds Aquatic Park is a hot bed of kids’ swimming lessons all season.
Aquatic Supervisor Morgan Lalich says knowing how to swim should be considered an essential life skill.
The town pool has 29 lifeguards this summer and all of them have their swim instructors certification, while allows them all to teach swimming lessons.
Only 1 percent of drownings happen in a lifeguard supervised setting…most, 45 percent of them, happen in lakes or ponds with no supervision.
