| Officials eye funding for Bellefonte pool | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:01:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | BELLEFONTE -- Bellefonte's outdoor swimming pool has been losing thousands of dollars every year, and local leaders are looking for both immediate and long-term solutions to the problem. The borough owns the Bob Kepler Memorial Pool, located in Governors Park, and takes care of much of the maintenance. The Bellefonte YMCA manages it and provides staffing. Together, the borough and the Y are spending in the neighborhood of $20,000 a year more to operate it than they are bringing in. Because of that, the borough and YMCA are trying to tap into grants and other funding sources. Sue Hannegan, assistant borough manager, said an application for $20,000 in grant money was submitted to the state in December. That money would be used to run and maintain the pool this summer.... | |
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| | | Pool cuts loss to $5M | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:01:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Saskatchewan Wheat Pool cut its first-quarter loss to $5.1 million from $7.7 million in the same period a year ago, aided by bigger volumes of grain, the company said Thursday. "The first quarter's performance certainly signals optimism for this year," Pool chief executive Mayo Schmidt said in a conference call with analysts and reporters. The Pool shipped 19 per cent more grains and oilseeds in the fiscal quarter, ended Oct. 31, than in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, Schmidt said. Hot, dry weather led to an early finish to harvest, with most of the spring wheat crop in Saskatchewan making the top two grades, Schmidt said. Prairie farmers' crops are also in high demand due to drought in U.S. and Australia, major grain producing nations, he said.... | |
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| | | Woman Suffers Seizure, Crashes Car Into Pool | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:20:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | A woman who suffered a seizure while driving her 9-year-old daughter plowed her car through a golf course and into a backyard swimming pool, but the two were not seriously injured, authorities said Monday. The 46-year-old Palm Springs woman drove her 1997 Toyota Avalon into the pool at about 8 p.m. Sunday near the Tahquitz Creek Golf Club."A resident at 5202 Lakeside Drive heard a loud noise in his backyard and was surprised to find a partially submerged car in his pool," according to a Palm Springs Police Department statement.Both escaped serious injury, suffering only minor bumps and bruises, police said.An initial police investigation revealed the woman -- whose name was withheld -- suffered a seizure on Bob-o-link Drive, causing her to lose control of the car.The woman was not ticketed or arrested.... | |
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| | | Amanda Weir Taking Control in and out of the Pool | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:16:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | BY MIKE WATKINS//Special Correspondent Amanda Weir's days of needing to be bribed with candy to complete her dry-land workouts are a thing of the past. Even though weight training still isn't one of her favorite things to do, she understands the pay-off in the pool. The same can be said about her struggles to break through since winning two silver relay medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Despite never falling out of the swimming limelight, she found it more and more difficult to find her rightful spot on the medals podium at international competitions. She also had to watch up-and-coming compatriots like Kate Ziegler, Katie Hoff and Jessica Hardy win individual world championships titles and set world records while she continued to search for her own path.... | |
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| | | Remarks by President Bush to the Travel Pool After Voting | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:59:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | The following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush to the travel pool after voting: THE PRESIDENT: Laura and I know it's a privilege to be able to cast our vote, and I encourage all Americans to vote today. We live in a free society, and our government is only as good as the willingness of our people to participate in it. And therefore, no matter what your party affiliation, or if you don't have a party affiliation, do your duty; cast your ballot and let your voice be heard. So we thank you for -- we thank you for being a good citizen. It's good to be here voting in Texas. We're going to be heading back up to Washington here pretty soon and watch the results. Appreciate it. Thank you all. END 7:11 A.M. CST .... | |
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| | | City taking pool board applications | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 10:58:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | The City of Twin Falls is accepting applications for positions on the Pool Advisory Commission, which will advise the Twin Falls City Council on pool-related issues and field complaints or concerns from residents.The commission was created Monday when the City Council approved an annual contract with the YMCA for management of the city pool.Please direct a letter of interest to Mayor Lance Clow at P.O. Box 1907 Twin Falls, ID 83303-1907.For more information, call 735-7228.The deadline is Nov. 16. .... | |
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| | | Large pool of workers India's biggest plus point | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 1:29:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW DELHI: According to a study released by US-based consulting firm neoIT, India may face serious competition from cities in eastern Europe and China as outsourcing destinations. India would still have three of the top five slots, with Chennai joining Kolkata and Hyderabad in that category. The choice of outsourcing cities is based on both generic and enterprise-specific factors, the study, done by NeoIT, points out. Generic factors are independent of the country from which work is offshored, with the entrepreneur offshoring his work mainly to benefit from cheap labour. The other generic determinants are availability of proper infrastructure and lower country risk. It is these generic factors that have made Indian cities hot destinations for offshoring, it says.... | |
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| | | World Pool Championships expected to reign in TV ratings | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:08:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | MANILA -- With billiards growing to be one of the country's most popular spectator sports, more than one in two adult Filipinos are likely to watch the 2006 World Pool Championship (WPC) on television when it comes to Manila next week, according to a survey by the Social Weather Stations. From November 4 to 12, about 29 million Filipino adults and millions more teenagers, may be watching the WPC, the Third Quarter 2006 Social Weather Survey found. The WPC will be televised from the Philippine International Convention Center for several hours daily. Previous champions include Efren "Bata" Reyes in 1999 and Alex Pagulayan in 2004. The SWS survey found that 9 percent watch "always," 9 percent watch "often," and 38 percent watch "sometimes" -- a total 56 percent of adult Filipinos -- whenever they find billiards on TV.... | |
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| | | West High sees plans for pool, stadium | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:15:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | TRACY - Since Merrill F. West High School opened in 1993, educators and students have waited for a stadium and a swimming pool. They still have more than a year to wait, but an architect's drawing of a $9.4 million proposed stadium and aquatics complex approved by the school board this week will give them an idea of what's in store. Plans are still in the preliminary stages, said Steve Thornton, West High's athletic director, but he likes what he sees so far. "It looks like it's going to be a first-class facility all the way," he said. .... | |
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| | | Plagued by pests in a pool | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 2:59:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the backyard of a home in the 8000 block of East Jackrabbit Road sits a green, stagnant pool that Maricopa County officials fear may have produced mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus. The county has attempted to get rid of the mosquitoes, but neighbors say the pool is greener than ever. Getting the pool cleaned hasn't been easy, because the home has changed ownership. Story, Page 3 .... | |
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