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Page 14             July 2018                                          The Catoctin Banner Newspaper                         www.TheCatoctinBanner.com                       Published by www.EPlusPromotes.com
            Cascade Post                                                                New Emmitsburg Swimming Pool

            239 SAL Guns                                                                Open for the Summer

            and Cash Bash                                                                 James Rada, Jr.

               On Saturday, June 9, 2018,
            Cascade Post 239 Sons of American                                             Eliza Phillips                                       the pavilion
            Legion held the spring Guns and                                            took one last                                           was treated to
            Cash Bash. Over 3,000 tickets were                                         look around                                             remove the bees.
            sold, and 1,100 people came to                                             the Emmitsburg                                          The parking lot
            enjoy the pulled pork and beef and                                         pool on May 26,                                         was repaved
            other picnic fare on the grounds of                                        2018, and then                                          and repainted.
            Fort Ritchie.                                                              climbed onto                                            The new pool’s
               Drawings for the ticket prizes                                          her lifeguard                                           depths range
            took place every fifteen minutes.                                          stand and blew                                          from one foot
            Winning ticket holders were M.                                             her whistle to                                          to ten feet. The
            Davis, N. Wageman, S. Pryor,                                               signal the new                                          new pool is
            Dion, D. Barry, S. Brown, L. Spahr,                                        Emmitsburg pool                                         expected to be
            J. Wolfe, J. Ridenour, P. Wiles,                                           was open. Her                                           less expensive to
            D. Manspeaker, D. Wagner, K.                                               father, Hamblin,                                        run, primarily
            Sanders, S. Wolfe, B. Miller, M.                                           was the first                                           because water
            Knott, and T. Webber.                                                      person to jump                                          and chemicals
               Proceeds benefit The Fisher                                             in.                                                     won’t be leaking
            House, and SAL’s “Someone in                                                  “The water’s                                         from the pool.
            Need” fund.  The men and women                                             not even cold,”                                            “I’m
            of the SAL, the Post, and the                                              he smiled. “This                                        impressed with
            Ladies’ Auxiliary worked together                                          is nice.”                                               the parking
            for a great cause.                                                            He explained             Photo by James Rada, Jr.    lot,” Phillips
                                                                                       that the water                                          commented.
                                                                                       used to be cold                                         “You used to
                      We Invite You                                                    because there was always a hose       come close to bottoming out your
                                                                                                                             car.”
                                                                                       running into it to keep it filled since
                          to Share                                                     the old pool constantly leaked.          RSV Pools is managing the pool.
                   Your Good News!                                                        He was soon joined by adults       The company is also introducing

             • [email protected] •                                            and children who waded in from        its SWIMSAFE Program, designed
                                                                                                                             to help identify unsupervised “non-
                                                                                       the shallow end or jumped off the
                                                                                       diving board. Summer had arrived.     swimmers.”
                                                                                          The Emmitsburg Mayor and              This year marks Eliza’s third
                                                                                       Commissioners had decided last        year working at a pool. She began
                                                                                       year to replace the pool after a      her first year as a gate guard for
                                                                                       pressure test showed that it could    the Emmitsburg pool. This is her
                                                                                       not be repaired. Also, the beams      first year as a lifeguard. Eliza said
                                                                                       beneath the pool were damaged         that compared to her first year at
                                                                                       and needed to be replaced. Over       the Emmitsburg pool, the new pool
                                                                                       the pool’s forty-five-year life, no   looks cleaner and won’t have as
                                                                                       significant work had been done on     many issues.
                                                                                       it. Because of the work being done       “This is so much nicer than other
                                                                                       to restore the pool, it was not open   pools,” Eliza said.
                                                                                       last year.                               The pool will be open through
                                                                                          Although the new pool’s official   Labor Day, noon until 7:00 p.m.
                                                                                       grand opening was June 2, it             For more information, please
                                                                                       actually opened for use on May 26.    call the Town of Emmitsburg at
                                                                                          Besides a new pool, the pool       301-600-6303 or email anaill@
                                                                                       house has a fresh coat of paint and   emmitsburgmd.gov.



























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