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Vol. 16, No. 46
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Town considers pool expansion by Dawnmarie Fehr
Kaden Watts, a member of the Discovery Bay River Otters, spoke before the Community Services District in support of the town’s possible expansion of the community swimming pool.
Correspondent
Last week, the Town of Discovery Bay Community Services District (CSD) Board discussed expanding the community center pool to a six- or eight-lane competitive pool. During the meeting, the audience was packed with coaches, swimmers and parents from the town’s swim team, the Discovery Bay River Otters (DBRO), who used the opportunity to encourage the board to vote for a larger pool. “The pool can be used for so many different things – this whole town is about water, it has an identity about water,” said Joey Mossor, whose daughter is on the swim team. “When you take this all into consideration, a lot of people will benefit, not
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just the parents and the kids of the swim team but everyone who comes to this community.” The discussion began with a slideshow detailing three options for the board to choose from: completing the repairs begun in September to correct some cir-
culation problems in the pool for $226,552; expanding the existing pool to a six-lane competitive pool at the cost of $683,052; or starting from scratch and building an entirely new six-lane competitive pool to the tune of $858,381. The repairs, begun
in September, are currently on hold; if the board does decide to expand the pool, it could save money by doing so at this time as the pool is already under construction.
Staff Writer
When Discovery Bay resident Jerrod Williams brushed up on his CPR technique earlier this year, he didn’t know when he would put that skill to work. It didn’t take him long to find out. Just days later, Williams and his neighbor were instrumental in helping to save the life of a neighbor who had a heart attack and fell into Discovery Bay’s Marina Circle jetty on June 30. “I really thought I was giving CPR to a dead man,” said Williams, who, along with Discovery Bay resident Roger Van Alst, two Contra Costa County Sheriff deputies, an American Medical Response ambulance crew and a quartet of East Contra Costa Fire Protection District personnel, were recently honored multiple times for saving 62-year-
old Tom Hughes’ life. Williams performed inwater CPR on Hughes’ lifeless body propped on Van Alst’s immersed lap for an estimated eight minutes until first responders arrived. Responders removed Hughes from the water, used an automated external defibrillator to shock him to life and transported him to Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch. He was discharged four days later, neurological functions fully intact. Hughes did not return requests for comment but told KTVU’s Claudine Wong that he suffers few ill effects from the ordeal that he knows only through others’ stories. “I mention the aches and pains of having CPR compressee Honored page 30A
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The Press welcomes the season with a look at food, events and fun in East County. Page 1B
Taking Steps For A Village
Plans are underway for construction on an intergenerational community in Byron. Page 4A
An Event To Make History
Heritage girls’ water polo team advances to NCS championship for first time in history. Page 21A Photo courtesy of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District
The East Contra Cost Fire Protection District recently honored firefighter Chris Smith, engineer Joe Grima, captain Gil Guerrero, citizen Jerrod Williams and American Medical Response (AMR) paramedic Kim Jackson, who were all instrumental in helping save the life of a 62-year-old Discovery Bay man after he suffered a heart attack and fell into the water. Fellow citizen Roger Van Alst, Contra Costa County Sheriff Department deputies and other East Contra Costa Fire Protection District and AMR representatives contributed to the rescue.
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County public works will repair guardrail number 3 on Marsh Creek Road.
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Regional parks’ Measure FF passed by voters in recent election.