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The ability to swim is a life-saving skill for children and a vital tool to prevent drowning, the second leading cause of unintended, injury-related death for U.S. children ages 1-14. Research shows risk of drowning can be reduced by 88 percent if children participate in formal swimming lessons between the ages of 1-4. The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson™, created by the World Waterpark Association in 2010 seeks to accomplish just that goal and is a global public relations event supported by aquatic facilities, water parks, pools, swim schools, YMCA’s, among others “We are participating in the WLSL again this year and we had 131 people come out to be a part of the event,” said Apple Canyon Lake Aquatics Manager Julie Janssen. The event requires a structured swimming curriculum, so everybody involved is taught the same lessons. “We worked on entering the water and rules of the pool and blowing bubbles and getting our face wet, the front and back float, kicking and a front arm crawl,” Janssen said. “We only had 30 minutes because it was all pretty timed out that you need to be at a certain spot in the lessons so you can hit a window and everyone across the world that was participating could be counted.” Janssen said because the event is involved with the Guinness Book of World Records there are a lot of rules. “We had to have a minimum of 25 participants and witnesses and a signin sheet and we had to follow the curriculum,” she said. “I was just hoping to hit that 25 and get through the day, but to go beyond that and have 131 was awesome. Everyone was so excited. Hopefully next year it will be bigger still.” ACL General Manager Shaun Nordlie said water safety is a top priority. “We’ve got a pool and we’ve got a lake, so water activities are our main
thing out here and we want to make sure that anyone that is using those amenities knows about safety and knows what to do when they are in the water,” Nordlie said. ACL Communications and Recreation Director Cynthia Donth-Carton said the community’s participation in the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson highlighted their ongoing focus on water safety. “The goal is to introduce as many people to safe swimming practices as possible,” said Donth-Carton. “We know that swimming lessons save lives and Julie has done a really good job of making swimming lessons a priority for our members here at Apple Canyon Lake. She said the entire aquatic ACL staff was involved. “Everyone from our Aquatics manager to our life guards to our gate keepers to our pool maintenance staff had a hand in the day’s success,” Donth-Carton said. “It takes a lot to pull something like this off and they did very well.” Each of the water venues at ACL has its own unique group of safety issues and swimming and boater safety are always the priority. “We have our new swimming pool and we have a lot of younger people using it,” she said. It is a zero-entry pool meaning a toddler can walk into the pool because it slowly slopes to a depth of one foot.” Many of the ACL property owners choose to swim from the community’s groomed Nixon Beach while others hit the water from their boats out on the lake. “Some of the day’s lessons dealt with helping someone who might be in peril right next to you,” Donth-Carton said. “It’s possible a situation might arise where you would just reach over and offer a hand or lifesaving device to someone who might be struggling or tiring. Lessons are always important.”
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Seven year old Adlai Carton attended Farm Fun Day at Apple Canyon Lake on Saturday and received a lesson from Julie Lawfer on how to gentle a cow before milking her.
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