Dear Friends of the CRC Pool,
We are hard at work planning to safely reopen the pool for the 2021 summer season. Here is what we have planned:
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FREE Water Safety & Learn to Swim Program: The CRC Pool is a community resource and a significant part of our mission is to protect the most vulnerable by teaching water safety and swimming skills. This is particularly important given the interruption of the natural learning cycle this past year. Swimming, or more precisely, water safety is an imperative life skill no matter who you are or where you live but living on an island it is essential.
- The CRC is focusing on providing water safety & swim lessons to all of our Member’s children and grandchildren who are 10 or younger for FREE! Our goal is developing the skills to be comfortable in the water and the ability to respond well to the unexpected situations such as falling into the pool, a pond or overboard from a boat. Let’s get our kids swimming safe!
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Family Fun Swimming Every Summer Afternoon: The pool will be open from July 2nd to September 6th.The pool is an amazing magnet of interaction and fun for the whole family. We hope the entire island will come out and enjoy the pool throughout the summer season.
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NEW Lifeguard Scholarship Program: This is an opportunity for five of our young adults (15+ years old) to get trained as lifeguards and develop leadership, communication and people skills while earning a $1500 scholarship towards any school of their choice!
By following the link below, you can nominate a local teen who has an interest in community service, enjoys the water and can develop the maturity to be a lifeguard. This is youth community service at its finest with the development of a real life skill in the process!
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Adult Morning Lap Swim: We have a wonderful diversity of adult swimmers and our lane set-up will have options for those who want to loosen up in the morning to those whose goal is VO2 Max before 9 am! We will also post an 8 Week Individual Masters training schedule to supercharge your CRC summer fitness regime.
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Let’s get our open water on! This is a shout out to all who would like to swim outside the box: Let us know who you are…where you like to swim...tell us your favorite island swims…maybe a non-virtual Peaks-to-Portland team this year? Let us know and we will help organize!
The CRC’s goal is to engage and help our community and each individual in the pursuit of physical and mental health. The pool is an integral part of this pursuit for so many of us.
We want to engage with you!
The CRC Pool needs your support: Please support our initiative to provide FREE early childhood water safety training...money should not be a hurdle for anyone to gain access to learn a potentially lifesaving skill.
We would also appreciate your support in providing opportunities for our young adults participating in our Lifeguard Scholarship Program… their watchful eye this summer will be a benefit to all who use the pool.
Your support will go directly to these initiatives: In total, it will cost $15,000 this summer season to train and provide lifeguards for Family Fun recreational swimming and the teaching of our water safety & learn to swim programs.
We want to make it easy for you to support the mission…Simply click on the link below with your pledge of $20, $50, $500 or more and let’s make this a safe and fun Summer of 2021!
News Flash: The CRC Pool has a matching gift pledge from the “Friends of the Pool! Ask us about the FOP MOB! Your donation dollars will go twice as far! The greatest investment ever…every donated dollar is now worth two dollars…please respond to this email with your pledge…and THANK YOU from the FOP MOB and the Chebeague Recreation Center…Here for our island community.
