Katie Crysdale

Happy Friday friends, and a belated Thanksgiving to our US poolies. To make up for the dearth of news last week, this week was BUSY. My inbox exploded! It wasn't matching my mood to wind down before my birthday and a few weeks of vacation, but here we

Good Morning, I'm at IAAPA Expo this week in Orlando. I'm still processing everything I saw and heard at what that bills itself as "the global attraction industry's premier event." From amusement rides to inflatable bouncy houses, bowling alleys, arcade games, roller

Good Morning, I am a day late today, but hopefully not a dollar short! In this week's newsletter, I want to highlight a few legal cases that - in my opinion - are relevant to things we do in the aquatic industry. I understand the law in every

Good Morning, I'm a bit under the weather this week, the victim of doing too much in October. We've all gone to work when we're not sick enough to get a doctor's note, but also too sick to be at work and

Happy November everyone. I have a few news articles to share before we get to some new products I'm really excited about. Winnipeg seeking input on outdoor water park for St. Boniface This seems like an about-face after plans to close 20 outdoor wading pools and replace them

Good Morning, I have European colleagues on my ISO Committee who live and die by a calendar numbering system that's not very common in Canada. October 21-27 was Week #43 of 2024. I don't know about you, but talking to them and hearing that number bandied

Happy Friday everyone. There was no POOLaide newsletter last week because I couldn't get my life together while simultaneously attending the World Waterpark Association (WWA) conference and tradeshow in Las Vegas. It was a phenomenal show, truly. It exceeded all of my expectations, and I already have plans

Welcome back everyone. I've got a real potpourri of topics in this week's newsletter, so sorry-not-sorry if you don't immediately see the throughline that's obvious for me! One of the Aquatic Industry Insider topics that keeps getting punted (ha!) is deferred maintenance

Happy Friday! As if I don't have enough going on at this time of the year, I've been absolutely riveted by the YouTube livestream of the US Coast Guard hearings on the Titan submersible. It's a textbook example of project management failure, but it&

Happy Friday! Fresh off of teaching a Certified Pool Operator (CPO) class in Calgary, I wanted to comment on new facility trends. I don't think we can necessarily extrapolate a wider aquatic industry shift from what I'm seeing, but I do think all three of these