Three City of Calgary pools to be closed for upgrades The city has quietly announced that three indoor pools will be closed simultaneously for several months over the summer to conduct urgent emergency repairs. The City of Calgary has a number of outdoor swimming pools, operated through a partnership with

I am here with the topic on everyone's mind this week. Last Monday, March 25 there were multiple news reports about a missing 8 year-old girl found dead in a hotel swimming pool in Houston, Texas. Unsurprisingly, journalists and lay people unfamiliar with swimming pool operations did not

The goal with these news roundups is to do what I used to do on our Facebook page: showcase specific stories and provide commentary as to why these stories matter for our industry or might be relevant to the work you do. School made epileptic teen swim in P.E.

I recently discovered a new podcast, so I've been binging the back catalogue. I just listened to a thoughtful episode entitled, "Why was Bruce Willis still working?" If you're not familiar with the story, Bruce Willis' family said in 2022 that he has

Lakeview Aquatic Consultants Ltd. was founded in March 2017. Next week, we're celebrating 7 years in business. Just when you think you've seen it all, this week presented an unusual array of huh moments: * a sales rep from a well-known company bombed the chat in my

One of the questions I've had this week, as we're relaunching the newsletter, is why POOLaide? If you were here in 2020, POOLaide was our hyper viral series of free online webinars during the Pandemic. We had 1,500 poolies join us for over 20 free

Greetings Poolies, It's been a while, hasn't it? After relaunching the Lakeview Aquatic Consultants newsletter on MailerLite back in September 2022, I just didn't keep up with it. I don't know about you, but commercial email correspondence is the bane of my