Selling a house with a pool can be either an advantage or a challenge depending on factors like location, buyer preferences, and the pool’s condition.
In warmer climates or neighborhoods where pools are common, they can boost a home’s appeal by offering lifestyle and entertainment benefits.
Concerns about maintenance, safety, and costs may deter some buyers, especially in regions where pools are seen as a luxury rather than a necessity.
Ultimately, proper upkeep, staging, and highlighting the pool’s benefits can help maximize its selling potential, and a local real estate expert can provide guidance tailored to your market.
A pool can be a selling point for homebuyers in warmer climates
In warmer climates where outdoor living is a big part of everyday life — think Florida, Arizona, Texas, or Southern California — a pool can be a major advantage. Many buyers in these regions see a pool as a must-have feature for family fun, entertaining, and staying cool in the summer heat.
Lifestyle appeal: Pools often create an inviting backyard oasis, making a home feel like a private retreat.
Neighborhood expectations: If most homes in your area have pools, not having one could actually make your property less competitive.
Resort-like features: Extras like waterfalls, hot tubs, or modern decking can make your home stand out and potentially boost its value.
A pool might make selling harder in cooler areas or for budget-conscious homebuyers
On the flip side, pools can sometimes be a drawback, especially in areas where they aren’t common or the climate doesn’t support year-round use.
Maintenance concerns: Some buyers worry about upkeep costs, water bills, and the hassle of cleaning.
Safety issues: Potential buyers with young children might see a pool as a risk rather than a benefit.
Higher insurance costs: Pools can lead to increased homeowners insurance premiums, which might deter budget-conscious buyers.
In markets where pools are seen as more of a luxury than a necessity, you may encounter a smaller pool of potential buyers.
Tips for selling a home with a pool
If you’re preparing to sell your home and it has a pool, here are some ways to maximize its appeal:
Make sure it’s well-maintained – Fix cracks, clean the water, and update old equipment. A neglected pool can scare buyers away.
Highlight energy-efficient features – Solar heating or low-maintenance filters can ease cost concerns.
Stage the outdoor area – Comfortable seating, lighting, and landscaping can turn your pool into a stunning focal point.
Provide clear maintenance records – Showing buyers that the pool has been properly cared for builds confidence.
FIVE AT SIX. WELCOME BACK. AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. A DRIVER RESCUED FROM AN SUV THAT CRASHED INTO A POOL IN WESTFIELD EARLIER THIS WEEK. FIREFIGHTERS WERE ABLE TO GET THAT DRIVER OUT OF THE CAR. THAT WAS PARTIALLY SUBMERGED IN THE SHALLOW END AND TAKE THEM TO THE HOSPITAL. CREWS USED A CRANE TO GET THAT VEHICLE OUT OF THE WATER. THE POOL WILL REMAIN CLOSED SO IT CAN BE INSPECTED AND CLEANED, BU
Driver rescued from SUV after crashing into Massachusetts swimming pool
Updated: 5:23 PM PDT Jul 30, 2024
First responders rescued a driver from an SUV that crashed and became partially submerged in a swimming pool in western Massachusetts this week. The Westfield Regional Dispatch Center said in a statement that it received multiple calls about the crash on Thursday afternoon. Police, fire and EMS units were dispatched. “Fortunately, the vehicle came to rest in the shallow end of the pool and was not fully submerged,” the statement said. Firefighters were able to rescue the driver from the Chevrolet SUV. They were taken to a local hospital.A crane was used to hoist the vehicle out of the water and load it onto a tow truck.Officials said the pool could not reopen until it was cleaned and inspected. The Westfield Regional Dispatch Center’s statement did not specify the address of the incident.
WESTFIELD, Mass. —
First responders rescued a driver from an SUV that crashed and became partially submerged in a swimming pool in western Massachusetts this week.
The Westfield Regional Dispatch Center said in a statement that it received multiple calls about the crash on Thursday afternoon. Police, fire and EMS units were dispatched.
“Fortunately, the vehicle came to rest in the shallow end of the pool and was not fully submerged,” the statement said.
Firefighters were able to rescue the driver from the Chevrolet SUV. They were taken to a local hospital.
A crane was used to hoist the vehicle out of the water and load it onto a tow truck.
Officials said the pool could not reopen until it was cleaned and inspected.
The Westfield Regional Dispatch Center’s statement did not specify the address of the incident.
A three-year-old boy was found dead in a Rockville, Maryland, pool late Friday, according to Montgomery County police.
A three-year-old boy was found dead in a Rockville, Maryland, pool late Friday, according to Montgomery County police.
The county’s Emergency Communications Center got a call about a missing boy around 11:45 p.m., according to a news release from police. Rockville City Police responded to Elmcroft Court and found the child in the neighborhood’s pool.
Responding officers performed CPR on the boy, according to the release. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives are investigating the child’s death, but no foul play is suspected, according to the release.
Police said they will not release the boy’s name.
A map showing the area where the child was found is below.
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Art and Jessica Martinez never imagined they’d own a home in the Valley. Their Silver Lake condo suited their urban lifestyle: strolling around the reservoir, walking to the local grocery store and frequenting their favorite tiki bar, Tiki-Ti.
However, the pandemic made them rethink everything. Trapped at home, they dreamed of a single-family house with outdoor space to entertain friends and eventually start a family.
After months of searching, they stumbled upon a 1953 ranch house in Van Nuys designed by modernist architect Kenneth Lind. They saw an opportunity to enjoy more space, restore the home’s original midcentury charm and add personal touches to make it their own.
The exterior of the modernist ranch house, originally designed by Kenneth Lind.
“I had a hunch,” Jessica says, recalling the showing. “As soon as you come in the front door and see the way that this house opens up into this yard and all of the light that pours in, I feel like it’s immediate.”
They learned that Lind designed the home for Mel Sloan, a USC School of Cinematic Arts professor, and his wife, Rita, who raised their three children there. The Martinezes felt a connection; Art is a podcaster and Jessica is a feminist scholar and a lecturer in a gender studies program.
Despite being sure this was “the one,” the couple also worried they were in over their heads. The 1,881-square-foot home, with three bedrooms, two and a half baths and a 576-square-foot detached studio, would require significant restoration. The lot was also 10,322 square feet with overgrown plants.
The couple wrote a heartfelt letter to the sellers (the Sloans’ children), won a bidding war and purchased the property for $1.05 million. Then they envisioned their new life in Van Nuys: a backyard pool, a home gym in the studio and space to entertain.
During the inspection period, a neighbor on Nextdoor tipped them off to interior designer Jared Frank, whose clients include musician Reggie Watts, actor Matthew Gubler and filmmaker Jon Watts.
“There was a spark, and he affirmed for us a shared logic about how to approach a renovation,” Jessica says of Frank. Frank explained that if they were going to buy this home, they needed to respect the architecture and its history. They would find period-appropriate finishes, and it would take time. The Martinezes also expressed a love for Tiki-Ti to Frank, who began to think about how to bring a version of it into the home.
Jessica and Art Martinez stand in front of the tiki bar meant to remind them of their favorite tiki spot in Silver Lake.
The renovated dining room.
A guest room was turned into a nursery to prepare for the arrival of the couple’s child.
Escrow closed, and Frank got to work the day the Martinezes got the keys. From then, it took four and a half months for the Martinezes to move in. The restoration, which ended up costing $150,000, included updating plumbing and electrical systems and replacing the roof, which was a lasagna of old roofs stacked on top of one another. Meanwhile, the Martinezes and Frank made anchoring choices fast, choosing the wood beam ceiling paint color, floors and appliances, for example, knowing it would take a while for the product to arrive thanks to especially protracted supply chain issues and high demand due to the pandemic renovation bubble.
Unlike many midcentury renovations, the Martinezes took down no walls. Because the home was already a fairly open floor plan and it surrounded the yard with a lot of light coming in, they felt it unnecessary.
The contractor asked if they wanted to move the washer and dryer to a different space in the home or enclose them to hide them. Jessica drew upon her work as a feminist scholar, remembering how life-altering these machines were in the 1950s. She kept them at the center of the home as a way of acknowledging the past.
In the living room, Frank (who is also a furniture designer) drew an 18-foot, custom-built couch that evokes the glamour of the midcentury era. Tables, pendants and sconces came from online sellers including 1stDibs, Chairish and Etsy, and sometimes were shipped from overseas.
The exterior door of the modernist ranch house originally designed by Kenneth Lind.The renovated bathroom picks up the blue and orange theme of the home’s exterior.The renovated kitchen.
Frank even gave the couple their own in-house tiki bar to stand in for Tiki-Ti. In the entryway alcove, he used tropical-patterned grasscloth wallpaper and 1960s glass pendants to display the couple’s barware and Tiki-Ti memorabilia.
In the kitchen, bold-hued Big Chill appliances from the 1950s-inspired Retro Collection continue the throwback vibe. A cozy nook anchored by period-appropriate chairs and a breakfast table has become a favorite spot for the Martinezes to play “a good meaty board game” like Betrayal.
Outside, Frank designed a pool that began behind the detached studio (which the Martinezes turned into a home gym), curving around to what they affectionately call “the meadow.” Here, they planted a drought-resistant mix of California dune grass, mondo grass and poppies alongside the former owners’ birds of paradise, pink camellias and pineapple guava tree. Frank tapped L.A. painter Jessalyn Brooks to paint a colorful mural on the cinderblock wall backdropping the pool.
“It was incredibly fulfilling to restore a piece of architecture back to its original glory while reimagining it for my clients’ specific needs and desires,” says Frank.
After the Martinezes moved in, they received a letter from one of the original owners’ sons regarding the property’s Japanese maple trees.
“He said, ‘I hope that you’ll make the house your own in every way, but I’m secretly hoping you’ll keep those trees because they were a gift from my dad to my mom,’” Jessica remembers.
The outdoor patio at the modern ranch house.
(Emanuel Hahn / For The Times)
The swimming pool in the backyard, with a mural created by Jessalyn Brooks.
Ever the stewards, just as they’d discussed with Frank on day one, the Martinezes have had three arborists treat the maples for bark beetles and bacteria in the soil. “We have taken it seriously that we were entrusted to take care of Rita’s trees,” Jessica says.
And despite the initial concerns about supermarket proximity, Art still finds himself walking to theirs. It’s not across the street anymore, but the couple is finding meaning in talking to their neighbors about gardening — something they never did in Silver Lake. In October, the couple found out that their first child soon will join the family, which includes a chihuahua and a cocker spaniel mix rescue dog.
“It’s going to be a very happy summer,” Jessica says. “We are so excited to experience this much-anticipated transition in the comfort and beauty of this home.”
PHILADELPHIA—Noting that the quiet, intense individual clearly came to win, locals at Gelman’s Tap reported Wednesday that a foreign guy was slamming Diet Cokes and dominating the pool table. “I’m not exactly sure who that guy is, but he doesn’t speak much English, he got here exactly when the place opened at six, and he hasn’t relinquished the table since,” said customer Joey Shattuck, adding that the man paid only in cash, refused to drink a drop of alcohol, and repeatedly screamed at himself in a “Baltic-sounding language” whenever he missed a ball. “He pointed his stick at me, chugged an entire Diet Coke, and proceeded to sink every single ball without saying another word. I think the whole game lasted about two minutes. I still don’t know his name.” At press time, patrons had reportedly decided to move on to playing darts after the foreign guy looked at everyone, slapped a $20 bill on the table, and asked if they wanted to start betting money.
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Kids cool off in the pool at Globeville’s Argo Park. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
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Hazardous chemicals leaked into the air at a swimming pool near Del Mar Park in Aurora on Friday afternoon.
At least seven people were injured in the incident and five were hospitalized.
None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to Aurora Fire Rescue.
So what happened?
“The swimming pool maintenance personnel found a pump leaking pool chemicals into the air and shut it down before AFR’s arrival,” Aurora Fire Rescue officials said. “Once on scene, AFR’s Hazardous Materials Team worked to evacuate the pool, monitor the air quality, and treat people who sustained injuries.”
AFR spokesperson Shannon Hardy said the pool was closed shortly after due to imminent thunderstorms. It will remain closed for repairs.
Hardy said there were multiple patrons at a nearby gazebo as well but it is unclear where those injured were located at.
Denver Parks and Recreation outdoor pools opened today.
Meanwhile, the fire department offered tips for fire safety.
In the mix: Swim where lifeguards are present.
Only swim with a buddy and don’t allow people to do so alone.
Kids need constant supervision, no matter how well they can swim.
No distractions. No cell phones.
Don’t trust kids to keep other kids safe and don’t leave them near water without supervision.
“Teach children always to ask permission to go near water and designate a ‘water watcher’ whenever in a group setting,” the department suggested.
What do you do if the water turns toxic? Get out.
Stephanie Rivera contributed to this report.
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story misstated the location of the chemical leak. The hazardous material leaked into the air.The story has been updated with more information from Aurora Fire Rescue.
A 8-year-old boy was discovered face down in a Broward County pool, where officers made a desperate attempt to rescue him while responding to a 911 call from the homeowner Monday evening. Days later, Ft. Lauderdale police are investigating the circumstances surrounding his tragic death — including how and why he got into the backyard and pool.
The homeowner, who lives at the 1000 block of Northwest 4th Avenue, called 911 around 6:30 p.m. after waking up from nap, noticing a pair of children’s shoes by the pool and seeing Ryan Amichette submerged beneath the water, according to an audio clip release by police Wednesday.
“I’ve never seen him before,” the homeowner, whom police has not named, said when asked by the dispatcher if he knew Ryan. “We’ve never had a stray child in here. I see his clothes are right here by the gate, and his shoes are by the pool, and he’s at the bottom floating, looking at the bottom.”
Sirens could be heard in the background as the man spoke with the 911 dispatcher. Moments later, he said officers arrived, jumped in the pool, pulled Ryan out and began lifesaving measures.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue rushed the child to Broward Health Medical Center, where police spokeswoman Casey Liening said doctors pronounced him dead.
“Based on the information gathered so far by detectives, this incident appears to have been accidental,” Liening said in a statement. This investigation remains ongoing to determine the circumstances, including why the boy entered the back yard and the pool.”
Fort Lauderdale police did not immediately respond to questions regarding where Ryan lived.
Ryan’s older brother, Gibson Severe, told WSVN 7 Monday that their mother paid a nanny to pickup the boy and watch over him after school. But when she saw him walking down the street with friends, he added, she turned around.
After his brother didn’t come home from school, Severe told the station that he and other family members looked all over the city for him.
Noticing a large number of police and first responders in the area, he asked an officer if they located a lost child.
“And then the police was like ‘We just found a little boy in the pool.’” Severe told WSVN.
David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.
During the pandemic years of shuttered pools and difficult-to-find swim lessons, the drowning rate of very young children increased significantly in the U.S., following decades of declines, according to a new federal report.
Drowning rates among children 1 to 4 were about 28% higher in 2021 and 2022, compared to 2019, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, 461 children ages 1 to 4 died in a drowning accident, which is the number one cause of death among babies and toddlers. Rates are not yet available for 2023 or 2024, so it’s unknown whether deaths have declined since then.
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But children ages 1 to 4 already had the highest rates of drowning, even before the pandemic. The recent increase is “highly concerning,” said Tessa Clemens, a health scientist in the CDC’s Division of Injury Prevention and lead author of the new report.
While the exact reason for the increase is unknown, the shutdown likely played a role, she said.
“Many public pools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited the availability of swim classes. Once pools reopened, many facilities faced shortages of trained swimming instructors and lifeguards,” said Clemons. For many families, swim lessons and safe swim areas remained difficult to come by.
In Los Angeles, lifeguard shortages have continued to be a problem. Last summer, some public pools cut their hours and swim lessons were canceled because lifeguards were so difficult to find. Pandemic shutdowns fueled the so-called “great resignation,” in which many college-aged lifeguards quit to return to school or seek work in other industries. Many never came back.
Experts say water safety should be top of mind for families, especially in Los Angeles County, home to about 250,000 swimming pools, 96% of which are attached to single-family homes, according to a 2016 analysis.
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The CDC recommends that families begin swim lessons early — even while their children are babies.
“It’s never too young to really have that exposure to water to get comfort with it,” said Dr. Debra Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer. “What I would say though, is even at that age if they do know how to swim, it’s still really important to have close parental supervision.”
The CDC also recommends:
Building and revitalizing public pools to increase access to swimming for all people, including those with disabilities
Promoting affordable swimming and water safety lessons
Building fences at least 4 feet tall that fully enclose and separate the pool from the house
Not drinking alcohol before or during swimming, boating or other water activities.
Overall, more than 4,500 people of all ages died due to drowning each year from 2020 to 2022 — 500 more per year compared to 2019. That’s one person every two hours. Native Americans and Black Americans have long been at greatest risk, the result of decades of segregation at public and private pools. Those disparities grew even worse during the pandemic.
Almost 40 million adults (15.4%) in the United States do not know how to swim and over half (54.7%) have never taken a swimming lesson.
“It’s never too late to take that swim lesson, to get those water safety skills, particularly as we’re going into the summer,” said Houry. “It can save your life, it can save your family member’s life.”
This article is part of The Times’ early childhood education initiative, focusing on the learning and development of California children from birth to age 5. For more information about the initiative and its philanthropic funders, go to latimes.com/earlyed.
It’s a risky proposition to create a “best of list” for Bob Pool stories in the Los Angeles Times.
Not only are there too many to choose from — more than 4,000 — but there are few shortcuts for finding the true gems. That’s because Pool hated writing for Page 1. He favored economy over length. And the headlines rarely did justice to tales he could weave way inside the old Times Valley Edition, say, on a page next to GE refrigerator ads.
Readers could chuckle at one story Pool wrote for inside the Metro section in 1984, then notice that was one of three bylines he had on the page and that the real winner was at the bottom. In this case, the tale of a Canoga Park homeowner named Jeanette Kohane, whose discovery of chocolate cake smeared on her home (she assumed it was vandalism) led to police to a ring stealing food from the local school’s cafeteria.
Pool, who died Sunday, was a legend in The Times newsroom for three decades. Most of that time, he did not have a defined assignment. His beat was “the Bob Pool story,” a perfect slice of the Los Angeles human condition that many days made reading a newspaper chronicling wars, sleazy politicians, economic distress and environment degradation somewhat bearable.
He had an eye for stories you would want to read. He found people you wanted to know. He respected your time. And he knew how to make you smile (during his early days at the Thousand Oaks News-Chronicle, he knew how to get you interested in a municipal government piece: “Although they’re already up to their knees in sewage effluent, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District leaders agreed Monday night to consider expanding their sewer system to Topanga Canyon.”)
Bob had a desk in the newsroom, but he was most likely out in the field, discovering the unexpected, the surprising and the slightly absurd. In West L.A., he caught up with the head of the Early Typewriter Collectors Assn. — a man in possession of more than 70 machines. But Bob didn’t write it as a nostalgia piece. It turned out he produced the group’s newsletter on a Mac.
As Times columnist Steve Lopez wrote of Pool on his 2014 retirement: He his the ultimate reminder to reporters that “good things happen when you blow off news conferences, set fire to press releases, get out of the office and celebrate the daily drama on what might be the world’s greatest stage.”
Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Pool
(Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Bob, meet Bob. And another Bob
Pool had a knack for orchestrating a story into something more magical. So in 1991, Pool had an idea when David Rensin and Bill Zehme published the “The Bob Book,” which he described as a paperback that aimed to explore the “name Bob backward and forward.”
He arranged to have Times photographer Bob Chamberlin take the pictures and editor Bob Welkos edited the story.
As for the name, Pool found merit.
There has never been a President named Bob or a King Bob or a Pope Bob, of course. But Rensin and Zehme have decided that men named Bob are men who get things done.
True, Bobs do “enjoy a solid sense of sameness.” But they are decent, dependable types who instinctively make the most of a bad situation, according to the book. Bobs are sensible, approachable, likable and reliable. Not to mention predictable.
Nobody named Bob could have ever written “The Bob Book,” said Rensin, 41, of Sherman Oaks. That’s because Bobs are too pragmatic and unpretentious. Bobs don’t wear berets or quote Nietzsche or hang out at Renaissance fairs, he said. “They don’t take themselves seriously.”
Pool used to tell colleagues he was grateful for being named “Bob.”
What would have happened if his parents named him Seth, he joked.
The bellman from Bell who became a bellwether in Bel-Air
Pool always preferred the little guy over the big name. That is why he was drawn to the story of Tony Marquez:
Once the packages went in the box, Tony Marquez’s award was in the bag.
That’s the short version of how a Los Angeles bellhop has won the title of best hotel worker in America.
Marquez is bell captain at the Hotel Bel-Air. It’s the sprawling hideaway in Stone Canyon north of Westwood where cottage-like suites can go for $3,000 a night — and celebrity guests can come with a truckload of luggage.
But schlepping heavy suitcases and trunks around the Bel-Air’s 12-acre grounds isn’t what earned Marquez a national hotel-rating service’s only individual five-star ranking.
Pool ended the 2004 piece with one of his more beloved kickers: “So says the bellman from Bell who became a bellwether in Bel-Air.”
Santa Pool
In 1990, Pool spent weeks undercover as a retail Santa Claus, reporting a series of stories that would become Times Christmas classics:
By last weekend, I’d spent three weeks portraying Santa in shopping centers and elsewhere around town. I figured I had the slow-gaited Santa walk down pat. Ditto the Santa talk — the patter about what children want for Christmas, the milk and cookies they plan to leave out for me and the importance of brushing teeth and going to bed on time.
“Santas always wonder about it, but I don’t think you should have any fears about being recognized,” said Jenny Zink, head of the Santa Division for Western Temporary Services, who has hired 3,500 St. Nicks across the country this month. Costumed Santas even go unrecognized by their own children, she said.
But Mrs. Claus was not a believer. “Rachel will know who you are,” she fretted. “You’ll destroy her.”
I was undeterred. To make the test complete, I arranged for several of my nieces and nephews from Valencia to also visit with Santa. Mrs. Claus threw up her hands when she heard that.
Pool closed another in the series this way: “At the end of my shift, I took my aching back home for a long, steaming shower. My beard went for a soak in a bath of lukewarm water and Woolite.”
The guest who never checked out
It’s no surprise Pool was drawn to Thelma Becker, who as he reported in 1988, checked into downtown L.A.’s Biltmore Hotel “on Jan. 7, 1940, and never checked out.”
These days, hotel staff members look after the 5-foot-tall Becker as if she was each one’s mother. She is a guest at the hotel’s annual employee Christmas party. She has her own mail box at the employee mail center.
She was invited into a heavily guarded ballroom for a peek at the silver table settings before the Duke and Duchess of York arrived for a recent formal dinner.
“She knows everything about the hotel,” said Evelyne Gibert, manager of the Biltmore’s pastry shop. “If we do the pastry wrong, she’s not afraid to let us know. She knows the ingredients I put in the pastry. She even knows my husband.”
Becker remembers employees’ birthdays with gifts or, in the case of Biltmore public relations director Victoria King, with a surprise party on Tuesday night at a Mexican restaurant.
“She gives me the funnies from her paper every Sunday,” said front desk clerk Teina Tahauri.
O.J. Simpson’s death certificate released this week confirms he died of prostate cancer at his home in Las Vegas, his attorney told The Times.
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne said on Saturday the Clark County, Nev.-issued death certificate “just confirms what I think most people widely suspected anyway — it was prostate cancer. No other causes listed.”
Simpson’s family previously said on the social media platform X that the 76-year-old had died of cancer April 10.
Simpson, a former football star, was acquitted in the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald L. Goldman in a criminal court. A civil court jury later found him liable for the deaths.
He served nine years of a 33-year sentence following his 2008 conviction on armed robbery, kidnapping, conspiracy and other charges stemming from his attempt to recover memorabilia he claimed had been stolen from him. His incarceration was widely viewed as overdue punishment for the slayings of Simpson and Goldman.
Simpson announced in a May 2023 social media post that he had an unspecified type of cancer. In two videos posted in February, Simpson reassured his followers that he was healthy.
“Obviously, I’m dealing with some issues, but I think I’m just about over it, and I’ll be back on that golf course, hopefully, in a couple of weeks,” he said, seated in a chair by a pool.
About one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. Prostate cancer risk is higher in African American men and in Caribbean men of African ancestry than in men of other races.
Ely, 12, flips into the pool at the La Alma Recreation Center, July 11, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
Summer swim season is just around the corner. Locals have been wondering whether the public park pools would stay drained as the city faces budget cuts.
The department also cut its popular summer camp program, one of the few affordable ones in the metro area, though that can’t be blamed on the budget.
“DPR has restructured summer activities to reach more recreation centers and more youth,” wrote Yolanda Quesada, a spokesperson for Denver Parks and Recreation. “There will be a variety of registered and drop-in youth programs Monday through Friday at various centers throughout the city. Registration for summer programs opens May 7 and will be viewable later this month. ”
So when can we swim under the sun?
“Denver’s public outdoor pools are scheduled to open this summer from June 14 to August 11,” Quesada added.
That’s a week later than they opened in 2023, but on par with some previous years.
To open the pools, the city needs lifeguards. Hiring has begun.
The lifeguards will have part-time, hourly jobs. Scheduling will be flexible. Employees won’t be allowed to work more than 39 hours a week so the city doesn’t have to pay benefits.
The job will be to keep the public safe, clean the pool, teach swimming lessons, maintain pool equipment and more.
Pay is $18.29 an hour for new lifeguards, and employees can enroll in a city retirement plan. The highest a lifeguard can be paid is $25.06.
Other than that, there are no other benefits.
Applicants can be as young as 15. No educational experience is required.
Luke Howes patrols the Congress Park pool as it finally reopens. Aug. 2, 2022.Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite
They will have to be able to swim 300 yards continuously while maintaining breath control using either the front crawl or breaststroke; tread water for two minutes using legs alone; and finish a timed event, including pulling a 10-pound object from at least 7 feet of water in less than 1 minute and 40 seconds, according to the job description.
“This position requires a valid American Red Cross certification in Lifeguard Training,” Parks and Rec notes. “No certification? No problem! Applicants who do not possess current certification may participate in an American Red Cross Lifeguard Training certification course led by Denver Parks and Recreation prior to employment for FREE.”
It’s a new year, and Mint Edition returns with Daniel Chin to rank their confidence in the biggest releases in fandom of 2024. From Deadpool 3 and The Boys (1:08:40), to Arcane (1:20:30) and Fallout (34:00), all of the most anticipated titles will be put to the test.
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B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc. raised its position in Pool Co. (NASDAQ:POOL – Free Report) by 20.0% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 988 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock after purchasing an additional 165 shares during the quarter. B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc.’s holdings in Pool were worth $370,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Several other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in POOL. Clear Street Markets LLC increased its stake in shares of Pool by 94.9% in the first quarter. Clear Street Markets LLC now owns 76 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock valued at $26,000 after purchasing an additional 37 shares during the period. PSI Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Pool during the second quarter valued at approximately $32,000. Venturi Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Pool by 65.4% during the second quarter. Venturi Wealth Management LLC now owns 86 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock valued at $32,000 after acquiring an additional 34 shares during the period. Allworth Financial LP increased its stake in shares of Pool by 126.7% during the first quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 102 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock valued at $35,000 after acquiring an additional 57 shares during the period. Finally, Ameritas Advisory Services LLC acquired a new position in shares of Pool during the first quarter valued at approximately $35,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.99% of the company’s stock.
Pool Trading Down 0.9 %
Pool stock opened at $322.17 on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $350.08 and a 200 day moving average price of $351.92. Pool Co. has a 52 week low of $278.10 and a 52 week high of $423.97. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 2.58. The firm has a market capitalization of $12.58 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.31, a P/E/G ratio of 4.14 and a beta of 0.98.
Pool (NASDAQ:POOL – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 19th. The specialty retailer reported $3.50 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.50. Pool had a net margin of 9.65% and a return on equity of 39.98%. The firm had revenue of $1.50 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.46 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $4.76 EPS. The company’s revenue was down 7.1% on a year-over-year basis. Research analysts forecast that Pool Co. will post 13.41 EPS for the current year.
Pool Announces Dividend
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, August 24th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 10th were paid a $1.10 dividend. This represents a $4.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.37%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, August 9th. Pool’s dividend payout ratio is 31.84%.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
A number of research firms recently commented on POOL. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Pool in a research note on Thursday, October 5th. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. Oppenheimer lowered their price objective on shares of Pool from $375.00 to $370.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus raised their price objective on shares of Pool from $320.00 to $350.00 in a research note on Monday, July 17th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Pool has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $385.70.
Pool Corporation distributes swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products in the United States and internationally. The company offers maintenance products, including chemicals, supplies, and pool accessories; repair and replacement parts for pool equipment, such as cleaners, filters, heaters, pumps, and lights; and building materials, such as concrete, plumbing and electrical components, functional and decorative pool surfaces, decking materials, tiles, hardscapes, and natural stones for pool installations and remodeling.
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In this summer of heat domes and record-breaking global temperatures, finding a place to cool off is more important than ever. You can go to a movie or a museum—if you want to buy a ticket. You can head to an air-conditioned bar—if you don’t have kids who also need to escape the heat. Or you can just stay at home and blast your own air conditioner—a rather lonely prospect, if you ask me.
But there’s a better way to cool down, no air-conditioning or entrance fee required: America’s hundreds of thousands of public pools. Cool water, fresh air, exercise, babies, teenagers, seniors: They’re all at the pool. In a time of increasing heat and social isolation, public pools are a blessing.
Where I live, in Manhattan, we have several outdoor pools smack in the middle of the sultry cement jungle. For that, my neighbors and I can thank, among others, Robert Moses, the urban planner who was instrumental in creating New York City’s public pools. Moses was a staunch advocate for public swimming. “It is no exaggeration to say that the health, happiness, efficiency, and orderliness of a large number of the city’s residents, especially in the summer months, are tremendously affected by the presence or absence of adequate bathing facilities,” he wrote in 1934.
Swimming does, in fact, have important benefits for physical and mental health. Perhaps most crucial this summer: Immersing yourself in cold water can quickly lower your body temperature on a hot day. Swimming is fantastic aerobic exercise, and it’s easier on the joints than many other activities that raise your heart rate. Aerobic activity reduces stress, and swimming in particular has been shown to improve mood. In one preliminary study, swimming in the cold ocean reduced feelings of depression up to 10 times as much as watching from the beach did. In a separate case study, a woman with treatment-resistant depression experienced a significant improvement in her symptoms after swimming in open water once a week.
I’ve loved swimming since I was a young child, when my father taught me, and even now, whenever I’m in a bad mood, I reflexively take myself to the water. I’ve always thought the mood-boosting effects of swimming were solely the product of the exercise and the resulting flood of endorphins in my brain—that I might get the same effect from, say, a hard weight-lifting session or a long run. But the thing is, the studies that find that swimming lifts your mood tend to involve swimming with other people. Perhaps the social contact is part of the magic too.
Early in the pandemic, when life ground to a halt, the indoor pool where I swim in the offseason had very strict rules. You had to reserve a time, and there were never more than two people in a lane. It should have been a swimmer’s dream: no crowd and a guaranteed lane. I swam just as hard and for just as long as usual. But to my surprise, the experience was devoid of pleasure.
I didn’t understand why until one hot evening this summer, when I returned to Hamilton Fish, my favorite public pool in New York. It’s a sprawling, irresistible pool, flanked by trees, beautiful early-20th-century pavilions, and a plaza where people lounge about. When pools reopened during the first year of the pandemic, the city initially suspended adult hours at its outdoor pools in favor of free—and riotous—swim. When I visited, kids were shrieking with glee, horsing around and splashing everyone in sight. A handful of serious swimmers were trying in vain to find a lane for a workout, but I mainly paddled around with the kids, enjoying the cool water.
After I did manage to find a lane to do laps, a group of kids approached me and asked if I would teach them how to do a flip turn. We had a blast practicing somersaults in the water. At closing time, after the lifeguards drove the reluctant throng out of the pool, I stood under the cold outdoor shower with the other swimmers, struck by the strange intimacy of it all: Here we were, complete strangers, a diverse collection of humanity, practically naked and standing around having fun together. Everyone got along.
That is the whole, beautiful point of a public pool: to exercise and cool off with loads of people around. In the Southwest, where temperatures have been climbing above 100 for weeks, these facilities are a lifeline. Everywhere else, they can make the difference between a lonely, uncomfortable summer day and a joyful one. And yet, thanks to budget cuts and lifeguard shortages, fewer and fewer Americans have easy access to a municipal pool these days.
Back in 1934, when Moses extolled the virtues of public pools, the United States was in a pool-building frenzy. Many of those pools were racially segregated, so not everyone could swim together, but in time they came to be melting pots, even as cities invested less in their upkeep and many white residents flocked to private facilities.
Now, as the heat builds in American cities, Moses’s ideas about the role of community swimming in public health and happiness are more relevant than ever. If you can get to a public pool this summer—even if you could also use a backyard pool—make sure you take the plunge. Sure, it will still be blazing hot outside when you’re done, but the refreshment and relaxation will linger long after you’ve dried off.
GREEN BAY, Wis., April 21, 2023 (Newswire.com)
– Pool Shark Billiard Club, a pioneering tech startup offering a unique, digital collectible-based membership community, has launched its groundbreaking platform.
Leveraging strategic partnerships with industry-leading companies such as J. Pechauer Custom Cues, Diamond Billiard Products, Iwan Simonis, and Aramith, Pool Shark Billiard Club offers members exclusive access, benefits, and opportunities. “We have a massive opportunity right now in the sport to act as a unifier between brands, players, and pros who all care deeply about the future of the sport,” said Co-Founder & third-generation billiards entrepreneur Riley Pechauer.
Pool Shark Billiard Club’s cutting-edge platform provides access to discounted equipment, cue repairs, claimable equipment bundles, participation in frequent giveaways, a mobile game, and more. Their roster of professional players includes April Larson, Jayson Shaw, and Darren Appleton, who support the company’s mission to revolutionize the billiards industry. Four additional professional players were signed at the Expo and will be announced soon.
Based entirely online, Pool Shark Billiard Club has already amassed a global community of billiards enthusiasts, further solidifying its position as a game-changer in the market. A portion of every sale will be directed towards the Pool Shark Billiard Club Academy, aiming to nurture the next generation of players and enthusiasts by offering support, scholarships, mentorships, and more.
To learn more about Pool Shark Billiard Club and its revolutionary membership platform, visit their website at poolsharkbilliardclub.com.
About Pool Shark Billiard Club: Pool Shark Billiard Club is an innovative tech startup built on the Polygon blockchain, bridging the gap between billiards and modern technology. Their mission is to assist in the growth of the sport by offering a unique and exclusive experience for players and enthusiasts around the world by creating a community and connecting them to the top players and brands in the industry. With a focus on growing the billiards community and fostering the next generation of players and enthusiasts, Pool Shark Billiard Club is committed to breaking barriers in the industry.
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Flagstone paths lead to the front door. Inside, the more than 2,800 square feet of clean-lined interiors are designed for both entertaining and ease of everyday living.
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The primary suite and two additional ensuite guest bedrooms directly access the outdoors.
Disappearing walls of glass unite the inside with such outdoor amenities as terraced decks, a swimming pool and poolside fire pit seating area. A spa is immersed in one end of the pool. A Baja shelf or tanning ledge entry provides a spot to sun in while enjoying the water and soaking in the views.
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