Show CORRESPONDENCE URGES USE OF RED CROSS YIl S SWIMMING NG INSTRUCTION Does your boy or girl know how I to swim If not your Red Cross is at your service I Last summer your Sanpete County Red Cross Chapter spent to I send end six Sanpete county citizens to the Red nationals Cross Aquatic School at Granite Dells Arizona After they completed their ten-day ten course and qualified as Red Cross swimming and life saving instructors they returned to your communities to spend the en entire entire entire en- en tire summer teaching your boys and girls the art of self-preservation self in inthe inthe inthe the water Those Granite Dells were Warren Thompson Spring City Colynn Colynn Colynn Co- Co lynn Hansen and Elaine Nichols Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- raim Dean Lund Manti Kent Bardsley Bardsley Bardsley Bard- Bard sley and Garth Last Gunnison With these fine instructors the Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San San- pete County chapter has been given the recognition f having the best aquatic program in the rural areas inthe in inthe inthe the State of Utah It is hoped that the people of our county will get behind be behind behind be- be hind the present Red Cross drive so that this program can continue to grow for its educational value and for its summer recreational program for our young people Recently the State Board of Health condemned a majority of swimming pools fools in the state and has refused to permit their functioning during the coming swimming season until they have reached a Do minimum standard of oJ sanitation To date there is a possibility hat only one of at our county pools will open unless something is done to bring the others up to stand stand- ard The Mt Pleasant pool is the only possibility As chairman of the Sanpete County Red Cross Water Safety program I urge you to contact your city council and let them know that you are behind be behind behind be- be hind a move to bring your pool to the minimum standard of sanitation so that your child will have the privilege privilege privilege of expert instruction in water safety Signed Keith Stevenson Water Vater Safety Chairman Sanpete County Chapter of American Red Cross 4 |