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Swim lessons part of Discovery Day Camps
Grant from United Way covers cost of swimming training
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Kymberlee Nichols tells kids to keep their chins up during swim lessons at Frances Meadows Aquatic Center on Thursday. The kids learned various skills such as how to float, kick, swim freestyle and backstroke and do turns at the wall. - photo by Erin O. Smith
The pungent, yet pleasant, summery smell of chlorine filled the nostrils of roughly 75 children as they swam through the waters of Frances Meadows Aquatic Center, but they didn’t seem to mind. “I don’t smell it,” said Jillian Zonts, 9, still wet and dripping from free time swim in the facility’s Splash Zone and waiting for swimming lessons to begin. Lessons at the center come free to those enrolled in the Gainesville Parks and Recreation’s Discovery Day Camp because of a community investment grant from United Way of Hall County.