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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Interbay Pool Hosts Quiet Summer Reopening

The city pool at 4321 W. Estrella St. will be open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays after being closed for two summers.

You might call it a no-splash grand reopening. Interbay Pool , near the Culbreath Heights neighborhood, reopened for summer swimming at 10 this morning, but by 10:30 , the four lifeguards on duty still awaited their first customer. “I hope at least one kid shows up,” said Mallory Gaeth, center coordinator for Interbay and Bobby Hicks pools, as she eyed the overcast sky. Photojournalists with WTVT’s Fox 13 and Bay News 9 set up cameras on the lonely pool deck and shot footage of still, blue water. By noon, two adults had come and gone, and four children were enjoying the water, Gaeth said. “That’s better than none,” she said. In 2009 and 2010, the pool was closed after Memorial Day weekend, when Bobby Hicks Pool, 4120 Mango Ave., opens, to …

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