45° F | Schenectady, NY
Taylor DeThorne, head lifeguard at the Central Park pool, watches swimmers closely from a seat in the middle of the pool.
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Keeping things cool at the pool
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Posted: August 13, 2011
Photographer: Stacey Lauren-Kennedy
It was 1 p.m. on Tuesday. DeThorne, head lifeguard at Schenectady’s football field-sized pool, had nine people on her watch. Gray skies and mild temperatures — the city’s summer oven was only 76 degrees — had persuaded some aquanauts to stay home.
DeThorne, 20, who graduated from Schenectady High School in 2009 and will be a junior this fall at the University at Albany, has been watching people swim at Central Park for the past five summers. Nine people in the water is a small crowd. On some days, when it’s 90 degrees in the Capital Region, there might be a hundred people or more in the 900,000 gallons of cool blue.
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