Memphis Parks’ outdoor pools set to open Saturday
“What we’re looking at is opening up a limited number of pools, which are on the Memphis Parks website,” Memphis Parks Director Nick Walker said in an interview with the Daily Memphian in advance of Tuesday’s announcement of the delay. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The City of Memphis pushed back the opening of its public pools a week this summer, partly due to a nationwide lifeguard shortage.
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Alicia Davidson
Alicia Davidson is a lifelong Memphis resident and graduate of The University of Memphis College of Journalism and Strategic Media. When not scribbling about the latest Memphis news, you will find her reading historical biographies, cooking Italian cuisine and practicing vinyasa yoga.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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