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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>POOL REVIVAL ......GC Foster facilty to get $7-m facelift</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>April date set for opening of pools</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KAYON RAYNOR, Observer staff reporter
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>The dilapidated swimming pool at the GC Foster College with (inset) a run-down diving well. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>THE garbage-strewn swimming and diving pools at GC Foster College of Education and Sports, which has not been in working order for the better part of two-and-a-half decades, should become operational by the end of April.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yvonne Kong, principal of the institution, which celebrates its 27th year in September, revealed that much-needed work, estimated at millions, will be carried out on the facilities over the next two months.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"It is very important for us because we need $7 million to get the pool up and running at basic conditions," Kong told the Observer in an exclusive interview at the institution yesterday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>GC Foster College - a co-educational and residential institution which trains teachers in physical education and sport - is situated on 41 acres of land at Angels in Spanish Town, St Catherine.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=140 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>KONG. SDF has given us some half of that money and Lucozade has now come in to give us a portion, so the pool will be up and running by the end of April. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"Sports Development Foundation (SDF) has given us some half of that (money) and Lucozade has now come in to give us a portion ($1 million), so the pool will be up and running by the end of April," the principal added.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I have not yet heard from the people with the motor for the pump and we are giving ourselves a little extra time because of the weather and for painting the pool as that has to be done in dry time, but by the end of April we will be finished for sure," the soft-spoken Kong assured.<P class=StoryText align=justify>According to Observer sources, the swimming pool, which can accommodate up to nine lanes, is 50 metres long and of 6'5" deep in the middle, while the Olympic size diving pool is 17-18 feet deep.<P class=StoryText align=justify>General manager of the SDF, Ludlow Watts, confirmed that his organisation will be pumping a substantial amount of money into the project. "Yes. You are correct, the SDF has agreed to provide $3.5 million to the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports to make the swimming pool operational," Watts confirmed.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"As you know the pool has not been functional for many years and that has been a serious concern amongst the students and even outsiders... An approach was made to us and we decided to step up to the plate," he added.<P class=StoryText align=justify>On the matter of the $1 million being provided by Lucozade for the swimming pool project, consumer marketing manager of GlaxoSmithKline - distributors of Lucozade - Robeth Streete noted that this was the latest of their many initiatives being done with the GC Foster College.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We started with a nutrition wo
<SPAN class=Subheadline>April date set for opening of pools</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KAYON RAYNOR, Observer staff reporter
Thursday, March 08, 2007
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=400 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>The dilapidated swimming pool at the GC Foster College with (inset) a run-down diving well. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>THE garbage-strewn swimming and diving pools at GC Foster College of Education and Sports, which has not been in working order for the better part of two-and-a-half decades, should become operational by the end of April.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yvonne Kong, principal of the institution, which celebrates its 27th year in September, revealed that much-needed work, estimated at millions, will be carried out on the facilities over the next two months.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"It is very important for us because we need $7 million to get the pool up and running at basic conditions," Kong told the Observer in an exclusive interview at the institution yesterday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>GC Foster College - a co-educational and residential institution which trains teachers in physical education and sport - is situated on 41 acres of land at Angels in Spanish Town, St Catherine.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=140 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>KONG. SDF has given us some half of that money and Lucozade has now come in to give us a portion, so the pool will be up and running by the end of April. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"Sports Development Foundation (SDF) has given us some half of that (money) and Lucozade has now come in to give us a portion ($1 million), so the pool will be up and running by the end of April," the principal added.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I have not yet heard from the people with the motor for the pump and we are giving ourselves a little extra time because of the weather and for painting the pool as that has to be done in dry time, but by the end of April we will be finished for sure," the soft-spoken Kong assured.<P class=StoryText align=justify>According to Observer sources, the swimming pool, which can accommodate up to nine lanes, is 50 metres long and of 6'5" deep in the middle, while the Olympic size diving pool is 17-18 feet deep.<P class=StoryText align=justify>General manager of the SDF, Ludlow Watts, confirmed that his organisation will be pumping a substantial amount of money into the project. "Yes. You are correct, the SDF has agreed to provide $3.5 million to the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports to make the swimming pool operational," Watts confirmed.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"As you know the pool has not been functional for many years and that has been a serious concern amongst the students and even outsiders... An approach was made to us and we decided to step up to the plate," he added.<P class=StoryText align=justify>On the matter of the $1 million being provided by Lucozade for the swimming pool project, consumer marketing manager of GlaxoSmithKline - distributors of Lucozade - Robeth Streete noted that this was the latest of their many initiatives being done with the GC Foster College.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We started with a nutrition wo