Tragedy Averted In Topeka

Six year old Crystal Canul, and her eleven year old brother, Josias, saved a two year old neighbor girl from drowning in the swimming pool at their apartment complex yesterday. The little girl had gone out the door behind her parents' backs, slipped off her shoes, and tried to swim by herself. When she found herself in water that was too deep, Crystal noticed her distress, and she and her brother rescued the little girl, then dialed 911. Now she is fine, and has been released back to her parents.

 

 

 

Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

I saw this story on Yahoo today. Along with the picture. I thought it was a picture from the 1950's, and wondered why the color of the photo looks so modern. Then I read the rest of the story; specifically; that the picture is actually from May of 2011, in Cincinnati, Ohio! It seems that Jamie Hein, the owner of an apartment complex in Cincinnati, discovered that one Black teenager was visiting family in one of the apartments over the summer, so she found an old sign, dating from 1931, and put it up at the pool! Her explanation for this was that she didn't want hair products to "make the water cloudy". Because of all of the hair products, soaps, and sunblock used by almost everyone, I must raise the BS flag here. She is also being sued by the girl's family. Not only is discrimination against federal law, but in Ohio, this violates the Ohio Civil Rights Act.

Quoting the above article, "Hein's attorney, who informed the commission by email Wednesday that Hein would not attend the hearing, did not return phone and email messages Wednesday and Thursday from The Associated Press. A recording on Thursday said Hein's voicemail was full and could not accept messages.

"I was trying to protect my assets," she told the commission's housing enforcement director in a Sept. 27 interview."...........That is truly outrageous; "protecting her assets". Now that Jamie Hein has a lawsuit pending against her, I wonder if she feels she did an adequate job of "protecting her assets"?

Maybe next summer, she will post a sign that says "No Hair Products", or the pool standard, "Shower Before Entering Pool".

Pool Is Free For Students Enrolled In This Particular School

Interesting. The pool here is open for free to any student enrolled in the local school. But all other children have to pay. That's okay; I went ahead and bought a pool pass for my kids. But why, school, do you need a gimmick to bolster enrollment? If your school did not have teachers who engage in inappropriate physical contact with students, buy cigarettes for students, or abandon students outside of town, see http://siriunsun.blogspot.com/2011/04/child-safety-and-kansas-schools.html , I would already have enrolled all of my kids, and would not be considering a different school for them. Just some food for thought, school faculty. I may not be from your state, or from your silly little neighborhood, but I have a rather big family, and my children represent a significant minority of your student body. If enrollment is down, while plenty of kids live here, what could possibly be reasons for that?

Thanks To Leonard Pope

This is awesome! A little boy, named Bryson Moore, accidently got into the deep end of a pool, and almost didn't make it out alive, but Leonard Pope happened to be there, and jumped in and saved him. Hopefully, swimming lessons are in his future..............

Here is Bryson with his mom. I love stories with happy endings.