Fire Chief Brian Crawford got me some more information today that wasn't discussed during Thursday's press conference about Shreveport's new plan to teach children to swim.
Public officials and civic leaders, as you read, introduced the Stewart-Warner Project Swim, named for the six youth who drowned last week in Red River. They could not swim.
Here are notes from Crawford:
Public officials and civic leaders, as you read, introduced the Stewart-Warner Project Swim, named for the six youth who drowned last week in Red River. They could not swim.
Here are notes from Crawford:
- Shreveport already offered free swim lessons to children in city programs if caregivers couldn't afford to pay. Project Swim fundraising simply will help offset costs to the city and organizations, such as YMCA and Red Cross, that help provide instruction.
- SPAR already provides swimming instruction to more than 1,000 children each summer.
- “The bottom line is the child can learn for free - wherever they learn and no more tax dollars are being expended that were before with the programs that were already in place.”
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