On Saturday August 13, Lakeshore Pool will be hosting the Section Finals for A pools -all the pools we’ve swam against this summer. This will be a huge event for Lakeshore- similar to the Finals we hosted last summer. It’s a very rare occurrence for our pool to be hosting such significant events two years in a row. As we know from last year, it takes MANY people to make this event a great success. We are reaching out to the Lakeshore community once again to ask for your help!

If you would like to be a part of a day that promises to have lots of energy, excitement and fun- this is your chance!!!

Most of the volunteering will centre around food on the day of the event- set up, preparation and selling of food! Beyond this, there will be a need for setup on Friday evening, clean up on Saturday afternoon, helping with parking, raffle organization and a few other posts with details coming soon. Please note that Lakeshore will not be responsible for providing officials. All officials will be supplied by ALPS -Association of Lakeshore Pools.

If you can spare the morning or even a few hours, it would be greatly appreciated. If you are a parent of a swimmer or swimmers in the Section Finals, we would be so happy to have your help in advance or even between your children’s races on the day of the event. Please send me an email and let me know if you’re able to help and when. The times will likely range from 5pm to 9pm on Friday evening and 6am to 3pm on Saturday.

If you would like to contribute to the day but can not be there, we would greatly appreciate a donation of baked goods or a contribution for the raffle.

We’re also looking for a few people to help with advanced preparation:

• BAKE TABLE COORDINATOR
• PARKING COORDINATOR
• RAFFLE ORGANIZER

We will send out more details in the upcoming days- please send me an email- [email protected] if you have any questions about volunteering for this exciting event!

Thank you,

Sue Cookson

Summer is flying by and this Thursday, July 21st already marks the end of the first session. Parents can register their children in lessons for the 2nd session on Thursday morning after receiving their child’s report card. Session 2 will begin on Monday, July 25th.

As per Lakeshore tradition, we will celebrate the end of a great first session by having our famous dress-up day. The theme of the day is the Wild Wild West. So YEEE-HAAH come dressed up as a cowboy, cowgirl or a farm animal. We look forward to having a good ol’ time!

HOT DOG LUNCH
From 11h / À partir de 11h
4$ plate / assiette (1 hot dog, juice /jus, chips, fruit, and cookies/biscuits)
1 $ for an extra hot dog

Good morning to all!

We finally had our first home meet! We’re excited to announce a second win for the season! The final score- 576 points for Lakeshore versus Westmount with 480. A big congratulations all round! We had a great turn out with a good energy in the air but it certainly was a scorcher! Thank you so much to all volunteers who came out to help despite the incredible heat. Next week-Wednesday July 20– we’ll be heading to CAVIP for our second AWAY meet- for those who don’t know… this pool is in Ile Perrot! I will be starting my search again for volunteers for this meet so please write me an email and let me know if you can help out! Again, we welcome anyone who would like to time- no experience necessary! My email address is: [email protected]. Wishing everyone an enjoyable weekend!

Sue Cookson

As a General Reminder:

6:15pm: Kids need to be at Pool to check in with Lifeguards
6:30pm: Kids start Warm up/ Officials meet at Pool
6:45pm: Meetings for Officials
7pm: Start of Meet

For families new to summer swimming:

Order of events:

Freestyle
Freestyle relays for 8 and under girls then boys
Breast Stroke
Back Stroke
Butterfly
Relays for 9/10 girls then boys followed by Relays for 11/12, 13/14, 15+

Hello to all! Firstly, I would like to clarify that we DO NOT have a swim meet today, July 6- it’s a BYE week (meaning we skip a week!). We’ll have our second swim meet on Weds July 13 at HOME- Lakeshore vs Westmount.

It would be a great relief to start filling up the volunteer roster as soon as possible as we will need over 20 volunteers for this meet alone. I will need to rely on people responding via email as I will not be able to reach out to all individuals at the pool before next week! Thank you to those who have already been in touch wth me!

We are so fortunate to have a handful of loyal volunteers who help out on a very regular basis. We would love to recruit many additional volunteers to ensure a continuous thread of experienced people this summer and in years to come. Our goal is to have each family with children on swim team to volunteer for at least one meet throughout the summer. We’re also asking for help from any member that would be willing to lend a hand. We welcome anyone and everyone who would like to learn how to time! The training will last about 3 minutes:) If you have a partner that you would like to share the timing with, we’re happy to accommodate this- rather than timing for 3 hours, you could split it and do 1.5 hours each. We would also like to do some in house training for specific official roles so we have back up for times when current volunteers are on vacation.

Our summer swim meets are a very special tradition that many of us remember from our own childhood. They will undoubtedly create lasting memories for generations to come. Getting involved is so much fun, meaningful to the swimmers and a great way to meet people within your community! Please forward me your name, phone number, email address and desired position ASAP for next week and if by chance you can book in for other meets to come, it would very much appreciated.

Thank you!

Sue Cookson- my email address is [email protected]

SWIM MEET DATES FOR EASY REFERENCE:

JULY 6 NO SWIM MEET

JULY 13 SHORE VS WESTMOUNT (LAKESHORE AT HOME)

JULY 20 CAVIP VS SHORE (LAKESHORE AWAY)

JULY 27 SHORE VS BEAUREPAIRE (LAKESHORE AT HOME)

AUG 3 VALOIS VS SHORE (LAKESHORE AWAY)

AUG 10 SHORE VS WINDEMERE (LAKESHORE AT HOME)

AUG 13 SECTION FINALS AT SHORE (LAKESHORE AT HOME)

AUG 20 FINALS AT CEDAR (LAKESHORE AWAY)