By Ray Duckler Concord Monitor Permission to reprint given by the author. Published: 4/22/2022 Mark Donovan and Roy Ballou are unclear about their next move. Essentially, they lost everything in a three-alarm fire on Depot Street in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, last week. Their hot-tub repair business on the first floor, gone. Their home and all their belongings on the second floor, gone as

Tania Weingart is worried she won’t be allowed to fill her pool. The Novato, California, resident is finally getting her dream pool built, but water restrictions may prohibit seeing the pool to completion. Because of the current drought, her water company, North Marin Water, is not allowing filling of new pools or refilling existing ones. And although she got a permit for the pool last fall,

Drowning injuries and fatalities are so commonplace that the stories could fill up whole newspapers. The CDC estimates that about 10 people die from drowning in the U.S. every day. Children ages 1 through 4 have the highest drowning rates and most of those drownings happen in home swimming pools. Drowning events are real, tragic, frequently preventable,and much more than just statistics.