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Speaker 1: Very excitingly this sat Well, the Saturday, the twenty ninth

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Speaker 1: of November, the Catherine is going to be celebrating one

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Speaker 1: of the most important community infrastructure milestones with the public

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Speaker 1: reopening of the transformed Catherine Aquatic Center. Joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line to talk a little more about it is

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Speaker 1: the Mayor of Catherine, Joanna Holden. Good morning, Joanna.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie. How are you this morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm very good and I'm guessing that you guys in

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Speaker 1: Catherine are pretty excited about the reopening of the pool.

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Speaker 2: I think so. I think we are more excited than

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Speaker 2: you are to go on holiday tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not. We might be a close tie. Oh, Joanna,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome because you guys have I mean, it's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of work, right and I know that there's

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Speaker 1: been criticism about the pool being closed and all that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff, but I bet everybody is so pleased

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Speaker 1: that you know that official opening is happening.

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, it has and the community has been very

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Speaker 2: patient with the time that it has taken, but it

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Speaker 2: is going to be well worth the wait. We have

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Speaker 2: a fantastic facility to do the public opening on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: and then the official opening on the thirteenth of December.

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Speaker 2: We've got this beautiful new splash pad for the younger children.

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Speaker 2: I've actually tried it out myself, and I can let

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Speaker 2: you know that the bucket does a great job splashing water.

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Speaker 2: So look, I recognize that the community has been waiting,

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Speaker 2: and as you know, the weather at this time of

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Speaker 2: the year, and the community went through it last year

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Speaker 2: without the pool. You know, it's hot. People are looking

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Speaker 2: for somewhere to go. But yes, the thing is we've

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Speaker 2: got a bigger and better facility now because of the

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Speaker 2: works that have gone on.

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Speaker 1: So Johanna, can you tell us a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about what people can expect or would that be given

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Speaker 1: too much away?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I suppose it's getting close to Christmas, so maybe

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Speaker 2: I should just keep it a surprise. Maybe I don't know. No,

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock on Saturday. It's free entry, So it all

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Speaker 2: starts at eleven o'clock and we'll go till four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: We've got a free barbecue and free super dupers and

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Speaker 2: we'll have a few other bits and pieces happening. So

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Speaker 2: that's this Saturday, the twenty ninth, at eleven o'clock. And

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Speaker 2: then on the thirteenth of December at ten am, we

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Speaker 2: will be having the official opening ceremony with the cutting

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Speaker 2: of the ribbon, and then following the official ceremony, we

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Speaker 2: are planning on having a big, cool party. I won't

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Speaker 2: go into a lot of details about that, but I

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Speaker 2: can say that there will be lots of fun and

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Speaker 2: games and activities and it will all be free, how wonderful.

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Speaker 1: And in terms of the facility, how like, is it

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Speaker 1: gonna be quite different to what it was previously.

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Speaker 2: So the original pool is there and that has been

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Speaker 2: religned and had some you know, maintenance works done on it.

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Speaker 2: There is a new twenty five meter pool which also

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Speaker 2: has access for people that have mobility need issues, which

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Speaker 2: I think is fantastic. We haven't previously had that, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: so it's twenty five meter pool, and then we have

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Speaker 2: a space pan, which we haven't previously had. So they're

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Speaker 2: the new items. We don't have the little baby pool

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Speaker 2: that people may remember previously because that's now been replaced

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Speaker 2: with the other items. And then we've had you know,

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Speaker 2: there's some changes to the pump room and some of

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Speaker 2: the buildings there that you know, obviously are needed to

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Speaker 2: run the pool itself. So no, so it's yeah, I

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Speaker 2: guess in some ways, yes, there it's a big differences,

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Speaker 2: but the old pool is still there as well, so.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be fantastic. I know. I've had my

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Speaker 1: kids there for swimming carnivals over the years as well.

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Speaker 1: When Catherine holds there are they're swimming carnival the swimming club.

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Speaker 1: You've got such a strong little swimming club there as

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Speaker 1: well in Catherine, so I am sure that all of

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Speaker 1: those regulars will be really happy to get back into

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Speaker 1: the water, get back into their training.

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Speaker 2: Yep. Absolutely, the Catherine Turtles are a fantastic swimming club.

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Speaker 2: They delivered o'connival here in Catherine not long ago using

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Speaker 2: its defence's pool. But yes, I know they're looking forward

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Speaker 2: to it, and I think the parents, who I know,

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes doesn't seem far, but when you're in Catherine

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Speaker 2: and you get survive that it's fifteen minutes, you know

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Speaker 2: it adds up for you. So yes, so they're certainly

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Speaker 2: looking forward to getting back to their training ground. And yes,

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Speaker 2: and we need them to because you know, we need

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Speaker 2: our future Olympians coming out of that pool spot on.

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Speaker 1: And it's such like I just think it's so wonderful

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Speaker 1: when you've got young people and whatever age you are,

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Speaker 1: but particularly with some of our young ones that are

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Speaker 1: engaged in a really positive activity nearly every day. That's

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Speaker 1: what we want to say, right.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Katie, it is. It's a positive activity. It has

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Speaker 2: benefits for your health, for your well being, and we

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Speaker 2: know that kids that are doing things like swimming or

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Speaker 2: playing sport achieve at school as well, so you know

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Speaker 2: there's all these flow on effects from having a facility

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Speaker 2: such as the pool and having a swimming club that

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Speaker 2: invests into our young people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you spot on. Hey Joanna for our listeners in

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Speaker 1: Catherine this morning, just remind us what time do they

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Speaker 1: need to be there on the weekend. When's it all

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Speaker 1: kicking off?

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie. Eleven o'clock on Saturday the twenty ninth

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Speaker 2: is when we will be kicking off for our unofficial

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Speaker 2: opening of the Catherine Pool with a free barbecue and

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Speaker 2: super dupers. So it'd be great to have as many

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Speaker 2: people as we can down there for Saturday. But just

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Speaker 2: on one thing to Katie, just so people are aware

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Speaker 2: we are opening on Saturday, but we will be closing

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Speaker 2: on these seconds through to the fourth we are waiting

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Speaker 2: on a shade. We need to get a shade up

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Speaker 2: over the brand new twenty five meter pool, and so

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Speaker 2: that will be happening between the second and the fourth.

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Speaker 2: We'll be open again for the swimming canal on the fifth,

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Speaker 2: and then we'll be closing again on the weekend the

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Speaker 2: sixth and seventh again to just finish off those shade

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Speaker 2: works and a few other bits and pieces.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, no, fair enough, well, Catherine mayre Joanna Holden.

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Speaker 1: It is always great to catch up with you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, Katie, and you enjoy your well deserved break.

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Speaker 1: I will thank you