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==Valley Swim Club== |
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On Wednesday, July 8, 2009 parents of minority children who were asked not to return to a suburban private pool are considering legal action, a Philadelphia camp director says. Alethea Wright of Creative Steps Day Camp in northeast Philadelphia says she had arranged for the 65 minority children in her day camp to go each Monday to The Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, PA. Wright stated shortly after the children arrived some of them said they heard a club member asking "what are all these black kids doing here?." The next day the club told the camp director that the camp's membership was being suspended and their money would be refunded. The explanation they received was "There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement. Sen. [[Arlen Specter]] issued a statement saying he is looking into the matter. |
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Club members countered the accusation, "This has nothing to do with race. I paid my money for a private swim club…if they're gonna have it out to camps, then I want my money back," member Lori Slowinski said. "I was the first person to talk to the president, because the pool was overcrowded. As members we have nothing to hide. There's good people here," [...] "There were a lot of children in the pool and not enough lifeguards. As general members, we were not told that they were coming. If we knew, we could decide to not come when the pool was crowded or come anyway. We could have had an option," member Jim Flynn said. "We're not judgemental, we're just friendly," member Daniel Veres, a 16-year-old Hispanic teen, said. Later the club president stated, "We deeply regret this whole situation. We are personally saddened by these allegations that are not true. We never meant to offend anyone here," [...] "We invited these clubs into our pool, we knew the kids were coming in from the city...due to a lack of pool availability this summer. We reached out to them, we invited them to our pool. And once the kids came, we've never done this before, and it's very unfortunate, there were just too many children for us to handle. This was a safety situation. Many of these children were not able to swim, most of them were not able to come and we were just overwhelmed with the sheer number of children that came to our club," explained John Duesler. State regulators opened an investigation to find out exactly what happened.<ref name="bootkids">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Pool-Boots-Kids-Who-Might-Change-the-Complexion.html|title=Pool Boots Kids Who Might "Change the Complexion"|accessdate=2009-07-09|publisher=NBC Philadelphia News|year=2009|author=Karen Araiza}}</ref><ref name="camperscomplexion">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Campers-Complexion-No-Problem-for-New-Pool.html|title=Campers' "Complexion" No Problem for New Pool|accessdate=2009-07-09|publisher=NBC Philadelphia News|year=2009|author=Vince Lattanzio}}</ref><ref name="swimclubmembers">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Swim-Club-Members-Nothing-to-Do-With-Race.html|title=Swim Club Members: "Nothing to Do With Race"|accessdate=2009-07-09|publisher=NBC Philadelphia News|year=2009|author=Vince Lattanzio}}</ref><ref name="discriminationagainstkids">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/09/philly.pool/index.html|title=Swim club accused of racial discrimination against kids|accessdate=2009-07-10|publisher=CNN|year=2009|author=Susan Candiotti and Jean Shin}}</ref><ref name="clubpresident">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Swim-Club-President-Apologizes-About-Pool-Racism-Misunderstanding.html|title=Swim Club President Apologizes|accessdate=2009-07-10|publisher=NBC Philadelphia News|year=2009|author=Karen Araiza}}</ref><ref name="misunderstanding">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Swim-Club-Controversy-One-Big-Misunderstanding.html|title=Swim Club Controversy: One Big Misunderstanding?|accessdate=2009-07-10|publisher=NBC Philadelphia News|year=2009|author=A. Blair}}</ref> |
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After a hastily called meeting of club members on Sunday, July 12, the club announced that they were inviting the Creative Steps Day Camp children back.<ref>http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6911680</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 20:02, 13 July 2009
Huntingdon Valley is a village located in Lower Moreland Township and Abington Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, bordering the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Originally referred to as "Goosetown," [1] Huntingdon Valley boasts some of the highest standards of living in the Greater Philadelphia area with 90% of the Township being single-dwelling homes and having one of the highest per capita incomes in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. [2]
Located within Huntingdon Valley is Lorimer Park, 213 acres (0.86 km2) of woods and meadows connected to Pennypack Park of the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia County. The park borders Fox Chase Farm, the only remaining active farm in Philadelphia County. Students in Huntingdon Valley attend one of several school districts, including Lower Moreland Township School District, comprising Pine Road Elementary School, Murray Avenue School (formerly Lower Moreland Middle School), and Lower Moreland High School; Upper Moreland school district; and Abington School District, comprising seven elementary schools, Abington Junior High School, and Abington Senior High School. Also, residents that live in Bucks County attend Neshaminy School District.
Passenger trains
Huntingdon Valley had commuter train service until February 1983. Service was "temporarily" suspended due to a lack of ridership along the line. In the ensuing years (particularly post-1995), there has been interest in resuming passenger service by neighboring Bucks County officials; however, Montgomery County officials are staunchly opposed to it. Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light. The replacement bus service was far slower and less convenient than the train service it replaced, resulting in the shuttle bus being very unpopular. The travelling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a rail service.
With no rail or bus service, residents have had to use either the Fox Chase train station or the Bethayres train station when traveling to Center City Philadelphia.
Valley Swim Club
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