An 18 year old lifeguard is being hailed a hero after delivering a baby on a pool deck. Natalie Lucas, who’s been a lifeguard for 3 years, was working her morning shift at the YMCA of Northern Colorado when a woman’s water broke. Tessa Rider was nine months pregnant with her third child and a few days past her due date. Rider and her husband, Matthew Jones, were visiting their local Y — about five minutes from their home in Longmont, Colo. — for a swim on July 24.
The couple said they knew the baby was coming but didn’t know if it was going to be a week, two weeks, or today. Rider slipped into the pool at around 10:45 a.m. and said she felt a sense of complete relaxation but the 30 seconds of calm swiftly shifted to chaos. She said she suddenly felt the need to push. She instructed her husband who was scrolling casually on his phone on the pool deck to grab their things and meet at the car. That plan quickly went awry when she took two steps out of the pool and collapsed onto all fours with her water breaking as she hit the ground.
Within seconds, she felt a sensation that the baby was coming out. Lucas — who was the sole lifeguard on duty at the time — sprinted over and saw Jones rubbing his wife’s back while on the phone with a 911 dispatcher. Jones told the teen “We’re having a baby,” and before he could give the 911 operator any details, he saw the baby crowning. Lucas said her adrenaline kicked in and she immediately grabbed towels and an emergency first-aid kit. She used a walkie talkie to alert other staff of the situation and asked a man who was swimming laps to call an ambulance. Rider, still on all fours, screamed and pushed as bystanders watched in disbelief. Lucas supported her head as Jones guided the baby out.
Lucas then sat back to back with Jones as she held her seconds-old son, Tobin “Toby” Thomas Rider. An ambulance arrived shortly after and paramedics gave baby Toby a clean bill of health.
The couple said Lucas was quick-thinking and calm, intuiting what they needed in real time.
“I would not have traded Natalie for anybody in that situation,” Jones said. “I’m just so thankful that she was a part of that, and that she supported us the way that she did. She really played her part perfectly, and was so sweet to us. I really, really appreciated her being there, and I’m glad she had that experience with us.”
Lucas said the experience was profoundly fulfilling and pointed out the irony is as a lifeguard, “you’re trained for death rather than life, so it was a very eye-opening experience.” In this case, rather than preventing death, she was helping to welcome new life. During her training and certification, Lucas learned how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid and water rescues. Helping someone give birth was certainly not a part of the curriculum.
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A Japanese-American interment camp from the Second World War in Colorado has been folded into the care of the National Park Service. As a new National Historic Site, the Amache Internment Camp is now part of the Service’s commitment to tell the entire story of American history. The camp has been preserved for years by local students,the Amache Preservation Society (APS), a group of volunteer students from the local school district in southeast Colorado, led for 30 years by John Hopper.
Hopper, a social studies teacher in 1993, was teaching some students who turned a one-time class project speaking with a survivor of the camp into a preservation society. The focus was on giving class presentations, operating a museum, and maintaining the site—which holds a large collection of government-issue barracks where thousands of Japanese Americans were detained. According to the National Park Service, the center was more commonly known as “Camp Amache.”
It was one of 10 centers constructed in the US during World War II for the purpose of interning Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent. More than 10,000 people passed through Camp Amache and it housed over 7,300 internees at its peak. Two-thirds of those housed were U.S. citizens. Now, the Granada Relocation Center site consists of a cemetery, a monument, building foundations, and landscaping. Hopper is now Dean of Students but students from the same school still run tours of the site, mow the lawns, and even pursue occasional excavations under the supervision of the University of Denver.
The APS works on presentations to other schools; in recent years, also began organizing trips to Japan to stay with host families and do their presentations in Japanese high schools. In 2006, Amache was designated a historic landmark and was recently designated a National Historic Site. The new designation transfers the responsibility and ownership of the town of Granada to the National Park Service. National Park Service Director Chuck Sams said “The National Park Service will continue working closely with key stakeholders dedicated to the preservation of Amache, including the APS, to preserve and interpret this significant historic site to the public.”
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, November 19th, 2017 was:
JENNIFER MARIE
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Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
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11/13/17
Tonya Velazquez
Mary Achio
Carole Jacobs
Jodi Stevens
Jill Nauyokas
Pamela White Brearley
Christy Hawkes
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Chris Blythe
Deborah Farris
Jenifer Garza
Lia Bonita
Christian Mayle
Jennifer Marie
Brittany Marie Thompson
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Sarah Harrison
Alicia Johnson
Mary Mcmenamy
Crystal Gipson
Shona Ort
Kristy Curlee
Holly Cajigas
11/14/17
Kristina Harris
Jennifer Kinner
Marilyn Wall
Jenifer Garza
Kendra George
Jan Lehman
Paula Rousseau
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Aaron Chambers
Crystal Hazelwood
Alisa Jones
Priscilla Shimp
Sheila Vives
Crystal Gipson
Tiffany Banks
Anggie Marie
Paula Rivers
Fanny Wat
Nitasha Shank
Jennifer Lang
Beth Embrey
Shelley LaClear Colby
Jennifer Downing
Phylicia Phillips
Stacy Draeger-Brogan
Amber McGrath
11/15/17
Dale Fish
Trish Musgrave
Amanda Saltsman
Jenifer Garza
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Crystal Gipson
Jill Nauyokas
Joanie Waterman
Samantha Brwn
Chris Blythe
Chelsie Nicole
Sheila Carvell
Kayla Hernandez
Jessica Lee
Beth Embrey
Jodi Stevens
Lia Bonita
Marilyn Wall
Christian Mayle
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Jennifer Ramlet
LaKishia Wagers
11/16/17
Holly Cajigas
Brandi K Chaney
Crystal Young
Priscilla Shimp
Jodi Stevens
Jennifer Lee Clack
Mary Storer
Mikey Mellor
Jennifer Downing
Alexis Maureen
Jenn Hess
Amanda Peters
Wayne Gallas
Michelle Hughes
Kathleen Hickman
Candy Dyer
Jennifer Lang
Cassandra Berholtz
Jennifer Vega
Susanne Killion
11/17/17
Shelby Lynn
Brian Fulop
Amanda Rosario
Alexis Maureen
Jill Nauyokas
Marilyn Wall
Jenifer Garza
Jennifer Marie
Lia Bonita 45
Anggie Marie
Christian Mayle
Jennifer Ramlet
Mary Pettiford
Kassi Krick-King
Paula Rousseau
Angela Turner
Sharon Swenson-Nelson
April Walrath
Kim Floyd
Melissa White
Jennifer Saavedra
11/18/17
Beth Embrey
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Sherri Kidwell
Jodi Stevens
Wilma Mast
Sarah Harrison
Jenifer Garza
Sheila Carvell
Lori Capobianco
Jill Nauyokas
Kristina Harris
Melissa White
Chris Maxwell
Lia Bonita
Jennifer Lee Clack
Kim Floyd
Nelle Bailey
Christian Mayle
Annette French
Dale Fish
Eva Biggs
Michelle Cervantes
Alicia Johnson
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Brittany Light
11/19/17
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Kristina Harris
Anggie Marie
Kayla Hernandez
Melissa White
Carol Yemola
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Downing
Christian Mayle
Lia Bonita
Paula Rousseau
Cheryl Golden
Jenifer Garza
Kayla Clemons
LaKishia Wagers
Christina Domingue
Susanne Killion
Stella Methvin
Sheila Carvell
Sharon Swenson-Nelson
Amber McGrath
Joanie Waterman
Krissy Rouse Higgins
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