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komenkentucky.org inamarcellaevents.com 20 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 8.17 THE BIT SHIFT Lifeguard By Jenny Kiefer Illustration by Kendall Regan Keeping the Algonquin Park pool afloat. On the last day of June, a Friday, splashing and jumping children ripple the water at the Algon- quin Park pool in west Louisville. Fat, white clouds suspend in a blue sky the same color as the water. Two community centers' worth of kids crowd the pool's three-foot shallow end, roped off with black buoys. Life- guards hover at the edges, geared in sleeveless red T-shirts that say STAFF. Sharp whistles sound as rowdy kids speed past the NO RUNNING warning stenciled just beyond the lip of the pool. Screams and cheers rise into muffled chaos. A security guard in a camouflage flak jacket sits at a picnic table by the changing rooms, looking at his phone. "This is my first time ever doing this," says 18-year-old lifeguard Countess Williams, who recently graduated from Pleasure Ridge Park High School. Out of the prerequisite skills — including swimming continuously for 300 yards, 2017 SAVE THE DATES 22 nd Annual Louisville Race for the Cure Saturday, October 14 13 th Annual Pink Tie Gala Saturday, November 4 502.495.7824 komenkentucky.org