Community celebrates saving pool where Olympian Penny Oleksiak learned to swim
East-end Toronto community threw a “We Saved Our Pool” party after saving the same pool that birthed an Olympian swimmer, Penny Oleksiak.
East-end Toronto community threw a “We Saved Our Pool” party after saving the same pool that birthed an Olympian swimmer, Penny Oleksiak.
Sixty years have passed since Ann (Hayward) Dow was a student at Duke of Connaught Public School. But her personal connection to the east-Toronto school didn’t end when the final bell rang in 1952. “My father went to the school as well, and all my siblings and most of my aunts and uncles too,” Dow said Oct. 20 at the school’s 100th Anniversary Homecoming.