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Swim program aims to keep kids safe in the water, and becomes a national model
By Jennifer Fernandez Growing up in land-locked Oklahoma, learning to swim wasn’t a high priority in Rebecca Pearson-Yates’ household. Nonetheless, the Greensboro mother of five made sure her children took lessons. Her youngest daughter, who will be 5 …