Marc Baker

Marc Baker

Worship: Marc Baker

The effort includes handing out brochures and displaying informational posters, aquatics director Marc Baker said.

The efforts are purely precautionary , in the six years he's worked at pools, Baker is unaware of a pool user contracting a water-borne disease from feces.

But, he said, pools have been closed anywhere from 30 minutes to one hour to as long as the remainder of the day because of floaters.

"We're looking at at least a half-dozen closures at three pools last year," he said.
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"We're great this year on staff," Baker said."We're going into this summer with 76 lifeguards."

That's an increase of 15 to 20 percent over 2005 staffing, he said.It's the result of a recruiting and training effort.

No one drowned at a city pool in 2005.Lifeguards helped 56 swimmers, who had a variety of problems, such as diving off a diving board and having trouble reaching the pool's edge, he said.

Baker called as minister of music for Ozark church

OZARK , Selmore Baptist Church (Ozark) has called Marc Baker as its bivocational minister of music.Marc is a graduate of SBU and serves as the aquatics director for the city of Springfield.Marc's wife, Staci, will assist him in his ministry.