Send off summer with a swim and a movie
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By coincidence, both are happening on the same day, Saturday, Aug. 26.
The Parks and Recreation Department?s Back to School Pool Party at Gilley Pool is set to begin at 10 a.m. and continue until 5 p.m.
The party will have games for all ages and a cookout. Games include belly flop, back stroke swim, Gilley Pool putt, noodle swim, cannon ball, front crawl, hoola hoop contest, kick board relay and underwater treasure hunt.
Ready for the best part? The cost for the party is regular admission to the pool.
?It?s promises to be a fun day for the kids,? said Parks and Recreation director Carlene Brown. ?That?s what we want to give them, one more day of fun. They can spend the day with us and then the evening watching a movie.?
In an unrelated, but good coincidence for the kids, Leadership Warren is presenting Movie Night on the West Lawn of Security Federal with activities beginning at 6 p.m. An airing of the 2005 DreamWorks movie ?Madagascar? begins at 8 p.m. Don?t forget to bring lawn chairs or quilts.
?This is a clean family event that allows people to come and have an enjoyable night of entertainment for free,? said Leadership Warren member Larry Flatt. ?It?s a good thing for the community.?
Members of Leadership Warren will be selling popcorn and other concessions, but the movie itself is shown at no charge to the public.
?Madagascar? is the lovable animated film that features the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith.
The magical adventure begins at New York?s Central Park Zoo, where a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer), and a hippo (Smith) are best friends and stars of the show.
But when the zebra goes missing from his cage in search of the wild, the other three break free to look for him. The four friends find themselves reunited ? but on a ship en route to Africa.
When their vessel is hijacked, however, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, are tossed into the ocean. Somehow they manage to make their way to an island where zebra really does get his wish: to live in the wild. But things in the wilderness don?t necessarily turn out the way he imagined.
The movie is sponsored by Security Federal.