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Grant Park pool splashes open on Monday

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May 27, 2011

Get your cannonball ready and sharpen your Marco Polo game.

On Monday, Atlanta City Councilmember Carla Smith will host the annual opening of the Grant Park swimming pool from 2:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.

The public is invited to enjoy live music, free hot dogs and games and the neighborhood pool in Grant Park, 625 Park Ave.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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