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BREAKINGCoronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

20 November 2025 — The council of Coronel Pringles decides to name the municipal pool after a man who worked there as a lifeguard for twenty-seven seasons.

He was also one of those who had pushed for the pool to be built.
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The council of Coronel Pringles decides to name the municipal pool after a man who worked there as a lifeguard for twenty-seven seasons.

On 20 November 2025 the council of Coronel Pringles, in Argentina's Buenos Aires Province, passed an ordinance naming the pools at the municipal bathing grounds (the Balneario Municipal) after Raúl Alberto Baqueiro. It is Ordinance No. 5,079.

Baqueiro was born in the town on 1 August 1963. He completed a lifeguard course in 1988, qualified as a physical-education teacher in the neighbouring city of Bahía Blanca, and worked at schools and sports centres in the town.

As a representative of the Radical Civic Union, he served as a school councillor from 2006 to 2009 and as a town councillor from 2009 to 2015.

Alongside this he worked as a lifeguard at the municipal bathing grounds for twenty-seven seasons, and was one of the residents who pushed for the building of the very pools that would come to bear his name.

Such honours normally wait ten years after a person's death, but a clause allowing exceptions where there is merit directly tied to the site (Article 11 of Ordinance No. 4,391) was applied. The ordinance also requires that a marker sign be placed at the pool. The measure was proposed by councillor Aldo Mensi; the vote count is not recorded.

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