However, the weather was just a little too cold for people to venture poolside, said Amy Murrow, lifeguard at Ann Arbor's Buhr Park public pool. Today, there's only three people in the pool and three others on the deck. LSA junior Rob Schmitz was also disappointed with the weather. Instead I'm going to be studying economics and psychology. Nevertheless, people still were able to have fun in the sun, said Jim Lapointe, manager of Gallup Park Canoe Livery.
People seem excited to be out here.
Next year we'll have marching bands, a speaker from the Veteran's Administration and a 21-gun salute. The Memorial Day tradition dates back to more than a century ago. Gen. John Logan, president of the Grand Army of the Republic, established the holiday following the Civil War. However, the weather was just a little too cold for people to venture poolside, said Amy Murrow, lifeguard at Ann Arbor's Buhr Park public pool. Today, there's only three people in the pool and three others on the deck.