cIN AN attempt to help pool owners spend less time scaring for their pools and more time enjoying them, there, are now two alternatives to ensure simple and effective pool’ care. ‘

. By Pierre Dove Contributing Writer

/BioGuard ‘Authorized - Dealers, now offer BioGuard Smart Sticks,” and Optimizer — two products that.’

epresent . breakthroughs -in swim-. ming pool water maintenance tech-: nology.

Smart Sticks (a unique stabilized chlorine, pool. sanitizer) and _, Optimizer (based on Boron technol-. “sogy) improves the efficiency and the cost-effectiveness of all types of | _ chlorine programs as well as many “alternative| sanitation systems “including ionizers and ozone-based | :Systems. They significantly reduce the ‘time and effort pool. owners spend maintaining their pools, and they keep the water. clean gently... and effectively,

* Another benefit. of this boron- . _ based, water-enhancement ‘system is the ability to increase swimmer comfort by reducing skin and eye

“irritation. Boron is the active ingre- dient in eyewash products that: _Teduces eye redness.

Pierre ‘Dove, ‘owner. of «North “Vancouver's Bright Pools, has been . Selling pool products like these. for _more than & years.

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