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San Antonio Council renames Natatorium to honor community organizer Athanasio Garcia
Summary
The City Council approved an ordinance to rename the San Antonio Natatorium the Athanasio Garcia Natatorium, honoring the late community organizer’s decades-long push for an Olympic‑sized pool on the West Side.
San Antonio — The City Council on March 20 approved an ordinance renaming the San Antonio Natatorium at 1430 W. E. Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard the Athanasio Garcia Natatorium, honoring a longtime West Side community organizer who led efforts in the 1970s to bring an Olympic‑sized pool to the neighborhood.
Councilmember Terri Castillo introduced the item and framed the naming as recognition of “community organizing and walking around with that clipboard” that made the facility possible. The ordinance passed with no recorded roll‑call tally; the transcript records a motion and second and the mayor announcing “Motion carries.”
The renaming stems from…
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