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The "Splash!"
La Mirada Regional Aquatics Center is located on 18-acres on the western edge of La Mirada Regional Park. Splash! is an exciting, family-oriented destination providing fun and fitness for persons of all ages. Featuring many family-fun attractions, "Splash!" includes: slides, spray areas, play structures, a zero depth beach entry, a flowing river channel, and numerous shade structures. Splash! also features a 50-meter pool and a 25-yard pool suitable for all of the community's competition and instruction needs, as well as a warm-water spa for therapeutic purposes.
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After nearly six months of construction and over $3.3 million in private donations, the beautiful piazza was completed in November 2007 in memory of Donna Ford Attallah's late husband, Fahmy Attallah, Ph.D, a prominent clinical psychologist. Centrally located between the Leatherby Libraries, Beckman Hall and Wilkinson Hall on the prestigious Chapman University campus in Orange, CA, the piazza provides the University community with a gathering place for events, performances and casual conversation throughout the school year. After personally travelling throughout Italy and observing the communal gatherings that took place around the ancient Italian piazzas, Chapman's President Doti knew that the Chapman campus needed a similar gathering place. Thus the idea for the Attallah Piazza was born and designed to resemble those world-renowned piazzas of Italy that have served as central gathering places of their respected cities for thousands of years.
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Serving as the main focal point of the plaza, the Marion Halfacre Fountain is located at the center of the piazza and features four large architectural pillars rising from a large water basin featuring fog and spray. The four pillars were constructed by Shaw & Sons and feature the patent protected Sedimentary Wall process. Each of the four pillars stands over ten-feet tall and are the tallest sedimentary features ever constructed by Shaw & Sons. The pillars were built around the fountain allowing for water to spill over the top of the sedimentary features and run over the inscribed words from Fahmy Attallah's book, Beauty of Being. The four pillars are said to represent the "Four Pillars" of a Chapman education: intellectual, physical, social and spiritual. At the southern end of the piazza is the Canaday open-air Amphitheatre. The amphitheatre was modeled after early Greek amphitheatres and will be used as a seating area for more than 350 people during special events and performances. The amphitheatre was also constructed using Shaw's Sedimentary Wall process and features over 400 linear feet of sedimentary walls in addition to the 100-plus linear feet surrounding the northern and western ends of the piazza.
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