Photo from Bethann Huston A partnership between Summit Middle School and the Silverthorne Recreation Center is helping Summit County children learn to swim. The program, which is funded through the Jefte Flores memorial fund, was created in 2018 in memory of a local teenager who drowned in Green Mountain Reservoir in August 2015 at age 16. The memorial fund has provided dozens of kids with free swim lessons with the help of Summit Middle School teacher Bethann Huston. Huston first thought of partnering with the rec center after a conversation she had with one of her students’ mothers, who had a former boyfriend who drowned in a river, leaving her too scared to let her son near the water.