Former Vice President Joe Biden already has a train station in Wilmington, Delaware, named for him. Now, local officials are making a splash by naming a swimming pool for him.

Gov. John Carney joined Biden and community members on Monday, when the aquatic center at the Brown-Burton Winchester Park was renamed the Joseph R. Biden Sr. Aquatic Center in his honor.

Biden, who lived in nearby Mayfield, worked at the inner-city pool as a teen. It was known then as the Prices Run swimming pool, and Biden was the only white lifeguard working there, according to his 2008 autobiography.

A local gas station employee was arrested Saturday after he allegedly groped a woman.

"I was a kid from suburbia," Biden told the audience during the dedication speech. "I wanted to get more involved. And I realized I lived in a neighborhood where I'd turn on the television and I'd see and listen to Dr. [Martin Luther] King and others. But I didn't know any black people. No, I really didn't. And you didn't know any white people, either. That's the truth. So I wanted to work here."

Biden continued: "I owe you all. I owe this neighborhood. I learned so, so much. You've always had my back.... I've always had your back, and I'll always have [it] as long as I'm around."



NBC10's Tim Furlong posted a photo on Twitter of Biden sitting in the lifeguard chair while dressed in a suit. The photo went viral and garnered quirky reactions from users.

Great moment if Biden actually saw some kid in trouble, and then dove right in there fully in his business suit. https://t.co/xERN7EQyL8 — Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) June 26, 2017

for the third time in recent months, a rock was thrown through a window at Temple Menorah-Keneseth Chai on Tyson Avenue.