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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There should be an outdoor pool in ward 3. Does it have to be at Hearst. Is there any other spot that would work? Maybe at Lafayette?  Or fort Reno?[/quote]

Why?

Why are Ward 3 folks so skittish about going to "other" wards for an outdoor pool?  [/quote]

I go to the other pools - Jelleff and Volta and Francis and none are convenient - they take a long time to reach on public transit and only Jelleff is really close to a major bus line and parking is difficult at all if we drive which is not something we want to do and none are bikeable to.

But I want my kids to be able to go to a pool in their own community - a pool where they will see their friends, a pool they can get to on their own, a pool they can squeeze a visit to at the end of a busy day instead of it needing to be a half day expedition like it is now.

And I'm not at all skittish about going to another Ward to go for a swim or any other recreational activity - [b]I think a lot of the real skittishnish here is from the immediate neighbors of the pool who are in fact worried about folks from other Wards coming to CP to swim, a fear that sadly has a long and shameful history in Ward 3[/b].[/quote]

Play the race card much?  Immediate neighbors of Hearst Park know just how much the big soccer field is heavily used through much of the year by kids' recreational soccer teams and even by adults who come from outside the neighborhood and outside Ward 3.  Hearst Elementary School has the largest percentage out-of-boundary population of any public school in Ward 3, with students coming from around the city.  So your pool 'argument' is not only a red herring, it's downright offensive and shameful.  Really, is this the best you can muster?[/quote]

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