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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people in Cleveland Park already use the Cleveland Park pool.  DCs track record in maintaining and operating its facilities is checkered.[/quote]
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The Cleveland Park Club pool is maintained by the club.  I used it as a mom with elementary school kids, they learned to swim there and met old and new friends there as did I.  That little pool is the reason I believe it is essential that the neighborhood either finds a way for the city to build a facility or we duplicate what happened with the Cleveland Park Club facility.  (Someone, sometime, will donate or provide in their will,  their house to an organization we form.  That house can be sold to provide funds to buy an appropriate property for a neighborhood pool.)

We have our kids enrolled in umpteen different schools so that they barely know the other kids on their block.  Having a neighborhood pool will go a long way for all ages to have a relaxing and social daily period where long term friendships can form and we get some help keeping kids off the video gaming and, instead, outside exercising.

Have we pushed for the Fort Bayard Park at River Road and Western Avenue.  Federally owned and maintained but nearly unused by the neighborhood compared to the amount of land.  This Federal land could be handed over to the city.  It is not doing the American citizens any good.  But the neighborhood could really make use of it. Have we tried to see about Fort Reno and other land around Alice Deal?  The Hearst field is already well used and I think a pool would be pushing out soccer players etc, just as would have happened at Turtle Park if a pool had been included in the new design.
Joan, in Friendship Heights[/quote]

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