Seattle’s Child Magazine Online just published this nifty article by Wenda Reed:  Dress Up and Stand Up for Pools.  It shares our plans for the City Council budget hearing at the on October 8th (join us!).

"If you’d like to see more swimming pools built and upgraded in Seattle, dress up in wetsuits, inflatable arm floats and brightly colored inner tubes, or just throw a colorful towel around your neck, and come to the Oct. 8 City Council budget hearing…

The advocacy group Project Seattle Pools is urging the show of costumed support to help persuade the City Council to include $225,000 for a Comprehensive Aquatics Plan in the city’s 2009 budget. The plan would address how Seattle can cost-effectively meet the needs for swimming activities and programming, including slides to attract teens and more capacity for kids’ swimming lessons. The plan would also address the fact that the Jefferson/Rainier Valley is the least served by public pools and that both of the city’s outdoor pools are west of Interstate 5….

PHOTO BY DARIN REID.  Sean Anderson and Maria Coryell-Martin brace for a chilly swim in Lake Washington. Coryell-Martin and other activists are pushing the city to renovate and add to the public pool system in Seattle."  More