From today’s Seattle Times: Injured vets to lose rehab pool in White Center

His service as an Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division cost Cyril Miller two good knees. A couple of hundred rough landings can do that.

"I was a paratrooper; that’s all you need to hear," said Miller, 71, who lives in West Seattle.

Miller, like some other local veterans, relies on Evergreen Pool in White Center and its weekly rehabilitation classes to feel better. Since leaving the Army about five decades ago, Miller has had both knees replaced, was diagnosed with diabetes and underwent six years of dialysis before receiving a kidney transplant in 2007.

But soon the county budget will cost him, too.

After June 30, Evergreen Pool, owned and operated by King County, will be shut down. That’s because it’s among the "lifeboat" of services funded for only half of the year due to the county’s budget problems. … read more>>

More info on pool closures in the Seattle area is available here.