An online petition asked DPR to consider opening DC public pools earlier in the morning during the summer.
A petition that called for earlier pool opening times during the summer caught the attention of the DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) this week. DPR is holding internal meetings and having preliminary conversations about what it would take to meet the demands of a recent online petition "People are definitely taking it seriously and seeing if it can be done," John Stokes, a spokesman for DPR, told Patch. Capitol Hill resident Lyndsey Medsker started the petition, which calls for outdoor pools accomodate older residents and residents with young children by opening at 10 a.m.—two hours earlier than most normally do. As of 1 p.m. Tuesday the petition had 375 supporters, by Thursday evening that number had nearly doubled. Chief of …
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Volta Park Recreation Center and Pool
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An online petition asks for public outdoor pools in the District to open at 10 a.m. instead of noon.
An online petition asks the DC Government to consider opening DC public outdoor pools earlier in the day during the summer months. The petition suggests opening at 10 a.m. instead of noon, as many currently do. Capitol Hill resident Lyndsey Medsker started the petition in mid-February and it had 375 supporters as at 1 p.m. Tuesday. The petition states: "Open DC public outdoor pools at 10am this summer. Make the facilities available to parents of young children, students, elderly and anyone who wants to avoid the dangerous afternoon sun and large afternoon crowds." Bruce Majors lives near the Francis Pool, just over Rock Creek Park near Dupont Circle. "I've given up on using them and I live a few blocks from the one at 25th and N. Whenever…
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Bruce Majors
8:06 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I think a private company or gym could figure out how to staff a pool when there are customers who would pay to go swimming before work at 5 or 6 am and parents with young kids who say they'd like to go at 9 or 10 am. If Mayor Gray can't figure out how to use all those unemployed teens given make work jobs by the DC government to extend the pool staffs, then the DC government is not competent to … more ›