A14 Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Pool problems To the editor: Not only are the Percival Pool bathrooms and changing rooms a rusted-out, outdated mess; seeing hairballs, food wrappers and clusters of dead bugs floating in the pool is a regular sight. I personally fished a giant hairball out of the pool when the water cleared out enough during adult swim. Gross, right? My son snapped a picture because he is a stickler for rules. No food pool side, no gum,
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shower at home or at the pool. But those showers just invite fungus ... and at the very least, put your long hair up in a ponytail before you leave enough behind to make a tiny wig.
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been told the staff will get to it. They don’t. The same dead bugs at swim team practice are the same dead bugs at swimming lessons and are the same dead bugs at free swim. Pool visitors don’t need to swim through it or Recently, my daughter started swim scoop it out bit by bit only to have it lessons and went back to “free swim” dry out and blow back into the pool. to bob along and pop up into dead We pay taxes and we pay for pool beetles and bees. Sometimes there is passes. Can one of the “off chair” lifeeven the occasional floating Band-Aid. guards do a basic pool check and clear out the gunk? Now, I am not above solving a problem. I have asked to use the skimmer Suzanne Helm to help scoop out debris, but I have Berlin
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