POOLing resources

A growing group of residents of Carbondale, tired of driving their cars to out-of-town lakes in order to sunbathe and swim, are ready to take the plunge and vote for a public outdoor swimming pool in town.

According to a recent press release from POOL (People Organized against Only Lakes) the organization has a petition signed by hundreds of local residents, indicating support from a wide cross-section of the community, including university and local government officials--the kind of support necessary to bring the project about.

He wants a public outdoor swimming pool ...NOW!

POOL needs a less menacing poster child than Otis Armstrong,* whom POOL has chosen to sell the public swimming pool idea with the theme "BUILD A POOL SO I CAN STRUT MY STUFF AND OGLE THE CUTIES". Instead, POOL needs someone like Steven Haynes or Lance Jack to stand on the high dive of public opinion and cannonball into media awareness, or Sheila Simon (in a stylish one-piece and matching bathing cap) doing an eye-pleasing swan dive into the warm embracing liquidity of financial backing for the project.

Can it be done for under a million bucks? $963,751? How do Gail White and Bill Borgnoni look in swim suits? Will the School District donate the land on which to build? These and other questions may be answered at the next meeting of POOL on Monday, June 22, at The Newman Center. For more information contact Mary.

*The part of "Otis Armstrong" played by Mark 'Busdog' Robinson. The views of Otis do not necessarily reflect Mark's views, which are better reflected ... here.