To the Haines assembly: I recently read on Facebook that the assembly is considering closing the Haines pool for three months in the summer. I am so sorry to hear this. I would like to remind everyone that before the pool was built, during my years there, fishermen and children didn’t know how to swim. Many fisherfolk drowned before the pool and children couldn’t swim, even if they got a trip to Disneyland. Visitors in the summer like to swim and families need to make sure everyone in their family can swim because everyone likes to be in a boat in the summer. You are so blessed to have a pool in the first place. It’s part of a good emergency asset to have one where your area is mostly surrounded by water. Please honor those who helped during the building of that pool. It changed the lives of all who live there and used to live there. My daughter now works on the Washington Ferries and has been around the world before that when she worked on transport ships as a contracted worker for the Navy. Water is such a huge part of your lives there. To members of the assembly, I hope you will reconsider this idea and vote NO.
Karen Bertroch, Grays River, Washington