Many residents — especially those with small children — practically live at the pool during the hot summer months. So when I stumbled upon this post by Mario Vittone, a marine safety specialist for the Coast Guard, I knew I had to share it with DGreport readers. My kids have taken swim lessons and we’ve [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pools'
Please read this
July 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Pools, Public Safety
Tags: drowning·swimming·water safety
Everyone out of the pool
March 24th, 2010 · 33 Comments · District 99, Park District, Pools, Sports
Long-time users of the North and South high school pools are wondering where they’ll get their exercise now that the park board has acted to terminate its agreement with D99 after the district increased its rates for the facilities to $27 per hour. “The people I swim with are upset, to say the least,” a [...]
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In the swim
April 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Park District, Pools
The Downers Grove Park District’s agreement with Maple Hill Recreation Corp. is a done deal, providing residents with an outdoor swimming facility this summer for the bargain price of $1 per day. The park board voted to institute a small charge for the day passes in order to better assess the public’s interest in a [...]
Maple Hill vote tonight
April 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Park District, Pools
The Downers Grove Park Board will consider a deal with the Maple Hill Recreation Corp. that would allow up to 350 residents to use the facility on Mondays, Wednesday and Friday’s throughout the summer. The item is on tonight’s park board agenda. The agreement would also allow the park district to use the pool for [...]
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Maple Hill, park district mull deal
April 11th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Park District, Pools, Public Works
The Downers Grove Park District is considering partnering with the Maple Hill Recreation Corp. to offer individual summer swim passes to the private pool at Maple and Belmont Avenue. Maple Hill approached the park district to explore a public/private agreement, according to a press release posted on the park district Web site. The deal would [...]
Maple Hill eyes park district pact
March 9th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Park District, Pools
The Maple Hill Recreation Corp. is thinking creatively in an effort to keep the enterprise afloat in a choppy economy. The club is in preliminary talks with the Downers Grove Park District to provide access to its two-pool facility this summer. Initial discussions call for the park district to purchase Maple Hill passes, which it [...]
Tags: DGSRC·Maple Hill Pool
DGSRC to rise again
January 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Pools
With new leadership at the helm and a plan to shore up the club’s finances, the Downers Grove Swim and Racquet Club has high hopes for the upcoming summer season and the foreseeable future. Members will consider four financial equity plans at their Feb. 22 annual meeting, including one option that would offer 150 equity [...]
Sites and sounds
November 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Park District, Pools
While the park board continues to mull member Art Jaros’ proposal for a $24 million year-round public pool, the Downers Grove Swim and Racquet Club is weighing options for improvements to its aging lower pool. Club members met Sunday night to consider changes to the organization’s bylaws. I was not in attendance at the meeting [...]
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Park board meeting tonight
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Park District, Pools
The park board will meet at 7 p.m. at village hall tonight for a regularly scheduled meeting. It will be televised on DGTV-6 Preceding the meeting at 6:30 p.m., Commissioner Art Jaros will give presentation on his proposal for a year-round aquatic facility with retractable roof.
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What’s next?
October 22nd, 2008 · 9 Comments · Park District, Pools
Five years into his effort to develop a concept for a taxpayer-neutral public pool, park district commissioner Art Jaros’ frustration with the pace of progress is palpable. At the park board’s Saturday aquatic facility workshop meeting, only fellow commissioner Kathryn Engle-Accettura seemed fully supportive of Jaros’ proposal, which calls for a $24 million year-round facility [...]
Tags: aquatics facility·public pool